Liturgy + Wreck and Reference + White Suns + Kyle Eyre Clyd

Known for its divisive inversions of old-school black metal nihilism, the justly buzzed-about Liturgy headlines this noisy cross-genre event with its first appearance as a quartet in three years. (That means prodigious drummer Greg Fox is back in the fold—a very good thing, indeed.) The crew has taken its share of flak for leader Hunter Hunt-Hendrix's lofty philosophizing, but anyone attempting to brand Liturgy as passionless will rapidly dead-end when confronted with the group's explosive live presence. Dystopian noise-rock crews Wreck and Reference and White Suns, and electronics experimentalist Kyle Eyre Clyd, round out a killer bill.