CHAOS

Liz Armstrong digs for what lurks beneath the underground

Liz Armstrong

Irene Moon, who ditched her sometime-persona as a prescription-addled entomologist for a heart-shuddering new-age prog Korg composition and collaboration with effects-pedal maestro Pax Titania (begoniasociety.org).

Black Meat featuring To Live and Shave in LA frontman Tom Smith, a minimalist metal-scraping-metal surgery with magickal glam lounge haiku (blackmeat.org). Ohio noise babe Leslie Keffer's scorched-earth performance from her hands and knees (lesliekeffer.com).

Being in the audience for Sword Heaven's guttural, half-techno/half-caveman show was like being caught in the tide (myspace.com/swordheaven).

Kevin Shields played Omnichord and modified video editor, spitting out rounds of tornado rumble sprinkled with shards of rainbow (deathbombarc.com).

Squeally, rat-brained, nomadic terrorizers Byron House, who inspired the scariest mosh pit of the festival (cephiastreat.com).

French noise opera performer Costes, whose violent, sex-driven antics never fail to instigate screams of terror (costes.org).

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