Human Larvae doing heavy an noisy set. Often songs would have bassy, throbbing and oscillating synth tone, metal junk harsh noise layer and processed aggro vocals. He would come in front of the stage to do vocals, have some hands-on vibe on doing sounds. No backing video. Good stuff.
Grunt set was perhaps 33 mins or so, making it unusually long compared to other recent sets. Some old tracks I have played before, some old tracks I never did before, and new material, including unreleased stuff. I doubt I have ever "rehearsed" so much for noise set, so it went pretty much as intended. Been playing variations of the set for months with PA and not really any other obstacles than getting to know how this massive and sub-bass heavy PA react with my set-up.
I have hesitate to travel outside Finland to play as carrying all needed gear is such a nuisance, but when I was told Anenzephalia will be there, of course couldnt say no.
Anenzephalia belongs to the masters of cold and bleak industrial sound. I would suspect the high energy Grunt blast was probably louder than Anenzephalia's bleak synth driven material. Set consisted only new stuff and it is indeed very much current age synth technology and quite minimalistic tones and narrative vocals. Good idea displaying video footage with two projectors. One screening old videos on table cloth and new material on bigger screen.
There was about 140 people who paid in plus all the rest, so pretty good crowd!
