Vancouver, BC

Ancients claim to have smoked the hashes of the pharaohs and there's no reason not to believe them. Frontman Kenny Cook howls like he's been cursed to a life of epic shredding, but the joke is on the ancients themselves who did not foresee him taking their lament and only getting stronger because of it. There's an anguished urgency in their mid-tempo stoner thrash that can never be quelled, to fans' benefit everywhere.