Austinist Show Preview: Dead Meadow and Black Mountain

Sunday night may usually be time for relaxation, for winding down your weekend's bunch-o'-bliss and preparing for the drudgery of Monday and all the muck that follows it. Sunday night may usually mean propping yourself up with a stick, so exhausted from all yer football-inspired whoopin' and hollerin'. Sunday night may even be a time of penance. But this Sunday night, get ready for a change of gears and an old-fashioned opportunity to headbang, because Dead Meadow and Black Mountain are delivering a sea of drums and guitars and outright ferocity to this usually staid part of the week.

Making true-to-life rock and roll in a mode the classics would appreciate, Dead Meadow and Black Mountain are both riding the wave of spanking-new albums: Old Growth and In the Future, respectively. And hell, even the opener, Blood on the Wall, just came out with a new album. And that means the energy should be spectacularly high, the music should be awe-worthy in its loudness and grandeur, and that maybe you'll finally get to work out all that fuck-the-man feeling you've been storing up since 1978.

But first, and to get you in the mood, just say it: Dead Meadow, Black Mountain, Blood on the Wall. Dead Meadow. Black Mountain. Blood on the Wall. How could anything that sounds so deliciously dark do anything but inspire?

Dead Meadow [MySpace] [Official]
Black Mountain [MySpace] [Official]
Blood on the Wall [MySpace] [Official]