The 29th Roosevelt Hotel metal night has been announced for this Thursday (luckily a bit earlier than the past few), and for a second straight week, an out of town band is headlining! Vancouver progressive death metal quartet Abriosis will headline on Thursday with an assaulting brand of technical brutality in store for local fans! You guys should really get a kick out of Abriosis, who are unrelentingly heavy, so check them out at their official MySpace page! Two local openers are scheduled, with local hardcore quartet Changing Waves confirmed as one of them, fresh off a successful set on Saturday at The Oddfellows Hall! Hopefully their momentum carries into Thursday, where they'll unleash a high energy set of original hardcore for you guys! A third opening band is still to be announced. The show was officially announced on Dismembertainment's Facebook page last night. A 19+ age limit should be expected, along with a 9:30 PM-ish start time, but expect a cover charge, given that the headliners are an out of town band. Check the above links for more! This should be a great night of metal, so mark it on your calendars! Abriosis won't be a band you'll wanna miss! Stay tuned for the SMS for more updates on this concert as they come in!
Next up, do you remember when I referenced a band named The Highest of Fives that opened The Sugar Island Music Festival on Friday? Well, I still don't know much about them, but I do have more details on them for you guys! Their name is a reference to a line from "How I Met Your Mother", and the band appears to have been formed through the Guitar Studio rock camp in Sault Michigan, which has produced a number of young rock bands locally. Their lineup includes Seeking Reverence/Intrepid bassist Mitch Goetz on vocals, Free Refill bandmates Devin Anderson & Mike Pascoe on guitar & drums, and Mike's old 7/47 bandmate Jack Slater on bass. All have played hard rock in past local acts (Guitar Studio or otherwise), so I assume The Highest of Fives are similar in sound, but I can't prove that definitively. They have played live before the Sugar Island Festival, including a set at the Relay For Life this year, but without online pages, I hadn't heard anything about the shows until recently. Hopefully we find out some more on The Highest of Fives soon, cause it looks like they have talent, though I should note that according to Seeking Reverence's Facebook group, Mitch is moving soon for college. What could this mean for The Highest of Fives? I don't know, but no matter what the news, if I hear anything else from them (including their genre), you'll hear it here!
Thirdly, here's some more updates concerning an upcoming concert at The Roosevelt Hotel! We've been listing next week's 30th Roosevelt Hotel metal night in our listings for a while now, which will be headlined by Winnipeg metal bands Laika and Annex Theory, but now the remainder of the lineup has been made official! The third scheduled out of town band will be North Bay extreme trio Thekillingfield, three months after last rocking The Rosie! Their brand of technical death metal will easily be welcomed back, as they have became local favourites over their frequent concerts here, so don't miss them! There will also be a local opening band, as our own grimecore/death metal trio Shit Liver will be back to lay down some crushing and brutal metal to kick off the show! Aside from news on the rest of the lineup, promoters also launched a Facebook event page for next week, which confirms that this concert will have a $6 cover. Higher than we usually see for Rosie shows with out of town bands, but think of the quality of the bands you'll get to see next week! A 9:30 PM start time and 19+ age limit like usual are also confirmed. Sounds good to me, this should be a great and brutal night of metal for all! Stay tuned for updates on this and other Dismembertainment shows as they become official!
Fourthly, we have even more new videos of Kinross hard rock trio Banned to share today! I give Ashley Traynor credit, she gets good video of Banned, and lots of it! Three new videos have been posted on her YouTube channel over the past couple of days, starting with a video of Banned covering Led Zeppelin's "Rock N' Roll" at The Sundown Lounge in Pickford last week! Well played, but Alex Traynor's singing sounds kinda off. Right tone for the vocal style, but it sounds harsher than it really should. Very dark too, but blame the setting, as her camera is really good for quality. The other two videos are from their set on Friday at The Sugar Island Music Festival, including one of Banned covering Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode"! Faithful cover of the original, and Alex Schrovenwever's singing fits well, but I'd like to see them take a stab at the Judas Priest version, which I always preferred. The other video, which I've embedded below, is of Banned covering AC/DC's "TNT", which is a good version of a classic song! Eric Cairns joined in again as a guest bassist with Alex switching to rhythm guitar, and he adds to the song well here (as does Alex Traynor vocally, his singing style fits AC/DC better!) Good stuff, so check out Banned's cover of "TNT" below, and more at the above links!
And finally for today, here's some assorted shorter stories from the last little while. As usual, these are in alphabetical order by band name:
- Sault Ontario solo artist The Shaner (real name Shane Solomon) has returned to activity with a new upload on his Reverbnation page! Entitled "Wasteland", it's a solid instrumental hard rocker with a slow groove, though it does run a little long. Shane has talent, hopefully he has some more songs in store for us! Check out this and many more solo demos at the above links!
- New local metal trio Social Suicide have announced the addition of drummer Storm Perry to the band, replacing Keeghan Rosso. No reason for the change was announced, but this shouldn't impact the band too much, seeing as we've yet to hear them. Best of luck to Storm with the band and Keeghan in his next musical ventures!
- Take this however you want, but according to former drummer Evan Madden's Twitter page on August 5th, there were apparently plans earlier this year for Woods of Ypres to do a European tour with San Francisco metal band Deafheaven before the Madden brothers left Woods of Ypres. Is this true? I'm in no position to say, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Hopefully the band does play Europe sooner or later, as there's demand over there for them!
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