Our perceptions of New Orleans is as the birth place of Jazz. That funeral scene from Live and Let Die looms large in our collective cultural iconography. But New Orleans has a musical underbelly, an “upside down” that is the ying to the more well-known yang. In the form of Eyehategod and Goatwhore it has cultivated two of the most iconic American extreme metal acts to emerge out of the desolate wastelands of the nineties. Both are still stridently underground and unfettered in regard to wide stream regard and appeal, but the staggering young demographic at play here tonight shows that they are both making great strides in a market that wasn’t even born when they both emerged.

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