LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: WARGASM AT HERE AT OUTERNET, LONDON 28/09/25
In the depths of HERE at Outernet, a phone free show was the order of business and it turned out to be highly effective in generating a feral riot, with Wargasm right at the centre.
Filthy Pig started the party with an unconventional DJ set. Bringing guests onstage including Modestep and Cassyette - the two guests together blasting through a rendition of their collaboration ‘Limerance' and Cassyette treating us to her massive track ‘Petrichor’.
The masked artist only has one track out, but that track being a collab with Rou Reynolds from Enter Shikari meant this was one fresh act with all eyes on. Aside from that track and the features, the rest of the set was a whistle-stop tour through rock club bangers.
Very few ticket holders chose to skip second support Tropic Gold. The crowd was almost capacity for the trio's set, hailed as the favourite new band of many of your favourite bands, Tropic Gold are making loud and attention-grabbing moves.
Continuing the theme of guest spots, Harpy joined the band on stage for a track and ‘A Place Called Euphoria’, a skilfully styled electronic romp triggered a massive rowing pit. These are seemingly the sort of shenanigans that spontaneously occur when no one is focused on the back of their phones.
The band's style sits somewhere on the cross section of Pendulum, Deftones and Bring Me The Horizon, producing a bold and beautiful outcome.
‘Free lobotomies’ were next on the schedule with Milkie Way and Sam Matlock bringing their chaos home from a lengthy club tour around the US.
Fully utilising the wall-to-wall screen behind the stage, Wargasm have put impressive amounts of effort into curating a visual treat that includes plenty of lyrics, clips from music videos and bold designs. If you are going to ban people from their phones it is indeed a fair trade to provide them with a nonstop engaging show and the duo did just that.
Old favourites, ‘Pyro Pyro’ and ‘Salma Hayek’ from 2022's EP ‘EXPLICT: The MiXXXtape’ and ‘Feral’ and ‘Modern Love’ from 2023's album ‘Venom’ were great moments in the set. As well as new tracks ‘’Circle Pit' and ‘Small World Syndrome’, the curation of the set demonstrated their evolution is less in sound and more in cementing their objective to produce relentless, high energy furiosity.
“On Sunday - the Lord's Day - which makes me your God now, are you ready to get down with Wargasm?” Matlock asked.
The setlist was littered with collaboration songs too. ‘70% Dead’, originally recorded with Corey Taylor and ‘Bang Ya Head’ recorded with Fred Durst both featured in the set but the collabs got real when Rob Swire from Pendulum took to the stage for the fast and furious ‘Cannibal’ from Pendulum's new album ‘Inertia’.
As far as Wargasm shows go, it's always a ruckus experience. The band thrive in down and dirty intimate venues as well as filling the space on festival stages. HERE at Outernet provided a step up from the dive bar summer vibe but by banning phone cameras the engagement was just as solid as at the smallest punk-pub where band and audience are nose to nose.
Wargasm are masters of this enthralling enticing connection though music and performance but it's always in surprising, unexpected ways. One thing is for sure - Wargasm will push the boundaries but the unknown is always, in what direction?
Words and photos by Imogen Bird
Full setlist below:
Vigilantes
Bad Seed
70% Dead
Modern Love
Pyro Pyro
Salma Hayek
D.R.I.L.D.O
Fukstar
Bang Ya Head
Small World Syndrome
Cannibal
Do It So Good
Feral
Spit.
Venom