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THE FINNISH BAND GRAVE PLEASURES CAME TO EXTRAMURALHAS 2023 TO PRIMARILY SHOWCASE THE SONGS FROM THEIR EXTRAORDINARY ALBUM ‘PLAGUEBOYS.’ THE EXCELLENCE OF THE SONGS FROM THIS RECORD WAS CLEARLY EVIDENT IN HOW THE CHORUSES OF ‘LEAD BALLOONS’, ‘CONSPIRACY OF LOVE’, ‘TEARS ON THE CAMERA LENS’, AND THE TITLE TRACK ‘PLAGUEBOYS’ RESONATED IN OUR HEADS. THE FEAST OF APOCALYPTIC DEATH-ROCK CONSTRUCTED IN STRUCTURES REMINISCENT OF POST-PUNK BY THIS QUINTET FORMED BY ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIANS AND LED BY THE DISTINCTIVE VOICE OF IRISHMAN MAT MCNERNEY, WAS COMPLETED WITH SOME OF THEIR PREVIOUS HITS, SUCH AS ‘JOY THROUGH DEATH’ AND, OF COURSE, ‘BE MY HIROSHIMA’. PHOTOGRAPHER GIL ÁLVARO DE LEMOS REGISTERED THESE BEUTIFUL IMAGES: