PSYCHIC DEATH / WET DENIM / OCEANEATER — live event
Psychic Death is a hardcore punk band that comes with no overinflated air of complexity, no pretensions, no nothing. The band comes at the listener with a hyper-driven, ceaselessly energetic wall of sound that plasters itself all over your senses as you listen. In short, the band does the most with the least: its new EP, “Psychic Death 2,” clocks in at just eight minutes long. The band’s first EP, “Psychic Death,” was a whole 50% longer, at 12 minutes. “It maybe didn’t need to be that long,” said guitarist Jon Montano. “There was a few minutes of (bull),” said vocalist and drummer Audrey Keaty. The songs were “a little bit padded out.” “Psychic Death 2” is, in Keaty’s words, “the first tape but without all the (bull).” In eight minutes, the new EP blows through five tracks, as long as 125 seconds and as short as 62. The condensed form means that every song gets started fast, drives at peak volume and energy for its duration, and then ends like a collision with the half-second gap before the next song. “Part of the ethos of the band is when we like a song, just finish it, just call it good,” Montano said, explaining the lightning-quick tracks. “Any artist can get into self-doubt and think ‘this isn’t finished yet,’ ” Keaty added. “My approach was like, just be confident in what we have and don’t stress over it.” Confidence is something the band has plenty of, backed by years of experience playing and writing for other groups. “I don’t really like have any self-doubt when it comes to writing music,” Montano said. “I don’t. And at the same time, I don’t personally write music for anybody else.” “I was constantly yearning for more energy and more speed,” Keaty said. “It was kind of just what we both needed.” The band came together during the pandemic, when both Keaty and Montano were new to the Spokane area. “We met online and we were both kind of trying to start a band,” said Keaty. “So we ended up hanging out.”
Starts: 2024-03-28T20:00:41Z
Ends: 2024-03-28T22:00:41Z
Where: 488 Flat Shoals Avenue Southeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30316, United States
Price: $14.89