Stigmata Catch-up

Here's your bonus minireview. The editor of Nigthshift couldn't turn up in time to this gig, so I reviewed the first act.  You can find their review of the other acts, Traidora and Distraxi, at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/may.pdf.

HOLY WOUNDS, Whiplash, The Bully, 9/4/25 

It might just be suggestion because Holy Wounds feature Taz Corona from the mighty Undersmile, but we seem to detect a doom underpinning to their ritualistic abstract noise - even the most untethered section of screech and drone seems to come with an unspoken trudging beat. Taz plays guitar, growls and does that ghost-of-an-evil-child-monk voice she's so adept at, whilst Kieran Wakeman crawls on the floor doing...indefinable noise things. At one point he plays a horrific rusty scythe with a violin bow, and if it makes no discernible sound, we aren't about to dare tell him.