Hear Ragnarok!

in metal.

The band took the stage at the Bacardi Arena and lashed out with Swarm,from their last album Koloss,a song crafted to whip audiences into a frenzy. The crowd proceeded to make up for its diminutive strength (we were a scant 500,at the most) with raw,almost bestial appreciation as Rational Gaze and Combustion flowed out of the speakers followed by a litany of songs including band classics such as Lethargica as well as newer favourites such as Do not look down and The hurt that finds you first. However,it was Bleed that was the stand out track of the evening,with the audience screaming out the vocals along with Kidman.

While the instrumentation was spot on,the vocals suffered slightly in places,where the sound of the music drowned out Kidman’s throaty growls. Not that the audience minded,devolving into a homogeneous mass of banging heads and thrashing limbs even as fans clawed their way to get closer to the band. Even as the crowd seethed down below,up on the stage the band stalked between panels painted with album artwork as they performed. Finally relenting near the end of the performance,Kidman descended from the stage and rode around the field on the hands and backs of ecstatic fans,even as he continued to roar into the mike. Odin would have been pleased.