Genre: Metal

Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Kayo Dot Xasthurplus guests TBA Saturday Jan. 24th8:30 doors 21+ $20adv/ $25 dos https://kayodot.bandcamp.com/Kayo Dot has spent over two decades reinventing the boundaries of experimental music. Led bycomposer Toby Driver, the group has released eleven albums spanning chamber-metal, spectral jazz,gothic synthscapes, and uncategorizable sounds that critics call vital to the underground canon. Theirlatest release,Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason(2025), pushes this legacy furtherwithcustom microtonal instruments, expansive structures, and Jason Byrons imagistic texts. Criticsdescribe it as a bad-time album, masterfully composed (Treble) and perhaps the purestrepresentation of Kayo Dots unpredictable spirit (Toilet Ov Hell). On stage, Kayo Dots shows arefamously transformative, reshaping songs into new forms each night. With a reputation for bothintensity and imagination, the band continues to attract listeners across genres from avant-gardecomposers to black metal devotees all drawn into its singular world of memory, loss, and invention.https://xasthur.bandcamp.com/album/2005-demoIf youre into de/opp-ressive black metal, and like… who isnt? then youre already a massive Xasthur fan… And so, youre already overwhelmingly aware of the fact that no outfit or individual in the Black Metal community, absolutely no one, is capable of reflecting and drawing the listener in to such a near tangible presence of distress…

Hierophant Booking Presents: Stygian Boughw/ Serpentent and guest tbaSat Dec 13th Doors 8:3021+$22adv/$28doshttps://bellwitch.bandcamp.com/album/stygian-bough-volume-iiIn our human minds, according to the Law of Contagious Magic as described in The Golden Bough by anthropologist James Frazer, contact between two objects creates an inseparable thread between them. A gift from a dead friend forever holds this magic like a scar reflecting a wound. Similarly, a piece of food that touches the floor is suddenly abject and rotten. Pairing this notion with the Law of Similarity Magic, as described by Frazer, where an object resembling another can share its power, a musical notion can be understood to serve as an unbodied conduit of such magics; an emotional contact between the music and audience wherein such sorcery threads an inseparable seam that, for a time, resemble each other.Aptly named in reference to the aforementioned book, Stygian Bough, the collaboration between Bell Witch (Dylan Desmond, Jesse Shreibman) and Aerial Ruin (Erik Moggridge) enlivens its unbodied presence resembling both projects as a conduit in its own separate entity.The partnership at the center of Stygian Bough is over in a decade in the making, growing from Moggridges recurring contributions to the Bell Witch catalog. Their initial collusion occurring on the debut Bell Witch album Longing (2012) following which, Moggridge would return to guest on both Four Phantoms (2015) and Mirror Reaper (2017). Stygian Bough Volume I was released in 2020, Volume II is imminent.https://serpentent.bandcamp.com/music

Hierophant Booking + Seek and Destroy (KEXP) Present:BLACK CURSESPIRIT POSSESSIONINFERIORSun 9/28Doors 8pm21+$20adv/$25doshttps://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/https://spiritpossession.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-signhttps://inferior.bandcamp.com/album/wrath

Hierophant Booking + Seek and Destroy/KEXP Present:Christian Mistress w/ Dark Meditation, SolicitorSat 9/27Doors 8:30pm21+$20adv/$23doshttps://christianmistress.bandcamp.com/album/children-of-the-earthFrom Olympia, WAFrom Olympia, Wash!https://darkmeditation.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-darkness-bleedsDark and heavy from Seattle!https://solicitor-speedmetal.bandcamp.com/Heavy Metal Speed Dealers from the Pacific North Waste

