Los Angeles’ Intronaut open tonight’s proceedings with a dose of post-metal weighted down with helpings of sludge and progressive spice. The sound is noisy and particularly bass-heavy, presenting thick grooves to headbang to.

Following their lead is fellow countrymen A Storm of Light, featuring Josh Graham of Neurosis fame. The quartet belt out trance-inducing sludge with a doomy temperament. It’s abrasive, strangulating but strangely addictive. Their stage presence is austere and serious with the audience visibly lapping up all the band shed. The perfect compliment to Intronaut.

Ghost Brigade are more markedly different to the supports with their typically melancholy Finnish melodic death metal crossed with post-rock sensibilities and doom metal, all heavily influenced by shoegazers Katatonia. Opening with new track ‘Clawmaster’, the vicious yet melodic number sets the tone for the remainder of the set with catchy rhythms and a despairing attitude. The majority of the set is equally lifted from new album ‘Until Fear No Longer Defines Us’ and ‘Isolation Songs’, much to the audience’s delight. The sound muddies the guitar melody but otherwise, the performance is delectable. ‘Soulcarvers’ closes the evening, until the band return for a three-track encore climaxing with the fragile ‘A Storm Inside’. An elegant end to mid-week melancholy in the capital.