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You know what’s totally fucking awesome? The answer would be shooting guns, whether you’re playing Dirty Harry with a .44 Magnum, channelling your inner Wyatt Earp with a Colt Frontier revolver, or reciting your favourite Pulp Fiction lines with Vincent Vega’s .45 Auto-Ordnance M1911A1. Saskatoon’s Shooting Guns­—at the Cobalt on Sunday (June 23)—is also pretty damn cool. The five-piece’s sludge-soaked, psychedelic-strafed, heavier-than-heaven instrumentals give you a pretty good idea what Black Sabbath might sound like if crossed with Death in Vegas. Proving that those from godforsaken hellholes—namely, Saskatoon—sometimes get their due, Shooting Guns’ latest, Born to Deal in Magic: 1952-1976, has made the Polaris long list this year. And if all this isn’t cool enough, consider that the group’s current Canadian swing is being billed as the Fuckin Rites tour, and that the openers on this night include Minneapolis’s fuzzed-out Fury Things and Vancouver surf-noir specialists the Silver Skeleton Band. Please leave your guns at home, no matter how much you might enjoy shooting them.