The Italian folk rock band Spiritual Front from Rome returned to Greece after a few years, this time promoting their
new album "Amour Braque". The opening act was the new darkwave band
Grey Gallows from the town of Patra.
This was Grey Gallows second live
appearance. The duo took to the stage of club Death Disco around 10:00pm and
presented a 45 minute set, with Konstantin (vocals / keys) and Dionisis (Guitar
/ bass / keys). Their songs where all from their debut album "Tears"
that was just released on cassette and digitally by Peruvian InClub Records. They
started with "The Only One", "In The Mercy Of God" and
their digital single "Autumn Leaf". A good mixture of melodic
darkwave with goth elements backed by Konstantin’s deep vocal. The continued
with "Fading", "Grey Gallow" and "Ice" before
they launched into their cover of "Alice", the Sisters Of Mercy
classic. They ended their set with one of their more melodic electro tracks "Under
The Grey Sky".
After a short break the stage was set
for Spiritual Front with "Mama Roma", the 1962 movie by Pier Paolo
Pasolini, already being projected on the video wall. The trio with frontman Simone
"Hellvis" Salvatori (vocals and acoustic guitar), Andrea Freda (drums)
and Riccardo Galati (guitars) stepped up on stage around 11:00pm an kicked off
with some of their known songs such as "Cold Love (In A Cold Coffin) "
and "Darkroom Friendship" from the 2010 album "Rotten Roma
Casino", "I Walk The (Dead)Line" the great "Jesus Died In
Las Vegas", "Hey Boy" and "Tenderness Through Violence".
Simone is a very talented frontman. Talkative with the crowd, very expressive,
swaying his acoustic guitar all around. The band as a whole really played out
the part with their folk rock, americana and tango elements.
On "Slave" Simone Salvatori
climaxed the song ending up playing guitar on his knees. Whereas on "Bastard
Angel", another of the many tracks played from their 2006 album "Armageddon
Gigolo", Simone stepped down from the stage and continued playing amongst
the crowd. They ended their set with "Children of the Black Light"
from their latest album where at the end all three members of the band banged
away on drums finishing in a very impressive way.
Review
& photos: Nick Drivas
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