The Drowning <\/strong>is from Wales, the UK and they play doom death. I was sure I had seen them before, but apparently I was mistaken. They already have 5 albums under their belt and then their guitar player was killed in a house fire. They never the less continued and now played this festival. They use lots of melodic bits over fairly straightforward doom riffs. Pretty decent band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The band with the long name: The Answer Lies In The Black Void<\/strong> a project of Jason Kohnen of Celestial Season on bass with the Hungarian singer Martina Horv\u00e1th and a couple of session musicians. Musically a fairly interesting doom band with some experimental elements thrown in. However the angelic vocals of Martina are a bit too much for me. Sometimes they remind me of early The 3rd and the Mortal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is the 25th time I got to watch Officium Triste<\/strong>. They never really let down. Although at the start the sound was horrible during the first song, The End is Nigh, apparently due to effects on the vocals which shouldn’t be there anyway. And a lot of beeping commenced. So they broke it of. And when the sound was fixed, they started again. This time is sounded pretty good. They played two songs of their latest album which seem to come across better live than on album. The return of The Pathway is pretty cool and Like Atlas is a great set closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main attraction this day however was another Dutch doom metal band namely Celestial Season.<\/strong> They have been quite productive since they reformed and released four albums since. Last time I saw them was already quite some time ago when they played mostly songs from Solar Lovers. This time they took the best songs of that album and added a few. Starting with the awesome Scent of Eve. The violin and cello – although a bit low in the mix – contribute quite a lot to the entire atmosphere of these songs. Black Water Mirrors is a newer song – it sounds a bit different but still a pretty cool song. From the debut there was The Merciful. Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight is another awesome track from Solar Lovers. It is probably my favourite gothic doom metal album. Another new song song with Picture of Endless Beauty, which contains a partial cover of Cathedral. And then the Ultravox cover of Vienna, the beginning was a bit different from the album version and George Oosthoek did some guest vocals on it. And he also sang on Solar Child. After a short intermezzo with only the violin an cello (called DCD) the set closer was of course Decamerone. Another majestic song. Great performance of a great band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I skipped the aftershow by the Katatonia cover band playing Brave Murder Day. Who cares about cover bands….<\/p>\n
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