New Orleans sludge metal shapeshifters Thou and singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle teamed up for a spring tour that hit Boston’s Massachusetts College of Art and Design earlier this month with support from locals Seed.
Somerville’s ONCE hosted a monstrous metal bill bookended by Boston locals Fórn and Sea alongside Ontario’s Vile Creature and Dawn Ray’d all the way from the U.K.
The late Friday night show at Great Scott earlier this month hosted an ultra-heavy bill headed by Salt Lake City’s Cult Leader with NYC’s Primitive Weapons and Stockholm’s God Mother.
Arizona doom-dealers Spirit Adrift headlined Allston’s Great Scott last Thursday with support from Colorado’s Dreadnought and locals InAeona.
Chicago sludge metal quintet The Atlas Moth rolled through Allston with a killer bill of support including Atlanta’s Royal Thunder, Neurosis-affiliate project Mirrors for Psychic Warfare and local crew Lesser Glow for a very loud February the 14th.
Japan’s extreme experimental stalwarts Boris joined forces with heavy metal troublemakers Mutoid Man and harbingers-of-the-apocalypse Endon at Brighton on Halloween.
Illinois instrumental metal masters Pelican headlined a sold-out Sunday night show at Great Scott last weekend with Young Widows leader Evan Patterson’s Jaye Jayle and French musician Marc Euvrie’s solo project The Eye of Time.
Well this one was different. The function hall at Somerville’s Cuisine en Locale looks to have hosted more bar mitzvahs and wedding receptions than punk/metal shows, but it served surprisingly well for last night’s massive 6-band bill.