Explore sludge metal with Atlas Moth
Chicago's The Atlas Moth employs a similar aesthetic as its Windy City brethren Nachtmystium in that the band incorporates psychedelic flourishes to add texture and color to a feral, bared-teeth gut churn.
But whereas the latter pushes the bounds of black metal, Atlas Moth explores the outer fringes of carcinogenic sludge metal, with a new album, "An Ache for the Distance," that, like some frozen Antarctic landscape, is equally beatific and brutal.
See The Atlas Moth at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Yayo Taco, 4632 Maryland Parkway. Tickets are $6; call 262-0201.
-- By JASON BRACELIN
