Living Dead Girl, Hellfire 76, Flame Tides

We’ve already noted Flame Tides heavy-as-plutonium grooves enfolding mystic and hopeful lyrics. Here the Charlotte duo supports Hellfire 76, a duo devoted to rampaging stoner/doom/psych-metal which swings to dense blues licks that suggest a triceratops mating with a Sherman tank. Female-fronted Canadian goth-metal band Living Dead Girl embrace a dark, humorously self-aware sexuality. The dead may be horny, but they do it with melody and style.