Super-colliding black metal’s low distortion threshold with the mondo gallop of Monster Magnet and High on Fire, this Portland, Ore., quartet’s full-length debut reanimates the classic Relapse Records thunder of ancient Mastodon and Baroness (“Descend into External”). Channeling Matt Pike’s fuel huffing (“Dreams of Mercy”) and Dave Wyndorf (“Water Under a Burning Bridge”), Summon the Faithless fires massive astral riffs over the top of a rhythmic, underworld sludge. Compositionally primitive but preternaturally confident, the rise of Lord Dying begins. (Thu., 12mid, Dirty Dog Bar)

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This article appears in October 25 • 2013.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.