Mammoth Concert Video Showcase (Plus Pillory!!)

In the sequel to last week's post of Christopher Paci's videos from the Demon King/Celestial Scourge concert, we're picking things back up tonight with videos from the other major hard rock concert that he saw last month, with the last video from the Demon King concert at the end to round things out! As you may recall, Los Angeles hard rock/metal band Mammoth made their local debut on March 28th at The Dreammakers Theater at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino, and Chris shot fourteen videos of all three bands for his YouTube channel, including eight from the former MammothWVH's headlining set. Chris filmed Wolfgang and crew playing their originals "The End", "Don't Back Down", "Take A Bow", "Distance", "Epiphany", "The Spell", "Another Celebration At The End Of The World", and as embedded below, their set-opener "One Of A Kind".

Chris was in the fourth or fifth row on this night, and he had a good vantage point of the stage, with Wolf's melodic singing & guitar skills and the band's cohesive sound coming through well across the board! Mammoth have built up a strong array of original radio hits in their three albums so far, so give these videos a watch for yourselves above & below!

Next up, Knoxville, Tennessee alt-metal quintet 10 Years co-headlined in their third appearance at the Soo Kewadin, where Chris filmed them playing their songs "Novacaine", "Fix Me", "Russian Roulette", and as embedded below, their signature song "Wasteland". Don't be alarmed by the yellow still image on the video, that was just a momentary flash in the lighting. 10 Years sound good across these videos, with tight performances and well held-up vocals, and they deserved more than being borderline one-hit-wonders on US rock radio! Give Chris' videos from their set a watch above & below!

Lastly from the Mammoth concert, Chris filmed two videos of Welsh alternative/punk quartet James & The Cold Gun's opening set, namely of their songs "Chewing Glass" and, as embedded below, their set-opener "Seven". Spunky and pointed performances here from this rising UK outfit, and hopefully they made lots of new fans in the Soo last month, so check out their videos above and below as well!

Interestingly, the amount of songs per band is halving as we go, and we're ending here with a single video of Sault Ontario death/thrash metal trio Pillory, who opened the aforementioned Demon King concert at Soo Blaster four days prior, and Chris filmed them playing their song "Curse Of Eternal Sickness" that night. Nice technical performance filmed from a close spot on the floor (if with a few closer attendees in between), and I do want to compliment frontman Robert Sartini's vocals in particular, as his death growling is really clear and well enunciated in this recording! That can be a challenge to come through in live videos. Give it a watch below!

That's all for now, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the SMS this week! Thanks everyone!

Defunct Local Band Profile Series: Sailor's Tongue

It's now time for this month's Defunct Local Band Profile, and after a two month spell of randomly selected bands who were on the higher end for heaviness and notoriety here and afar, this month takes us to an accomplished past group who didn't have an extended run, but still played some big events and had a lot of promising original material. Here's what you should know in this monthly feature post!

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Sailor's Tongue

Hometown: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Genre: Hard/Blues Rock

Lineup:

Kyle McKey (The Ghost Town Cryers, Stillbroke, Mocombo), vocals/guitar
Blake Jackson, guitar
Liam Seymour (Lime, The Rising Tide), guitar
Jeff Brown (Turner Up), bass
Dean McKey (The McCartney Years), drums

Audio/Video: In conjunction with their set at Rotaryfest's Second Stage in July 2013, Sailor's Tongue released their only EP named "Pierced" at that event. This was intended to be a limited-run sampler for a formal full length album that never came to fruition, to the point that certain songs were labelled as demos. While "Pierced" is long out of print, you can stream all seven songs and a few select non-EP cuts that may have been planned for the full album across both the band's Reverbnation page and drummer Dean McKey's Soundcloud page. Limited videos from their 2010s reunion gigs can be found on YouTube, including this video of the guys playing "BootScattered" at their 2013 Stage 2 set!

Info/Analysis: Evolving from prior local bands named Pix N' Stix and Edge City, Sailor's Tongue were originally active locally from roughly 2005-2009, where they played headlining dates at former venues like Foggy Notions and The Nicolet Tavern, and made the finals of 2007's Bon Soo Battle of the Bands, while honing originals that would later appear on "Pierced". Gigs slowed down after Dean moved to London for university in 2007, but the band (with Liam initially replacing Blake) would reunite in 2012 for special events, including the final two LopLops-curated Second Stages at Rotaryfest on Queen Street East. Despite their public album plans, they fell inactive again by 2014 when Kyle moved out of town himself, though the band reunited to play at Rotaryfest Stage 1 in 2019, making them the first Stage 2 band to ever graduate to the main stage.

