The Sturgeons

The Sturgeons Surf Punk Thrash Metal
Humboldt County, CA Guaranteeing a crowd-surfing, beer-tossing good time, these bottomfeeders are a pit shark’s wet dream.

Disrupting the peace of California’s Redwood Coast since 2015, The Sturgeons have forged their own psychotic brand of surf thrash that hooks new fans at every show. They’ve left a mythic trail of noise complaints, evictions, and ambulance lights in their wake, and show no signs of slowing. If, somehow, you’re unsatisfied, treat yourself to a custom butt plug at the merch table. Stoking the searing heat of this steamy engine is drummer Seth Mattingly, Humboldt County’s most subversive substitute teacher. With a blend of brutality and sophistication, Seth’s polyrhythmic proclivities will take you to a school where everyone’s in detention and homework is done with a brick. Nurse by night and guitarist by rite, Matt Schweickert-Stary knows well how to prepare his audience for death by leaving them no choice but to live out loud. Demented melodies, crushing riffs, and face-melting solos keep the people screaming for more, and he’s got plenty to give. As mad a frontman there ever was, Red Reaper abandoned a lucrative career as a Funeral Director and answered the call to provide a soundtrack befitting end-stage capitalism. His chainsaw tone and machine-like fingerwork dish up a trance-inducing elixir, while his incendiary vocals roil the crowd into a lawless froth.

10/31/2025

Haunt Away

"Closed rehearsal" only applies to the living

See you at Savage Henry 10.31

10/28/2025

Death of a Journalist
Our choices have consequences.

Chapter Eight - Interview With A Du***ss: Presented by the delightfully deranged escapees of the Alfred Hitchcock Memorial Sanitarium for the Criminally Defiant; a plea to remember to bring your notes to the meeting.

10/20/2025

Friday, Oct. 31, 2025

Savage Henry
415 5th St., Eureka, CA

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