Best of Nashville
Music
Best Venue for Metal Shows
The Muse
The venue's show calendar never fails to provide the city's worst band names (Killwhitneydead and Coathanger Abortion regularly appear there), and its sketchy reputation was buoyed when a laptop computer stolen from a state government office was recovered there a couple years ago. Beyond that, any establishment providing a safe haven for unrestrained teen angst is bound to find derision from scene cynics—but that doesn't change the fact that The Muse is Nashville's stop for underground metal's elite. This past year has seen visits from underappreciated death metal pioneers Master and American black metal trailblazers Absu, as well as contemporary rising stars like Rwake, Weedeater and Goatwhore. And at the end of the day, the Muse serves as the Nashville venue of choice for Anal Cunt, which deserves at least some sort of distinction. MATT SULLIVAN
