Oh my God, Doomriders are rad. Really rad. Take some ingenious stoner metal, speed it up a bit, add some '70s-metal guitar flash and a whole lot of Southern swagger (which is weird, because they're from Massachusetts, and feature among their ranks a familiar face or two from Converge), and you're starting to get the slightest inkling of how cool this band is. Go get the album Black Thunder immediately, if not sooner. Saviours are also strong like iron and sharp like steel, but with a more cutting post-New Wave of British Heavy Metal, pre-thrash sort of sound — a little doomy, but still quite jagged. Highly recommended.
Doomriders/Saviours/I Love You/Orchestra of Munitions, 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 11, Transitions Art Gallery @ Skatepark of Tampa, Tampa; $8, all ages.
This article appears in Aug 9-15, 2006.