19 April 2025
📸 Wittekop
Band: WIJF.
Who: Noizz hit team from Belgium
coming up faster than a comet.
Last December, this fresh Belgian turbo released their smashing debut single
Hysterical. Along with a series of jaw-dropping gigs they became the talk
of the town, as displayed last Thursday in their own Ghent.
WIJF. grab you by the throat from the kick-off and never lose their grip.
Their Herculean metallic stoner rock hullabaloo is MASSIVE. Think Deftones,
Queens Of Stone Of The Age, Wolfmother and Rage Against The Machine all
rolled into one. LOUD! VERY LOUD!
Vivacious singer Marie De Graeve is the vocal and visual magnet in the middle.
Her sky-scraping voice is just overwhelming, as strong and tall as the Eiffel Tower.
Her blistering and explosive stage presence showed us that she’s a natural-born performer.
And when you’re backed by a trashing & slashing powerhouse band that produce
an illegal amount of decibels, and you have the titanic tunes to get your audience
to go bonkers, you know that this WIJF. engine is coming up as fast as a supersonic jet.
This was a small, sauna-like, club concert. Soon they’ll need bigger venues to welcome their unstoppably growing fan base. Next step is an EP and more live helter-skelter.
For those about to rock hard WIJF. salute you!
HYSTERICAL
(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume)