Whitehouse played a couple weeks ago with Wolf Eyes and Pig Destroyer. Even though Peter Sotos wasn’t there to balance out all the piercing Englishness, they were still really on-point and spent the last five minutes of the set locked in twin stances of shirtless victory.

In addition to the anticipated dearth of women, there was a strange preponderance of plugged ears in the crowd. I understand that since sound guys generally mix the treble at shows high enough to hear over their tinnitus, some people (read: nerds) stuff little wads of tissue in their ears to dampen it out … But for Whitehouse?! I mean, what’s left to hear, their fingers tapping on the keyboard? … MORE