UK churches keen to host heavy metal bands after duet with organist is a hit

Mark Mynett, of the Plague of Angels, and classically trained vocalist Anabelle Iratni, who will play alongside organist David Pipe this week at the deconsecrated St Paul’s church in Huddersfield. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

It was a “bonkers gig”, pairing heavy metal with a pipe organ – a musical curiosity that the bands thought would surely seldom be repeated, if ever.

But Pantheïst and Arð, the doom metals bands who performed the concert at Huddersfield town hall last year, have been inundated with requests to repeat the performance – with churches leading the way.