 

A well varied outfit who could deliver hard rock grooves while also featuring blues, southern rock, and funk influences on various songs like "Float" and "Doctor John", the McKey brothers and crew had good chemistry, distinct vocals, and a casual stage presence that would have lent them well had members stayed in town long enough to allow more momentum to gather as a live and studio act. Kyle & Dean have privately worked on songwriting for Sailor's Tongue since the band dissolved, and hopefully we haven't seen the last of them on a local stage, but follow members' current projects to see what they're up to in the 2020s!

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I hope you guys liked this month's Defunct Local Band Profile! This series will return on or around May 10th, and we'll have more news and notes on the site next week! Thanks everyone! 

LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (Dopethrone), A New Local Band, And The Pop Evil Concert Preview!!

Today's post is stacked with big news and notes from the past week, including a very notable LOCAL CONCERT ALERT for extreme metal fans next month, our slightly delayed preview of a big headlining concert on Sunday night, and leading off, a very delayed addition to our Sault Ontario band links, so here's what you should know on this Friday night!

Local metal quintet With Gunfire have finally launched a Facebook page, so we can finally add them to our active band links! Why it took this long, I don't know, especially as their first gig was in July 2024, but better late than never! Originally known as The Sault Side Squad (a parody of The Suicide Squad) before adopting their current name in December, With Gunfire's lineup is (as far as I am still aware) comprised of The B.A.G.'s Spencer MacGillivray on vocals, A Dire Setback/Big Finish Band guitarist Chris Nielsen, former Jack Spades/Sativa Rose guitarist Anthony Orazietti, A.S.D.P./ex-Stoned To Deaf bassist William Wardlaw, and former Soldiers Of Misfortune/Elements drummer Jonas Gasperas, who played with Anthony in Winkstinger. The original Sault Side Squad singer was ex-As It Stands frontman and rapper Justin "Nadj" Pregent, who quietly left this band by September 2025.

Brand new content is slim on With Gunfire's Facebook page, but two new "Shorts" videos were shared from Jonas' YouTube channel, including this slideshow with silent live footage set to their studio original "M.F.C." (ignore the AI-generated image claiming a title of "A Hate Supreme"), but embedded below is a performance at the Fist Magnet/Spigots reunion concert at Soo Blaster in December that they opened and debuted their new name at. Some of the vertical videos here were uploaded as plain videos, so I don't know why this is a "Short", but the song here is promisingly thrashy despite some fans being in the road of the camera. Give it a watch below, and stay tuned for more new content from Jonas' channel!

Next up, here's that LOCAL CONCERT ALERT, as Montreal "slutch metal" trio Dopethrone will return to Sault Ste. Marie for a headlining concert at Jay's Piston Broke Pub on Monday, May 25th! Readers may recall seeing this long running doom metal outfit at the former New American Pub on Victoria Day in 2019, and while the same holiday is a week prior this year, it is great to see Dopethrone back after just over 7 years away, and they should keep things down and dirty (yet still brutal) at the former Roosevelt Hotel! Also joining Dopethrone on tour is Vancouver gothic/doom metal quintet Tribunal, a majority-female and cello-infused band that should turn heads with their brutal and atmospheric sound in their local debut, so don't bypass them! While most of this tour is a co-headlining jaunt with Portland black metal project Mizmor, they are not advertised for the Soo date.

The local openers are extremely notable on their own, even without the touring bands, starting with the surprise reunion of local/St. Catharines grindcore trio Shit Liver, whose last concert of their original run was the Dopethrone show at The New A! Concert advertising specifies that they are only playing a 15 minute set, so I'm reading this as a one-off reunion and not the start of anything major (remember, the now-short haired Josh Penno is largely focusing on The Golden Scoundrels nowadays), but this is a fitting way to see Shit Liver (at least) one more time! The other opening band is named Eden Plague, who are the renamed and relaunched local death metal band The Bear Hunters! A reason was not publically announced for the name change, but a fresh start after a year+ hiatus is as good a reason as any. Guitarist Mitch Sirie previously used the Eden Plague name for a short-lived black metal project in 2010 & 2011, distinct from his other solo work.

