Concert Review: Mass Gothic Shows Love In Loathing At Elsewhere

Is love toxic or is it that even toxic people can love? This is the question!  I adore Mass Gothic in sound and style. They are love on auto-destruct; wailing guitar melodies as if they are weeping willows weltering over failed romances. At Elsewhere, they celebrated the album I’ve Tortured You Long Enough, which should be a MAJOR signal over how their music plays. 

When two people embrace each other’s darkness they can truly believe they are light together. They can ignore the drama and danger they cause each other because it becomes normalized; making them believe that hurt is love and to love is to hurt. Mass Gothic toys with this idea to create a concert space that feels like a red room in Love’s Hell. Your shrouded with darkness that is comparable to night, and left to dance with a melody that is moonlight.

When songs are titled “Keep On Dying” and looping lyrics say, “I am nothing!,” you are clearly not steering towards Buddhistic positivism. Yet, love can get that ugly, especially if you are in love while being the ugliest version of yourself. As human beings, our soul is a spectrum; constantly learning to scale itself morally until, one day, we tip the scale towards either our goodness or our maliciousness. Thus, every lyric peels like an onion; forcing you to fight the igniting cries of loving someone when you are most hateful towards yourself. Of course, any crowd would be enamored by such themes, and how, for a moment, they can see the shadows of love through an artful soundscape. 

Vocally led by husband and wife, Noel Heroux and Jessica Zambri, their harmonies are intoxicatingly cool. You guzzle them like fine wine dipped in poisonous verses. They are not a “chatty band,” which is a plus for their sound. It allows the billowing shade of their instrumentals to cast over you so that can see the sonic film they have made through their album. Their songs and voices play for those that believe Bonnie and Clyde are relationship goals, and reels over your mind like the movie Buffalo 66. They are a strange, silly, serious, and soulful look at love in loathing. For More Information On Mass Gothic Click Here.