With Pantera on extended hiatus, Phil Anselmo has fired up his thrash/doom metal supergroup Superjoint Ritual — including country scion Hank Williams III on bass — for a tour behind their new A Lethal Dose of American Hatred (Sanctuary). On Friday, they’re at the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester with death-metal luminaries Morbid Angel, Coal Chamber singer Dez Fafara’s new outfit DevilDriver, and reunited scum/grindcore legends Anal Cunt. Superjoint and Morbid Angel are also at the Webster Theatre (860-525-5553) in Hartford on Saturday; AC headline Bill’s Bar (617-421-9678) in Boston on Monday.

Indie faves the Be Good Tanyas aren’t an Americana supergroup — at least, not yet — but one-third of their membership, Trish Klein, shows up in a folksier, jazzier setting with Po Girl, a duo who hit the Narrows Center for the Arts (508-324-1926) in Fall River on Friday, Space Gallery (207-828-5600) in Portland on Wednesday, and Club Passim (617-492-7679) in Cambridge next Thursday, November 13. Meanwhile, Gillian Welch hits the road behind her new Soul Journey (Acony) with shows Saturday at Avalon (617-423-NEXT) in Boston and Monday at Pearl Street (413-584-7810) in Northampton. Ani DiFranco plays Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence on Wednesday and the Orpheum (617-931-2000) in Boston on November 16. And the gender-warping avant-folk oddities Xiu Xiu — who’ve recorded the creepiest cover of Tracy Chapman’s "Fast Car" we’ve ever heard — play Zeitgeist Gallery (617-876-6060) in Cambridge on Sunday and the Met Café (401-861-2142) in Providence on Monday.

New Orleans’s Supagroup aren’t a supergroup either, but they’re big AC/DC fans, and that’s enough to have landed them dates with the two premier AC/DC tribute acts in rock and roll: tonight (November 6) with Seattle’s sacrilicious Supersuckers at the Met Café, and on Friday at the Linwood Grille (617-267-8644) in Boston with the noblesse-oblige hard rock of the Upper Crust.

Two notable punk tours hit the area this week. The Vans "Off the Wall Tour" brings Warped indoors, with Detroit pop-punkers the Suicide Machines, infernal thrash/power-metal specialists Avenged Sevenfold, and Boston streetpunk bruisers the Unseen hitting the Webster on Tuesday and Axis (617-262-2437) in Boston next Thursday, November 13. And Vagrant Records sends forth its best and brightest, including Chicago punks the Alkaline Trio, Get Up Kids’ keyboardist James DeWees’s comic-book pop-metal outfit Reggie and the Full Effect, and emo-metal stars From Autumn to Ashes, to the Palladium on Saturday.

Elsewhere, old-school Boston hardcore legends Gang Green get reloaded for a couple of reunion gigs at the Met Café on Friday and the Linwood on Saturday. Dancehall star Wayne Wonder is at Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont, on Wednesday. And Glasgow indie-pop darlings Belle & Sebastian play the Calvin Theatre (413-584-1444) in Northampton on Wednesday and the Orpheum next Thursday.