Bloody Panda w/ Floriculture at Tonic in NYC

Brooklyn-based doom quintet Bloody Panda are a strange

animal. A hybrid of experimental atmospherics and cold, evil metal,

they're equally at home opening for Soilent Green and playing with

local avant-folk acts. These sinister pallbearers traverse vast, black

landscapes, their slow procession ballasted by Blake McDowell's

mournful keyboards and the complex rhythms of newly recruited drummer

Dan Weiss. However, the nucleus of this dirge is vocalist Yoshiko

Ohara, whose deep and sorrowful chants — occasionally augmented by

monstrous howls from the band — belie her diminutive stature.

Floriculture, Weiss' jazz ensemble with Fantômas and Mr. Bungle bassist

Trevor Dunn, open. (GM)

Bloody Panda s/ Floriculture

Wednesday 2.22 (8pm)

Tonic (107 Norfolk St, NYC)