Faetooth (Ari May (guitar, vocals), Jenna Garcia (bass, vocals), and drummer Rah Kanan) is a doomsday, sludgy, heavy-duty female trio from LA. They were another great pick as one of two support acts for the nouveau shoegazers, Slow Crush, and their Sunday night show at OFF BROADWAY MUSIC VENUE.
Their brief (six tunes), punchy set featured rumbling bass, drop-tuned guitar stabs, and thunderous drums, punctuated by guttural screams and ethereal, ghostly vocals. They opened with the haunting, rolling number “Iron Gates.” This number oscillated between a Toolish, Deftones drone and then exploded into a Melvins-esque mid-air collision of thick, leaden sound with a heavy bottom.
Both May and Garcia were animated, focused, and case studies in intensity and volume. Their fourth number, “Death of Day,” had a Sabbath/Alice in Chains Dirt-era opiate-rush intro and a minor-key vocal melody that was unsettling, edgy, and soothing as mother’s milk.
This is a band with a future, especially as an exciting new take on doom and classic metal music. The latest new release, “Labyrinthine,” is enthralling, epic, and hints at their future greatness. Their return to St. Louis can’t come soon enough. I’m already jonesing.
