With the countdown to Necrosonic Festival at The Mansfield Tavern in Brisbane on August 31 now on, HEAVY thought it appropriate to introduce you to the bands playing on the day, two at a time, starting from today until the day of the show.
Conjured by one of the dark architects behind the legendary Overcranked, Inferno and Dead of Winter Festivals, Necrosonic heralds a day filled with unrelenting brutality and the heaviest, most sinister sounds that the underworld has to offer, some even returning from the dead for the ritual.
Hosting 30 bands across three stages over 12 hours, Necrosonic Festival promises to satiate even the heaviest of hungers. Today, we introduce you to Potion and Bloody Tyrant.
Tickets on sale now from https://necrosonicfestival.com/
POTION
Potion is a Sydney doom metal trio that combines the high-viscosity riffage of modern hardcore with the winding, psychedelic songwriting of classic heavy metal. Formed as a collaboration between songwriter Lee Jowono and bassist Stella Leung, Potion has gained a reputation for their blistering live performances, crushing audiences across Australia with a wall of smoke-drenched doom since the release of their debut EP Seven Sorcerers in 2017 and sharing the stage with the likes of Arch Enemy, Phil Anselmo & the Illegals, Conan and Eyehategod.
The band’s latest offering, 2021’s Oath to Flame is an EP that showcases an even heavier side of the band, consisting of two tracks that both push the 8-minute mark and are filled to the brim with heavier-than-the-earth-itself riffs and soaring, tormented vocals which gained the attention of publications including CVLT Nation and Revolver Mag.
BLOODY TYRANT
Bloody Tyrant started as a black metal band, with high-speed drumming and glass scratching screams during 2011.
Their EP The Overture Of Sun-Moon Lake and album The Legacy Of Sun-Moon Lake talk about a folk- lore of the largest lake in Nantou, Taiwanwhile the album Solitary Eagle talks about a well-known story of a mountain accident in 1976.
The album HAGAKURE is about the mindset of samurai, focusing on how people think about “death” during Sengoku Jidai and Myths Of The Islands dives into the folk-lore of Taiwanese indigenous people. The EP HAGAKURE II is a collection of four samurai stories from historical events and literature.
Bloody Tyrant has experienced the transformation from genre to genre for years, and now combine the epic feels of symphonic black metal and the story-telling feels of folk metal with the brutality and speed of death metal.
