The goth duo Twin Tribes and their first time in Helsinki

It is November or “marraskuu”, as the Finns call this month in which nature dies. The word “marras” means death, it is the month in which the light is dying, the sun hides more and more and it is the snow that gives just a little brightness to the daily darkness.

It does not seem like a coincidence that Twin Tribes have chosen this time of the calendar to visit the capital of Finland for the first time. Luis Navarro and Joel Niño, the duo in this equation of elegant post-punk and darkwave, packed the Kuudes Linja, a modest and almost hidden venue in the center of Helsinki.

Although it was a Sunday night, those who attended did so to be enveloped by the sound of this pair of Mexican-American vampires. Of course the color black dominated the environment, there was heavy makeup and soft and rhythmic movements of what seemed to be a mass of dancing shadows between eighties beats, deep verses and flickering lights.

The show did not last 90 minutes, but the time on stage was enough to offer a setlist with songs from their different albums, “Another Life”, “Perdidos”, “Monolith” and “Cauldron Of Thorns”. The music invited the audience to abandon themselves to their dark and danceable melodies.

The duo included in the repertoire their version of “Lobo-hombre en París” by La Unión, and with their discreet but magnetic stage presence they went from one song to another, also performing “Shadows“, “Portal to the Void“, “Upir“, “Sangre de Oro” and an exquisite closing with “Fantasmas“.

Thus, on the night of the last Sunday of November, the darkness, the occult and the deep feelings were experienced; we danced with the death towards which we all go. The music of Twin Tribes devoured us, this music that sounds like velvet: soft, warm, refined and elegant.