Misery Signals @ Electric Brixton (2024)
23/08/2024
Cauldron
Setlist
Bathe (In Your Body Heat) (first minute only)The Last Words
...When Goodbyes Ring Like Gunshots
Standing in Awe of a Monument
Rejection Pact
Off Script
F.Y.S
Anyone who may have been actively peeping my log as it updates will notice that me and Leo have spent the last couple of days listening to and kinda familiarizing ourselves with some of Cauldron and Renounced's music. Cauldron never particularly stood out to me, although there's more melodic, emo-y bits, especially on their full-length from last year, that I enjoyed. Decent live to be fair! Only just caught that their drummer does a fair share of the harsh vocals. Pretty cool.
Decent/10
Renounced
Setlist
BuriedAs Delicate as Moth Wings
Self Inflicted
How Heavy The Downpour
Nothing
Empty
Saltation
Love and Depression
Wasn't sure if Sammy Urwin from Oblivionized was still at least a touring guitarist for this band, but it turns out he is. I heard about this band around the time I was seeing Oblivionized live here and there, but literally never tried them out until over the last couple of days. Their style of Metalcore is very 7 Angels 7 Plagues-esque. I like the bulk of what I've heard of them so far, and they were fun live!
Good!/10
Misery Signals
Setlist
A Victim, a TargetIn Summary of What I Am
Set in Motion
Luminary
The Stinging Rain
The Tempest
Nothing
The Failsafe
Ebb and Flow
The Year Summer Ended in June
Worlds & Dreams
Old Ghosts
Something Was Always Missing, but It Was Never You
A Certain Death
Weight of the World (Jesse & Karl on vocals)
Five Years (Jesse & Karl on vocals)
Me and Leo were wondering before if this would beat Botch for each of our favourite concerts we'd been to this year. Personally, Botch is still mine, but this is close! Misery Signals have the edge on the emotional side of things though, and I think this show is Leo's favourite that they've been to this year. The setlist was the slightest bit not as good as other setlists we'd noticed (no tracks from the demo... they've been playing Lie Captive in other previous shows, and sometimes Echoes), but then, kinda like with the Botch show, there's still a high concentration of fucking great songs! And in regards to Misery Signals' recent setlists and shit anyway, I have never seen them do better, maybe longer setlists before. I knew the crowd would go especially hard for Misery Signals, so that helps, even though I was and am in general too sober to appreciate being bumped around and squashed between everyone at a hardcore-y concert.
Until the last two songs, Jesse and Karl were individually doing the vocals for each of the songs that they were on on record. Saosin did a similar thing with some anniversary concerts that were documented on a recent live album of theirs. Jesse in particular has so much energy live, you love to see it!
'The Year Summer Ended in June' and 'Five Years' are the two big favourites for me from Of Malice, and those were of course great live (Jesse got his 7(?) year old daughter on stage with him to announce the former, which was really cool), but up there as well, as far as concert highlights were concerned, is 'The Stinging Rain', 'A Certain Death', and even 'The Failsafe' which the crowd went especially hard for. 'Old Ghosts' might be up there for me as well! Aside from the absence of a track like 'Lie Captive', any 7A7P covers, as fucking mental as that would've been, or 'Anchor' which they've sometimes played in place of 'Something Was Always Missing', a track that, good as it is, I'd have personally replaced with a better track anyway, I don't think I'd change anything about the setlist. The Controller picks in particular are perfect, though as awesome as I reckon 'In Response to Stars' and 'On Account of an Absence' would've been live, I could say the same for the Of Malice picks too. There's no going without 'The Failsafe' either!
March I got: Of Malice and the Magnum Heart and Controller on vinyl + tour tote bag + tour poster
Awesome!/10