The Bay Area has brought some truly brutal music into the world, and San Jose’s Deathgrave carry on that tradition with their mix of grindcore, death metal and good old punk rock. Or, in their own words, “a crude and absurd form of Hell.” “Nimrod,” the opening track from a recent split 7-inch, shows that they can also wedge some surprisingly melodic passages between the sludge and screech of their largely forbidding catalog. And with most songs barely crossing the two-minute mark, Deathgrave thrash for the modern attention span. (MH)
Deathgrave
Sat, 10pm, Free
The Caravan, San Jose
