{"id":17791,"date":"2018-08-09T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2018-11-29T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:46:04","slug":"cloak-dominates-atlanta-with-a-flawless-set-of-classic-black-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17791","title":{"rendered":"Cloak Dominates Atlanta With A Flawless Set of Classic Black Metal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cloak<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 28, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Atlanta, GA<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Drunken Unicorn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re probably thinking.\u00a0 &#8220;Dude, why the fuck are you out at an Atlanta Black Metal show?&#8221;\u00a0 Well, to answer your question, I was there to see Cloak.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because they don&#8217;t fucking suck.\u00a0 Even though I don&#8217;t like that brand of cookie monster vocals, something Cloak works for me.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s because they embody elements of The Devil&#8217;s Blood, Watain, Venom, and that their songs aren&#8217;t just break neck metal noise.\u00a0 Their songs are epic and the music actually takes me somewhere with all of the dynamic versatility in the arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>I have never been shy about my feelings regarding the Atlanta metal scene.\u00a0 This town has some of the worst bands in the largest numbers of just about any city in the US.\u00a0 Trust me, I&#8217;ve sat through tons of them and 3\/4 of them had me wishing I could cut my ears off.\u00a0 In a nutshell, Atlanta just isn&#8217;t a town for great music so when a truly great band band does emerge and capture my attention, you damn well better believe that I&#8217;m going to out there to support them and take it all in.<\/p>\n<p>After sitting through a couple of Atlanta&#8217;s finest (I say that as sarcasm), Cloak finally took the stage and let me just say that this fucking band did not disappoint me.\u00a0 The first thing that struck me was that finally I was seeing a local band who actually put out some fucking effort and creating a stage show.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing the difference a few cool scrims, a backdrop, and some choreographed smoke machines can do for a performance.\u00a0 The band kicked off with &#8220;Where No Light Shines&#8221; from their 2017 release To Venomous Depths and then went right into &#8220;Withing the Timeless Black&#8221; which totally drew me into their world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/69OfENkm--Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cloak is a band that seems to scratch quite a few itches for me.\u00a0 Cloak&#8217;s music is so melodic and the songs are so perfectly executed and the guitars aren&#8217;t tuned down so low it sounds like Satan ripping a hot on in his pants.\u00a0 On stage, they give it 110%.\u00a0 Lead vocalist\/guitarist Scott Taysom commands the stage with all of the power of someone that has been playing huge stages all his live while drummer Sean Bruneau is without a doubt one of the best drummers I have ever seen. As a live band, Cloak plays on a plane so far above any local metal I have seen to date and at times during performance even found myself thinking, &#8220;These guys are too good for Atlanta.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Closing out their oh too short but amazing set was &#8220;Deep Red&#8221; and with that they were done.\u00a0 The minute they ended that last note it was obvious that they left everything on that stage and gave everything they had to an audience that gave them next to nothing but crossed arms and some barely nodding heads.\u00a0 Why the people weren&#8217;t losing their minds and going nuts is beyond me.\u00a0 If this show had been in Sweden there would&#8217;ve been chanting, bodies being passed around, and absolute mayhem.\u00a0 I also have to say that it didn&#8217;t help that the sound for this band was absolutely atrocious.\u00a0 A band like this deserves and needs to be mixed properly in order to truly get to the root of each melodic note and chord played.<\/p>\n<p>The Drunken Unicorn is hands down one of the worst fucking venues to see a show.\u00a0 Horrible sound, horrible lighting, everything about it just frustrates the living fuck out of me.\u00a0 Is it so hard to get someone capable of working a mixing board and actually giving the bands the common courtesy of actually doing their job?\u00a0 Cloak, hands down, is the best fucking metal band in Atlanta.\u00a0 These guys are something truly special and they are a band that I have definitely created a special place for in my black, snarky, smart ass little heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloak July 28, 2018 Atlanta, GA The Drunken Unicorn I know what you&#8217;re probably thinking.\u00a0 &#8220;Dude, why the fuck are you out at an Atlanta Black Metal show?&#8221;\u00a0 Well, to answer your question, I was there to see Cloak.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because they don&#8217;t fucking suck.\u00a0 Even though I don&#8217;t like that brand of cookie monster vocals, something Cloak works for me.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s because they embody elements of The Devil&#8217;s Blood, Watain, Venom, and that their songs aren&#8217;t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,277],"tags":[1488,2001,2000],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concert-reviews","category-music-news","tag-black-metal","tag-boris-recods","tag-cloak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/25311093_1595133933908263_1813623278187843568_o.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}