Chordblossom
  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Live Reviews
  • Features
    • Articles
    • Festivals
    • Fresh NI Music
    • Interviews
    • Introducing
    • Win
  • Media
    • Playlists
    • Photosets
    • Podcast
    • Sessions
    • Transmission
    • TV
  • Kickstart
  • Chordblossom Gigs
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • Mailing List
    • Vacancies
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Live Reviews
  • Features
    • Articles
    • Festivals
    • Fresh NI Music
    • Interviews
    • Introducing
    • Win
  • Media
    • Playlists
    • Photosets
    • Podcast
    • Sessions
    • Transmission
    • TV
  • Kickstart
  • Chordblossom Gigs
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • Mailing List
    • Vacancies
No Result
View All Result
Chordblossom
No Result
View All Result

The Distortion Project: Bloodshot Dawn – 27th October 2014

Melanie Brehaut by Melanie Brehaut
November 3, 2014
in Live Reviews
The Distortion Project: Bloodshot Dawn – 27th October 2014

 

Bloodshot Dawn, Seprevation & Overoth
Monday 27th October 2014 – Voodoo, Belfast

Those out for a leisurely stroll around Belfast’s city centre last Monday night could be forgiven for their mistaken belief that the Apocalypse had arrived, noisily and mercilessly, on their doorstep. Fear not, nervous Nellies! It was simply The Distortion Project temporarily making it’s home in Voodoo, Belfast.

Starting proceedings off in suitably ominous fashion was local lads Overoth. “We are Overoth, from the shadows of Belfast!”, intoned vocalist Andy Ennis to a small but devoted crowd, before the band unleashed their bruising brand of death metal. Their tricky and quite technical riffs, combined with deep, guttural growls and ‘headbanger’s dream’ pounding beats, created a sort of ‘Behemoth meets Machinehead’ snarling beast of a sound.

Rattling through numbers such as ‘Death Personified’, ‘The Greatest Lie’ and new track ‘Gods of Delusion’, the band’s short, sharp set left the crowd feeling like the cobwebs had been well and truly blown out.

27/10/2014 Voodoo
Seprevation. Photos courtesy of Paul Verner at livei.co.uk

Second support act, Bristol’s Seprevation, are a slightly different creature, in that they add their obvious love of thrash to their death metal. The result is a blistering pace, a snarling/spitting/screaming vocalist – and a drummer undergoing one hell of a workout! Said vocalist/bassist Lluc Tupman even displays shades of a young James Hetfield in his singing and playing styles.

They played a mix of songs from both their 2012 EP ‘Ritual Abuse’ and May 2014 debut album ‘Consumed’, stirring up not only a brace of headbanging but even a moshpit and a Wall of Death! As an added bonus they also threw in a wildly skidding cover of Maiden’s ‘The Trooper’, to whoops of delight from the room. Brilliant.

So, that was the cobwebs sorted and the blood pumping – it was time to see if Bloodshot Dawn could live up to the hype surrounding them since their appearance at Bloodstock this summer.

Chordblossom Presents: Gifted - REWS, The Thing Is... Charlie Hanlon - Live at the Belfast Empire - 05 June 2025 Chordblossom Presents: Gifted - REWS, The Thing Is... Charlie Hanlon - Live at the Belfast Empire - 05 June 2025 Chordblossom Presents: Gifted - REWS, The Thing Is... Charlie Hanlon - Live at the Belfast Empire - 05 June 2025
ADVERTISEMENT

If their powerfully charged intro and blasting beat right from their opening number was anything to go by, the answer is an emphatic ‘yes!’. BD also like to mix things up sound-wise, combining the power and brutality of death metal with the melody and groove of old school thrash and even the histrionics of power metal. Your reviewer even picked up traces of the blues (in some of the deep, meandering guitar solos) and some Pink Floyd-esque prog – if said prog were on steroids, that is.

The outcome of that ‘a bit of this, a pinch of that’ alchemy is a band delivering piledriving riffs, at a breakneck pace, with a dark, menacing tone – modern melodic death metal at its best, essentially. They sounded tight and impressively loud, the crowd interaction was good (despite said crowd numbers being a bit, well, underwhelming), with some silly banter and Wall of Death demands adding to the atmosphere.

A brief snippet of ‘Master of Puppets’, as well as such pummelling tracks as ‘Godless’, ‘Vision’ and ‘Demons’, the title track from their just-released Kickstarter funded second album, showed without a doubt that Bloodshot Dawn are well and truly deserving of the recent buzz around them.

27/10/2014 Voodoo
Bloodshot Dawn. Photos courtesy of Paul Verner at livei.co.uk

Frankly, if you didn’t come away from this gig with ringing ears and headbanger’s neck, you did it wrong. Thrilling, visceral and immense, these three bands certainly livened up the evening for the clever few who chose to go to a Monday night gig. The Apocalypse? Nah, Just the future of British death metal.

Photos courtesy of Paul Verner at livei.co.uk

Leave a Comment ⁞

Tags: Bloodshot DawnMelanie BrehautOverothSeprevationThe Distortion ProjectVoodoo
ShareTweetShareShareSendSend
Previous Post

Watch: Owen McGarry – Soon Feat. Conor Scott

Next Post

Ciara O’Neill EP launch – 26th October 2014

Related Posts

Gig Guide
Features

Gig Guide: January 2025

January 8, 2025
Crypt of the Riff Festival X
Interviews

Interview: Delving into the Crypt

October 8, 2024

Recent Posts

Cathal Francis - Photography by Aaron Cunningham

Cathal Francis – Snowblind

May 19, 2025
Midnight Housework

Introducing: #146 – Midnight Housework

May 15, 2025
Stendhal Festival 2025 Header

Stendhal 2025 Line-Up Announcement

May 14, 2025

Twitter

Instagram

Follow

    The Instagram Access Token is expired, Go to the Customizer > JNews : Social, Like & View > Instagram Feed Setting, to to refresh it.

Spotify Playlist

Fresh Music From Northern Ireland

Mailing List

  • About Chordblossom
  • Kickstart
  • Music Reviews
  • Live Reviews
  • Features
  • Interviews
  • Photos
  • Fresh Music From Northern Ireland Playlist
  • Chordblossom Gigs
  • Mailing List

© 2020 Chordblossom

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Live Reviews
  • Features
    • Articles
    • Festivals
    • Fresh NI Music
    • Interviews
    • Introducing
    • Win
  • Media
    • Playlists
    • Photosets
    • Podcast
    • Sessions
    • Transmission
    • TV
  • Kickstart
  • Chordblossom Gigs
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • Mailing List
    • Vacancies

© 2020 Chordblossom

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT