[DID NOT ATTEND: May 21, 2026] Oranssi Pazuzu / Wayfarer
I had not heard of Oranssi Pazuzu until about a week ago. I’m not even sure what made me look into a band with a name like this. But as soon as I saw that they were a Finnish psychedelic black metal band I had to see what they were all about.
And they are an interesting proposition. The music definitely gets heavy, but there are lots of gentle samples (flute perhaps?) through some of the quieter more psychedelic moments. My only complaint is the black metal component because the singer more or less growls quietly (presumably in Finnish) over the music. Musically, though, I’m really intrigued by them. Because I didn’t know enough about them, and because I already had tickets to see Black Angels, I didn’t really look into them very closely. But having sat with them a bit and listened to them a but more, I think this would have been the better choice, especially since they haven’t toured the US in 7 years and presumably won’t be back for a long while, if ever.
Wayfarer is Denver’s gothic country-infused black metal band. They have an interesting aesthetic (black metal, with sludge, with death metal, heated to a boil on the scorching stones of the Rockies) and I like their musical components, but once again the singer is a deep cookie monster type singer–yes, black metal, I know–but as a person who likes lyrics, it’s hard to get into a song when you just can’t understand what the singer is doing. This is another band I think I’d probably enjoy live more because I could focus on the music rather than the words.
I enjoyed the Black Angels show, but yea, this might have been the better choice.
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