Kilat at the Curtin

24 October 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Tongue Dissolver and False Fate.Time for a metal show! I had seen Kilat at least once before - at a performing arts venue at Monash Uni, and in the mid-afternoon. It was a strange time and place for a metal show, but it was a good one. The excellent Faceless Burial also played that time.This time, it was Kilat's album launch tour. I have wanted to see them again for a while.False Fate got us off to a start - one guy with a plastic folding table with laptops, synths, you know the type. His music (along with the red lighting behind him) to me was very much like being trapped in the movie Hardware. (I now realise he describes his music as cinematic synth doom, so, nailed it.) Adrian described the music as "scary arpeggios".I estimated that 5 to 10% of the crowd was not wearing black. I was, but Adrian was wearing one of my patented, home-made, and may I say iconic fish shirts.Next up, and possibly of equal attraction to this show as Kilat, was…