Show Me the Body, Jesus Piece, Scowl, Zulu, TrippJones [outside]

NYC industrial trio Show Me The Body are as much spiraling underground collective as snarling gutterpunk band. While past tours have been scene-straddling, genre-agnostic affairs, the group heads straight for the pit with their 2023 leg. Opening for SMTB are three heavily buzzed hardcore groups, all set to drop new music in the spring. Philadelphia sludge-metal brutalists Jesus Piece make a fine dark/light contrast with Scowl – who leaven their snarling D-beat with the occasional hit of Santa Cruz sunshine pop – but fiercest of all is the righteous, anti-racist powerviolence of Zulu. —2859246