GIG REVIEW – Krhanice Open Air Festival, Czech Republic
I went to a festival in the summer of 2020. There, recorded for time immemorial, a monument to a
moment of “normal” chaos in the wider insanity of constrained, hushed times. Since 2008 I’ve
embraced festival going as my religious retreats, the epiphanies of self-destructive liver flagellation,
aural ecstasy, revelation, redemption and survival to a soundtrack of your choice. But the prayer rug
and the muddy earth pulled from beneath my feet this year with developing events, already had lost
Pit Fest in Holland in May, and the intended destination here of a return to the glorious Brutal
Assault was also postponed, the spiritual loss and the shaking of the musical pillars of my faith was
palpable.More