Name: Acid King
Start: 2024-11-15T21:00:00-07:00
Location: 777 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94110

Friday 11/15 - Night One
Website [http://www.acidking.com/]⎮Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/AcidkingSF]⎮Bandcamp [https://acidking.bandcamp.com/]⎮Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/acidkingrocks/]
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The band will be playing a mix featuring songs for their latest release "Beyond Vision," as well as songs from the vast catalogue which spans over 30 years. Supporting them will be Southern California's Classic Doom Rockers Early Moods and New York's Medieval Fantasy Doom Metal band Castle Rat.
Acid King “What do you do at this point in your career when you’ve been around for so long?”That’s Lori S. from San Francisco’s Acid King. These days she’s asking the big questions. The storied guitarist and frontwoman has been building her electric empire riff-by-riff for nearly 30 years. Though Acid King’s lineup may change Lori remains the driving force and master cylinder. Adopting the nickname of notorious teenage slayer Ricky Kasso, Acid King came screaming out of San Francisco in 1993 with a sound that fused heavy ’70s proto-metal with the kind of bleary slow- rolling dirge power being harnessed by their contemporaries in Sleep and Electric Wizard. The band’s 1993 debut 10” was followed two years later by their first full-length album Zoroaster (Sympathy For The Record Industry) which set the stage for a trio of crucial releases on Frank Kozik’s famed Man’s Ruin label which included the EP Down with the Crown & Free. But it would be Acid King’s acclaimed 1999 album Busse Woods that solidified their reputation amongst a generation of riff worshipers W**d heads and heavy rock enthusiasts. Two decades of hard touring and sporadic recording ensued. The band released III in 2005 on Small Stone records and—after parting ways with the musicians who played on 2015’s Middle Of Nowhere Center of Everywhere—Lori formed a touring lineup that concluded with the Busse Woods 20th Anniversary tour in 2019. Lori wasted no time pondering her next move. The sweeping lockdowns that attended the great plague of 2020-2022 provided the opportunity to collaborate with Black Cobra guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian and the result is the band's latest 2023 release on Blues Funeral Recordings "Beyond Vision." Making the Billboard Top 100, this release is unlike anything Lori S has written before.
Early Moods was founded in 2015 by guitarist Eddie Andrade and vocalist/keyboardist Alberto Alcaraz after a few years of playing in thrash and death metal projects before the two realized that the classic doom that they’d grown up with was what they really wanted to explore. Early Moods is Oscar Hernandez on lead guitar, Chris Flores on drums, Elix Felciano on bass, Alcaraz on vocals/synth and Andrade on guitar.
The Los Angeles area quartet burst onto the scene fully formed with a sound that somehow simultaneously merged gritty underground Street Doom with slick “big box” Heavy Metal melodies on their self-titled RidingEasy debut album in 2022. And it’s the band’s highly skilled musicianship paired with exquisite aesthetic taste — in addition to their killer live show — that has made them an immediate popular favorite.
Early Moods’ sophomore album A Sinner’s Past is the ultimate dosage of classic early 70s proto-metal, '90s grunge riffing and timeless songwriting delivered with an explosive youthful energy. The album was released on LP, CD and download on March 1st, 2024 via RidingEasy Records.
Castle Rat is a fantasy doom metal band hailing from NYC led by The Rat Queen on guitar and vocals. On her mission to expand and defend “The Realm” from those who seek to destroy it, The Rat Queen is joined by The Count on lead guitar, The Plague Doctor on bass, and The All-Seeing Druid on drums. Together they face the relentless wrath of their arch nemesis: Death, Herself—The Rat Reaperess. The Realm of Castle Rat exists for those who crave swords & sorcery; stoner & doom; Frazetta & Sabbath; battle-babes & beasts.
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