Gazey, Hawt, and Gloomid
Somergloom: Night One
Additional photos by Red Schomburg
Slow Quit can’t quit you at Deep Cuts on Thursday, 7 August 2025.
GUHTS, Lesotho, and Main Era open the fourstack bill at Somergloom V.
The brewery dropped a Somergloom special Dark Lager, which tasted like headbangers in leather, sparks flyin' in the dead of the night, fifty thousand watts of power, and a beast ready to devour.
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Who knows what darkness lurks in the heart of the ‘Gloom?
Somergloom celebrated its Vth year, ushering into the world the melancholy music of sixteen bands, on two stages, over three days.
A fourstack bill opened the festival at Deep Cuts in Medford, followed by two nights of sorcery and sorrow at Crystal Ballroom in Somerville.
The Gloomdogs were $4. The ‘Gansett tallboys about $5 or so. And the altar of mourning dedicated to the recently deceased Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne? Priceless.
Main Era
Main Era
There’s no one way to get gloomy. Opening night of Somergloom was proof enough of that. Main Era kicked off the bill with a sound that can get plenty doomy, but also starts to wander in gazey directions that you might not necessarily associate with Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat.
The band appears to have acquired a fifth member: a sampler. The device was used liberally to segue into and out of songs. Speaking of which, Main Era opened with what sounded more like suites of songs, rather than standalone tracks, and the effect was to create a rolling landscape of sound rather than discrete series of ditties.
Musically, it’s exciting and heady stuff – though the audience is never quite sure when to interject with a round of applause. Is the song over or has it just started? But I’ve seen plenty of experimental sets that unfold in one, long, sustained eruption where there’s not a hint of applause until the artist falls into a dead heap of flesh atop their instrument, and no one’s the worse for wear.
Lesotho
Lesotho
Guitarist Kyle Loffredo promised in a recent interview that Lesotho would play their entire new album Flashing On Plain Glass at Somergloom, front to back. Did that happen? Probably! The instrumental post-rock trio mined deep mountains of metal to produce the raw material pouring out of the speakers on Thursday night. Elemental sounds. Uptempo, downtempo, all the tempos. Watch for the new album to drop in… Did I forget to get a release date for the album in the interview? Major blunder!
Lesoth0 (📷: Red Schomburg)
GUHTS
GUHTS
GUHTS, as in “blood & GUHTS.” The New York-based four-piece was the only out-of-towner on the Deep Cuts bill. Their sound was art punk-meets-goth gloom. Plenty of headbanging opportunities. Get into it – just don’t spill your Dark Lager.
GUHTS (📷: Red Schomburg)
Slow Quit
Slow Quit
Slow Quit shared a bill with Main Era on a shoegaze bill last December (Snowgaze), so to see the two of them bookending the first night of Somegloom gave off strong gloom-gaze (doom glaze?) vibrations. If that’s not a subgenre, it is now.
The band’s new album Fusion In Rapture dropped August 1, which turned the Somergloom gig into an album release party as well. Plenty of tracks played off the LP in the set.
Guitar textures abound in a Slow Quit set, along with a heavy, brooding undercurrent that match the festival’s mood.
Slow Quit (📷: Red Schomburg)
Crowd at Deep Cuts (📷: Red Schomburg)
First night down, two nights of ‘Gloom to go!
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