Loss Leader

The Stranger, May 15, 2003

THE STRANGER SUGGESTS
By Jennifer Maerz

SUNDAY MAY 18
Theory of Ruin

(MUSIC) San Francisco-based Theory of Ruin is the latest noisy project from Fudge Tunnel's Alex Newport, who works his newest act into a massive junction of steely post-hardcore and feedback-heavy, riff-repetitive metal. The band's 2002 release, Counter-Culture Nosebleed, lives up to its name, smacking of aggression and jagged dissonance between Newport's dagger-sharp vocals. They blackened the ears of the Zak's crowd a couple months back, and while tonight's setting is definitely worlds away from their previous performance, the band should sound just as wonderfully destructive.