Artist to Watch: Coming

Coming are a trio that bulldoze ear-splitting shards of noise with militant force, faithfully drawn from the more abrasive influences of seventies post-punk. And though there’s been a revival of sorts in the past few years, we’ve yet to see an LA band that’s fully committed to channel their nihilistic sense of despair with utter abjection. Every scene needs its modern-day, disenchanted voice, and Coming may be it – they’re also fully committed to the task, promoting themselves as a branded commodity with their peculiar band symbol, which they sell in the form of patches along with their debut cassette tape on bandcamp. But it’s the songs themselves in their debut EP, Lonely, that are coupled with a visceral conviction; fast, atonal guitar assaults delivered with that of a fiendish smirk, yet melodically driven behind all the blaring noise. If you want to catch them in all their primal fury, they’ll be playing a set at the Smell on May 30th.