http://www.nuvo.net Rock your face Devil to PayDevil To Pay, Eldemur Krimm, Red Horse and Blacklight Barbarian Sunday, Nov. 12; doors open at 7 p.m. The Melody Inn $5 www.melodyindy.com If you've been there, you know the feeling: that feeling of watching the sun pop up over the eastern seaboard and cast its angry glare over the barren semi-urban landscape. The pills ain't working no more, and you've seen the sun come up like this three times since you were last asleep. A rusty ZZ Top song comes on the radio and Billy Gibbons' guitar speaks to you like the voice of God. You spontaneously combust right there in your front seat and melt that ZZ Top song, all of your Soundgarden, Black Sabbath and Fu Manchu CDs, 12 Vicodins, six Xanaxs, three gel caps, a one-third full bottle of Crown Royal, a couple of doobies and the latest copy of Juggs down into a primordial soup that condenses into a rock band. A band called Devil to Pay. For the past few weeks, our heroes in Devil To Pay, Indiana's proudest and loudest, and the only band in the world with a frontman that's got an ACE bandage holding his intestines in, is touring the West Coast with Portland, Maine, stoner rockers Eldemur Krimm. No doubt they've seen the sun come up a few times, and probably heard a few ZZ Top songs along the way. When I caught up with them somewhere in the great Northwest they were cold. Really cold. "Getting the fuck out of this cold weather in the Northwest will be like winning on Deal or No Deal," DTP front guy Steve Janiak tells me, speaking from some guy's apartment in Portland, Ore. "We can't wait to get to San Francisco and Palm Desert. Shit, anything desert. It's cold here, dude. Why didn't we tour during the summer? "We did have a killer show in Seattle, though." Janiak continues. "We played this club with lots of history called El Corazon [formerly Graceland], but from what we heard, the scene has changed so much since the glory days. We talked to a bar owner who said he threw out Courtney Love for always being so trashed and once broke the bass player from Alice in Chains nose." When Devil To Pay comes home to roost at the Melody Inn this Sunday, expect an incendiary performance that can only come from weeks of living in close quarters with little or no showers and, of course, watching the sun come up on a few too many bleary-eyed mornings. Look for a set split evenly between older songs like "Tractor F'in Trailor," "Dinosaur Steps" and "Mouthful of Spite" and songs from their latest CD, Cash Is King, like "The Mountain Comes to Me," "Little Horns" and "Belial." Also be sure and catch Eldemur Krimm, which Janiak describes as "The baddest potty-mouthed space rock you ever heard in your rock and roll life. They're from Portland, Maine, they carry weapons, they own a tractor. They will rock your face like Noxzema." Meanwhile, Janiak is thinking ahead to San Francisco. "We're going to give them all Grateful Dead covers, and really jam them out, to give the tapers something for their money." He waits a couple beats. "Just kidding Brah. We're gonna go in and rock ass like we do anytime we play." - Jeff Napier