Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Genre: Rock
Why We're Excited: Sometimes a rock band exudes such swirly, Goth-tinged intensity, you'd swear you can actually hear the smoke machines and foreboding lighting. Partway through "Slenderman," Russian Baths' Jess Rees and Luke Koz pivot from mysterious and ethereal scene-setting to a bit of cataclysmic shredding that must lead to no end of strobe-lit sweat-flinging onstage.
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