METRO BALTIMORE 1700 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201
MOBTOWN BALLROOM – 30 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
Gist’s approach to metalcore harnesses the bleat and growl of traditional HC to more devilishly mathematical ends. The result adds an ecstatic edge while simultaneously pummeling the pit.
Ken Quam’s Carillon is a hive of synth-laden ambient electronics abuzz in uplifting accents. It’s brilliant, uplifting electronic music for the mindful, the meditative, and transcendent amongst us.
At turns ambient and wildly avant-garde, Aliya Ultan’s Nocturnal Cellist project slides in and out of the anarchaic. The glue between melodious and uprooted moments is a stranglehold on the air. It’s as if the entire atmosphere of the room is ordered (and broken apart) by the whims of Ultan’s bow.
Sporting powerviolence with an organic metal edge, Drivel manage all-out-assault while simultaneously using their platform to say what desperately needs saying.
No-frills hardcore with boots and brace, Vicious Order evoke the trad underground punk vibe of the 80s. Vicious, uncompromising and unstoppable.
Transposed into a Blade Running dystopia, Curse’s Goth synthery somehow manages a silken and heart-shaking simultaneity. Clouds pervade, but a point of light always hints at a clearing to come.
Ousted is steeped in pit propulsion. Featuring members of scene staples like Pulling Teeth, Ruiner, Neolithic, and Dosser, the band’s high-tempo hardcore only stops long enough to spit.
For the last 25 years, Rjyan Kidwell’s Cex has blistered and peeled electronic music’s outer edges. A renaissance man of wildly experimental bleeps and bloops, Kidwell is often odd and/or ostentatious, but the result is always inventive, cerebral and deeply danceable.
Distend’s ambient metal aesthetics color a simultaneously bleak and electric black metal atmosphere — always with an ear for the epic.