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Full Of Hell & Thou – Gig Review 17th August @ Stay Gold, Melb VIC

Full Of Hell & Thou Stay Gold, Naarm/Melbourne VIC August 17th, 2024 Support: Isua & Kilat Is there any better place to catch a hardcore show in Melbourne than Brunswick? Not likely. This inner-city hub has long been a bastion for alternative culture, so it’s only fitting that on 17th August 2024, the suburb’s heavy music haven – Stay Gold – became the epicentre for two of today’s most uncompromising forces in underground music. There’s Thou – seasoned DIY savants who’ve spent nearly two decades redefining punk into something altogether darker, heavier, and more immersive. They are a goliath of viscous riffs, coarse instrumentals, with an immutable drive to extend themselves artistically. Atmosphere is their weapon of choice, dragging audiences through the most harrowing emotional experiences with a near-ritualistic intensity (to read our recent interview with vocalist Bryan Funck, click here). And Full Of Hell, grindcore’s harbingers of chaos. Their music is a relentless barrage of sonic dissonance, yet somehow manages to be remarkably intelligible. One moment, you’re wading through a pit of distorted sludge, and the next, you’re being obliterated by a maelstrom of blast beats and ear-splitting shrieks. The fact that both bands had recently dropped new records [...]