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Having dropped their new album, The Darkest Place I‘ve Ever Been, earlier this year, the fact the French metalcore quintet, LANDMVRKS are now headlining one of London‘s most iconic venues, the Camden Roundhouse, should show how meteoric their rise has been since forming in 2014.

They arrive at the London venue early on in this December European headline run and are joined by a mouthwatering bill if you like an eclectic night out. Heading up a four band bill, Landmvrks are joined by Bristol nu-metal crew Split Chain who continue to stamp their mark on the UK underground scene with their brutal nod to the classic downtuned nu-metal greats of the scene. More blunt and to the point are New York‘s Pain of Truth who batter the audience with a more traditional, hardcore punk onslaught.

The real treat for fans after that came in the form of special guests Florida post-hardcore legends Underoath who, quite honestly, are a band who could easily headline a venue of this stature. A band who, amongst hardcore circles, have earned the right to be called legendary, the Florida favourites only have forty minutes on stage but make the most of it with new cuts like “All The Love Is Gone” nestling comfortably alongside twenty-year old classics like ”Writings on the Wall.” An unforgettable performance from an iconic band in iconic surroundings, what more needs to be said?

Despite having a lull a few years back where the scene almost stagnated with bands merely aping the classics of the genre, metalcore in 2025 is a different beast and a band like Marseille boundary-pushers Landmvrks are the perfect example of the genre stepping outside the confines of the rulebook. Proof of that is the turnout from the London metal scene on what is, sadly for the rest of the UK, the only UK headline show on this UK/EU trek.

Supporting an album which is already making its way into plenty of End of Year Top Albums lists, their eighty-minute set kicks off with the title track followed by searing pyros during ”Creature,” and ”Death”. More new tracks followed in the form of ”A Line In The Dust” featuring a guest appearance from Mat Welsh, “Sulfur” and “Requiem”. A graffiti-painting interlude broke up the set while an audience incident at the start of “Rainfall” did nothing to derail the French band as, in full flow, the rest of this visually and sonically breathtaking evening continued at full pace setting the French band up to head into 2026 as one of the major forces in the European metalcore scene.

Our photographer, Harry Wassell Photography, brought back this gallery from the gig. Check out the photos here, along with the LANDMVRKS setlist.

LANDMVRKS Setlist:

1. The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been
2. Creature
3. Death
4. Blistering
5. A Line in the Dust (with Mat Welsh)
6. Visage
7. Sulfur
8. Sombre 16 (with Flo making graffiti art)
9. Say No Word
10. Scars
11. Suffocate (first part acoustic)
12. La valse du temps
13. Les vagues
14. Lost in a Wave
15. Rainfall (interrupted to let security get fan out of the pit)
16. Drum Solo
17. Blood Red
18. Requiem
19. Self-Made Black Hole

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