Primitive Man w/ Mortiferum, Jarhead Fertilizer, Body Void, and more

224 S Blount St,Raleigh NC 27601

25 May, 2022

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Primitive Man w/ Mortiferum, Jarhead Fertilizer, Body Void, and more The Pour House Music Hall and Record Shop Ages 21+ Doors 7pm. Show 8pm. Denver’s PRIMITIVE MAN’s music matches its name: a savage, sparse mix of death metal, blackened noise, and doom. The threepiece was formed in February of 2012 by Ethan Lee McCarthy and Jonathan Campos (all current and former members of Vermin Womb, Withered, Clinging To The Trees of A Forest Fire, Death of Self and Reproacher). In October of 2012 the band recorded their debut LP Scorn at Flatline Audio with Dave Otero (Cephalic Carnage, Cobalt, Catheter, CTTTOAFF). Scorn was released a collaboration between Throatruiner and Mordgrimm Records. The band followed up with a self-released three-song EP in February titled P/M. The unique metal hybridization of Scorn caught the attention of Relapse, who liked the record enough to sign the band and reissue the full-length in summer 2013. Dubbed a “totally malignant sounding record and one that will consume you whole if you’re not careful,” by Cvlt Nation and called “the best worst thing that has ever happened to you,” in an 8/10 review from Metal Hammer, Scorn found PRIMITIVE MAN celebrating a slow-roasted apocalypse through seven suffocating hymns of hatred, disease and sonic deviance. The record put the band on the map for many listeners, and enabled PRIMITIVE MAN to embark on a relentless touring schedule that would soon see the band playing live shows across the US, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia (often for the vast majority of the year) in company with acts such as Hexis, Reproacher, Fister, Celeste, Opium Lord, and Mammoth Grinder. PRIMITIVE MAN also played Denver Black Sky in 2013 alongside Relapse brethren Dying Fetus, Exhumed, Skinless, Iron Reagan, Call of the Void, and Weekend Nachos. In typical powerviolence fashion, Jarhead Fertilizer have remained surprisingly relevant considering they’ve only dropped two EPs and a split. 2015’s Opiate Conquest stands as one of the genre’s finest offerings, with frenetic chaos and a streetwise menace to contend with Spazz and Capitalist Casualties… and then, silence. Five years later finds Jarhead Fertilizer finally ready to drop their debut LP. While arguably still powerviolence aesthetically, Product of My Environment centers on the ugliest, most primitive aspects of death metal. This isn’t music for gear nerds and shredders, having more in common with goregrind than death metal’s more proficient offshoots. The brief “Intro” gives off that raw grind vibe with its freeform noise, but the title track presents the rest of the album’s offerings: absurdly guttural vocals and disgustingly distorted guitars/bass, driven by barbaric drumming. It’s dirty, dangerous, and gets straight to the point. In fact, only this cut and closer “Life is Prison” break the three-minute mark. Jarhead Fertilizer leave no room for pleasantries and goes straight for the jugular with as much ruthless aggression as possible. Body Void: New England via Bay Area noise doom