Abandos are celebrating their first release since reshaping their sound, adding electronic drums and bass instead of live musicians. However drastic this renovation may sound, the dark, noisy deathrock element that the previous incarnation was built on has carried through and combined with with these new electronic influences to create a strange hybrid that sounds as much like Nine Inch Nails as it does Bauhaus. Vocalist Kyle Marchiafava’s delivery emphasizes vocal inflection rather than melody as he rhythmically sneers over glowering and dissonant guitar noise while the robotic drums create an industrial background effect, fit for strobe lights and gas masks. Abandos are having their release show at PhilaMOCA tonight with Vivatape, an offshoot of The Bad Doctors that play a danceable cyberspace noir with a techno backbeat, Cienfuegos, who specialize in hypnotic industrial noise, and SCC with pulsing, sliding and modulating noise designed to make you trip the fuck out. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $10, All Ages – Bryce Woodcock