Hierophant Booking Presents:Young Widowsw/ Helms Alee, Yellfire, Meridian ArcFri 8/22Doors 8:3021+$26adv/$30dos plus feeshttps://youngwidows.bandcamp.com/Louisville, Kentucky-based group whose sound has evolved from angular post-hardcore to brooding, gothic folk-tinged rock.https://helmsalee.bandcamp.com/album/keep-this-be-the-waySeattle three-piece Helms Alee has announced a new album Keep This Be The Way available April 29th via Sargent House. Across the span of their first five studio albums, the trio zeroed in on different aspects of their sound – a blend of lilting siren songs, crushing Northwest thunder and sludge, angular econo-rock, and heady guitar pop while retaining their no-frills, meat-and-potatoes approach in the studio. https://yellfire.bandcamp.com/album/dear-godsThe four-piece features drummer ​Trent McIntyre​, guitarist​ Eric Christianson​, guitarist & vocalist Jeromē Sauer​, and bassist ​Casey Nolan​.The band drives its post-hardcore influences from Botch, Cave In, Lack, Kissitgoodbye, KISS and Led Zeppelin.https://meridianarc.bandcamp.com/Meridian Arc guides you through the celestial dimensions of beyond our space and time through the textural waves of sound and distant planetary pulses. Cosmic excursions that bend the spectrum of colors to create a bridge to sonic temples in the galaxy far far away.

Clock-Out Lounge Presents Steve Von Tillw/ Special Guest Mike Scheidt plus Tiny Vipers Friday August 1st8:30 doors 21+ $22adv/ $25 dos + feeshttps://stevevontill.bandcamp.com/Steve Von Till is most widely recognized as vocalist s thunderous intensity have been well established over the course of related projects like the experimental offshoot Tribes of Neurot, psych-drone band Harvestman & acoustic guitar based solo releases. https://mikescheidt.bandcamp.com/album/stay-awakeMike Scheidt, frontman of YOB, had taken some of his creative energy and invested it in a solo acoustic album. The music combines elements of folk (both Western and Eastern) with epic arrangements and the dramatic emotions, the latter being hallmarks of classic rock ballads. It is is meant to be intense, spacious and passionate while still being somewhat straight-forward and familiar. https://tinyvipers.bandcamp.com/

Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Castle Rat w/ Wraith Knight Tuesday September 16th8pm doors21+$20adv/$25dos https://castlerat.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-realm-2Castle Rat is a Medieval Fantasy Doom Metal band led by the Rat Queen on a mission to expand and defend The Realm from those who seek to destroy it. She is joined by The Count, The Plague Doctor, and The Druid. Together they face the relentless wrath of their arch nemesis: Death Herself The Rat Reaperesshttps://wraithknight.bandcamp.com/album/deep-in-the-dungeons-of-the-dragonlordWraith Knight is a cinematic dungeon synth journey through ancient castles, torchlit caverns, and storm-wracked battlefields painting vivid soundscapes of epic quests and forgotten lore.

Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Conan + Mares of Thrace plus SorciaSept 19thDoors 8:3021+$20adv/$23doshttps://conan-conan.bandcamp.com/album/diy-series-issue-1Hear the roar of battle. Smell the stench of spilled blood. A thousand heads piled high like a grim mound of suffering. Englands doom metal masters CONAN strike back again.https://maresofthrace.bandcamp.com/album/the-lossOutsider doom/noise/hardcore duo. Mixed race, mixed gender, all nerd. Mohkinstsis/ Calgary.https://sorcia.bandcamp.com/

Hierophant Booking and Satanik Royalty present:MORBIFIC (Finland)with KOMMAND (LA) and NOROTH6/5$20 ADV / $25 DOS / 8PM Doors / 21+https://morbific.bandcamp.com/Festering, mouldering and disgusting Death Metal from Kitee, Finland.https://kommand-maggotstomp.bandcamp.com/album/terrorscapehttps://noroth.bandcamp.com/album/sacrificial-solace

Hierophant Booking and NW Terror Fest Present:Windhandw/ Exulansis, Dark MeditationSun Aug 24Doors 8pm21+$25adv/$30doshttps://windhand.bandcamp.com/https://exulansisoregon.bandcamp.com/Exulansis forms a nuanced variation of antifascist black metal, anarcho doom, post crust, folk and chamber music by presenting acoustic elements with rapid blast beats, soaring melodies and dark harmonies.https://darkmeditation.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-darkness-bleeds