Cruor Incendia, Relay For Death, Thoabath, M22
Wed, July 15; doors 8:00pm, show 8:30-10:30pm
at Second Act, 1727 Haight St $5 21+
Cruor Incendia
Your brain is a hopelessly deformed animal mewling in a bone jar, flinching at every flash and bang that slams into its prison shell. Nevermind that assaults of sound, stench, sight are what malformed you in first place, this ungodly barrage means business, aiming to split your lid all over again, leveled by some blind demiurge intent to either free or finally finish you right now. Or it could be that you've walked into a room with Ryan Jencks, undisputed master of industrial noise and veteran of legendary projects including Cruor Incendia, Deathroes, SIXES, and Crash Worship.
https://soundcloud.com/cruor-incendia
Relay For Death
Twin sisters, Rachal Spikula and Roxann Spikula, born to a self-professed anarcho-nihilist in the American South were thus fated physical witness, each for the other, even from a certain pre-birth awareness. Embodied psychic imprints precluding all comfort of forgetting, a shared sense is retained, ever looming, though unrealized in the nervous half-known swarm that seems to rise and surround them and their sound. The underlying coherence of this post-industrial project rests on a metaphysical vision rather than stylistic approach. Their LP "Birth of an Older Much More Ugly Christ" on Hanson records is highly acclaimed; and "They Are Heating Up The Ovens Get the Fuck Out Now" on No Rent is a disquieting and considered elaboration of their work.
https://alarm.bandcamp.com/album/they-are-heating-up-the-ovens-get-the-fuck-out-now
Thoabath
There's a perceptible gravity to Andy Way that somehow vanishes once you draw near, the material world floats adrift. His solo project, Thoabath, might just be that massless Euclidean point where noise, dub, power electronics, horror, and ambient all emanate, an entelechy without clear precedent, of no laws. Prepare your ear, first study his collaborations with luminaries like Bruce Anderson (MX-80) & Petit Mal in the project, French Radio, sink yourself in the occult cacophony of Sutekh Hexen, and then, approach Thoabath, inescapable dark quasar.
https://soundcloud.com/acway/
M22
M22 defies plain description. Like Messier 22, that newly formed planetary nebula containing perhaps 100 black holes forming a gravitational microlens bending light from a galactic bulge behind it, the elemental parts of M22 are both bright and dim, near and far, precise and indescribable, ancient and newborn. Initially detected as Kent Cates and Daniel Hintz, the pair carefully weilded powerful amplifiers with guitars attached. In subsequent reports, Hintz appeared only at great distance while unexpected elements of Doug Katelus and Randy Lee materialized. Impossible to guess, and quite dangerous to ignore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJon8pkAIOw
Cost: $5