Touché Amoré at Lisboa Live - 2025

Californian band Touché Amoré came to Lisbon last Tuesday and filled the Lisboa ao Vivo on a rainy and unforgettable night.

Accompanied by the bands Boneflower and Trauma Ray, who took care of the warm-up in a surprising way, the night couldn't have been better. Produced by House of Fun, which has been betting on excellent names to give us incredible concerts in Portugal, we at Metal Junkbox were there to check out everything that happened.

BONEFLOWER

The Spaniards from Boneflower were a real surprise, literally, as they weren't in the official announcement and right around 8:15pm the trio took to the stage and opened their toolbox with an absurd and brutal beatdown. Presenting engaging post-hardcore with more chaotic and hallucinatory screaming melodies that create a dense and extremely surprising atmosphere, the band captivated the still timid audience that was arriving at the Lisbon Live. And they opened up to those arriving from work at the Lav, saying that tomorrow they would have to be in Madrid to get back to their jobs too, showing a little of the reality of the undergroud and that the life and glamor of a rock star is far from being a reality.

TRAUMA RAY

When the Texan quintet took to the LAV stage, the house was already packed and eager for Trauma Ray's performance.

Unfortunately, some technical problems got in the way of the first few songs, with the loss of sound from the microphone and vocalist Uriel Avila's guitar, which left things a little cold at first, something that once resolved was completely dissipated with the quality and atmosphere that the band manages to impress, but with little time left to climb the mountain.

They presented a shoegaze of the highest quality, with huge walls of sound and melancholic melodies at the same time as inserting weight and aggression, balancing their sound in an exquisite way, almost hypnotizing the audience. Pity about the technical problems with Trauma Ray's debut in Portugal.

TOUCHÉ AMORÉ

After eight years since their last visit to Lisbon, Touché Amoré returned to the Portuguese capital for a memorable night, and even on a rainy Tuesday they almost sold out Lisboa ao vivo.

Os californianos são sem duvidas um dos principais nomes do  post-hardcore da atualidade , com seu recém lançado álbum ‘Spiral in a Straight Line’, editado a 11 de outubro 2024, e com a produção a cargo  do renomado produtor Ross Robinson, a banda continua mantendo a mesma chama, inovação, e reflexão em letras e melodias que se conectam com o publico de forma quase transcendental , e foi justamente isso que vimos no Lav nesta noite.

Pessoas a chorar, a cantar a plenos pulmões a extravasar toda a suas emoções a cada letra que o carismático frontman Jeremy Bolm cantava, a começar pela primeira  “Nobody’s” que deu inicio ao caos e diversão com vários mosh e crowd surf que foram do inicio ao fim, do novo trabalho ainda deu tempo de mandarem ” Force of Habit” , “Disasters” e ” Hal Ashby” uma bela apresentação de musicas que funcionaram na perfeição ao vivo.

Com verdadeiras perolas do álbum “Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me” lançado em 2011 como “Art Official”, “Face Ghost” ou “Pathfinder” eles dominaram o publico presente que cantava frase por frase junto de Bolm. Com pouco mais de uma hora de concerto os Touché Amoré conseguiram entregar uma noite marcante, com uma vibração espetacular em que todos estavam a remar para o mesmo lado e fazer com que todos presentes fossem embora molhados mas de suor e não pela chuva que caia em Lisboa.