Kylesa

Spiral Shadow (Season of Mist)

Crackling with jam band elasticity, Kylesa’s 2009 Prosthetic disc Static Tensions broke from these Savannah, Ga., marauders’ more staid metal past. Spiral Shadow assimilates both paradigms as if Jane’s Addiction and Kyuss shared leathers. Poster Children’s indie chants underlie “Cheating Synergy,” but the snake-charming slide guitar a minute and a half into “Crowded Road” plants a flag here raised again in the canyon cry of “Distance Closing In.” The title track’s siren riff loosens seismic depth charges. (Sunday, 2:50pm, Black stage)

***.5

This article appears in November 5 • 2010.

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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.