Tonight,
Wednesday, June 18, doom/folk band Agalloch
from Portland will play Minneapolis at the Triple Rock Social Club in support of
their new album The Serpent & The
Sphere. Joining them will be psychedelic black metal band Obsidian Tongue from Massachusetts and Blood And Sun. Local brewery
HammerHeart (yes, named in honor of the Bathory album!) will also release Serpensblod tomorrow, an ale inspired by Agalloch and
described as “a dry, smoked red ale, including beechwood, cherry wood, and oak
smoked malts, chocolate malt and a generous portion of rye with a mild hop
presence, 8.34% alcohol by volume.” Tickets are $15 at the door, and it’s an 18+ show with doors at 8:00.
Fargo’s
Egypt plays the Triple Rock Social
Club on Thursday, June 19 with Witchden,
Wicked Inquisition, and Flintlock. This is an 18+ show that
starts around 8:00, and it’s $8 at the door.
Things
then get insane over the weekend with a ton of shows in all manner of heavy
musical styles. First, Extreme Noise Records in Minneapolis is celebrating
their 20th anniversary with the second of three weekend’s worth of shows. The
events start Friday, June 20 with a Twin Cities punk art show at the store, and
Teenage Moods, Animal Lover, Miami Dolphins,
and Rabbit Holes playing a free show
at the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis. Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22
Extreme Noise takes over Memory Lanes in Minneapolis for record swaps that run
from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, followed by all ages shows in the parking lot at 3:00
pm for $5 each day. Playing Saturday afternoon are Los Crudos, Organism
(from Japan), Cleveland Bound Death
Sentence, Mean Jeans, Banner Pilot, and Kontrasekt, and Sunday afternoon has Iron Lung, Lebenden Toten,
Radioactivity, Frozen Teens, and Condominium.
Saturday night (10:00 pm), Question,
Gas Rag, Pillage, and Varix play
a free show in the bowling alley. As if that’s not enough, Extreme Noise also
has free shows at the Hexagon Bar Saturday and Sunday with Arms Aloft, Boilerman, The Crash Bandits, and The Okerlunds on Saturday, and Bad Sports, Real Numbers, Joust, and
Hot Rash on Sunday.
Friday,
June 20 also has Impaler, Exiles, The Regenerators, and Fatal
Kaliber playing at the Amsterdam Ball & Hall, Lockgnar, Plagued Insanity,
Invidiosus, and Time Destroyer at Big V’s Saloon in St. Paul, The Rope, Maledicere, Prostate, The Funeral And The Twilight, and Begrime Exemious at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, and
Mommy Sez No and Jolly Roger Bandits at the Red Carpet
Keller Bar in St. Cloud.
On
Saturday, June 21, the Terminal Bar in Minneapolis has a night of underground
black metal billed as The Devil’s Coven II with Nyogthaeblisz and Hellvetron
from Texas along with locals Masshu,
Bestial Whore, and Volkeinblucht. This starts around 7:00,
and it’s a 21+ show that’s $15 at the door. Also on Saturday, you can catch Nuisance, Dead Horse Trauma, Gabriel
And The Apocalypse, and Ghost Hook
at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, and 32Headshots, Left In The
Lurch, and Dark Side at the Red
Carpet Keller Bar in St. Cloud.
