Music options in New Orleans for the week of Nov. 13-19 , 2025 , include a revived Louisiana sludge rock band, a celebration of a late local drummer’s last album and half of a hitmaking British synth-pop duo.

ACID BATH

SATURDAY, UNO LAKEFRONT ARENA

South Louisiana’s Acid Bath pioneered sludge rock, a metal subgenre heavy on grim subject matter and doomsday riffs. The band released two studio albums, 1994’s “When the Kite Strings Pop” and 1996’s “Paegan Terrorism Tactics,” before a drunk driver killed bassist Audie Pitre in a 1997 crash. His bandmates subsequently disbanded.

After a 28-year hiatus, original vocalist Dax Riggs and original guitarists Sammy Duet and Mike Sanchez revived Acid Bath. They quickly discovered that their band was more popular now than in the 1990s. Acid Bath

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