Beyond Extinction is touring Ireland and playing in three historic venues in different cities. Sin É is a legendary venue in Dublin with local pub vibes, and tonight is a complete deathcore takeover.
Tayne is playing first; they’re a Dublin-born-London-based industrial noise pop band who start off their set with intently rhythmic drumming that rolls into high-speed guitar riffs, which are accompanied by vibrato bass. The melodies are played to perfection, and synthetic sounds are added before isolated vocals, which the lead singer is delivering soulfully and emotively, vary immensely in range. Echoes from the vocals leave sounds persisting in the air with musically lingering layers performed in complete unification from staccato to elongated and beyond, with subtle pauses to gauge our concentration throughout.
Heavy-hitting drums can be felt like a fast-paced heartbeat in our chests while guitars screech and are played on the top frets, giving high-pitched feedback that immerses us into rhythmic chaos with the ever-fluctuating sounds given.
Hair spinning in circles and head banging ensues as songs become electrified through a determined and urgent style of playing, which is balanced between gritty and eclectic. It’s sonically different and consistently pleasing.
Siren-sounding alarms play out like a warning for an impending apocalypse, followed through with melodic synchronicities. Downgrading sounds harshly erupt into racing strings alongside staggered drumming. Their sound is distinctive and not like anything you’ve heard before.
Nomadus– a four-piece from Belfast start off their set riff-heavy with opposing guttural vocals and thrashing, determined-sounding melodies. Tinkling cow bells are chiming and lead to intensified rhythms.
They give a powerful delivery of combined sounds. The set gets progressively faster until power chords are played slower in pace, which draws us into unexpected instrumental combinations of seemingly ever-sliding chords and notes played on guitar by both hands on the frets in high-pitched perfection.
Riffs become slow and steady while drums come in double-timed, which changes the sound’s overall dynamic and keeps us engaged. Emphasis on certain melodies is given in all the right places, and everything is paced really well. They announce they have been working on a new album and play us some unreleased songs, which the crowd responded well to by chanting and throwing their fists in the air. Everyone is now definitely warmed up for the main act.
Beyond extinction have their backs turned to the crowd while intense and alluring sounds can be heard. The lead singer spins around, and the most hardcore screams escape his mouth. The drumming is extremely fast-paced, the bass is dangerously low, and the guitars are heavily riff-centered, accentuating the intense sounds that envelop us in the room. The crowd is on their feet, fists expressively raised in the air and intently holding onto every note delivered.
Their sound is so intense, gutturally hardcore and disgustingly brutal, but it’s also beautiful as it’s delivered emotively with so much passion. It’s deep and layered between gravelly vocals that ascend into pig squeals unexpectedly in the overall impressively insane range of vocal delivery given. Everything is played consistently in motion and is rhythmically deliberate.
It’s Beyond Extinction‘s first time playing outside of the UK and in Ireland, and there’s a huge amount of excitement and energy within the room. They engage with the audience and express how they’ve been creating music for a long time and are grateful to be here.
Sounds seem to scream out of the amps, and the set feels like it’s getting heavier with each song delivered. Their stage presence is unified and confident. The bassist high kicks the air right on beat, and the band looks at each other with grimaced delight at the end of each song played.
Isolated lyrics are now being spat out disgustingly with emphasis on the lyrical execution, and lead to guttural growls being regurgitated with precision.
It’s clear to see that Beyond Extinction can deliver an immaculate performance while pushing boundaries and perfecting their genre.