Local Metal Video Showcase!!

Hey guys, let's end those Monday blahs with a new local metal video showcase! Whenever I get a surplus of local metal-relevant videos, I like to group them together like this, and we've got some good ones today, including a cool old recording from a local band, Mike Cliffe's newest video, an interesting cover you wouldn't expect, and this week's classic video, so let's get things going!

If you've been in and around the local scene for a long time, you'll no doubt recognize guitarist Mario Carlucci from his work in bands like Foothill Road, Unkle Festerr, Exodus, Megaton, and his current band Sneaky Pete. Another band he was part of in the late 1980s was Satric, who also featured singer Cyril Morden, bassist Pat Breen, and drummers Mark Kamsol & Pete Von Althen in their lineups. On Saturday, Mario posted an old live audio clip of Satric from a 1989(?) concert at The Union Hall (now Breakaway's Bar & Grill, I think) onto his YouTube channel, and it's of Satric covering Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze"! It's awesome to hear this, hopefully more local musicians post some old archive clips and videos! Satric sound good here, Mario's got the chops to pull off "Purple Haze", Cyril's vocals suit the song well, and the recording quality's pretty good! Kudos to Mario for uploading this, and definitely give this old Satric cover a listen below!



Next is the latest video from Sault Ontario solo artist Mike Cliffe, who's uploaded a time-lapse video of the major construction at Sault College to his YouTube channel, as accompanied by two of his songs! The video itself has no metal relevance, but it's cool to see the construction of the new additions to the Sault College building, as caught on a webcam between March 2010 and last month. Time lapse footage is always interesting, and my old alma mater's looking good! As for the songs, the first one included is "Angel 2", a progressive hard rock instrumental with some catchy sounds and a nice vibe, while the second song is the previously posted "Rainy Day Romp", which was a quality heavier track of it's own with good distorted riffing, and it flows well to fill in the gaps! Good stuff, so check out Mike's new video below to hear some solid instrumental hard rocking and see the evolution of Sault College over the past 17 months!



Thirdly today, here's an interesting cover of a Woods of Ypres classic that I couldn't not share on here! I don't usually share Woods of Ypres covers on here, but in this case, you've gotta see it. So, can you imagine if Woods of Ypres did the soundtrack for a classic Nintendo Entertainment System game? Well, now you can hear the results for yourself, as YouTube user Chris Kelly has made an 8-bit cover of Woods of Ypres' 2002 classic song "A Meeting Place & Time"! Posted onto his YouTube channel on Friday, it's one of many 8-bit renditions of metal songs that Chris has produced. It's well done, and it really sounds like it could be the soundtrack for a forest level of an NES game like Castlevania or something similar! If you wanna hear this interesting 8-bit rendition of "A Meeting Place & Time", check it out below!



And finally, here's this week's classic video! Thought I'd get it out of the way a couple days early, and this week, we'll tie it in with Pickford hard rock quintet NoXcape, who'll rock The Satisfied Frog for two shows this weekend. As you may remember, every member of NoXcape (except guitarist Joey Beairl) played together in 2008 and 2009 as the defunct Pickford quartet Absolute, who had a successful run in the local scene in their heyday! Their MySpace page is loaded with live videos, so it makes perfect sense to share one of them here this week, but which one? I figured the best way to start would be with an original, and they had at least one, which was called "Native Tongue"! Solid hard rocker with some good energy, though the audio quality could be clearer on this video. I can see it on local radio if they made a studio version though, it had lots of promise! This video comes from a February 2009 concert that Absolute played at Golanka's Bar (The Bird), and oddly, the filmer shot the video from the side of the stage, which seems kinda odd, but then you see the dancers in front, so it makes sense. Good video, though hopefully I can find clearer audio of "Native Tongue" eventually!

Posted onto Absolute's MySpace page shortly after the concert, you can see the original video at http://myspace.com/absoluteparty/videos/video/52039115. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED!! All credit for this video goes to Absolute and the original filmer, I just want to share this video with a wider audience like it deserves! So with that said, check out Absolute playing their original "Native Tongue" below, and go see the members' current band NoXcape this weekend at The Frog!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes very soon! Thanks everyone!