From the anthemic rage of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible to John Lennon's weary look into the unknown on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, musicians confronting their feelings on religion can often be a harrowing experience. Italian duo Father Murphy take this spiritual struggle to its next logical, roaring step. The band describes its music as being the aural embodiment of Catholic guilt. Powered by industrial drum machines and searing guitars, the stark sound of Father Murphy most closely resembles the similarly disturbing work of Suicide. There's rarely a moment to pull you out of the doom-ridden landscape as painted by Father Murphy - no light at the end of the tunnel. This is music made by two people deeply shaped by the psychotic world of religion, doing their best to pierce through the howling void of existential terror.

FATHER MURPHY, w/ Jen Grady, Angelo Spencer, 8 p.m., Deadbeat Olympia, 226 N. Division St, Olympia, $5, 360.943.0662