Longevity in art can't be gamed. If it could, there wouldn't be any such thing as a major label-backed one-hit wonder…or long-running bands such as Eyehategod or Crowbar who showed up Saturday night at Respectable Street with more than seventy years of history between them and laid waste to a sold-out crowd with their respective signature strains of New Orleans sludge metal. And because the night was on some level a not-so-subtle celebration of the triumph of an underground sub-subgenre no careerist or studio executive would ever seek to manufacture in pursuit of whatever constitutes music business success, it was also a joyful and inspirational atmosphere despite the grim tones, dark lyrics, and howled, tortured vocals.

Before the behemoths, however, Miami's Bleeth hit the stage with a p

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