20 Years of Nekrogoblikon with Special Guests Aborted

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Twenty years is an absurd run for a band whose most recognisable member is a man in a goblin costume, and the joke stopped being the point somewhere around year eight. What is left is a group that can genuinely play, writing melodic death metal with keyboard parts that have no business working, fronted by a mascot who has his own merchandise line and arguably more name recognition than the band. The anniversary framing means a set drawn from the whole run rather than whatever is newest. Pair that with a Belgian death metal band on support who are considerably less funny and significantly heavier, and the night has a proper shape to it. Six on Sunday on South Hill Street downtown. Los Angeles has a deep metal underground that mostly operates outside the places people look, and anniversary shows are when a good slice of it turns up at once.