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.
Theatrical Swedes Tribulation headlined their biggest Boston show to date at Brighton Music Hall on a recent Saturday, with support from New York’s Black Anvil and locals Morne.
Mystic metal heroes Yob headlined a sold-out Middle East on the heels of their new LP Our Raw Heart with support from Sea of Bones and Black Pyramid on Saturday night.
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.