Pontiak is a tricky band to categorize; they've put out 9 records in that many years, and when the three musician brothers from some weird, sketchy farm in Virginia plopped on the national music-scape around 2009, they were putting out some mostly straight-forward doom metal. Mostly. It was some tummy-rumbling doom/grunge metal for sure, but the trio seem to have a solid command over overt, genre-defying textures. Maker, for instance, was a seminal record, and showed a stoner group that wasn't afraid to be super-stoner-ey, and still pop back into strange Americana territory for an occasional delta blues riff-out before some distorted, grumbly bass and a droney voice would viscerally remind the listener that "oh, yeah, you are definitely having a ghastly weed nightmare, you smoked too much weed, but oh yeah guess what, Freddy Krueger is here."
Since, the band has expanded on it's folkier influences, but hasn't abandoned its propensity for loudness - like if Will Oldham had Kyuss backing him on some Sleep covers. And they are playing the Ninth Ward in Buffalo tonight (341 Delaware Ave., 8PM, $8), with Buffalo's own Maitre D's of doom, Malarchuk. Be sure to check it out, especially if you regularly have to search for your Sabbath LPs in your Neil Young record sleeves.
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