Photos: The Black Angels and Ron Gallo at the Mayan

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The Black Angels at the Mayan Tehater (Photo by Samuel C. Ware0
The Black Angels at the Mayan Tehater (Photo by Samuel C. Ware0

Austin psych-rockers the Black Angels drenched the crowd at the Mayan Theater on Wednesday in big, beautiful drone. And the band — touring in support of their new album “Death Song,” released this spring — themselves were drenched in fog and multi-hued lights. The show, advertised as an “Exhibition of Sight and Sound,” featured ever-changing projections, the work of the Mustachio Light Show. Each song was accompanied by a completely different mix of shapes, colors and effects, with the occasional blast of strobe lights interrupting and revealing the band behind the dark colors of the projections for just a brief moment.

Ron Gallo preceded the headliners, opening as if he was reading from a script to introduce the band, thanking The Black Angels and backgrounding the crowd on their music before engaging in some happy, heavy thrashing.

Photos by Samuel C. Ware