Amenra

The Orpheum and Endoxa Booking Presents:

AMENRA SEPTEMBER USA/CANADA TOUR 2024

Primitive Man

Blackwater Holylight

Friday

September 20th 2024

The Orpheum

Tampa, FL

7pm doors

All ages - under 18 must be accompanied by parent or legal guardian

Tickets are non transferable and non refundable

Rain Or Shine

Amenra emerged in 1999 from the then booming Flemish straight edge hardcore movement. Musically and thematically, however, the band takes a different approach than most of the scene and produces something that can be described as 'post metal': a style that finds its roots in heavy metal, but in terms of approach is not limited to the conventions of the genre and allows much more experimentation. This manifests itself, among other things, in longer songs with more loose and layered song structures in which repeated themes and crescendos occur rather than the typical "verse-chorus" form. The emphasis is placed more on atmosphere and emotion than on technical skilfulness. The band has toured Europe, the United States and Russia several times over the past 20 years and is among the absolute top European bands in its niche, but is now reaching a much wider audience than just die-hard metal fans.

An Amenra concert is often described as a menacing total experience (after all, visual projections are invariably used as well) that grabs you by the throat, bewilders, but above all enlightens and liberates.The band brings equal amounts of intensity in front of their usual wall of amplifiers as in an intimate, acoustic setting. That overall experience cannot only be felt live, as their videos, artwork and all things Amenra are invariably enhanced by a powerful and recognizable aesthetic and visual framework. This visual language emerged from collaborations with artists from their own art collective, the 'Churchof Ra', but also with prominent Belgian artists such as Berlinde De Bruyckere, Michaël Borremans or Willy Vanderperre. Amenra has thus become much more than just that intense live band: they have developed a network in which, together with like-minded visual artists, they provide a reinforcing aesthetic layer.

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