Forever Indebted, the third release from Tennessee ragers Human Shield, is a dissonant, distorted work of sheer fury. The album clocks in at six tracks in less than 11 minutes, and the three-man behemoth’s sound alternates between a swampy, lumbering dirge and a rapid-paced blur of noise-drenched guitars and machine-gun drumming. Forever Indebted trims all the fat and leaves just the raw sonic malevolence. Their brand of furious hardcore punk calls back to bygone rippers like Crossed Out, Siege and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, while still injecting new energy into the sound. The show will conclude a two-week tour, starting in Memphis and running all across the South. To celebrate the new release, available to hear on their Bandcamp page, Human Shield will be inviting a few friends to share the stage with them at Drkmttr. The bill is filled out by blistering Kentucky troupe xGaargoylex, ultra-heavy Nashvillians Gorge, Huntsville hardcore’s Bootprint, and surrealist art-pop duo Total Wife.
8 p.m. at Drkmttr
1111 Dickerson Pike
