Ether, Mires, Pummeled, Hearken

If you’re looking to enjoy a lineup of heavy bands on a Thursday, you’re covered. Tonight, experimental doom-metal band Ether, of Florida, will be bringing its sludge-laden riffs and deep, throaty vocals to the ’Burgh. Let yourself be drowned in sound waves, under the venue’s twinkling Christmas lights, as the headbang consumes. Local support comes in a delightfully varied set of bands sporting different brands of hard and heavy tuneage: horror-tinged, drone-soaked doom-metal act Mires; aggressive grungy trio Pummeled; and sinister-sounding grunge-rock duo Hearken. - Meg Fair