Fort Worth Weekly
Mourning Dawns
This resurrected sludge-metal trio is trying to find its place within Fort Worthâs scattered metal scene.
By PATRICK HIGGINS
(From left to right) Willis Brown, Mike MacWhirtier, and Dave Cooke think now is the perfect time for Lotus Sutra.
Photo by Willis Brown.
Often hidden in the shadows of every music scene, clandestine among fawned-over stylish and attractive indie rockers, concealed behind the glitzy flex of the hip-hop set, obscured by the wholesome, heartland marketability of singer-songwriters, is invariably a surreptitious underground metal scene. Dirty, loud, unforgiving metal.
Fort Worth is certainly no different. The genre reached its apotheosis nearly three decades ago. In the mid â90s, thrash and grind bands somehow found their way onto MTV. The sudden spotlight accorded local metal hotspots like Joeâs Garage full to bursting with distorted and detuned guitar-ravenous heshers on any given night, but, di