Gloomaar Festival with many highlights for Post-Rock, Post-Metal, Doom and Stoner Rock fans.
On Saturday, 18 November, starting at 3 pm, the Gloomaar Festival will take place for the 6th time at the Neue Gebläsehalle in Neunkirchen. This year, Colour Haze (Munich), Leech (Switzerland), Heretoir (Augsburg), Spurv (Norway), E-L-R (Switzerland), Six Days Of Calm (Würzburg) and Vandermeer (Trier) will be taking part.
In recent years, the festival has become a real insider tip among Post-Rock and Post-Metal fans from all over Germany and neighbouring countries and impresses not only with its exquisite selection of bands. Spherical sounds and coordinated light shows, together with an open and music-loving audience, create a very special atmosphere in the Neue Gebläsehalle every year. Located in the Alte Hüttenareal in Neunkirchen, the venue provides the perfect backdrop for the Gloomaar Festival. This year, the festival organisers will once again present a top-class line-up from the fields of Post-Rock, Post-Metal, Doom, Stoner Rock and Atmospheric Shoegaze-Dark Ambient sounds.
The highlight is Colour Haze from Munich, founded in 1994, who have been the institution of the German Stoner, Psychedelic and Heavy Rock scene for many years. The band is a master at painting pictures and creating soundscapes with their music. And just like in nature, there is a constant up and down in their sound world. There are very gentle, quiet melodies floating through the room and becoming more intense. Relaxed yet determined rhythms set in, a gripping groove emerges that immediately hypnotises the listener. The guitar, just now dreamy and tenderly tasted, becomes angrier, louder, more intense. The pieces discharge their “electro-hashy” tension in seething, massive humming hard rock eruptions, only to collapse in on themselves again. Their 14th studio album “Sacred” was released last year and can rightly be called a real masterpiece.
Leech, the forefathers and creators of the instrumental Swiss Post-Rock scene, have constantly developed in all musical aspects since their first album “Instarmental” in 1996 and inspire with breathtaking and intoxicating music more than ever. Danceable melodies, fine soundscapes and eccentric sound carpets catapult the listener into spheres of indescribable emotions with great, perfectly coordinated audiovisual effects. Especially at live performances, Leech inspire an extraordinarily broad audience. In addition to numerous concerts in their home country, Leech have also convinced audiences across the board at major events such as the Bergmal Festival or the 25th Anniversary KiFF Festival. The band is also more in demand internationally than ever before. In recent years, Leech have played concerts in Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Austria and Asia, among other places, and have built up a worldwide fan base. The band released their latest studio album “For Better Or For Worse” in 2018, which was financed via a crowdfunding project on Pledge Music.
Combining the emotional and Atmospheric elements of Black Metal with progressive, rhythm-laden modern metal structures and the beauty of Post-Rock and Shoegaze, Heretoir, founded in 2006 in Augsburg, initially as a solo project, deliver a nostalgic, melancholic and soothing soundtrack in a crazy world. The band has already completed numerous European tours and festival appearances, including at Summer Breeze or Rockharz Open Air, and shared the stage with bands like God Is An Astronaut or Katatonia. In summer, Heretoir had the honour of supporting the German shows of Killswitch Engage and at the Gloomaar Festival, the Augsburg band will have their brand new album “Nightsphere” in their luggage.
The six-piece instrumental Post-Rock/Metal band Spurv was founded in 2011 in the Norwegian capital Oslo. With various studio albums and captivating live shows, Spurv have already left a firm mark on the Post-Rock scene. However, their fourth album “Brefjære,” just released on Pelagic Records, pushes into a whole new dimension in terms of compositions, musicianship, development possibilities and production. The album combines the orchestral splendour of Mono, with the yearning structures of This Will Destroy You and the Scandinavian mysticism of Sigur Rós.
The style of the Swiss doomgaze trio E-L-R from Bern is generally based on the slow, sprawling, Epic side of Doom Metal. E-L-R vary and distort hypnotic riffs in repetitive loops reminiscent of shamanic rituals infused with Psychedelic colouring. Persistent and meticulous, the trio weaves a subtle tapestry of sound whose motifs lure you into a labyrinth of intricate details and hidden treasures. The band enjoys an excellent reputation as a live unit, playing festivals such as Prophecy Fest, Stoned From The Underground or Void Fest, shows and tours with Wolves In The Throne Room, Amenra, Alcest or Wolvennest, among others.
Six Days Of Calm is the Instrumental Cinematic Post-Rock project of Marc Fischer from Würzburg and has existed since 2018. The debut album “The Ocean’s Lullaby” was released at the end of 2020 and was received with various praises in the music press. Fischer‘s atmospherically dense and Melancholic Post-Rock sound is influenced by bands like This Will Destroy You, Ef or Pg. Lost. At the beginning of November, the second album “My Little, Safe Place” will be released, which was again produced and recorded together with Nikita Kamprad from Der Weg Einer Freiheit and allows for some more ambient sounds in the sound cosmos. The Six Days Of Calm show at the Gloomaar will be the project’s very first live show!
The Indie band Vandermeer from Trier has been together in its current line-up since 2016 and plays shoegaze with rock influences. Compared to their last album “Panique automatique,” their new work “Grand Bruit,” which was released at the end of 2022 via the Saarland label Barhill Records, is stylistically more stringent, more compact, from one mould. Fuzz-Shoegaze guitar thunderstorms meet soft female vocals, which alternate with the bassist’s voice. Vandermeer process poppy melodies without becoming arbitrary and there is also a little Post-Rock in there, but in doses.
Admission: 2.30 pm
Start: 15.00
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