Local Metal Video Showcase!!

It's video time for this Friday morning at the SMS, so what are we looking at in this local metal video showcase? All Sault Ontario clips, including a live outdoor performance, a new career-spanning slideshow, and an embeddable copy of a new band's first video, but we'll start with a new live concert video from local grunge quartet Haggith, who posted this video of them playing their song "I Am" as part of The Art Gallery of Algoma's Culture Days/Boardwalk Expressions event in September on their YouTube channel last week! The first video footage that we've seen from this set that I know of, this is unique thanks to it's outdoor setting on the lawn outside of the Art Gallery, which allows for extra freedom of movement, and the guys sound good on this mid-paced rocker! It'd be nice to have seen more crowd members though, but maybe they were all in front of the band. Check out Haggith's newest video below!



Also in new videos is a new slideshow video from prominent local metal standouts Garden of Bedlam, who posted this onto their current YouTube channel on Wednesday! This compiles a ton of pictures of the band and their concerts, albums, and logos dating back to their 2008 launch, as set to their ballad "Around The Bend" from their 2011 CD "Everything Will Die", and it's a solid video that shows a lot from their run so far and how much they've accomplished! Also, it's good to hear from Garden of Bedlam again, having heard little in terms of new updates since November. Give their new slideshow a look, and stay tuned hopefully soon for more band news!



Third in new videos is one that isn't exactly "new", but we only have an embeddable copy now to share. As you may remember, we've linked to new local metal band Unbound's first jam video for their song "Deep Waters" on here, but I couldn't embed it on the SMS as it was a Facebook video, which doesn't allow embedding. Well, drummer Nick Kainula posted it on his new YouTube channel on Sunday, so I thought it could use the extra attention! A more traditional and darker metal song from 3/4ths of State of Misery's original lineup (with the late Justin Fratpietro on vocals), check out Unbound's song "Deep Waters" below, and hopefully we hear more from them in the coming months!



Finally for today, here's our second bi-weekly classic video of the year! With slim non-YouTube pickings to tie in with this weekend's heavier shows, we're dipping into the archives for another video of well regarded blackened doom metal notables Woods of Ypres in action! This video is of Woods of Ypres playing their linked originals "The Shams of Optimism" & "Crossing The 45th Parallel" at Cafe Chaos in Montreal on November 20th, 2008 during the band's "Looming Cold of Autumn" tour of eastern Canada that month. Like most of our older Woods of Ypres classic video uploads, this features the band's 2008 sextet lineup, including the entire 2008 lineup of Ga†es of Winter alongside drummer Evan Madden, which I still like to call the "Gates of Ypres" era. In fact, this is the last of late frontman David Gold's live concert videos with this lineup that he hadn't posted on YouTube, so our next classic videos of Woods of Ypres will likely come from early 2009, when they still had a 3/4ths local lineup. Well shot with a good angle of the band, I still prefer live playings of these songs compared to the studio versions thanks to the doomier and cleaner-sung vocals, and the large lineup contingent doesn't throw off the sound at all!

Originally posted to David's personal Facebook page in December 2008, you can see the original video at http://facebook.com/photo.php?v=42126390671 & NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED!! All credit goes to David and the original filmer, I'm just trying to share this video with a deserving wider audience! It's a great video from the midst of Woods of Ypres' most local tenure, so check it out below!



That's likely all for today, but stay tuned for this month's Saultites In Out Of Town Bands Profile on Bury Your Demons TOMORROW, along with more news as it comes in, and yes, our Destroilet CD review! Thanks everyone!