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Rwake
Artist: Rwake
Hometown: Little Rock, Ark.
Venue: Room 710, midnight late Thursday
Pre-show buzz: Truly psychotic sounding Southern sludge metal that seems to get both more detailed and more savage with each album. “Voices from Omens,” their fourth, is a career peak. They utterly destroyed at last year’s SXSW.
High point: While everyone in the band sported the truly gnarly dreadlocks common to crust-metal bands the world over, sampler player/vocalist B. simply had one large lock coming from her head. It looked like a tail and it is entirely possible there are things living in it. B., crouched on the ground and screaming into a mike, proved an intriguing foil for singer C.T.
Low point: I’m gonna see B.’s dreadlock coming at me in my dreams.
Post-show buzz: It’s entirely possible they opened a gate to hell.
Afterthoughts: The deep South has produced some of the scariest heavy metal of modern times. Bands such as Richmond, Va.’s Buzzoven and North Carolina’s Corrosion of Conformity paved the way for these folks, who really do look like they’ve buried a body or two in their day. It’s profoundly ugly music capable of great catharsis and, therefore, great beauty.
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