Dawn Ray'd * Dakhma * Portrayal of Guilt * Sleeping Ancient

June 04, 2017 8:00PM - 2:00AM at Rudyard's British Pub

Dawn Ray'd (Liverpool, North England)
https://www.facebook.com/dawnrayd/
"Ever since I feel in love with a quiet lad from Lancashire four years ago, I've been particularly interested in Northern England's extreme metal scene; the bleak landscapes and tough, independent working class mentality seem to breed a unique kind of band, one that's far removed from London's trends–and thoroughly proud of it. When you've got the masked menaces behind Dragged into Sunlight scattered all across the upper half of the country, Coltsblood and Conan keeping Liverpool heavy, and Caina and Winterfylleth holding it down in Manchester, it's not much of a stretch to pinpoint the region as a sleeping giant. One of my more recent favorites, Dawn Ray'd, add more fuel to the fire.

Their sound is a Molotov cocktail of black metal, crust, ambient, neoclassical, and screamo (a remnant of the members' former band, We Came Out Like Tigers), and their voices are strident. Dawn Ray'd raise the black flag high, proudly identifying as an anti-NSBM, anti-fascist, anarchist band; they went so far as to print tongue-in-cheek stickers marked with the XLW designation police use to differentiate between "normal" protestors and anarchists. The band's most recent release, A Thorn, A Blight is a gorgeous album, and one that is fiercely political—lyrics like, "Every time you turned your guns on civil rights / Every time you told a rape victim she lied / Every single pig, every single time / Is the guardian of privilege / And an enemy of mine" pull no punches and take no prisoners." - Kim Kelly, Noisey/Vice



Dakhma ( Grand Rapids, MI)
https://www.facebook.com/dakhmaband
"Michigan-based Dakhma meld atmospheric black metal, crust and grindcore into a singular, natural entity. Suna Kulto, the trio’s latest EP, is an extensive, fluctuating two-song exploration of extremes rooted in contrast and abrupt disruption. By the end of the first nearly 20-minute track, you’ve experienced anguish, serenity and every emotion that transforms one into the other; Dakhma are, at one moment, refined and the next cataclysmic." - Teddie Taylor, Cvlt Nation



Portrayal of Guilt (Austin, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/portrayalofguilt/



Sleeping Ancient (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/sleepingancient/
Sleeping Ancient is an instrumental, sludge-rock band from Houston, TX



21+
$10
8pm door

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