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THE BODY
9 p.m., Juanita’s. $5.

When the opening track of The Body’s new album, “All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood,” changes from a delicate, seven-minute choral piece to a brain-rattling shock of cymbals and coyote shrieking, it’s a jarring announcement that you’re in for a proper, auditory brain liquefier. And does it ever deliver. The album is 50 minutes of huge noise. Expansive noise. Painful noise, rounded out with sawing feedback, looping gibberish and vocals that I can’t fathom ever coming from a human. It sounds closer to a sustained dog-whistle or a GTO peeling out down the highway to hell than any other shriek around. The music itself is a beat-heavy, psychotic experiment in sonic intensity more in vein with scary Scott Walker or Sunn O)))) than, say, Dio or Iron Maiden.

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Now based in Providence, R.I., drummer Lee Buford and guitarist Chip King are bringing their assault to Little Rock for what should be a strange homecoming show; the two callused their hands in town, playing in vaulted local acts like Hundred Years War, Class of 84, Generation of Vipers and other Towncraft-era thrashers. And these hometown boys? They’ve done well. “All the Waters” has been met with near-universal praise everywhere from dorm room blogs to Stereogum and Pitchfork. I’ll join the choir, too: three days into the album and it’s already a cinch for my own “best of 2010” list. The Body is set to be joined by Conway downtempo metal trio Crankbait and the relentlessly loud, heavier-than-heavy Times favorites, Iron Tongue, .

“All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood” is streaming in its entirety here.

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