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"Kenyan speedcore deity Lord Spikeheart rides the seismic waves he created with Duma, detonating a DIY explosive packed with digital hardcore vamps, feral black metal growls and industrialized post-trap trills. This isn’t just an anti-imperialist bludgeon to extreme metal consciousness, it’s the hardest music on the planet, period. Seize this opportunity, FFO: Backxwash, Godflesh, Nyege, Scarlxrd, Bela, the Body. "
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A gig held at Strange Brew on Friday 21st March. The event starts at 19:00.
Deadly triple bill with Kenya's heaviest metal-rapper, known for his captivating stage presence and highly energetic live performances breaking out into fun-filled, intense mosh pits.
Lord Spikeheart
Over the past decade, Kenyan vocalist, songwriter and producer Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, has become a figurehead of the African metal scene cultivating a distinctive blend of guttural growls pulled from the death metal tradition, screeching screams and gravelly rap verses that seep menacingly through head-banging instrumentals.
His debut solo album ‘The Adept’, released on his own label HAEKALU Records, Africa's premiere label dedicated to darkest and heaviest music from the Continent, has acclaimed widespread recognition from prestigious media outlets such as The Guardian, BBC Radio, Pitchfork, Arte, Dazed, The Fader, NTS, Crack, Resident Advisor and The Quietus, — captivating audiences globally from East Africa to the rest of the world as a new frontier in extreme music.
Lord Spikeheart is also known for his captivating stage presence and delivering highly energetic live performances breaking out into fun-filled, intense mosh pits. Attending a Lord Spikeheart show is a definite must-see. An electrifying experience that creates cohesion and will spread fireballed enthusiasm over the club.
feeo
feeo is a British artist and songwriter. Her work focuses on the tension between micro and macro narratives, interrogating what our internal worlds can tell us about our external, and vice versa. Drawing inspiration from both the collectivity of dance music spaces and the solitude of her childhood bedroom, feeo’s songs seek to expose and understand the ways in which individual lives exist in isolation and in oneness simultaneously.
Songcraft sits at the heart of feeo’s practice. Song and story are the skeleton and anchor, which are then contextualised by their sonic framing. Each and every sonic choice serves the song, shaping how it is to be understood and amplifying its meaning.
Omega Institute
Formed in 2019, with influences ranging from Can to Teo Macero to Merzbow, Omega Institute's output sits somewhere between free jazz and experimental dub, while their love of frantic, futuristic electronics has been compared to that of Tristram Cary's soundtrack for the disturbing 1967 sci-fi horror 'Quartermass And The Pit'.
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God Save The Pits
God Save The Pits
God Save The Pits
God Save The Pits
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Doors 7pm
spike flyer
Entry requirements: 18+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Lord Spikeheart
Over the past decade, Kenyan vocalist, songwriter and producer Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, has become a figurehead of the African metal scene cultivating a distinctive blend of guttural growls pulled from the death metal tradition, screeching screams and gravelly rap verses that seep menacingly through head-banging instrumentals.
His debut solo album ‘The Adept’, released on his own label HAEKALU Records, Africa's premiere label dedicated to darkest and heaviest music from the Continent, has acclaimed widespread recognition from prestigious media outlets such as The Guardian, BBC Radio, Pitchfork, Arte, Dazed, The Fader, NTS, Crack, Resident Advisor and The Quietus, — captivating audiences globally from East Africa to the rest of the world as a new frontier in extreme music.
Lord Spikeheart is also known for his captivating stage presence and delivering highly energetic live performances breaking out into fun-filled, intense mosh pits. Attending a Lord Spikeheart show is a definite must-see. An electrifying experience that creates cohesion and will spread fireballed enthusiasm over the club.
feeo
feeo is a British artist and songwriter. Her work focuses on the tension between micro and macro narratives, interrogating what our internal worlds can tell us about our external, and vice versa. Drawing inspiration from both the collectivity of dance music spaces and the solitude of her childhood bedroom, feeo’s songs seek to expose and understand the ways in which individual lives exist in isolation and in oneness simultaneously.
Songcraft sits at the heart of feeo’s practice. Song and story are the skeleton and anchor, which are then contextualised by their sonic framing. Each and every sonic choice serves the song, shaping how it is to be understood and amplifying its meaning.
Omega Institute
Formed in 2019, with influences ranging from Can to Teo Macero to Merzbow, Omega Institute's output sits somewhere between free jazz and experimental dub, while their love of frantic, futuristic electronics has been compared to that of Tristram Cary's soundtrack for the disturbing 1967 sci-fi horror 'Quartermass And The Pit'.
*
God Save The Pits
God Save The Pits
God Save The Pits
God Save The Pits
*
Doors 7pm
spike flyer
Entry requirements: 18+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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