One of Taipei’s most prominent experimental bands, Scattered Purgatory (made up of Lu Li-Yang and Lu Jiach), is renowned for blending Taiwanese traditional music, psychedelic music, and avant-garde sounds. They’ve had quite the career since starting in 2013 - performing all over the world and releasing music under labels like Guruguru Brain, and most recently WV Sorcerer Productions. It’s that album Post Purgatory - which traverses Taiwanese, traditional Chinese, and English - the band will be touring this month. Conjuring a surreal tropical dystopian atmosphere amongst slow-paced downtempo electronic rhythms, doom metal guitar riffs, and granular sampling techniques, it should make for an invigorating show.
Secret Rule belongs to a breed of Italian bands letting audiences know that female-fronted metal is alive and well. They’ve been pretty active since their inception in 2014 - with nearly ten albums under their belt. Pretty commercial as far as metal goes - chunky riffs, poppy synths, bombastic electronics, powerful rhythms, and massive choruses from singer Angela Di Vincenzo. But if symphonic metal is your jam, then get on over to Yuyintown Basement. Support from Shanghai’s own goth rockers Syren.
Xinxiang punk mainstays Pumpkins have always followed their own arrow throughout their careers - slowly but steadily expanding their sound whilst retaining the grit, charisma, and sincerity that made them so endearing in the first place. A rip-roaring ode to rock and roll in all its mania, allure, and sweaty exuberance - the band is on the road with Zhengzhou’s wishtoday - torch bearers of the emo resurgence in China - whose jarring, sorrowful, reckless, sincere, naive, and exhilarating sets - a swirl of tones, emotions, and stylistic choices - have made them overnight sensations. A hell of a one-two punch combo - all at Yangpu’s new home base for rock and roll - Mosh Space. Expect a riotous good time.
This one is for all the daydreamers out there - an intoxicating evening of trip-hop, dream pop, synth pop, and full-bodied electronica that’ll whisk you off your feet. Or at least to Pudong - where Cream Club returns with their first show in the Year of the Horse. On the docket, you’ve got Hangzhou’s City Flanker - who have been evolving and molding their dream pop sound into new shapes and expressions over the past decade - with everything from synth pop, city pop, and chillwave finding its way in. Meanwhile, ABYSM are a trip hop dark wave act fronted by singer Ma Lu and rounded out by veteran musical mercenaries to create an immersive electro rock experience. Finally, dream pop trio line in takes the stage with their simmering ethereal synth-filled songs.
Progressive metalcore pioneers Born of Osiris - who hail from Chicago - are legends in their own right. Constantly pushing the boundaries of the djent-progressive metal sound - heavy and chunky riffs, next-level drumming, remarkable vocal range, and enough metalcore breakdowns to get you in the pit. Joining them are long-standing Bangkok metalcore act Annalynn, who have shared stages with While She Sleeps, Bring Me The Horizon, and more. Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship - known as the anime slam kings - a slamming brutal death metal band chock full of lightening-fast drumming and pig squeal-infested vocals. Righteous indeed.
