Artist Jucifer

A mighty-riffing, screaming lady, a guy who can match her on drums, and a wall of amps are all a metal band needs to keep skulls bouncing. Athens, Georgia duo Jucifer, however, adds to these an ability to pivot from one brutal style to another. Most every track on Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood’s 2010 record, Throned In Blood, makes for a startlingly well-realized shift from the last: “Return Of The Native” slices open the ribcage of lo-fi black metal, only to give way to the feedback-fallout of “Hiroshima,” and so on.

Updated 02/11/2011