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Le Diamant Brut: Fun Fun Fun Fest Edition w/ Pack of Wolves & Growing
What’s the Deal: Austin isn’t really a place that you would count among the cities in the nation with a thriving metal scene. No, it’s more of a folk, singer/songwriter, country blues, indie rock kind of place. But, one of the few metal outfits the city can boast is Pack of Wolves. The band - Trey Ramirez (vocals, guitar), Tyson J Swindell (guitar), Adrian Carrillo (drums) and Alec Padron (bass) - released their sophomore album, Betrayer, on vinyl earlier this year on Austin’s Arclight Records.
The title track from the new album begins hearty and heaving as any metal band should. They bring in a little compound double bass pedal thud, chugging distortion and some throaty yells, and they’re up and running. POW made a video for Betrayer’s “Concession” in what looks like a junk metal warehouse with fog rolling in at the band’s feet and everything. It’s actually the perfect setting.
Something Interesting: Pack of Wolves will be on the Black stage at Fun Fun Fun Fest on Sunday, November 8th at 12:35pm. It’s sure to be a rowdy pit, so pack your protective gear. You know, black shirts, tight jeans, Converse and such.
Other Tracks Worth Checking Out: “Walking Dead”
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What’s the Deal: Joe DeNardo, Kevin Doria and Sadie Laska make up the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Olympia, Washington group Growing. They’re a peculiar and enticing group making some very ambient, instrumental electronic sounds. Mixing together what sounds like whirring insects, buzzing spaceships flying by and various key tones is what they do, and their latest recording and first full-length for The Social Registry, All The Way, is afire with it. They’re playing this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, and right in the middle of their tour with Fuck Buttons, who will also be performing.
There’s a video available for viewing of one of the tracks off All The Way, “Reconstruction”, which starts with an odd and unsettling feeling. Some strange and spectral sound effects begin the song while the video shows old stills and film clips sped up, reversed and used out of context in an interesting collage of everything from men with guns to 70s game shows.
Something Interesting: Their Fun Fun Fun set begins at 12:30pm on Sunday, November 8th on the Orange stage. So, if you like both them and Pack of Wolves, you’re going to have to make a decision here. Either that, or you can just dart back and fourth.
Other Tracks Worth Checking Out: “Lens Around” and “Lightfoot”
