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Ghengis Tron Live at SxSW 2008 - Emo

SxSW 2008 Live: Genghis Tron

14th March 2008 | by Aidan Williamson

You'd never expect two bespectacled wiry men, poured over keyboards and a third who would fit quite easily into the hipster scene looks wise to draw a crowd of black clad, hardcore metal-heads, and yet, this is what Genghis Tron have done.

Their clashing styles of ambient and progressive metal work seriously well in the live arena, with the aftershock of their brutal outbursts long bouncing off the walls and vibrating everything in sight after an ambient passage has kicked in.

Given the setting of a thin canvas tent for the gig, decibel levels are cranked up to space launch levels and people stand in a somewhat confused state outside the boundaries of the venue, perplexed as to what to make of the bizarre hybrid of noise coming their way.

In a festival where the hardcore/metal contingent are a minority, Genghis Tron sure did a grand job of representing said minority with a brutal and beautiful performance.

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