Mental Musk and Moses Nose top youthful four-band lineup.

During their debut performance at the legendary Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, Monterey rockers Moses Nose were told by the venue’s sound man their show was loud as hell. The tech didn’t mean it as a compliment, but Bassist Trevor Lucier says the guys took it as one. Longtime Rainbow regular, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, was still playing video poker at the bar after their set, which means that the heavy metal demigod heard their music and stuck around. That’s a bigger compliment.

But Moses Nose isn’t the loudest game on the Peninsula anymore. Over the past several months, P.G. High’s Mental Musk have erupted onto the local scened. Last May, the teenaged headbangers won the Band-Aid Music Battle benefit at Planet Gemini. In between covers of Guns N’ Roses’ “Night Train” and Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” the outfit delivered a well-placed original, “Fogged In,” an angsty middle finger to Mental Musk’s butterfly-happy hometown. Lead singer Noah Cryns slinked around the stage like a self-aware Axl Rose who doesn’t need to shave. And guitarist Yvan Vucina’s obvious affinity for Slash goes beyond fretboard exploration – though the kid rocks some pretty fluid solos. In the vein of Slash’s hair/hat combo that famously hides his eyes from the world while he shreds, Vucina sports an untamable mane that he whips around at high velocities.

On Friday at Wave Street Studios, Mental Musk and Moses Nose are on the same bill for the first time. It gets better – and more versatile – from there. Folsom Youth will also be on hand. The lovable P.G. youngsters – Kristin Sollecito (vocals), Rachel Spung (guitar), Emily Muller-Foster (bass), Kim Sollecito (drums) – seem like they’re on the roster of every quality local gig that goes down.

“It’s more about having something to prove to ourselves than anyone else,” Spung says. “We try to get better for ourselves and hope everyone listening has a good time.” After a year of fine-tuning their set, which bounces with surfy ’60s garage rock originals and tasty covers, including the Bo Diddley classic “Not Fade Away,” Spung finds satisfaction in the fact she rarely hears comments afters shows anymore like, “They’re pretty good for girls.” Instead it’s just, “They’re a damn good band.”

Energetic trio the Bloody Kerouacs – drummer Rutger Sperry, guitarist/vocalist Dashiell Stokes and bassist Quinn Murphy – round out the four-band lineup with an infectious brand of pop-punk.

MENTAL MUSK, MOSES NOSE, THE BLOODY KEROUACS and FOLSOM YOUTH 7pm Friday, Sept. 11. Wave Street Studios, 774 Wave St., Monterey. $10/advance; $12/door. 521-8390.