Dark Mental Festival 2018 (Festival Review)

Dark Mental Festival 2018 (Festival Review)
Dark Mental Festival is a three-day festival at Underwerket, Valby in Copenhagen. During the 7th year of the festival it had another huge success. There was a lot of different genres at the festival this year, which many people came to experience. Genres like melodic death metal, power metal, black metal and more. On top of that the weather was great, and every festival ready soul had a blast throughout the days. Every day the doors opened at five o’clock and when the acoustic Johnny Cash tribute started playing, a bunch of people went straight into the bar for a beer or two.

Genfærd (Concert Review)
After the death metal band Deadflesh went off stage, it was time to go for a whole different genre. The stage was taken over by four dark shadows, with their funeral grey face paint and their barbed wired microphone stands. They delivered each number to the fullest. You could feel it all the way down through your body, with every intense, cold and soulless scream, every stripped riff and insanely well performed drums, made this concert absolutely completed. For that hour while they played, they got the whole crowd in motion. Ever since then, when I listen to their music I still get the feeling that I got during their concert, going through my body and therefore...
We give this concert

out of 6

 Photos by Jannie Ravn Madsen - Dark Mental Festival 2018


Wesenwille (Concert Review)
Friday night after some difficulties with arriving to the festival, the band switched their stage time with another band, so they were last to play. Wesenwille is a band from the Netherlands that play black metal. They just came out with their new album "I: Wesenwille" in April 2018.
I actually didn’t have high expectations for the concert, because it was their first concert as Wesenwille, when the four came on stage they delivered extraordinarily well. Their atmospheric sound and amazing performance stayed with me. Afterwards I have heard their album sometimes and, in my opinion, I think they sound better live. I hope to see them again soon.

We give this concert

out of 6
Photos by Jannie Ravn Madsen - Dark Mental Festival 2018

UADA (Concert Review)
Saturday night UADA closed the festival with the most incredible performance. With their anonymity and their addictive gloomy sound, they played the songs just as I had heard them on albums. The audience was very excited and ready for everything, almost everybody headbanged to the heavy and gloomy sound.

We give this concert

out of 6
Photos by Jannie Ravn Madsen - Dark Mental Festival 2018


By Xenia Kromann

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