Duma (Kenya)

Dryad

Tuesday March 22nd 9pm doors 

Trumpet Blossom Cafe $15 / $10 students

Limited capacity of 65 attendees

Vaxx & mask mandatory 

Advance tix at feedmeweird.com

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DUMA

Martin Khanja (aka Lord Spike Heart) and Sam Karugu emerge from Nairobi’s flourishing underground metal scene as former members of the bands Lust of a Dying Breed and Seeds of Datura. Together in 2019 they formed Duma (Darkness in kikuyu) with Sam abandoning bass for production and guitars and Lord Spike Heart providing extreme vocals to the project.

Their unique sound fuses the frenetic euphoria, unrelenting physicality and rebellious attitude of hardcore punk and trash metal with bone-crunching breakcore and raw, nihilist industrial noise through a claustrophobic vortex of visceral screams.

Duma are a sinister force facing pain and difficult emotions head on is the place from which Khanja writes. A sonic aggression of feral intensity with disregard for styles, the duo promises to impact the hungry East African metal scene moving it into totally new, boundary-challenging experimental territories. Their self-titled debut album was released August 7th 2020 on Nyege Nyege Tapes and has received the best accolades from the press, including best album in several end-of-the-year lists (Metal Hammer, Pitchfork, The Wire, The Quietus…)

 

Dryad

Featuring crusty dual vocals and relentless buzzsaw riffs, DRYAD is an anomalous combination that eludes easy classification, using elements of d-beat punk, old school death and atmospheric black metal, along with their own touch of bizarre, blackened forest filth.

Since the debut of The Black Pullet EP in early 2017, DRYAD has emerged from the basements of Iowa’s DIY scene to perform across the country with a wide variety of acts like Dawn Ray’d , Immortal Bird, HIDE, and Redbait. Their second offering, The Silurian Age, was released to cassette in June of 2018, and continues to gain momentum in the underground metal scene across the globe. Inspired by the earth’s ancient glacial lakes and the fossil-covered cliffs that now remain, the album deals mostly with themes of ecological and political disaster and is a timely reminder of the earth’s inevitable revolt against its most destructive creatures.

After being named one of Astral Noize Magazine’s Artists To Watch, DRYAD released a crushing split with Acid Leather in 2019 as well as a comprehensive Anthology cassette in 2020. They are currently working on their first full-length album, The Abyssal Plain, out soon on Prosthetic Records.