Zao ~ Thoughtcrimes ~ Snake Charmer
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMZaoZao is BACK, although they never truly went away. Since 2016’s critically acclaimed “The Well-Intentioned Virus” (really, just ask the critics, they LOVED it, even NPR jumped on board – who would have thought?) the band has been releasing EPs, remix albums, Nintendo cartridges with actual music on them, concept 7-inches packaged in mirrors and STILL found time to oversee reissues of their back catalog and an album of archival demos from 1995.https://officialzao.bandcamp.com/album/the-crimson-corridor ThoughtcrimesThoughtcrimes, the Long Island-based hardcore band featuring former members of The Dillinger Escape Plan.https://thoughtcrimesband.com Snake Charmersnakecharmer.bandcamp.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Snakecharmerphilly/https://instagram.com/snakecharmer215?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Immortal Bird ~ Malevich ~ Quiet Man
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 7:30 PMImmortal BirdCrusty blackened proggy deathgrind? NEW MUSIC 2023 (20 Buck Spin). ‘Thrive on Neglect’ out now!https://immortalbird.bandcamp.com/MalevichAtlanta’s Malevich exist at the intersection of grindcore, screamo and black metal. Formed in 2016 and immediately entering the studio to record their debut album, Only for the Flies, the quintet garnered attention for their intensity and dynamic approach.Malevich followed their debut by releasing a split with Iron Gag, followed by their second release, 2019’s Our Hollow. Further blurring the lines between subgenres while tapping into a potent emotional well, Malevich further cemented their place in the scene by booking their own tour dates across the US and Canada. The pandemic only furthered their hunger and they emerged with new music and steady touring plans.https://malevichatlanta.bandcamp.com/album/our-hollow Quiet ManSludge. Noise. Drone. https://quietmanband.bandcamp.com/album/god-root-s-t
Stöner ~ Fulci ~ Mario Lalli ~ Hallucinogenic Bulb
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMStönerRad stays rad. A few ideas are timeless. Stöner is Brant Bjork (guitar/vocals), Nick Oliveri (bass/vocals) and Ryan Güt (drums), and from flowing jams to all-out punker blasts, they know what they’re doing. It ain’t anybody’s first time at the dance, and you don’t call your band Stöner if you’ve never heard the word before.https://stonerband.bandcamp.com/releases FulciThe death metal band named after the Godfather of gore.https://fulcicult.bandcamp.com/music Mario Lallihttps://www.instagram.com/mariolalli/?hl=enHallucinogenic Bulbhttps://hallucinogenicbulb.bandcamp.com/
Sadistic Ritual ~ Caged ~ Severed Boy
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMSADISTIC RITUALSadistic Ritual put the listener in a trance without ever breaking from their rhythmic, acidic core sound. The Enigma, Boundless stands out because the thrashers aren’t interested in retreading the same ground as the progenitors of the genre; their spin is noticeable and unique.https://sadisticritualatl.bandcamp.com/album/the-enigma-boundlessCAGED”Young Gnarly and Full of SLUDGE – CAGED brings something new to the genre! They’ve decided to create riffs that seem like they were dipped in industrial sonic pain to inflict maximum listening pleasure. Their songs are the perfect soundtrack for the world we are existing in right now because they reek of disgust! Let’s all get ugly and blast the new CAGED tape STRICKEN BY CONTINUANCE.” – CVLT Nationhttps://cageddoom.bandcamp.com/ SEVERED BOYBirthed from a quarantined manic episode, Severed Boy are a duo comprised of Nicholas Wolf and Reid Calkin, both of Lunglust. The band’s public debut, Tragic Encounters features 20 minutes of upsetting and uncomfortable death-doom, squarely focused on the absolute worst acts committed by the human mind and body. Viscous yet virile, tar-thick but not without upticks in speed, and cunningly crushing and atmospheric in equal measure, Severed Boy’s first strike is a wholly auspicious one, suggesting more miasmic mastery to come.https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/tragic-encounters
Backslider ~ Suppression ~ Reaper’s Gong
