Holy shit, don’t miss Iskra, Oroku, and City of Dust tomorrow night at the Fire-Breathing Kangaroo (6272 Ellis Ave S, 8 pm, all ages—be sure to bring some money for the bands and for buying any records they might be selling). This should be an awesome show.

Iskra, from Victoria, BC, play crusty anarcho black-metal (blackened crust, as they call it) with dueling male and female vocals; I saw them a couple years ago in SF and was totally blown away. Listen to MP3s and learn more about the amalgamation of crust and black metal here.

I think this is Oroku’s first Seattle show since last summer; they were on a European tour from October to December. After I saw Oroku for the first time back in July, I wrote this on Line Out:

My new favorite local band… Oroku played perfectly wonderful heavy crust—they reminded me of a more metal His Hero Is Gone, with melodic, sludgier parts akin to Isis (they have an electric cello!).

Check some MP3s on their MySpace page.

As for City of Dust, I’ve never heard them, and they have no MP3s to offer, but they list Anti-Cimex, Discharge, Totalitar, and Poison Idea as influences, so there you go.