UK doom trio Conan grapple with a world of violence on their seventh album

If I didn’t already know Chicago was a metal town, its response to Ozzy Osbourne’s death would’ve convinced me. In the days after July 22, I heard Black Sabbath and Ozzy blasting from storefronts and car stereos across the city—and it wasn’t just the usual suspects in black band shirts cranking up the tunes. I hope some of the folks who’ve seized on the passing of the Prince of Darkness as a way to remind themselves that they love metal will hold fast to the feeling and bring it into Chicago’s live music scene. One great place to do that is this show by UK trio Conan. Formed in Liverpool in 2006, the band called their slow-moving, sludgy style “caveman battle doom,” and its colossal down-tuned guitars hit with the subtlety of the Chicxulub impactor. Conan’s seventh full-length, April’s Vi