(Photo from their last.fm page)

While all the cool people were down in L.A. attending the Golden Gods awards, the rest of us scrubs were out on the town getting our fix of underground heavy metal! In case you didn’t know, San Francisco melodic metal band Light This City are on a “farewell tour” of the west coast. They have a slightly different line-up at each show, but the show last night at Parkside included noise-punk-core band Comadre, black-death-doom band Funeral Pyre and noise-core-metal band Early Graves. There was quite a bit of “band incest” going on at this show, meaning that there was at least one member of each band that was in/is in another band on the bill, but there was still a bit of variety. I was actually looking forward to seeing each band on the bill, but Early Graves and Light This City were at the top of my list. Funeral Pyre were pretty cool blackened doom death metal, but they had the lights off during their set so I couldn’t really get video and the songs were a bit too long for my taste. Comadre weren’t really my style, but a lot of people there were into them and they did get the pit going, so props to them for that.

Check out the videos after the jump.

-DS