By matt | Published: May 6, 2011, 9:51 pm
This Sunday, May 8th at The Farm, 4833 Walton Ave (1 block north of Baltimore ave) 7pm, $5 donation goes toward a baby fox that needs spinal surgery, no fuckin joke!
Warshack from Philadelphia features members of One Master, Deep Possum, and Battle Priest and Lurker. Warshack vomits resinous clouds of brutal mid-tempo riffage with miserable vocals. Reference points include Celtic Frost, Infest’s “Fetch the Pliers”, Axe Grinder, and maybe Die Kreuzen played at quarter-speed. Heavy ritual: this is the sound of neanderthals discovering the void. Tune in, Drop Down, Burn out.
Serpent Throne From Philadelphia, Serpent Throne plays a brand of hard rock that harkens back to the golden age of heavy riffs and tasty solos called the 70’s.”Say there was a heavy rock festival in like ‘72 where Black Sabbath, Wishbone Ash, the Scorpions, Budgie, and like Cactus are supposed to play, but then, due to a series of plane crashes and natural disasters, only 1 surviving member from each band can make it. In order to calm down the crowd of heavy rockers, Iommi grabs a couple dudes from the other bands and puts together an emergency band. And then Uli Roth says, “We don’t need a singer because he’ll just get in the way of the riffs.” I think that’s what Serpent Throne is aiming for. Whether we get there or not is another story, but we’ll drink some beer and rip some guitar harmonies along the way.”
Pilgrim – Hailing from Baltimore, featuring a front woman with a voice and stage presence somewhere between Grace Slick and Patti Smith, and a band that rips sludgy riffs, swinging backbeats, Thin Lizzy-style twin guitar leads, chooglin’ Southern rock twang, proto-metal epics, and just about anything else you could want from a 1970s-influenced hard rock band.
Hope to see yall there