7:00PM Doors ✖ Hall ✖ $15.00 ADV / $20.00 DOS ✖ 18+

Join us June 16th at Amsterdam Bar and Hall for a live demonstration of metal at it’s absolute finest. 3 bands with distinct personalities that each shine brightly on their own. Together they make an unforgettable evening of extreme metal.

“מזמור, or Mizmor, is a one-man heavy music exploration that began in 2012 as a way of processing the mental and spiritual anguish I, A.L.N., underwent through my loss of faith in Christianity. Over the course of the proceeding decade, I slowly changed from struggling Christian, to agnostic, and finally to atheist. During this evolution I used Mizmor, which means “psalm,” “prayer,” or “melody” in Hebrew, as a form of therapy. The songs literally started as prayers to God, grappling with doubt and depression, much like some of the darker chapters of the book of Psalms. After some time the songs became more existential – primal and innate musings about cause, purpose, self, and god (in a more universal sense). Eventually Mizmor became about the absence of god and the healing I’ve experienced through accepting this. Nowadays my songs are about consciousness, ideas, mankind, and the future to name a few things (and still depression and anxiety, which I continue to battle). Mizmor will always be about following the most reasonable path given the current evidence and processing grief through creating and sharing art so that others may be helped with similar struggles.” Mizmor appears live with the help of Andrew Black, Blake Ferrin, and Nate Myers

Gates of Dawn, a band who proffers no easy influence and bears a sound novel and without pretense to any evil darkness or trite melancholy, of course such a band is bound to confound and beguile at equal turns. Feeble wordsmiths find their adjectives worthless; staunch believers in the unlight, their foundational predilections challenged.

Apophany is a brand new black metal band with longtime stalwarts of the Minneapolis metal and punk scene. This will be their first live show.