Ithaca "On the cover of Ithaca’s 2019 debut, The Language of Injury, a bright pink chef’s knife carved up a grayscale image of your standard raucous hardcore show. So too did the London five-piece make mincemeat of monotonous metalcore, skewering its exclusionary history while folding in adventurous tastes of other genres. The shirts emblazoned with “Stop supporting racist bands” and the press releases decrying metallic hardcore’s “lack of ambition” weren’t just a public-facing persona—the music went there, too. Language managed to incorporate doom, crust, black metal, and screamo, while vocalist Djamila Boden Azzouz threw down the gauntlet to contemporaries with lyrics like, “Nothing you say moves me/You’re not what you said you’d be.” Ithaca were a band on a mission, bursting into the genre and fighting their way out for 31 relentless minutes. Now they’ve reached the throne room." - Pitchfork

support from:
Lucrecia
&
State Faults

Friday October 6th 2023
@ Neck of the Woods 406 Clement St San Francisco, CA 94118
Doors @ 8pm
$12 in advance $15 at the door
ALL AGES