Dreadnought and Big | Brave played Hong Kong – 6/27

Colorado’s Dreadnought and Montreal’s Big | Brave hit Cambridge on their summer tour, with local support from Glacier. 

You’d be hard pressed to find a stronger heavy double bill than this one on tour as of late. Both bands have remarkable 2019 albums out in the wild (those would be Emergence and A Gaze Among Them), and even where their approaches diverge, the adventurously forward-thinking spirits of both Dreadnought and Big | Brave make them perfectly complementary tourmates.

On the third floor walkup of Harvard Square’s Hong Kong restaurant (a new spot for shows, and a mostly agreeable one), local post-metal quintet Glacier kicked off the Thursday night festivities with a hypnotic and deafening instrumental set. Dreadnought’s prog-y black-ish metal followed, dazzling with both blistering heaviness and quieter moments where flutes and saxophones merged effortlessly into the proceedings. Big | Brave concluded the night with dramatic flair befitting their raw deconstructionism, and it was great to see them seize the spotlight after a series of prestigious opening slots in town with the likes of Sunn O))), Unsane, The Body and Daughters.

Check out photos from all three sets below.