Church of Noise – July 2013

Squeegee your third eye and start the month with experimental, instrumental jazz-hop outfit BadBadNotGood. The Ontario trio have collaborated with members of Odd Future and reinterpret songs by artists as varied as Kanye West and My Bloody Valentine. They're hitting Broadcast (2 Jul). If you'd rather let out all that stored up primal energy, Boston hardcore crew Hounds of Hate ought to provide an outlet. They're playing with like-minded Violent Reaction and Make The Effort at the 13th Note (3 Jul). If that's not your bag, a night of minimalist techno and noise is on the cards on the same night with Vatican Shadow at Nice 'N' Sleazy (also playing Sneaky Pete's on 2 Jul).

 

Head back to Nice 'N' Sleazy soon after and you'll be able to catch local boys Halo Tora showcase their moody, textural sprawls. Much-loved art rockers Atlas : Empire support, as will up and coming indie rock outfit Pale Fire, who will be playing an unplugged set (5 Jul). If you're concerned about the lack of blastbeats at that show, don't fret: Preston punks The Day Man Lost play with demented grinders Sufferinfuck. If the band names are anything to go by, Burt Ward and Deathwank are worth heading down early for. That's at Auld Reekie's Banshee Labyrinth (6 Jul).

 

If griefcore is your niche, you're in luck: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone main man Owen Ashworth makes his return as Advance Base, playing Sleazys with rising post-pop mentalists Machines In Heaven (10 Jul). Next, get your monthly fix of death metal with Swiss brutalists Carnal Decay, who headline a packed bill which includes Pighead, Cancerous Womb and Scordatura at Auld Reekie's Opium (14 Jul). If you're in Glasgow, however, don't pass up the ice cold synthscapes of Com Truise with support from Glasgow producer Sad City. That's on the same night at Broadcast (14 Jul).

 

You won't want to dodge The Locust's main man Justin Pearson belt out paranoid schizo jams with Retox, especially when they're part of a great lineup including the equally abrasive ZEUS!, experimental noise merchants Battery Face and two-bass'd good guy collective Thin Privilege at Broadcast (16 Jul). An array of doom / drone / stoner madness awaits at Bannermans with Virginian instrumental collective Karma To Burn, bluesy UK outfit Desert Storm and Edinburgh hard rockers Gareeda at Bannermans (17 Jul).

 

Back west, the violence continues with d-beat sadists Razoreater and blackened death metallers The Infernal Sea at the 13th Note (20 Jul), while Glasgow's Departures bring the noise to King Tut's Summer Nights series on 28 Jun, flanked by Salo and Owls in Antarctica.  Finally, the Merchant City Festival hauls in a variety of class acts out of the woodwork to finish up July, from dreamy shoegazers to demented filthbringers. Highlights include No Island, Gunfinger, Skullwizard, Galoshins, Big Hogg, Giblets of Yesterday, Los Tentakills, Smack Wizards and Woe. All bands play the 13th Note (26 – 28 Jul).