Of course, Mitch is no stranger to being in bands who had late period name changes (i.e. Stillbroke/Borderline Divine and The Suicide Kings/Beaumont Avenue). No word on if there will be any other changes to the band in sound or lineup, let alone if their 2023 "final album" plans are still around, but we'll let you know when we hear more from The Bear Hunters Eden Plague! A rare promotional effort by the aforementioned Josh Penno, this Memorial Day concert is a 19+ affair at 7:30 PM, and $20 advance tickets are on sale at Jay's and The Rad Zone (the door charge jumps to $25). A nice throwback death/doom metal show will be well worth seeing next month, so visit the official Facebook event page for more details!

Finally for today's post, here's our preview of this weekend's main event, as Muskegon, Michigan hard rock quintet Pop Evil will return to our area for a headlining concert at The Machine Shop in Sault Ontario on SUNDAY NIGHT! Buzz for this show hasn't been as high as I had assumed, but this is notable because Pop Evil have a lot of Billboard rock chart success in the US, get frequent airplay on Rock 101, and have played in Sault Michigan seven times in the past decade & a half, most recently at the Sault Ste. Marie Kewadin Casino just over three years ago. With hit songs like "Footsteps", "Skeletons", and "Waking Lions" in their back pocket, it will be interesting to see Pop Evil on the Canadian side of the border, and hopefully there's a strong turnout for their catchy original rock! Your openers on Sunday are Waterloo hard rock quartet Sierra Pilot (a former band of ex-Spades GT guitarist Jay Sarrazin).

Expect a diverse but explosive set of rocking originals from them in their local debut in three nights' time! This stop on Pop Evil's What Remains Tour is an all ages event at 8:00 PM, and tickets run for $45.20 (plus processing fees) at this link, at the door, or at the in-person box office at Station Mall. If you're curious, the ticket price is comparable to Pop Evil's 2023 show in Sault Michigan after you convert this ticket cost from CAD to USD. Hopefully this show (the third hard rock headlining event at The Machine Shop in less than two months) is a success, so visit the above links for more details, and here's Pop Evil live at Kewadin Casino the last time out!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for this month's Defunct Local Band Profile next! Thanks everyone!

LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Crush & Headrush) And Weekend Concert Previews!!

(Updated at 10:45 PM) Another quiet weekend for hard rock concerts in the Twin Saults is upon us, so we can fit almost everything in this post with the exception of Sunday's Pop Evil concert, which will absolutely be in our next news post. As always, we'll start with SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS, so here's what you should know on this Thursday night, along with new videos from two of the bands in question!

Local classic/hard rock cover quartet Generations will return to The Kiln at Searchmont Resort for one night only TOMORROW NIGHT! Apologies for the short notice, this show was only announced by drummer Tony Santoro on the band's Facebook group this past Friday. While the band connection isn't reflected in Searchmont's recent postings, TOMORROW'S show is well timed, as Generations are playing at the resort during the final weekend (the "season ender bender", if you will) of the C.S.R.A. Snowcross Championships, and Searchmont is getting a festival to go along with the snowmobile racing ahead, including DJs, pig roasts, and vendors from TOMORROW through Sunday, so click here to see what all is taking place! There will be different musical acts at The Kiln on Saturday night and in an 11:00 AM-5:00 PM Sunday matinee timeslot, but I don't know who is playing on those days.

If you want to see Valerie, Joe, Pierre, and Tony's old school rock covers at Searchmont, they'll take the stage tomorrow at The Kiln from 8:00-11:00 PM with no announced age limits, and while there are ticketing fees to see Snowcross races, I don't believe you have to pay to just see Generations live. I admittedly don't get too engrossed into the winter sports scene, but Snowcross weekend looks pretty packed, so see above for more on everything going down while it still looks like winter outside! Visit the above links for more details, and here's Generations live!

Next up, fellow local classic/ hard rock cover quintet Headrush will set up shop at The Esquire Club for concerts TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT! Again, apologies for the short notice, these shows were first announced via their official Facebook event page on Monday. Marking their first concerts outside of the Full Throttle Saloon since they last rocked The Esquire Club in late November, it will be good for west end fans to see this skilled 1980s-leaning cover rock group back at it this weekend, and expect a nostalgia rush along with the Headrush TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT! The Johns, Wes, Gino, and Frank hit the stage both nights at 9:30 PM, these are 19+ events, and there are no announced cover charges. Visit the above links for more on TOMORROW & SATURDAY'S concerts, and for a preview, here's some brand new videos of Headrush live at The Full Throttle Saloon two weeks ago!

