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Northless
Also Playing: Ahab's Ghost and Lost Coves and Aseethe
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Sat Mar 31
9 pm
Northless, Ahab's Ghost, Lost Coves, and Aseethe at Quarters Rock 'N Roll Palace
When dealing with Milwaukee’s premier sludge-metal outfit Northless, it’s best to get a few obvious adjectives out of the way: pummeling, bruising, crushing, grueling, devastating. Though the group has seen a constantly revolving lineup since forming in 2007, its current iteration seems to have coalesced into a particularly fearsome powerhouse, as evidenced by 2011’s Clandestine Abuse. Expertly produced by Howl Street Recordings’ Shane Hochstetler, it’s an album so overblown, so dense, and so thick with noise that it’s a wonder it can be sussed out by human ears. (A new album—also recorded by Hochstetler—is currently in the works.) Guitars violently riff, vocals growl forth from the din, and drums explode and crumble away into static. Tonight’s show also finds another noisy local group, Ahab’s Ghost, celebrating the release of its excellent debut album, After The Fall.
Quarters Rock 'N Roll Palace 900 E. Center St., Milwaukee, WI
When dealing with Milwaukee’s premier sludge-metal outfit Northless, it’s best to get a few obvious adjectives out of the way: pummeling, bruising, crushing, grueling, devastating. Though the group has seen a constantly revolving lineup since forming in 2007, its current iteration seems to have coalesced into a particularly fearsome powerhouse, as evidenced by 2011’s Clandestine Abuse. Expertly produced by Howl Street Recordings’ Shane Hochstetler, it’s an album so overblown, so dense, and so thick with noise that it’s a wonder it can be sussed out by human ears. (A new album—also recorded by Hochstetler—is currently in the works.) Guitars violently riff, vocals growl forth from the din, and drums explode and crumble away into static. Tonight’s show also finds another noisy local group, Ahab’s Ghost, celebrating the release of its excellent debut album, After The Fall.
Updated 03/20/2012
