DOCTOR NERVE has been annihilating the boundaries between heavy metal, contemporary music, and improvisation since 1984. The band’s repertoire includes tightly composed, complex, fast-changing music, and is executed by a white-hot team of musicians, each of whom have carved out their own niches in New York City’s new music scene.

Nick Didkovsky, the band's founder and composer, draws on resources as diverse as his own composition software and conducted improvisation to create music descr...