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Danny Cavanagh feat. Ville Valo - “Inner Silence (live)” YouTube

Last Saturday I witnessed Danny Cavanagh’s (guitarist for Anathema) solo show at a smal local club. Two hours of personal, intense music that couldn’t been better. Danny performed mostly Anathema songs (also unreleased new songs), but also several cover versions, of which his remake of “Wasted Years” of Iron Maiden was really cool. My well-timed “Slayer!” shout provoked him play the first riff of “Raining Blood” as well, so he can’t be completely bad, right?.

Opening acts Silentium and Leafblade were also stunning. Silentium played as a four-piece and half of their six-song set was Opeth’s material. Leafblade included Danny Cavanagh as well, but more importantly Sean Rooney of Valle Crucis fame (or should I put it “fame”?). Leafblade’s material is serene and even magical with a nice twist of modern sense of melody as well as sort of medieval touch. I’ll get back to Leafblade blogging later.

Anyway, the video linked above is filmed from the same tour. Ville Valo of HIM joined Danny on stage at Semifinal in Helsinki and together they performed “Inner Silence” from Anathema’s Alternative 4 album. No matter what you think of HIM, that moment must have been special.