"Music this good shouldn’t be free entry (that’s why it’s pay what you can….). Double bill of self-hating, boundary-pushing noise-rock from Leeds dirge-masters, Thank; and blackened darkwave death metal insanity from Newcastle’s Penance Stare (who just destroyed the main stage at Supernormal). Fans of These New Puritans, The Body, The Fall, Daughters, Striborg, Alcest, Lycia, Deafheaven; you’d be a fool to miss this."
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“Utilising phat grooves and electronic scrapings to bring noise rock kicking and screaming into the
volatile 2020s, Thoughtless Cruelty is snotty and abrasive, fuelled by impotent rage.”
JR Moores, The Quietus
“A kind of mad melding of Pissed Jeans and Lady Gaga.”
Dominic Haley, Loud and Quiet
“This Leeds band pairs brawny arrangements with furious, bug-eyed vocals.”
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PENANCE STARE
An experimental metal band based in and around Newcastle Upon Tyne,
established in 2017.
Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist ELN has been active in music since the late 00’s, performing
punk and noise rock with the bands Etai Keshiki and Commiserations, as well as electronic
music as Melting, among several others.