Danish rock band Marching Church and Russian band Mooncake will perform this week at B10 Live.

    Marching Church from Copenhagen used to be Elias Bender Ronnenfelt’s solo project and now has been expanded into a band.

    Marching Church released their second album, “Telling It Like It Is,” last month via Sacred Bones Records. “Telling It Like It Is” forgoes much of Marching Church’s past proclivity for wild stylistic swings in favor of thematically unified, complicated, but cohesive song arrangements. Immediately apparent through debut single, “Heart of Life,” which is being shared as a free download alongside the official video, the result is a more focused Marching Church, but one that hasn’t lost an ounce of swagger.

    The light and shade Ronnenfelt finds in this worldview permeate the songs on “Telling It Like It Is,” an album that taps into a debauched lunacy that teeters on the verge of exhaustion and a charged sensuality. “We have here one world united under the sparks of one enormous disco ball hanging over us like the moon. In one fleeting moment in the light of its mirrored surface we see human endurance, in the next we see doom.”

    Mooncake, a postrock group, is one of the leading Russian rock bands. They have their own style which is a blend of rock, neo-classical, jazz fusion and others. Initially Mooncake gravitated to a more rock sound, and are often compared with Pink Floyd. Their debut album “Lagrange Points” (2008) is a typical rock album with song structures in the spirit of the 1970s.

    A series of singles later showed that the group is evolving towards a more massive sound and complex arrangements. The result was the evolution of album “Zaris” (2013), featuring not only guitar, but also brass, strings and keyboards.

    Time: 8:30 p.m., Dec. 1 (Marching Church), 2 (Mooncake)

    Tickets: 60-80 yuan, 120-150 yuan (Mooncake)

    Venue: B10 Live, North Area, OCT-LOFT, Nanshan District (南山区华侨城创意文化园北区B10现场)

    Metro: Line 1, Qiaocheng East Station (侨城东站), Exit A(SD News)