ACROSS TUNDRAS @ 3 KINGS TAVERN 6/05/12 DENVER-CO

Across Tundras are a band from Tennessee that play stoner-infused western sludge rock. They’ve been playing since 2004 and have released several albums of melancholic melodies and slow americana grooves like “Dark Songs Of The Prairie” “Sage” “Western Sky Ride” and “Old World Wanderer” pure psychedelic dark country.

THE CULT @ THE OGDEN THEATER 5/30/12 DENVER-CO

“Black hearts of devils in the night, Mean streets rage me up to fight, I’m a lover but I’ve been known quick to strike, You think you know me, oh, but you’re never right”

TOXIC HOLOCAUST @ THE MARQUIS THEATER 5/28/12 DENVER-CO

“Hear the air raid sirens that warn you of your death, Close your eyes, say goodbye, and take your last breath, Turn this place to rubble, a city turns to ash, Nuclear fire will turn the sand to glass, Bombers bringing death with every fly ahead, Total fucking holocaust, everyone’s dead, Death and destruction is all you’ll ever known, Living in the ashes that you once called home”

GOES CUBE @ 3 KINGS TAVERN 5/25/12 DENVER-CO

“You ask me why, I won’t forgive, Cos I hold grudges, People never change”

Goes Cube play a heavy, intense and powerful mix of metal, punk an alt-rock. They’ve released two masterpieces “In Tides And Drifts” and “Another Day Has Passed” these albums are full of melodic remarkable harmonies, brutal hardcore moments, lowly-tuned guitars, dizzying drum fills and the vocals change from gentle tones to harsh howls.

Also playing: Exotic Animal Petting Zoo – experimental metal from Indiana.

THE BODY @ BLAST -O- MAT 5/23/12 DENVER-CO

“Hands fail, Hearts fail, as babies born, as corpses dead, Vaguely alive with arms that forgot how to hold, To pray for the death of all that breathes, The awful journey that led to this, To tear away this fleshy veil, A body, empty”

FEAR FACTORY @ THE SUMMIT MUSIC HALL 5/19/12 DENVER-CO

“God raped souls, of our lives, Hammers crush all our lives, just like clockwork, They’ll crush our lives”

Fear Factory plays harsh, technology dominated death metal. Formed in L.A. in the late 80’s they been releasing excellent albums like the raw, inhospitable industrial masterpiece “Soul Of A New Machine” “Concrete” “Mechanize” and their newest (welcome back Dino) “The Industrialist.” Their music is cold and calculated, it projects an image of desolation and freezing darkness, they use low tuned riffs very mechanic and hammering with atmospheric synthetizers, insane bursts of double bass drums, apocalyptic sounding vocals that create abrasive up-tempo chaos and harsh industrialist soundscapes like large machinery grating the bones of humans in a factory.

EDWARD KA-SPEL & THE SILVERMAN @ THE WALNUT ROOM 5/18 & 5/19 2012 DENVER-CO

“Capsule was diving, the temperature rising, Was hardly surprising his tears turned to steam in the blink of an eye, Just the hint of a cry, Baby knew he was dying, he knew he had failed, And the mountainside opened, a moment to pray for all the souls he’d come to save, Now he couldn’t save himself, that’s the way the world goes round, it spins so fast, it made him giddy, Sucking all the power from the Silver Man”

Edward Ka-Spel and The Silver Man are The Legendary Pink Dots, if you try to distinguish between both projects you probably will fail. Mr. Ka-Spel’s voice is distinctive, quite charming and musical, his songs at times sound a bit disjointed and leaned toward beautiful sound collages and a lot of strangeness. They have released about 30 studio albums, many live lp’s, singles an EP’s of dark psychedelic folk noise with haunting, heavily echoed keyboards, random samples and oceans of feedback. Their songs go through phases between surreal soundscapes an actual songs and are extremely offbeat and full of explorations. Prepare to take a journey through a world of insane, demented noise and haunting, strange and beautiful psychedelia.

ALLEGAEON @ THE MARQUIS THEATER 5/17/12 DENVER-CO

“We are the weeds, battered and broken, Skell’s of society, lest we be outspoken, We are the weeds, born to burn in Hell, Worms of society, forever we will prosper”

ORIGIN @ THE MARQUIS THEATER 5/15/12 DENVER-CO

“Bones begin to break, smash your fuckin’ face, Beaten, you plead to live, Born to mutilate, live to desecrate, die, I will kill again, Adrenaline rush, pumping through my veins, boiling in my blood, Methodically, this hunt has just begun!”

A caravan of death will pass through the Mile Hi City bringing a lot of brutality, sheer madness, complex riffs, guttural grunts and growls, intensity, hyperspeed blast beats and a lot of technicality, here are the bands playing:

Origin – technical death metal from Kansas, progressive and brutal as fuck, they have released several good albums like “Entity” “Origin” and “Antithesis.”

Cattle Decapitation – death/grind metal from San Diego, they just released the excellent album “Monolith Of Inhumanity” pure veggie-doom! Decrepit Birth – technical death metal from Santa Cruz, Aborted – death metal from Belgium, Rings Of Saturn – technical death metal from California, Battlecross – death/thrash from Michigan and Loculus – death metal from Virginia.

MESHUGGAH @ THE OGDEN THEATER 5/11/12 DENVER-CO

Meshuggah are a technical experimental thrash metal band from Sweden that formed in the late 80’s. There style is heavy, brutal and punishing with twisted rhythms, oddly timed power chords, cross-rhythm beats that sound like they are being played by machines an inhuman, robotic, hardcore shouts. They are currently touring behind their new masterpiece “Koloss” an album that creates futuristic distorted landscapes, they have also released other great ones like “Chaosphere” “Catch Thritythree” “Nothing” and the 21 minute journey through math hell “I.”

Also playing: Baroness – progressive sludge metal from Georgia and Decapitated – technical death metal from Poland.