Toward the end of the Obama era, Slow Pulse was a darkwave duo that gigged around Red River. A smoke machine was usually present, and at least one dude could be relied upon to wear sunglasses. We dig Slow Pulse up not to once again bury them, but rather to reupholster their headstone and fortify their memory. Since early 2022, there’s been a new, totally unrelated Slow Pulse in town, and they play fuckin’ metalcore. The tempos thrash. The tremolos twist and gnarl. The only thing freakier than the drop-tuned riffs are Brooke Hampton’s demon-with-acute-pharyngitis vocals (featured on the new Beyond Reach EP). They sound like your face collaborating with the concrete, so I would personally not recommend wearing sunglasses to their shows. Slow Pulse has been racking up prestigious placements (most notably at Alabama’s Furnace Fest and Houston’s Texas Hell Fest), but their EP release show is pure ATXheavy: groove metal behemoths Virtue, deathcore hellraisers Instinct, and the somewhat unclassifiable chaos of Banged Out.