Primitive Man @ Lodge Room, Los Angeles

Highland Park’s Lodge Room served as an evocative setting for a night of experimental heaviness featuring Guiltless, Today Is the Day, otay:onii, and the ever‑crushing Primitive Man. The room’s ideal layout, intimate size, and remarkably clear sound helped make it feel less like a standard show and more like a carefully curated plunge into the outer edges of heavy music.

Guiltless opened with a slow‑burning, doom‑laden set that immediately established the roadmap for what lay ahead. The band may be relatively new, but its members bring deep experience from past projects spanning sludge, post‑metal, and noise. That depth shows in how confidently they execute their craft. Their recent album, Teeth to Sky, folds industrial textures and suffocating atmosphere into a doom framework. Live, that density translated into a bleak, deliberate crawl that felt like a mission statement for the entire evening.