Precious Metal One-Year Anniversary
Tonight @ Lit, 8pm, 21+, $6 (and free after 11:30)

With the many varieties of trendoids hopping on and off the metal wagon the last few years, we often forget that there were always folks everywhere who never jumped off – eye-witnesses to the genre’s exciting metamorphosis and division into dozens of unusual sub-genres. And nowhere in New York will you find a finer representation of the heavy stuff in its 31 flavors than at Wetnurse drummer Curran Reynolds’ Precious Metal Party.

Tonight, the weekly downtown institution celebrates its first birthday. As always, the DJ’s are up and the live hard’n’heavy is down. The basement’s headliner, Octis, is avant guitar wiz Mick Barr of Orthrelm/Ocrilim/Crom-Tech (who the Times describes as both “the solitary-artist extension of death metal” and “the rock extension of Coltrane’s Interstellar Space.” Asra, who brings it with the intensity of the finer early 1990s subcultural grindcore and death metal traditions, is preceded by Worcester’s speed-demons Nadir, Montreal’s Black Ships, and New Jersey’s Arcadius. DJ Shark, Guitar World magazine’s Jimmy Hubbard, Wetnurse’s Greg Kramer, and surprise guests spin their webs upstairs.

If you’re a devout resident or merely a curiousity-seeking tourist, Precious Metal is an ideal vantage point for exploring the varied intricacies of the vast contemporary metallic landscape. Happy birthday baby. May you live long and prosper.

http://www.myspace.com/arcadius
http://www.myspace.com/blackships
http://www.myspace.com/sicknessdoom
http://www.myspace.com/allegedsatanicritualabuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SunbqL3zXk