Title: Arcturus
Date: 2013-12-14 22:30

[![arcturus]({static}/images/arcturus.jpg)]({static}/images/arcturus.jpg)

Yesterday, I went to the [O2 Academy Islington](http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/582582173),
to see [Arcturus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus_%28band%29) (The [old site](http://www.arcturus.no/) is currently in maintainance.).
In the UK concerts are starting pretty early, I missed the first group, [Fen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fen_%28band%29) (cool logo by the way), but saw
[From The Bogs Of Aughiska](http://www.metalireland.com/2011/04/03/from-the-bogs-of-aughiska-interview/): black metal is always terrible,
but this one was less awful-than-expected. And then came Arcturus!

The first time I listened to Sideshow Symphonies, I was greatly impressed by the singer (Simen Hestnæs),
and by the pianist (Steinar Sverd Johnsen, who is the main composer behind Arcturus), especially on the [Star-Crossed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBzVeWgyrDw) track. And this time, I was amazed again. Despite the crappy acoustic of the hall, with larsen everywhere and a likely-deaf sound-engineer, it was astounding!
I knew that the singer could go pretty high with his voice, but not _that_ high! I'm glad I saw them live, in spite of a breakup from 2007 to 2011,
and the fact that they do no do much lives. I highly recommend their last two albums, _The Sham Mirrors_ and _Sideshow Symphonies_.