Nequient

Passing Bell - Pittsburgh blackened sludge https://passingbell.bandcamp.com/ Nequient - Chicago grinding metallic hardcore weirdos https://nequient.bandcamp.com/ Terminal Intensity - Pittsburgh math grind https://terminalintensity.bandcamp.com/ Leech Forward - Pittsburgh death/hardcore https://leechforward.bandcamp.com/ Ormsby Cafe Basement 402 Ormsby Ave. Doors: 7. Music: 7:30. All ages $10 How can artists and musicians respond to an era when jackbooted thugs descend on U.S. cities, tech billionaires blithely deploy technologies calculated to wipe out the livelihoods of millions, and misinformation controls the rage of the masses? For Chicago’s grinding metallic hardcore misfits NEQUIENT, the answer is to get even angrier and weirder. NEQUIENT’s second album Darker Than Death Or Night was praised as, “a fusion of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, and Combatwoundedveteran – if those bands were feral and sludgy,” by Decibel Magazine. The Heavyist called the album, “proper fuckin' excellent weirdo hardcore,” and The Chicago Reader praised its, “menacing layers of hardcore, grindcore, thrash, and straight-up gnarly metal.” Invisible Oranges said, “NEQUIENT is the soundtrack of our frustrations, this angry, chaotic sound of distrust, anger, and voicelessness now given a megaphone.” Since that release, the band has exhibited an undying dedication to the DIY way with a series of tours, including a run of dates alongside Psychosomatic and Black Mass. Avarice is the quartet’s third full-length album, the culmination of more than a decade spent evolving their unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore in the depths of the aggressive music underground. Honing the adventurous songwriting and lyrical venom exhibited on previous releases like 2018’s Wolves At The Door and 2022’s Darker Than Death Or Night, the unrelenting assault of Avarice blasts listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world. Produced by Sanford P