agrath

"Happy Halloween -- the best holiday of the year," Phil Elevrum of the Microphones and Mount Eerie greeted Market Hotel in Brooklyn on, well, Halloween. Mount Eerie makes American folky music inspired by black metal. It's some parts pseudo black metal, most parts singer-songwriter like Bright Eyes...

It's pretty rare to watch a band live and not have any of its members say anything to the crowd. Sure, lyrics are a form of verbal communication, but usually a band will thank the fans or announce their name. However, with monikers like He Who Crushes Teeth (drums) and He Who Gnashes Teeth (vocals, guitar), it shouldn't be a surprise that Bone Awl kept a cold distance from the audience when they p

When Destroyer 666 ripped Brooklyn, N.Y. a new one on Monday night with openers Agrath, Open Grave and Negative Plane, we were also presented with the key ingredients to a messy mosh pit. This blackened metal concoction included some staples: contagiously sweating shirtless guy, one missing shoe guy and drunk girl in a black denim miniskirt (but, she's only on part-time duty) on a naturally slimy