It's Heavy Week. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, a black-metal trio from Olympia, Wash., arrive in Manhattan bringing palpitating blast beats and a lush, cavernous guitar sound; the band creates its art out of a radical-ecology consciousness that's new in a metal subgenre best known for antireligious venom. Two excellent New York bands open: Krallice, featuring the obsessive metal-minimalist guitarist Mick Barr, and the dramatically swirly, doomy A Storm of Light. Tuesday at 7 p.m., the Studio at Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 353-1600; $12.

And on Tuesday SUNN 0))) releases its new album, Monoliths & Dimensions. Where Wolves operate more or less along the extended grid of metal and punk, Sunn O))) goes for distilled moments of long static drones, incantation and overall ear-stun; it has dirty-classical tendencies. At heart it's an electric bass-and-guitar duo, but its guests here include the violist Eyvind Kang, a couple of choirs and, on one track, three acoustic bassists.