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Metalheads! Get thee to the Third Street Pub on — you guessed it! — Third Street in Bend tonight for some of the most inventive heavy stuff to come through town in a while.

The headliner needs no introduction, quite honestly: Ceremonial Castings is a stalwart of the Northwest metal scene, with nearly two decades of brewing up “bewitching black metal” on its resume. Two brothers started the band in 1996, and 18 years later they’re preparing to release a new album called “Cthulhu” in July.

The first song to be revealed from the new album is “The Great Old Ones,” and if it’s any indication, the band is bringing to “Cthulhu” more of what it does well: the blast beats and strangled screams of black metal, blended with ambient and symphonic sounds and dark, occultish imagery. This is metal for all you folks out there who like your Northwest landscapes gray, misty and terrifying.

“Cthulhu” comes out July 8 (same day as the new Wolves in the Throne Room, regional metal nerds). You can hear “The Great Old Ones” on the band’s Facebook or YouTube channel.

Ceremonial Castings, with Existential Depression and Death Agenda; 9 tonight; free; Third Street Pub, 314 S.E. Third St., Bend; 541-306-3017.