Deep Cross is Austin’s gale-force entry into the increasingly crowded contemporary industrial conversation. The fact that there even is a contemporary industrial conversation in 2025 is a welcome development and cause for black celebrations all over. Supporting September single “Strangler Fig” – a last-gasp dirge of woodpecker percussion mirrored by its ominously minimalist B-side “Mareld” – Mike Cockrell and Jason Joachim headline this heavy, screaming evening following sets by locals Recurser, New Yorkers Nerve, and Atlanta blackened death-grinders Malevich. – Joe Gross