KYLESA, PINKISH BLACK
8 p.m. Downtown Music Hall. $12 adv., $15 day of.

Kylesa has deep roots in the fertile musical ground of Savannah, Ga. The band has been around for more than a decade, and formed out of the ashes of ’90s crust/hardcore greats Damad (whose “Rise and Fall” is a touchstone of sludgy Southern hardcore). As with many of the group’s peers, Kylesa has taken sounds from outlying genres (psychedelia, shoegaze) and worked them into its overall downtuned, heavy sound.

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The band is on tour with Fort Worth duo Pinkish Black, whose recent sophomore album “Razed to the Ground” is a further refinement of their foreboding sound. The new album is a bit more on the death-rock side of things, though with moments of unnerving synth drone that churns like Tangerine Dream’s psychotic cousin.

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