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Ventura, Calif., trio Night Demon is the metal band of your dreams. A power trio with left-handed Flying V guitar and righthanded Flying V bass up front, they fly multiple metal—and even punk—flags. Their sound is forged in new wave of British heavy metal, classic ‘80s metal, and the classic horror-punk of the Misfits (the imagery and the energy—even the whoa-oh backing vocals). On their Final Curse Tour, the band is playing their Century Media debut, Curse of the Damned, front-to-back. That’s a move usually pulled later in a band’s career, but when your second platter is a metric shit-ton of heavy metal fun, it’s completely justified. Tonight they’re joined by City Weekly’s Best Metal Artist of 2016, Visigoth, whose album The Revenant King dropped on the iconic Metal Blade label last year—and was produced by local super-producer, Andy Patterson. Their brand of epic fantasy metal—rife with sorcerers, dungeons, arcane mists of prophecy and mammoth rides—is just as much fun as Night Demon’s horror show. Blood Purge opens. (Randy Harward) Metro Bar, 615 W. 100 South, 8:30 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 day of show, JRCSLC.com
Lucius, Happy Hollows
Lucius (below) was formed by friends Jess Wolfe (lead vocals, synth) and Holly Laessig (lead vocals, keyboards) while both were attending the Berklee School of Music. They were later joined by Dan Molad (drums, vocals), Peter Lalish (guitar, vocals) and Andrew Burri (guitar, drums, vocals). Their latest album, Good Grief (PIAS/ Mom + Pop/ Dine Alone) is an
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ode to understanding the humor in pain (and vice-versa), couched in an unhinged indie synth-pop sound that can be quiet and pensive but also loud and exuberant—sometimes, and most pleasingly, all at once. With an excitingly versatile vocal range and intuition, Wolfe and Laessig are able to pull off Nico-esque whisper vocals circa 1967, Lana Del Rey croonings and the boisterous playfulness of Santigold, all while adding a semi-operatic flair that is definitively their own. Los Angeles-based Happy Hollows opens. (Zac Smith) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $19.50, TheComplexSLC.com
Tortoise
The early 1990s—in fact, the year 1990—saw a number of highly influential bands start up, and you don’t even have to look at the grunge movement to count a bunch of them. Female-fronted punk outfits 7 Year Bitch and Bikini Kill are touring again and, later this week, the Brian Jonestown Massacre (see p. 44) comes to show how they’ve been able to “keep music evil” for a quarter-century. Chicago band Tortoise helped start the experimental post-rock movement, which often eschewed vocals in favor of restful, expansive instrumental excursions that sometimes barely seemed to qualify as rock, post- or otherwise, but ultimately served to expand the boundaries of the
Night Demon rock universe. Their most recent album, The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey, 2016) includes, oddly enough, a cover of David Essex’s 1973 glam rock hit “Rock On.” They’re joined by Chris Brokaw, known for his work with two other noteworthy ‘90s bands, Come and Codeine. (Brian Staker) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $18 in advance, $20 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com
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