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When it comes to bands that throw every metal genre into their sound, Cane Hill and supports The Gloom In The Corner are some of the best out there. In Manchester’s Rebellion, we were treated to high intensity energy, staggeringly brutal breakdowns and some melodic mastery.
The Gloom In The Corner are a band that won’t let anything get in their way. Hailing from Melbourne Australia, the band came a long way to play for a U.K. crowd and no technical difficulties were going to stop them shaking the room. Having their laptop crash on them one song in gave the band an unexpected gap to fill. This gave them a perfect chance to bring out the famous Australian humour and a little merch plug to help fund a new laptop which would be less likely to interrupt their set. By the words of vocalist Mikey Arthur “it’s not a Gloom show unless something goes very wrong” but the Manchester date of the tour was the first for laptop issues. When the technical issues were resolved the band went right back into tearing the roof off the place as if nothing had happened.
All the members were tight, sounding great moving quickly in between crushing breakdowns and melodic choruses. Admittedly they were a great choice to support Cane Hill. Their new song The Jericho Protocol also went down well with the crowd. We are expecting big things with their future.
When vocalist Elijah Witt graced the stage to open the Cane Hill set he greeted the crowd with the words “what’s going on, we’re Oasis” much to the amusement of the audience. Then Guitarist Elijah James Barnett then ripped into the crushing opening riff “The Midnight Sun”. The band have come over to the U.K. to give live debuts to songs from their album “a piece of me i never let you find.” which was released at the start of November. Cane Hill have expressed their fondness of U.K. crowds, with Elijah Witt stating that they want to bring their new music to the U.K. before anywhere else because as a band it’s where they most enjoy playing.
The set was naturally focused heavily on the new record playing 7 songs- but this didn’t mean to say they also played songs from all previous albums. It was a perfect blend of all eras of the band's sound which pleased fans new and old alike. The band have flawless chemistry with each other from years of playing together and it really shows just how connected they are throughout every song. Even in the time between songs when Elijah Witt was talking to the crowd, he timed it perfectly to give the rest of the band time to retune their instruments and lead right into the next song.
The band were very active on stage and the crowd matched the intensity with bodies and limbs flying all over in the mosh pit. The lack of barrier was taken advantage of by a crowd members who surfed onto stage to belt out a scream alongside the vocalist before hopping back down into the mosh pit. Energetic movements of the band even went as far as a mic stand being unintentionally knocked over mere inches away from guitarist Elijah James Barnett and nearly hitting him. As well as guitar James serves as backing vocals in the live shows- mostly during choruses- but the volume of the crowd singing along came close to drowning him out.
The audience was very invested in the set which was most evident when the band engaged the crowd by asking them to wave their arms in the air and the room was a sea of hands moving perfectly in unison. Closing the set on the song “Time Bomb” from their debut EP Cane Hill finished out a high octane night of metal and sent the crowd home very happy.
Words: Alex Long
Photos: Libby Percival
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