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMBACKSLIDERDeath-infested warp speed hardcore collides with mangled rhythms and nightmarish psychedelia.https://backslider.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-rotSUPPRESSIONNoisegrind band from Richmond, Virginia USA. Originally formed in Roanoke, VA in 1992.https://chaoticnoiseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/suppression-placebo-reality-lpREAPER’S GONGOcean City, MD. Members of Full of Hellhttps://reapersgong.bandcamp.com/
Sissy Spacek ~ No/Más ~ Lepra
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMSissy SpacekSissy Spacek is an American noise band founded in 1999 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Currently consisting of official members John Wiese and Charlie Mumma, they have released a considerable catalogue encompassing genres which include harsh noise, noisecore, grindcore, free improvisation and musique concrete.https://sissyspacek.bandcamp.com/musicNo MasDeath/Grind from Washington D.C.https://nomasgrind.bandcamp.com/ LEPRAPurveyors of genre-bending black velvet metal from Portland, ME.Inspired by Catholic guilt, folklore, naturalia and ghost stories.Lepra666.bandcamp.com
Batushka ~ Hate ~ Hideous Divinity ~ Witching
**All events 21+ — valid ID required for entry**Doors: 6:30 pmShow: 7:15 pmBATUSHKABatushka is a Polish black metal band formed by Krzysztof Drabikowski. Their music and lyrics, which are written exclusively in Old Church Slavonic language, are inspired by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The band members wear habits and Eastern Orthodox schemas during live performances to conceal their identitieshttps://batushkaofficial.com/HATENo one combines death and black metal quite like Poland’s Hate. With unflinching viciousness and a sense of atmosphere unique to the band, on Rugia, their twelfth full-length, they push the boundaries of their craft even further. “It was clear to me that it should build upon and evolve from our previous record ‘Auric Gates Of Veles’ (2019) both musically and lyrically. However, every Hate record stands as a separate journey, and never twice to the same place. You never know exactly where it will lead you” states vocalist/guitarist ATF Sinner, who has led the band since 1991. Fresh blood in the band’s lineup also helped contribute to Rugia’s unique sound. Pavulon (drums), who had played with the band since 2014, was forced to step down from the band due to serious health issues. The band tapped Nar-Sil (Neolith, Virgin Snatch, Embrional) to take his place. “Working with a new drummer this time around was a fascinating experience for me. Nar-Sil’s technique and presence are quite different from Pavulon’s and that definitely comes across. I believe we managed to construct a refreshing new chapter to our discography, composing nine truly sinister onslaughts of pure rage.”https://hate.bandcamp.com/HIDEOUS DIVINITYBased in Rome but featuring members of Aborted, Hideous Divinity deliver Death Metal that is both crushing and old school rooted and technical with a blackened feel on top.https://open.spotify.com/artist/4XOpU6j3NQ37JfIaWA4ySHWITCHINGhttps://witching.bandcamp.com/
The Accüsed A.D. ~ Deceased ~ Overdose ~ Coffin Dust
**All shows 21+ – valid ID required**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMTHE ACCÜSED A.D. (Martha Splatterhead)With the knife-wielding, toothy-grinned Martha Splatterhead at their side, Seattle’s own THE ACCÜSED carved their way into the underground music scene by becoming one of the cornerstones of crossover music that melted faces in the 80s across the globe––A punk/metal fusion that planted its ever-growing seed in modern heavyweights such as MUNICIPAL WASTE, LAMB OF GOD, CANNIBAL CORPSE, the Patton/Lombardo project DEAD CROSS, and many more.https://splatterrock.com/DECEASED (Fearless Undead Machines)By now, DECEASED need no introduction. One of the longest-running American death metal bands, since 1985, DECEASED have been there for it all: death metal’s genesis, its creative peak, its commercial peak and subsequent sink into trendiness, the eventual fallout and “un-trendiness,” its rebirth at the hands of a new generation, and on and on. There they have stood, simply and 100% always DECEASED, not caring what year it is or what is hip – simply, always, DEATH METAL FROM THE GRAVE!https://the-true-deceased.bandcamp.com/album/thrash-times-at-ridgemont-highOVERDOSEMotör-charged Rock n’ Roll from NYC.https://overdosenyc.bandcamp.com/COFFIN DUSThttps://coffindust.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-vision
Elder ~ Ruby the Hatchet ~ Dreadnought
