Shrinebuilder photo by Greg Cristman

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Liturgy, Rwake, and Shrinebuilder
Le Poisson Rouge
Sunday, November 15

Sunday night at Le Poisson Rouge featured a three-band lineup (Liturgy, Rwake, and Shrinebuilder), capping the third and final night of the newborn Blackened Weekend Music Festival. In turn, the fest itself was the third entry in the ongoing Adam Shore-curated Blackened Music series--not quite three sixes, but halfway there. After the success of the first two Blackened concerts--the first charting a few generations of grindcore (Repulsion, Brutal Truth and Pig Destroyer), the second highlighting SunnO)))'s avant primordial ooze--this edition, which was spread between Union Pool and LPR, sought the middle ground between the two extremes. On a weekend when Metallica filled the Garden uptown, the fest drew sold-out, packed-houses for successive performances by Orphan, Krallice, and Malkuth (on Friday) and Skeletonwitch and Black Anvil (on Saturday), highlighting local acts, regional bands, and one supergroup. Each night sussed variants of modern metal's key attributes: velocity, viscosity, and voice (volume would be a fourth "V", but that's a given.)

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​Big news: Shrinebuilder, the impossibly well-credentialed metal-world supergroup--the band features Dale Crover from the Melvins, Saint Vitus/Hidden Hand/Spirit Caravan's Wino, Om/Sleep's Al Cisneros, and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly, with an assist from "the godhead"--have announced an album and a New York show. The self-titled Shrinebuilder is out on Neurot in late October/early November, and shortly afterward, on November 15th, the band will reduce the four walls of Le Poisson Rouge to little smudges of ash and dust and exploded eyeballs. Tickets are available now, as are the regrets you will surely suffer late at night for years to come should you skip this show.

Shrinebuilder cover art & A NYC SHOW (@ Le Poisson Rouge) [Brooklyn Vegan]