LIVE REVIEW: Kingdom Of Giants, Profiler, Thousand Thoughts, The Dome, London, 22/01/2024
Coming off the back of a UK support slot with British metalcore giants Bury Tomorrow and Michigan metallers We Came As Romans, Kingdom Of Giants certainly did not use these bands as a crutch. Grasping the overseas opportunity to put on their own headline show downstairs at The Dome, a venue which has seen bands such as Bad Omens and Alpha Wolf tear upstairs apart to a six hundred strong sold out crowd. Despite downsizing to its three hundred capacity sister venue, the Northern Californian crew crammed bodies downstairs at The Dome for forty minutes of blistering, chaotic and unfiltered modern metalcore.
In the company of their own special guests of the evening Profiler and Thousand Thoughts; Profiler a nu-metal meets grunge rock band hailing from Bristol and Thousand Thoughts bringing a setlist showcasing their 2022 debut album Better Than Never to the table, both bands are beacons of the modern nu-metal scene, unapologetic and abrasive in their music. When we think of bands to watch out for, Profiler and Thousand Thoughts should be heavily considered. 8/10
Coming fresh off the back of their tour with Bury Tomorrow, it was Kingdom Of Giants’ time to be the top dogs of tonight. Kicking off their setlist with Burner a track taken from the band’s last LP Passenger, a record which dictated most of tonight’s setlist from the band including later unholy performances of tracks Nightshift, Two Suns, Synch, Blue Dream, Bleach and shortly signing off with Wayfinder, each and every song provided huge riffs and percussive beats.
Perhaps thought Kingdom Of Giants’ most recent single Wasted Space stuck out from the rest of the setlist for all the right reasons. If downstairs at The Dome was wearing a belt that thing would be bursting open by the boisterous breakdown and awakening screams courtesy of vocalist Dana Willax, Kingdom Of Giants were the source of all your mayhem this evening.
Proving they are no wasted space in the modern metalcore scene, Kingdom Of Giants bought and held their own amongst the heavyweights they have been in the company of throughout January downstairs at The Dome. 8/10
Written By: Katie Conway-Flood
