Live Review: Voyager, Chaos Divine, Let’s Kill Uncle

Musicality was the theme of the night at the Rosie on Friday night starring three bands that are currently pushing the boundaries of genre and songwriting.

Let’s Kill Uncle are a relatively young band that have a solid grasp on their sound with undeniable elements of growing up in Perth. Could this be the band to fill the 'melodic death' vacuum left by the mighty Pathogen? Pathogen-catchy - pun intended, these boys have that kind of potential.

It seems just yesterday we were watching Chaos Divine playing Opeth covers at Caps however this band have remained tight-knit and productive with their evolution through their careers pushing their sound to new areas. Locked in with studio level production and precision the band crams a ridiculous amount both subtle and overt action into each track. 

It seems just yesterday we were watching Chaos Divine playing Opeth covers at Caps.

Friday saw a mix of the young and the old. Frontman David Anderton cultivates a sense of futility with his tone setting up his roars to perfection, with the best example being One Door from 2011’s The Human Connection album and a band Chaos have mastered the sense of building, moments of suspension and unleashing a payoff. Soldiers featured as well as the debut road-test of newwy Badge Of Honour hinting at an exciting new album just around the corner.

There’s nothing quite like a Voyager show. It’s out-of-this-world musicianship, but it’s fundamentally goddamn entertaining and that is something that has never been lost. The primordial elements remain, rewarding long-term local fans with the qualities that have set them on the track as potential world conquerors. Spanning a decade between V and Element V the set contained the futuristic Hyperventilating – the curvature of the light array surrounding the band giving the appearance of the interior of an alien spacecraft, Simone Dow rocking a seven-string Ibanez Universe added for effect. 

We hadn’t prepared for this.

Super smooth mode engaged with The Devil In Me, feeling linear and relaxed, Iron Dream for introspection and To The Morning Light for every single Voyager fan ever. The Space Jump carousel got a whirl – this time featuring Michael Jackson’s Way You Make(ah) Me Feel, Rammstein’s Du Hast, the most underrated song of all time in Midnight Oil’s Beds Are Burning and Rage Against The Machine. 

The conclusion saw the crowd chant as they would for an international band. “Really?”  Daniel Estrin’s response. “We hadn’t prepared for this, it’s gonna be rough.” Before delivering a flawless performance of arguably the funnest Voyager track White Shadow. Thank the gods for encore chants.