CRUSTCAKE PICKS: ATX SHOWS 11/12 - 11/16

by Van Damned and The WZA'd (ATX)

Hey there, Austinites. We know we already posted the bulk of this already, but we figured you might need the reminder. There is, after all, a lot to choose from. So here are your show picks for Thursday-Monday. Have a good time!

Virginia's crossover throwbacks Municipal Waste bring their "Waste the World" tour to Red 7 this Thursday. Perennial favorites Goatwhore return with some seriously feisty blackened thrash and crustgrind stalwarts Phobia open. Might want to bring a poncho to this one, as more than a little beer will surely be spilled in honor of the "Terror Shark." You'll just have to see it for yourself.

Friday, of course, is that one tour we've been salivating over for months. You know, that one. Anyway, by this point you shouldn't need us to tell you about the four bands playing, or how ass-kickingly awesome the whole show will be, or how much of an idiot you'll be for not going. We feel that, by now, the point should be pretty clear.

Saturday, the "Tour from Afar," featuring Finnish folk heroes Ensiferum, high-seas pirate metallers Swashbuckle and Blackguard and Peter Tägtgren's long-running Swedish death brigade Hypocrisy, comes ashore at Emo's. Our very own Andrew Wilhelm wrote a fine post about the tour's unfortunate loss of Canadian death gladiators Ex Deo. By the way, did you know that Tägtgren owns his own village? Yeah, neither did we. (Update: Well now it looks like Hypocrisy's having trouble with their visas. WTF, U.S. State Department?)

Tired yet? Don't be. A scant two months before they return to Texas with the mother of all progressive/technical death-jazz-fusion tours, Raleigh, NC's Between the Buried and Me bring the shred to Emo's Sunday night. Opening are Sumerian Records' Chicago deathcore peddlers Veil of Maya, eight-string axe-wielder Tosin Abasi's (Born of Osiris) Animals as Leaders and local deathsters Falsetta.

Finally, your Ten Days of Awesome Fucking Metal culminates with the last (of five) U.S. performance by drool-worthy super, supergroup Shrinebuilder Monday at Emo's. You might remember them from us here at the 'cake jocking their collective nuts since way back in December of 2007(!) but if you don't, here's an easy reminder: Neurosis + Sleep + Melvins + Wino = Shrinebuilder. Hope that's clear enough for you. Do not. Miss. This. Show.

So that's it. Hope you've saved your pennies, boys and girls, 'cause this is gonna be Epic with a capital E.

The only advice we got for you is this: consider earplugs.

INCREDIBLE, UNPARALLELED LINEUP OF SHOWS:

Thursday, November 12th

Municipal Waste, Phobia, Goatwhore and Cauldron @ Red 7

Friday, November 13th

Mastodon, High on Fire, Converge and Dethklok @ Austin Music Hall

Saturday, November 14th

Ensiferum, Hypocrisy(?), Blackguard, Swashbuckle @ Emo's

Monday, November 16th

Shrinebuilder @ Emo's