ELDER Elder is a genre-pushing rock band that melds heavy psychedelic sounds with progressive elements and evocative soundscapes. Formed in a small coastal town in Massachusetts in the mid aughts, the band has reinvented their sound over the course of five albums to grow from a stalwart of the stoner/doom scene into one of the most unique voices in the rock underground. Their long-scale compositions unfold as journeys, running the gamut of styles from the 70’s to the present within a single song with a penchant for “sheer gatefold-era grandeur” (Rolling Stone). By continuing to incorporate new elements to their sound, Elder’s output has repeatedly set benchmarks for their peers. Beginning with 2008’s Elder and 2010’s Dead Roots Stirring, Elder made ripples in the stoner rock scene with their uniquely melodic approach to the genre. In 2015 they surprised again with Lore, a watershed moment in the band’s career (recently crowned “Album of the Decade” by The Obelisk) which brought in elements of post-, prog- and space rock into the Elder sound. Despite several years of heavy touring surrounding the album, Reflections of a Floating World was released just two years later, earning a spot at the top of many best-of lists including Rolling Stone (#5, 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2017), Stereogum and others.https://beholdtheelder.com/RUBY THE HATCHETForming after a series of basement practices in New Jersey circa 2011 before relocating to Philadelphia, psychedelic quintet Ruby the Hatchet brought together doomy, evil hard rock with occult-flavored psychedelia for a witchy brew of dazzled and ominous wild rock sounds. The band featured guitarist Johnny Scarps, drummer Owen Stewart, bassist Mike Parise, and keyboard player Sean Hur, and was trademarked by the howling, dynamic vocals of Jillian Taylor. In addition to constant gigging, the band had a prolific recording schedule as well, releasing a self-titled EP in 2011 and their debut full-length Ouroboros the next year. In 2014 they released several versions of a single entitled The Eliminator, including a limited-edition release packaged in a wooden box filled with random ephemera. All of this made way for the band’s 2015 effort Valley of the Snake, a deeper dive into the band’s increasingly gritty stoner rock-influenced sound. Two years later they dropped Planetary Space Child via Teepee Records.https://thehatchet.bandcamp.com/DREADNOUGHThttps://dreadnoughtdenver.com/
Crowbar ~ Spirit Adrift ~ High Reeper ~ Caged
*Show is 18+ — Valid ID required for entry*Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMCROWBAR Crowbar songs are unapologetic emotional outpourings, with a bare-knuckle resolve alongside its soul-searching vulnerability, reliably delivered with crushing heaviness. Zero and Below, which cements the band’s dense catalog as exactly one dozen studio albums deep, is the most unforgivably doomy Crowbar record since their landmark 1998 effort, Odd Fellows Rest. Zero and Below is reverently old-school, counterbalanced by a resonant melodicism that’s stunningly mature. Songs like “Chemical Gods,” “Bleeding from Every Hole,” and “It’s Always Worth the Gain” demonstrate what Crowbar does better than any other band: powerful, evocative, and crushingly heavy music.https://crowbar.bandcamp.com/album/zero-and-belowSPIRIT ADRIFTSpirit Adrift refuses to slow down. With ‘Enlightened In Eternity’, Nathan Garrett, alongside drummer Marcus Bryant, has created yet another monument to the timelessness of heavy metal. And while ‘Enlightened…’ builds on the sizable foundation established by previous albums, it also sets itself apart in formidable new ways, widening the scope of what Spirit Adrift can be.https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com/HIGH REEPERFormed in 2016, High Reeper is made up of Zach Thomas, Justin Di Pinto, Pat Daly and Shane Trimble. With a sound deeply rooted in modern stoner rock while still giving a nod to the earliest Sabbath records, High Reeper’s first offering is driven by pounding rhythms, thick guitars and soaring, screeching vocals. https://highreeper.bandcamp.com/CAGED “Young Gnarly and Full of SLUDGE – CAGED brings something new to the genre! They’ve decided to create riffs that seem like they were dipped in industrial sonic pain to inflict maximum listening pleasure. Their songs are the perfect soundtrack for the world we are existing in right now because they reek of disgust! Let’s all get ugly and blast the new CAGED tape STRICKEN BY CONTINUANCE.” – CVLT Nation https://cageddoom.bandcamp.com/releases