Metal kids who discovered dubstep did not stop being metal kids. They just found a genre where the drop does what a breakdown used to do, and the crossover has been quietly one of the largest in American youth music for a decade.
Danny Howland built Voyd out of exactly that overlap — riffs, growls, and a stage persona borrowed wholesale from black metal iconography, applied to bass music. The crowd headbangs rather than dances, and the pit behaves like a metal pit, which genuinely confuses people who wandered in expecting a club night.
A week before Christmas in the Gaslamp, which means the room will be full of people home from school with nowhere to be in the morning.
Saturday the nineteenth of December, doors at ten.
Metal kids who discovered dubstep did not stop being metal kids. They just found a genre where the drop does what a breakdown used to do, and the crossover has been quietly one of the largest in American youth music for a decade.
Danny Howland built Voyd out of exactly that overlap — riffs, growls, and a stage persona borrowed wholesale from black metal iconography, applied to bass music. The crowd headbangs rather than dances, and the pit behaves like a metal pit, which genuinely confuses people who wandered in expecting a club night.
A week before Christmas in the Gaslamp, which means the room will be full of people home from school with nowhere to be in the morning.
Saturday the nineteenth of December, doors at ten.
Metal kids who discovered dubstep did not stop being metal kids. They just found a genre where the drop does what a breakdown used to do, and the crossover has been quietly one of the largest in American youth music for a decade.
Danny Howland built Voyd out of exactly that overlap — riffs, growls, and a stage persona borrowed wholesale from black metal iconography, applied to bass music. The crowd headbangs rather than dances, and the pit behaves like a metal pit, which genuinely confuses people who wandered in expecting a club night.
A week before Christmas in the Gaslamp, which means the room will be full of people home from school with nowhere to be in the morning.
Saturday the nineteenth of December, doors at ten.