Chicago-based instrumental post-metal trio Russian Circles perform live at The Showbox in Seattle, with support from Primitive Man.
Russian Circles play The Showbox on Sunday, November 15, with Primitive Man opening. The Chicago-based instrumental trio consists of guitarist Mike Sullivan, drummer Dave Turncrantz, and bassist/keyboardist Brian Cook. They formed in 2004 and now live split between Chicago, Los Angeles, and a rural island off the coast of Seattle.
They've built a reputation as one of the heaviest instrumental rock bands in the world, and they've done it on consistency rather than hit singles. Their records usually feel like well-curated playlists, folding drone-heavy meditations, dazzling prog exercises, knuckle-dragging riff-fests, haunting folk ballads, and tension-baiting noise rock into a single album. It's a wide spread for a band without a singer, and the set usually pulls from across that range.
Their eighth record, Gnosis (2022), followed Blood Year (2019) and Nine (2024). Both Blood Year and Nine were tracked with engineer Kurt Ballou at Electrical Audio in Chicago and finished at his GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. The artwork for Nine draws on Snowpile for Chicago, a Tony Tasset sculpture that has stood in the windows of the Chicago Public Library's West Town Branch since 2004—the same year the band formed.
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Primitive Man opens the night. The show starts at 8 PM at The Showbox, 1426 1st Ave, Seattle, WA.
