UNDERGROUND AND UNDERTOW reviews Angelspit live at Salt lake City’s Dark Arts Festival
– R.G.B. Robb, UNDERGROUND AND UNDERTOW
Closing the set was Angelspit, a group that could not have been better chosen to rescue me. With their musical portion of the show—a complete onslaught of heavy industrial-goth metal—being handled by programmer/keyboardist Matt Slegel, and the intense, often times screamed vocals of Zoog Von Rock, their set was designed to destroy and leave the audience with their sound solidly attached to our brains. Every part of the show was bathed in wickedness. With lyrics covering topics ranging from sex to cannibalism, and a stage design that included a veil that gave whichever member of the group that happened to be behind it, the illusion of being encased by a spider’s webbing, they were the complete package. They had the audience in their grasp through the entire set and it wasn’t until the fan-favorite “100%” that the grip was loosened to let the audience join in the mayhem by singing as loud as possible, all screaming the line: “This time, you’re 100 percent fucked!” From the moment they walked on that stage until when they left it, they owned it. A stellar ending to day two.
Writer: R.G.B. Robb
Editor: Erik Nestel
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