[METAL ROCK] + SAT, AUG. 3

Ladies and Gents, the metal void that sometimes plagues Olympia is about to be filled. Seems the metal gods have agreed it’s time bring back Olympia’s Torture Box, in a reunion show appropriately named Torture Fest. Definitely not your cookie monster metal, these guys encompass some of the greats, evoking a little Iron Maiden and Metal Church, with their five-piece line-up that have opened for Stratovarious and 3 Inches of Blood. Combine the classic metal voice with super-tight hooks and dueling guitars, there is definitely a professional feel. Five bands are rocking Torture Fest and you’d be a fool to not take advantage and get your metal fix. Plus, after a two-year hiatus, Torture Box will be so bursting to go, you can be assured a full blown face melt. {NIKKI MCCOY}

THE FIRST ANNUAL TORTURE FEST 2013, The Return of Torture Box with A.K.A. White Devil, Angel Steel, Last Bastion, Sanction VIII, Countless Dead, Saturday, August 3, 6 p.m., $11, Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave., Olympia, 360.754.6670

[GARAGE ROCK] + SAT, AUG. 3

After a mere couple months under the Tortilla Flat moniker, the band has decided to change their name to the Pecos. And thank God, because Tortilla Flat the band — for various literary/taqueria reasons — was a bitch to Google. But never mind. What matters about the Pecos, or Tortilla Flat, is the energy that the band members bring to their garage rock duo. Guitarist Stephen Brooks may be recognized as a member of the defunct Tacoma favorites, Paris Spleen. Like that band, the Pecos are largely about bringing a swagger to their music, a kind of blustery bravado, which now finds itself removed from the context of Paris Spleen’s dance-punk. Drummer Dean Davis brings a controlled chaos to the Pecos, which helps to lend a sense of exciting precariousness to even a duo as clearly in sync as these two. {REV. ADAM MCKINNEY}

NEW FRONTIER LOUNGE, w/ the Bermudas, Fuzzy Cloaks, 9 p.m., Cover TBA, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020

[GARAGE ROCK] + THURS, AUG. 8

This Portland three-piece sure has the whole loud-quiet-loud mode nailed down. Led by Jem Marie — whose raspy yelps instantly call to mind any number of early college rock pioneers — the Ghost Ease can reductively be described dreamy garage rock. The delicate fuzz painted over the instruments drifts along lazily, lulling you into a daydream until all of a sudden, everything comes crashing down in wild slashes and plaintive wails. And then, once your heart has palpitated just a little bit, the Ghost Ease return to their dreamily floating melody. In a video taken at one of their live performances, one of the band members calls out that they “want to play with the Breeders,” a tongue-in-cheek reference to what is probably their most immediate influenc — and not en entirely implausible request, quite honestly. The Ghost Ease know what they’re doing. {REV. ADAM MCKINNEY}

NORTHERN, w/ Hot Tears, Steven Steinbrink, 8 p.m., $5, 414 1\2 Legion Way, Olympia