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"Meth metal" band Owen Hart have a talent for demanding attention, whether through the aggro assault of their music or with disarmingly twisted, comical track titles. They're as heavy as they are heavily self-aware; even their name has a morbid, winking quality, deriving from the famed WWF wrestler who plummeted 78 feet to his death at Kemper Arena in 1999. And while the quintet's songs hit with all the force of an unexpected gut-punch, silly titles like "Fuck Morrissey, Fuck The Smiths, Fuck The Cure" and "Welcome To Worthless-Piece-Of-Shit-Ville, Population: You" (from their forthcoming Earth Control, due out Jan. 18 on Vitriol Records) make their music all the more disorienting and impressive.

The band will play Northern in Olympia on Friday. For the full story, click here.

Below you'll find a video of Owen Hart performing at Rainfest at Tacoma's much-missed Viaduct.