Live Video: Mammút at Iceland Airwaves

Live Video, Iceland Airwaves
11/25/2014
Jim Beckmann
photo by Jim Bennett (view set)

To call Mammút's live act "emotive" is a huge understatement. Frontwoman Kata Mogensen seems to enter a completely different state onstage, even covering herself in fake blood or painting her face ominously, while the rest of the band unleashes a colossal sound. We've been fortunate to watch the young group rise to the front of the herd over the past five years, easily becoming one of the most engaging live acts in Iceland today, and their fifth performance for KEXP, this year at Kex Hostel at Iceland Airwaves, is their strongest yet. Read more about their mammoth session here and become entranced now:

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