The Black Heart Procession play Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor W) Nov 5.
Goths will never feel at home in indie rock. Though both communities thrive on emotional wreckage, there are just too many group hugs in indie’s gangland vocals, so creatures of the night are forced to find their solace in old Bauhaus LPs. Luckily, San Diego’s The Black Heart Procession do devil worship just as well as they pay homage to Iron Maiden. With Nick Cave–like arrangements of haunted vocal, driving guitar and funereal piano, tracks like “Witching Stone” and “Heaven And Hell” have the slow paced pallor of a contributor to the Twilight soundtrack. While it’s hard to see their macabre songwriting as anything more than curiosa, breaking new ground is difficult for the undead.