MATT DRISCOLL: THE COH, THAT IS >>>

The Church of Hate is a Tacoma staple â€" like Frisco Freeze or Chihuly or bums pulling crack out of their asses. For more than 10 years now the boys in the Church of Hate have been bludgeoning eardrums all over our fair city with Slayer-like riffs, breakneck beats and disparaging and vile lyrical content â€" to the delight of the metal masses who know better than to take the band too seriously. That’s the beauty of the Church of Hate. They’re louder, meaner, scarier and â€" to top it all off â€" more ironic than your hipster mullet and mustache will ever be. A search of my computer database reveals I first wrote about the Church of Hate in 2001 â€" and I was late to the game. Something tells me the COH will be around with the cockroaches.

Today the band will brutalize Hell's Kitchen in Tacoma.

[Hell’s Kitchen, Church of Hate with Eterna Nocturna, Utterance, Falling of Ages, Darkness Stole the Sky, Popula, 5 p.m., $7, 3829 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003]