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When SOTC caught up with Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum on the phone a couple weeks ago, he wasn't quite ready for us. "Just let me turn down my Nirvana," he said before asking me to call him back. It felt very appropriate. The Washington native's latest, Wind's Poem is an ode to the massive guitars of grunge and Kurt Cobain at his absolute creepiest. Just don't call it black metal. Elverum turned off the Nirvana and helped clear the air about a lot of things, from touring with a full band to Buddhism to Elverum's enduring love and artistic affinity for David Lynch's Twin Peaks.

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 So the tourdates are up, and it's official: New York is getting the most metal Mount Eerie show by far. Where most of Phil Elverum's dates are with some combination of likeminded old souls No Kids, Karl Blau, and Tara Jane O'Neil, New York will get--in honor of Wind's Poem, the new not-really-black-metal-but-certainly-distantly-black-metal-inspired Mount Eerie LP--local USBM acolytes Liturgy and another black metal act TBA whose name we cannot yet announce (it's not Krallice, contrary to this report), on Halloween no less. The show, curated by Todd P and SOTC buddy Brandon Stosuy, of Show No Mercy, etc., will take place at the Market Hotel, and will surely have the most entertainingly confused crowd on an already always extremely confusing night. To get ready, listen to the blackest song off the LP, "Wind's Dark Poem," here, or try Brandon's excellent Believer interview with Elverum here, in which the two discuss War and Peace, salmon, Norway, and how stones are the opposite of wind.

No Context by Zach Baron

Mount Eerie
Lutheran Church of the Messiah
Thursday November 8th

“I would like to fulfill the pregnant night—whatever that means,” goes Mount Eerie fan favorite and last night’s show closer, “Where?” As a riff on the performer himself, “Where?” is pretty advanced, a semantic stagger between “Mount Eerie,” the band that’s a front for one Phil Elverum, and “Mount Erie,” the mountain for which his band and his hometown in Anacortes, Washington are named:

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