Feeling tense after weeks of being bombarded with Special Election campaign ads? Freezing cold got you in a rut? Get yourself down to Great Scott in Allston tonight for a big release! The night sees four of the areas heavy metal hitters, and hosts the record release of FINISHER's Socially Dead on Witch Trial Records.Watchfire start the evening quick with some classic metal and hardcore riffs combined with catchy breakdowns. This band will have you thawed out in no time! Check out their merch store where you can grab T-shirts, their 7-inch EP Triumph of Death, and their New CD Two Years in the Valley.
Heavyweights, Black Thai have been around for a little over a year, but with a line up laced in the bowels of Boston Metal (We’re All Gonna Die, Cortez), it is apparent that time is merely a tool to perfect their current formation. Plans are to release a 5 song EP in early Spring that showcases the melodic anthems “Satan's Toolshed” and “The Ladder”, all recorded at New Alliance Audio in Cambridge. Download Satan's Toolshed Here!
Isolation. Seclusion. Desolation. Detachment. The sounds of the Merrimack Valley? This is how growing up mill-town has been internalized by the doomy trio of FINISHER! Their debut full-length record, Socially Dead, packs a brutal twenty songs in less than forty-four minutes, and never lets the listener escape. Recorded and mixed by Devin Charette at Mad Oak Studios in Allston, and seamlessly mastered at New Alliance East, there is barely time to take a breath in between tracks before you are slammed with another gut wrencher. The record opens with what could be interpreted as the title track, Despondent, and Bowie’s alien screams immediately set the mood for a hopeless escapade. Streeter’s relentless drumming makes you feel like you have one foot tied to the back of an old pickup that is dragging you down a dirt road. Halfway through the record, Rout (what I refer to as the “Dead Stripper Song”), makes you wonder if you have been dropped in the middle of an Edgar Allan Poe screenplay directed by David Lynch. Kurtz’s trading off of baritone wails and dropped bass tuning moves the record into variations of straight up heavy metal, stoner rock, and fuzzy noise. By the end, you will believe “there is no one you can trust, everyone will leave you in the dust.”
After non-stop touring in the US and Europe last year promoting their LP Doublewalker, the trio of Furnace headline the night, and burn up the whole mess with their hardcore hazy metal fire.
Wednesday, January 20th
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Avenue
Allston, MA
Doors at 9PM, 18+, $8
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