Black Tusk headlines a big bands, the inestimable show at Downtown Music Hall Eyehategod is a foundational Wednesday night. element for Baton Rouge's BLACK TUSK, THOU, MONSTRO Thou. But from the sludgy 7 p.m. Downtown Music Hall. blues metal of its forebear, $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. Thou expands in nearly every Hailing from Savannah, Ga. direction, from caustic black (home of co-conspirators like metal throat shredding to Baroness and Kylesa), Black grindcore blast beats to Tusk mixes elements of occasional moments of Floyd- hardcore (think early Black ian space-out to gloomy post- Flag) and nasty Motorhead ass- rock atmospherics. kicking with the hammering Monstro is a relatively new riff-violence of classic act out of Atlanta, with Slayer. The band isn't shy personnel formerly of Torche about locking down on a and Bloodsimple, and hearkens bitchin' groove or unfurling back to classic hard-rock an effects-laden swirl of giants like Rush and The Who. psychedelic guitar every once Locals Iron Tongue and in a while. But overall, Weedbeast round out what will don't look for a lot of be, without question, one of weedly-weedly fret-board the best metal shows of the acrobatics. Black Tusk is all year, at a place that gets a about the bludgeoning. whole lotta great metal shows. As with many Southern metal
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