The Organizing Principles of Northwest Terror Fest

by Sean NelsonWolves in the Throne Room bring black metal to Neumos tonight.
When the founders of Southwest Terror Fest set their sights on Seattle as the location of a Northwest edition, Joseph Schafer, a frequent contributor to The Stranger's music section, was one of the local metal brain-trustees they assembled to help him pull it off. (He’s also an editor at the Brooklyn Vegan-affiliated metal blog Invisible Oranges.)
Because I am the least metal person in North America, it fell to me