Words and Photos by Andrew Parks
At least no one got knifed. Other than that, last night’s Wolf Eyes had more than a couple things in common with the NSFW sauna scene from Eastern Promises. Namely the nastiest ‘mosh pit’ we’ve seen since last year’s Converge show and a shirt-soaking room temperature that had to be hovering around 100 degrees. Music wise, the Midwestern masochists started things off a little slower than the last time we saw them–sandwiched between Pig Destroyer and Whitehouse (!) at North Six)–by switching gears from a slow-burning blend of muddy beats and blustery chords to an all-out assault that might as well have been a hardcore show, circa 1982.
We invite you to survey the damage after the jump, including two flashbulb-lit video clips and a stack of center stage photos that include a couple cameos from another noise icon, Dominick Fernow of Prurient and Cold Cave…
