Events
Fast Vs. Slow! with Dropdead, Bell Witch, and more
- 8:00pm Saturday, August 23, 2014
A battle to the death between doom and grind!
Dropdead is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1990 in Providence, Rhode Island. Members of Dropdead also play/played in Snake Apartment, I, Destroyer, Battlesnake, Straight To Hell, Ulcer, Monster X, The Fucking Fuzz, Lolita Black. The band has been active in the punk scene since the early nineties. The guitarist, Ben, runs a Providence record store called Armageddon Shop, along with its record label Armageddon Label. Dropdead has proven highly influential to modern strains of hardcore, having staid true to its DIY and animal rights ethics. The band’s songs are generally short and extremely fast-paced, with few of their songs lasting longer than one minute.
From the ashes of Sod Hauler and Lethe comes Bell Witch, the newest heavy music project for Seattle based drummer Adrian Guerra and bassist Dylan Desmond (also of Samothrace). Bell Witch’s bass and drum only doom metal is extremely bleak and extremely heavy, just as it should be.