Slick Idiot Featuring En Esch and Guenter Schulz from KMFDM, Slick Idiot spews, well, goth-laden, industrial dance mayhem. There are more hard rock-blasted guitars in this outfit, a slight detour from En Esch's past, more electro industrial, dance noise-oriented work with KMFDM. He's also put in stints with numerous like-minded outfits and bands over the past couple of decades. Also on the bill: Mona Mur, Angels on Acid. $8-$11, Tremont Music Hall, www.tremontmusichall.com. (Samir Shukla)
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Black Ritual The ritual in the name here is certainly black enough a mostly deathcore-centric blend of thrash and hardcore with the requisite ripped vocal cord emoto-throating vox. Their 2008 debut, 1000 Yard Stare, was one of the better local releases of the year, at least worthy of a check plus in the heavy ledger: plenty of that galloping, four-horsemen-of-the-metalocalypse riffage paired with a punishing-yet-nimble bottom end that suggested plenty of good things to come. With Pain After Death, Permanent Midknight, Falling I Wake. $8-$10, Amos' Southnd, www.amossouthend.com. (Timothy C. Davis)