Glamour of the Kill, This House We Built and Aethoria at the Brickmakers, Norwich, March 20
Aethoria
Leading the charge tonight with Mecia’s cut glass vox and lead singer uber-sass, Aethoria dominate as soon as they’re on stage. Y’know how there’s sometimes only two dogs (usually Whippets) and a man who manage to make it to see the first band on the line-up? Not tonight. The crowd is the same size for the Stonedead 2026 Openers as it is for tonight’s headliners Glamour of the Kill. The soul-bearing throat-slitting vocals and instrumental insanity from this killer quintet course through the Brickmakers. This is heavenly rock with a hardcore focus from a band that always… ALWAYS deliver live.
This House We Built
Opening up their set with the groove and soul fuelled ‘Addiction’, the half wholesome half hell raisers also known as ‘This House We Built’ are here. Frontman Scott Wardell bounces off every available surface while the rest of the boys stand firm and throw down full on horns up rock. ‘Fairweather Friend’ is a storm of high energy guitars and thundering low end rhythms. ‘Rain’ sounds so damn good on record, but my God when This House We Built drop it live it’s bloody life-affirming. Gets the Brickmakers swaying? Of course. This song could see an entire stadium rocking. The colossal heft of ‘Crash N’ Burn’ could cause aforementioned stadium to collapse, however. ‘You’re The Voice’ shows that shoving a cover everyone knows into your set gets the crowd going and makes the night that bit more unforgettable. ‘It’s Only Rock n Roll’ closes their shift with hard rock, cowbell filled class. We’re not talking family-friendly with This House We Built, but we are talking family. You’re always guaranteed a good time with these boys.
Glamour of the Kill
Our favourite Savages stride onto the stage and there is now no excuse for the crowd not to lose their collective shit. These boys have come to wreck necks and wreak havoc with metalcore monsters like delicious filth-fest ‘Break’, crushing ‘A Freak Like Me’ and mighty ‘Vengeance’.
It’s Friday night and Glamour of the Kill don’t just intend to start the weekend off right. Their bulletproof set blending thrash (‘Grace of God’), pop punk (‘Feeling Alive’) and anthemic call to battle hard rock (‘Rampage’) means we’ll be feeling sore all the way through to Sunday. And hopefully beyond. And if we still haven’t regained our hearing by the time the working week starts, that’s cool too. Because this band sound so bloody good at the Brickmakers tonight there’s not gonna be much worth listening to for the foreseeable that meets Glamour of the Kill’s mark. Deeper down the rabbit hole we go tonight for unrelenting pit moving punchers ‘Blood Drunk’ and ‘Feed Them to the Pigs’.
Lead singer and bassist Davey Richmond is so happy to see the good folk of Norwich and the surrounding area have come out in force to see his band. He has a little chat now and then, but like Aethoria and This House We Built before them, their songs are strong enough to do the talking. And to also get several shots of Tequilla delivered on request…
The boys leave it til late to drop ‘Rise From Your Grave’ before ripping it up with an encore of ‘A Hope in Hell’ and ‘Second Chance’ by which point it’s a good job the floor’s got a bit sticky because that’s the only thing holding us up.
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Glamour of the Kill
This House We Built
