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Lightning Bolt performs "Dead Cowboy"

For over a decade, bombastic noise-core duo Lightning Bolt has epitomized the ranks of underground bands making hyper-aggressive sounds with a ridiculously rockist intent. Consisting of drums, bass guitar and processed vocals, the group’s primal, super energetic blasts of tightly articulated sound devastate the listener, filling every available sonic space with frantic drumming, speed-metal riffs and sputtering distorted vocals. Beginning in 1995 as part of the simmering stew of artists associated with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the infamous Fort Thunder, a warehouse art space that produced a breakthrough multi-media scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Lightning Bolt gained a reputation for choosing unconventional spaces and art galleries to play and eschewing the stage for the floor. Bringing touchstones like the Japanese noise of Ruins or Boredoms to warehouses, alleys and empty drive-in theater parking lots, the approach reinvigorated the underground, and appearances by the group became celebrated events. Lightning Bolt play the floor at Soundlab next Wednesday in what is sure to be a killer experience not to be missed.

Wednesday, March 28 at 9pm. Soundlab, 110 Pearl St (440-5907). www.bigorbitgallery.org/soundlab. $10