words and photos by BBG

Wormrot

Wormrot played Acheron on 10/3, one of three NYC dates that the band landed after cancelling their appearance at Santos earlier this month. The Singapore (!) grind greats were supported by some of NYC's finest including (for my money) the best grind band in NYC, Defeatist, the elusive/explosive Psychic Limb, and the fantastic Curandera (ex-ASRA, current Mutilation Rites). Mutant Supremacy, who have a new LP out now, also supported, adding a touch of darkness to an already pummeling grind fiesta.

If you missed it, you can catch Wormrot tonight (10/6) at Party Expo. Mutant Supremacy will also be on hand.

More pictures from the Acheron show, including a shot of Wormrot's setlist, lie below.

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by BBG

Wormrot have been forced to delay the start of their tour due to visa issues. That means they won't be appearing at Santos Party House tonight (9/2), though all the other bands on the bill still will. To make up for it, Wormrot have rescheduled their NYC show to this SUNDAY (9/5) at Bowery Electric at 11PM. From there they move to Cleveland and tour as planned, though now we can also announce one more show that was being kept a secret up until now: BrooklynVegan & 1000 Knives are proud to present Wormrot with Mutant Supremacy, Defeatist, Psychic Limb, and Curandera at the Acheron on 10/3!

Wormrot's Abuse was one of my favorite LP's of 2009. Updated tour dates and a video of Wormrot in action is below...

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photos and words by BBG

On their way to Boston to record their new LP with Kurt Ballou at God City, acerbie noise rock killers KEN Mode played Acheron on Tuesday (8/17) with Brooklyn's own blackened hardcore greats Castevet and Boston's spacey post-rock/metallers Junius. The heroes in Junius filled in at the last minute for East Of The Wall after an illness required the band to cancel their appearance.

Junius are currently out with ORBS, but will circle back through NYC with Howl and Valient Thorr, tagging Southpaw on 9/24. All dates below.

In related news, Acheron has a pair of interesting shows this weekend: Friday is grind-day with Baltimore's Triac, along with Curandera (ex ASRA & Tombs, current Mutilation Rites) and Backslider, and Saturday is female-fronted Richmond doomers Windhand (mem Facedowninshit).

More pictures and some videos from the KEN Mode show below...

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words by Kim Kelly, photos by Samantha Marble

The Body

Now that it's opened its doors and begun to regularly unleash a formidably awesome show schedule unto the unwashed masses, the Acheron may very well be one of Brooklyn's coolest new venues. Last Thursday, the Bushwick practice space-turned-DIY stronghold hosted a wicked lineup that brought locals Curandera, Bad Dream, and Atakke together with Providence's heaviest export, The Body.

Curandera started things off to a crawl with their black'n'white (fast'n'slow) grinding sludge violence, as Justin Ennis (also of NYC black metal horde Mutilation Rites) pounded his drums like they owed him money [ED: the band also features Monty of the much lamented ASRA]. Bad Dream came floating straight out of 1975 with their hypnotic, psych-tinged doom (think Pentagram with two clean-cut dudes on bass/guitar, a killer female drummer, and lots of delay). It may be 2010, but this power trio sure hasn't noticed! Thrash/death ragers Atakke brought the energy levels up about a billion percent, whipping up a perfect storm of headbanging, moshing, beer-soaked fury overseen and egged on by formidable frontwoman Chloe Puke (who recently got back from a touring adventure with me & some sweet bands - part 1 and part 2).

I'd personally never had the pleasure of seeing The Body before, so was stoked to join them as they kicked off an extensive US tour tonight. The burly two-man wrecking crew hauled out a collection of mammoth doom riffs from their new album (the viciously excellent All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood, out now on At A Loss), sweating buckets all the while. The Acheron rules, but god DAMN does it get hot in there! The Body's drummer Lee looked about ready to sweat his beard off, but plowed through their set with manic determination anyway. After laying down almost forty minutes of unsettlingly heavy, desolate, feedback-worshipping doom, the two men looked about ready to escape the heat - but were persuaded by the rabid heshers down the front to sit back down and bang out an encore (which totally ruled!).

Check out the rest of their tour dates below, look for them in NYC again on September 16th (more details on the way!), and go buy their goddamn record...

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