Brutus & Hauna

Brutus rage like a maelstrom. They are a meteor shower of sound. This trio from Leuven, Belgium create expansive, stratospheric punk quite unlike any other band around.
Here the searing, soaring guitars of shoegaze are amped up to hardcore punk speed, drums gallop like wild horses over open larval planes and drumming singer Stefanie Mannaerts offers some of the most impassioned vocals heard in recent times, capable of shifting from deceptively melodic to out-right larynx-punishing in the blink of an eye.
With post-rock construction, black metal dynamics, hardcore energy, prog and math-rock flourishes and pure pop melodies all detectible on their debut album Burst, Brutus manage to straddle the significant divide between Slayer and Savages, The Smiths and Slowdive, Dillinger Escape Plan and dEUS – and all with just three members expertly colluding to make a sound as monolithic as it is emotive.
Trouble comes in threes….and so do Brutus.
In April 2016 Brutus decamped to Vancouver to record Burst, reasoning that because Flanders – the Dutch-speaking area of northern Belgium – is so small that any recordings done at home would surely be interrupted by hard-partying well-wishers gate-crashing the studio day and night.
It was a wise move. Burst is a 21st century rock album: challenging and exhilarating. Colossal. A cathedral-sized noise. A unique listening experience. Brutus are here.

http://www.facebook.com/wearebrutus

Support: HAUNA

The band’s name is surrounded by a multitude of myths: Some say, it refers to a haunting tale about a specter in the Nordic woods, others assume it’s the abbreviation of the German phrase for „punch Nazis“, while a few think there might be ponies and ostriches involved. Having just released their first EP „Dunkelkrach“ last year, HAUNA already try to take their grim, gloomy noise into new directions. While they maintain their abrasive sound, their new songs offer a more focused approach to the unsettling blend of dark and energetic music. Is this hardcore or post-punk, screamo or black metal? Who can tell? Does it matter? Likewise, their lyrics open the question of what matters and why, or rather, why it actually does not. Constantly trying to navigate between despair and the firm conviction that there ought to be change in this shithole of a world, not just the music but also the screamed words hit you right in the guts. The duo interrupts their concert break for this one-off show before returning back to the rehearsal space to continue working on new material for their next release. Catch a glimpse of darkness.

http://hauna.bandcamp.com