Like a crow that is dark, intelligent and resourceful - schooling its children in the ways of life, so do Wolves in the Throne Room school their listeners in the ways of earthy black metal. Sometimes ambient, sometimes thunderous, always with radical environmentalism in mind, Wolves will remind you of the very roots and rock and flesh to which we all belong. An alpha and omega, if you will, of everything black metal, Scandinavian, doom and crust. They throw an amazing, angry and skilled respect to all things elemental through their use of voice, thrash and drums. This is the band's last stop in a mini-tour that took them to Canada and as they settle home, like a murder of crows settling upon a tree, let the Wolves settle into your being. 

[The Loft on Cherry, with Alda, Druden, RVIVR, 8 p.m., $10-$20 sliding scale, benefit for Wolftown Wildlife Rehabilitation Project and for victims of Green Scare, 508 Legion Way, Olympia, theloftoncherry.com]