The Haunt carried out at The Underworld
in London on June 19, 2024
It was a celebration simply for the hell of it.
Simple actions from the bustle of Camden High St is a stairwell that comes down into The Underworld. It’s a little like hell, a cavern for the curious, a bastion for the daring, for the misfits prepared to dance, nervous to yell and scream their aggravations out.
With a long, storied history that has actually seen the similarity Bring Me The Horizon, Fall Out Boy, Black Veil Brides, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion, Soundgarden, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Twenty One Pilots, Queens of the Stone Age, Enter Shikari, Ghost, and Foo Fighters grace its phase, it was time for another set of octane-draped cavalcades to engrave their names in its hallowed name.
Fresh off the Rock For People Fest in the Czech Republic, South Florida rockers The Haunt, led by the charming duo, the spellbinding singer Anastasia Haunt and her riff-wielding, vibe-setting older bro Maxamillion, blasted onto the phase with “Bad Omen,” an as-yet-unreleased concussion of exaltation. It was an effective start to their very first London program in 5 years, an extension of chaos from when the group took down the dead while on trip with Palaye Royale.
A cauldron of suppressed rage was on complete screen as The Haunt showcased much heavier fare like “New Addiction,” “Going Under,” and “Overdose,” commanding the fashion-forward audience like arena rockers. It was a tight, tight, well-oiled device teeming at the joints. It was pure turmoil in the very best possible sense.
The quartet, that included drummer Joey Castro and bassist Salem Vex, was visiting the United Kingdom and Europe as direct assistance for Texas-based alternative electronic band Missio, their Nettwerk labelmates. The 2 groups just recently worked together on the 90s-tinged earworm anthem “Can People Really Change?”
Tune after tune, chorus after chorus, The Haunt led the parade, energy rushing from the phase as fans reciprocated, upping the ante in every method. From a bone-rattling performance of “Hook, Line & & Sinker “from cherished UK power duo Royal Blood to a fist-pumping conniption throughout “I’m Not Yours” to Anastasia’s signature last continual acapella at the climax of “Wish You Stayed,” The Haunt killed.
As the entourage left at half previous midnight to make it to a ferryboat en path to an arranged 4 am border crossing, the noises of silence gunned through the streets of London, however the noise of magnificence was pulsing like a blood-red heart. Not for the faint of faith nor the ethically unskilled, the unaware were no longer dead on arrival, they were pushed, perked up, they had actually been baptized, the social sexual intercourse had actually started, The Haunt had actually brought us the horizon.
Setlist:
Bad Omen
Ethically Incompetent
Blood Red Heart
Little Like Hell
I’m Not Yours
Overdose
Hook, Line & & Sinker (Royal Blood cover)
New Addiction
Going Under
Desire You Stayed
The Haunt carried out at The Underworld in London on June 19,