Austin Sound

We’re not accustomed to featuring bands outside of Austin for the weekly Sound Off profile, but this Friday’s return of The Black Math Experiment promises to be an event worth highlighting. The Houston rockers are indescribable in sound, unless one simply reverts to “insane.” Dorky and loud and uncontrollable, the group is a raucous ecstasy of rock n roll ridiculousness, and the live shows are such spectacles of such bombast that they’ve become legendary in their hometown. Recently, BME hosted a bonanza celebrating David Arquette with the actor joining them on stage for their anthem “You Cannot Kill David Arquette,” which is chronicled below. You can also check out our review of last year’s album Last Transmission from the Blue Room, which might do better justice to the group’s glory. But we recommend you catch them live for the full effect, and you can do so this Friday, May 25 at Redrum.

The Black Math Experiment is not a normal band. Sure, they make music, in a loose sense of the word. More than anything, they’re just evidence that all the members of those unpopular cliques from high school never really went away — they just started a band. The Houston group’s latest release, Last Transmission from the Blue Room, is at times gothic, often theatrical, and simply bleeding with nerdy pop-culture references. There’s a good dose of ecstasy-induced raving and mindless headbanging, and it’s conceited, as much as music can be. One time through the CD and the listener will know that these guys believe, to the deepest core of their being, that they rock.