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CVLT Nation Captures Chelsea Wolfe & Youth Code In San Francisco

Bobby Cochran

Photos & Text by Bobby Cochran

All good things must come to an end, and tonight was the end ofย Chelseaย Wolfeโ€™s wildly successful Hiss Spun US Tour, which was rife with sell-out shows and record audiences.ย  Tonightโ€™s near-capacity show at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco left no doubt in anyoneโ€™s mind about why she and tour mates Youth Code are filling rooms and blowing minds night after night.

Entering the stage to the droning, ethereal sounds of โ€œWeltโ€ and straight into the sludge-factory volume of โ€œSpunโ€, the days ofย Chelseaย as the goth-folk chanteuse are in the past. Tonightโ€™sย Chelseais powerful and commanding, though the soft, sweeping beauty of her voice is front and center, balancing the weightiness with delicate, clear emotion. Pulling primarily fromย Hiss Spunย and 2015โ€™sย Abyss,ย Chelseaย made nods to past work like โ€œTracks (Tall Bodies)โ€ from 2011โ€™sย Apokalypsisย and the brilliant encore performance of โ€œHalfsleeperโ€ from 2010โ€™sย The Grime & The Glow.

CHELSEA WOLFE

Youth Code are a powder keg of industrial-strength sonic blasts. Vocalist Sarah Taylorโ€™s incessant stage-prowl and distorted barks and screams alongside keyboardist/ machine guy Ryan Georgeโ€™s barely contained post-industrial fury, YC commanded and controlled, and didnโ€™t take no for an answer.

YOUTH CODE

Show openers Screature hail fromย Chelseaย Wolfeโ€™s hometown of Sacramento, and joined the tour for a couple of California dates.ย  Revitalizing a classic death-rock sound that harkens at times to Rozz Williams-era Christian Death, the droning, incessant drive of Joy Division and the haunted caterwaul of vintage Siouxie. Screature made it clear that true Goth isnโ€™t dead, itโ€™s just hiding deep in the reeds.ย  Anyone needing confirmation just need listen to their newly released single โ€œHit The Voidโ€ and experience the cathartic fury firsthand.ย  This is a band to watch for in 2018.

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