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The Invisible Orange presents: DAZZLING KILLMEN with guests: POINT LINE PLANE and TAXA.DAZZLING KILLMEN
In 1994, Dazzling Killmen, a quartet from the St. Louis area named after a line in an obscure, grotesque 1963 short story by Lucas Samaras, put out a record called Face of Collapse, their second and final full-length. By the following year, they had broken up.
Face of Collapse is a milestone for underground extreme rock in the '90s and should be experienced by fans of everything from Slint to the Dillinger Escape Plan to Rush. In fact, there would be no Converge, Today is the Day or Dillinger Escape plan without this essential blueprint.
As former Rolling Stone senior editor Hank Shteamer wrote, “No other music that I know of can deliver what this [music] delivers, either emotionally — its specific combination of creeping dread, frantic anxiety and seething rage — or sonically: The grand, gothic power chords at the outset, sounding like some horror-movie overture. The thresher-like riff that follows, and then, the onset of one of the greatest sequences of aggressive rock music I’ve ever heard: a sort of hypnotic death waltz… broken up by racing, scampering full-band interludes and giving way to a deranged, writhing climax — with the guitars stabbing at oblique angles over the rhythm section’s lockstep convulsions — that feels at once vise-tight and completely unhinged. When the whole band kicks into the next breakneck triplet riff, the effect is one of complete information overload.”
For the first time in 30 years, you’re going to be able to hear this music live.
https://www.instagram.com/dazzling_killmen/
https://www.facebook.com/DazzlingKillmen/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LRoi2IPw3QzicBWx0ZSgj
POINT LINE PLANE
The band made its name by creating noise music with pop hooks. As electro continued to fizzle out and screamy dance punk/neo -no wave enjoyed a brief spike of popularity, kids and college radio DJ’s took note of PLP’s eclectic and original style, often contrasting the sound to other innovators like Liars, Ex-Models, and Lightning Bolt. Actual comparisons were hard to draw ,however; reviews in print and online found writers grasping for metaphors rather than listing influences.
Back in their heyday the band shared the stage with eclectic artists of the period including Deerhoof, Erase Errata, Khanate, The Presidents Of The USA, Thurston Moore, US Maple, various John Dwyer projects, various Animal Collective side-projects, Metal Urbain, Don Caballero, Oneida, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Zombi, Melt Banana, Unsane, Daughters, High on Fire, YOB, (need we go on?)—a who’s who of experimental underground artists active during the early aughts. Their music charted at #1 on the influential KDVS station; John Peel played several tracks on his legendary show as well.
https://www.facebook.com/pointlineplaneband
https://pointlineplane.bandcamp.com/album/smoke-signals
TAXA
Taxa are a Vancouver-based noise rock outfit that’s carved out a decade-long presence in Western Canada’s art punk underground. With a sound shaped by the wiry intensity of Unwound and Sonic Youth, and the angular urgency of Gang of Four and Wire, Taxa delivers tightly wound chaos with purpose. Their live set is driven by the sharp kinetic tension of interlocking guitars, back and forth vocals, and a rhythm section that rarely lets up. The four piece group has played across Canada, Brazil and Cuba. Fresh off their contribution to Hex Records' 25th anniversary LP Ripped - a cover of Unwound’s “Corpse Pose” - Taxa are set to bring their relentless energy to new stages in 2026.
https://www.instagram.com/taxaband/
https://www.facebook.com/taxaband/
https://taxa.bandcamp.com/
***Ages 19 and over***
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Astoria Pub, 769 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1R3, Canada
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