Check out this lineup:

Thrones
Amber Asylum
Kawabata Makoto (of Acid Mothers Temple, with special guests Kinski)
?alos (Stephania of OvO)
Sugar Skulls

Well, god damn, Ladies' Choice & Nanotear, you sure outdid yourselves. This is going to be one helluva heavy-metal/psychedelic/prog-rockin' soirée.

Details: Rendezvous/Jewelbox Theater 2322 2nd Ave., $13 with costume/$15 without; 21+; doors 8 pm/show 8:30 pm.

More info after the jump.

THRONES

Joe fuckin Preston!!!! Need we say more??! The man has the burliest resume in the history of heavy:
•EARTH, 1991-1995, on "Extra-Capsular Extractions" & "Sunn Amps & Smashed Guitars"
•Melvins 1991-1992 Played bass on: Lysol , Nightgoat 7". Not to mention a solo Ep that was released along with Buzzo and Dale's. Also featured on the DVD “Salad Of A Thousand Delights.”
•The Whip 2001-2002 Played guitar in this band with former members of Karp.
•Thrones 1996-Present Thrones is the "solo project" of Joe Preston. Thrones features all instruments. Including bass, drums, vocals and synth performed by Joe Preston.
•SunnO))) 2002-2004 played on on both SunnO))) albums “White 1” and “White 2 . Played a multitude of instruments on these albums including bass, vocals and drum machine programming.
•High On Fire 2004-2005 Joined High On Fire for their Summer 2004 tour. Also played bass on the latest recording Blessed Black Wings.
•Harvey Milk - 2008-Present, current guitarist & on "Life...the Best Game in Town"

AMBER ASYLUM

Amber Asylum is a project centering around the work of Kris Force. As a composer, multi-instrumentalist and soprano vocalist, she has been an orchestral visionary for over ten years, consistently exploring the confines of texture and sensuality in new music. "I have no specific agenda to making music other than the experience itself. It is my reverence. It is my evolution." Kris continues... "when I’m sticking my violin through a Rat pedal and the Morley wah, I would think that Beethoven turns in his grave. We’re definitely an alongside or outside outfit... It’s all very visceral, personal, haunting."

Already known for her collaborative work with Neurosis and the Swans, Force's Amber Asylum are a neo-classical, experimentalist trio that utilize violins, cellos, percussion and soul-stirring female vocals to create profoundly moving compositions of dark, sinister beauty. Unique in her approach to combining the acoustic and the electronic, the old and the new, romantic and post-modern, Kris makes stirring and evocative music which draws from influences as diverse as a traditional madrigal or lullaby, the ballads of Buffy St. Marie, 60’s chanteuses and psychedelia, harrowing Eastern European classical music and noise pioneers such as Brian Eno and Coil.

KAWABATA MAKOTO (of Acid Mother Temple)

"Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like a radio tuner, and playing them so that people can hear them. However, maybe because my reception is somewhat off, I am unable to perfectly reproduce these sounds. That is why I spend my days rehearsing.
Where do these sounds come from? Who is sending them out? That is not something for me to know, and neither is there any way that I could find out. I simply believe that they come from the 'cosmos'. (Maybe other people would call God the source). Since I was a small child I have been prone to hearing ringing sounds in my ears and other sound phantasms. At the time, I believed that these were messages aimed directly at me from a UFO, and so I would gaze up at the sky. But once I started playing music myself, I came to feel that these noises were a kind of pure sound. And I promised myself that one day I would be able to play those sounds myself. It is only recently that I have begun to feel that I have been able to come close to reproducing these sounds in my solo guitar work, and in my INUI project.
However, in June of 1999, I finally discovered my own 'cosmos' and I experienced an instant of total union with it!! That 'cosmos' is still tiny in size - although any cosmos can, by its very nature, be infinitely huge or infinitely small. The energy and vibrations contained within that it far exceeded my imagination in scope and beauty. I can only describe the miraculous instant when my 'cosmos' accepted my consciousness as MAGIC."
(Kawabata Makoto. July 8th 2000)

?ALOS (Stephania of OvO)

?ALOS ——Another world exists beyond ours, a world hidden inside every mirror. A mirror image of ours, in which the people carry marks of permanent memories that shape (also us) the characters and lives of everyone. Signorina ?Alos is one of this world, she carries on her face the scars of the injuries to the spirit of Stefania Pedretti. That is who ?Alos is: the alter-ego of Stefania, her mirror image. In the paintings of Stefania Pedretti there are the women, the people of that world and across them ?Alos has found the path to reach us since 2003.From than she toured in Italy and Europe............. In 2006 ?ALOS released her first album "RICORDI INDELEBILI” on Bar La Muerte, Precordings and Vida Loca records............ The same years she released her video"Sola" shot by the artist Francesca Grilli, edited by Cristian Dondi and with the actors ?Alos and Nicola Ratti (the camera enters ?ALOS’ kitchen and captures a private version of her performance)......... Stefania Pedretti plays also in OvO www.myspace.com/ovobarlamuerte and ALLUN www.allun.it www.myspace.com/alluninthespace...................................................................................................................... SHOWS—— ?ALOS “one girl cooking music” : in the performance, bound by the topic of stealing private moments and making them public, Signorina ?Alos presents herself (to our eyes) as a lonely woman, unlucky, a romantic and a dreamer, intent on preparing just one candlelight dinner. While preparing dinner, ?Alos plays, using the unmistakeable voice of Stefania,her personal guitar style and the splendid bases created expressly forher by such artists as Mae Starr, DJ Tonnerre and Christian Rainer. It is all with suprises, moments of profound sweetness, tenderness, sadness and irony. All five senses are involved in this performance: sight obviously, but also taste and smell (the dinner), hearing (the music) and touch (Signorina ?Alos concludes the performance by inviting a man from the audience, after having found him "handsome and well-groomed", to share dinner with her. ?Alos usually presents itself during Stefania Pedretti's personal exhibitions "Ricordi Indelebili"(PermanentMemories)

SUGAR SKULLS

What can be said about Seattle's Sugar Skulls that can't be experienced at one of their most magical performances. Featuring 3 lovely ladies (Ursula Beatrice Stuart on Bass, Julie Balridge on 6-string electic violin & Heidi Nebel on Keys) and the token dude drumming ANIMAL Kory Christian, Sugar Skulls draw from influences as diverse as Frank Zappa, Melvins, Fantomas, King Crimson, Bjork, Slayer, Devo, Mr.Bungle, Ween, Prince, Art Bears, Oingo Boingo, Sugarcubes, Magma, Stereolab, The Locust, Alice and John Coltrane, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, They Might Be Giants, Bobby Conn, Selda, Fela, Sun City Girls, Secret Cheifs 3 and so much more. They are a band living everyday as if it were Halloween, making them the perfect opener for our Halloween spectacular!