Publically shared by bassist John Amendola to their Facebook group, these were filmed by frequent local concert attendee and supporter Audrey Marshall for her personal Facebook page. She filmed the guys covering Journey's "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" and, as embedded below, Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me". While both are incomplete (90 seconds or so apiece), Audrey was filming horizontally, and had a close tight angle of the band, though I will note that they do seem really cramped on the stage at the former Primavera Hall. Sound performances of these late 1970s classic rock staples, so give them a watch above & below!

Also, we'll head to Sault Michigan briefly, where local hard rock trio Crush will play their second show of the year on SATURDAY at The Merchants Bar! Apologies again for the short notice, this show was only announced via this comedy video on their Facebook page on Tuesday (I won't dare try to describe it). While the show was only announced on five days' notice, at least it got that much, unlike their Savoy Bar show in February, which neither they nor About:Blank publically acknowledged on social media at all! Unless they had another unadvertised concert in the past six months, this will be Crush's debut gig at The Merch, though members have played there in the past with their sister band Tarnished (remember, Crush basically took over as Alex & Josh's outlet for both original music and comedic viral content after Tarnished shifted to a covers-only focus in 2024). 

It's good to see Crush back at it, and hopefully the guys rock The Merch well with their nicely developing original slate on SATURDAY NIGHT! Note that I saw reference on their Facebook page last month to a pair of shows downstate next month but I can't find the post that mentioned the dates and locations. The video above notes that SATURDAY's show has a relatively short run-time of 10:00 PM-12:00 AM, it is a 21+ affair at The Merch, and there is no announced cover charge. Visit the above links for more details, and for a preview, here's Crush live in their local concert debut last year!

Finally for today, we'll head back to Sault Ontario for a show that did get advance notice before this week, specifically at The Water Tower Pub, where reunited local classic/hard rock cover quartet Quite Frankly will take the stage for one night only on SATURDAY NIGHT! Two weeks removed from their most recent gig at the Boots & Saddles Roadhouse, this will be Quite Frankly's first show at this central venue in three months. If you haven't see the new look Quite Frankly in recent months, why not make a trip to The Water Tower Pub for their rocking cover slate on Saturday? As always, this venue hosts different nightly acts, and tomorrow's band is veteran country cover quintet Out & Out Country (featuring former That's Chester/Double Down drummer Ric Datson). There's no cover charge on Saturday, a 19+ age limit, and an 8:00 PM start time as usual here. Visit the above links for more details!

For a preview, here's a brand new video of the band at Boots & Saddles two weeks ago, courtesy of their Facebook page, and it features their cover of Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet". Like with the Headrush videos above, this is horizontal but incomplete (a minute long this time), and while this isn't exactly a surprise pick or a deep cut, it's well performed with Linsaey L.W. delivering strong vocals, so give it a watch for yourselves below!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for the Pop Evil preview and more next! Thanks everyone!

Spades GT Videos That We Never Shared Here Before!!

To break things up a tad before following up on yesterday's all-video post, I wanted to discuss dormant local/Barrie crossover thrash group Spades GT today, as I realized that there may be more public media of theirs online that they never promoted on social media, either because it fell through the cracks or because they decided not to share it from the filmer's account. As it turns out, there are some public videos of them live that never found their way to the band's Facebook page before what happened internally in December, so let's work our way through these in descending order by length. First, remember how ZigSeven's Dave Galante occasionally filmed lengthy videos featuring most of the musical performances at multi-band events that Spades GT played at? Well, we missed one that the guys never plugged on social media, as Dave was on hand for a "ZigView" at their all-ages headlining concert at See-Scape in Toronto on June 27th.

The 90 minute video starts with Dave setting up the show ahead and arriving at the venue, complete with his very stylish sunglasses, while he and his partner (wife?) scout a pre-concert meal. He did film all three openers, so you can get a glimpse of the whole night, but if you want to jump straight to Spades' set, that begins at the 56:18 mark. In order, the guys played "Hands", "Cenobites", "Final Girl", and "Sewer City Radio" (which was introduced reflecting its local inspiration), before the show abruptly paused while they dealt with technical difficulties. Guitarist Daniel Horton's amplifier appeared to disconnect or stop working mid-guitar solo, so they dealt with fixing that for a few minutes after the song ended, but J.D. and gang filled time as best they could. I wonder if this was why they never shared the video on Facebook? The set resumed for four more songs: "Red", "United", "They Live", and "Rise".

Note that the "United" album release party was the following week, so the former Jack Spades opted to save that album's songs (save the title track) until that show. Amp replacement aside, this is a quality set from all involved, and J.D. was particularly loose and animated throughout, so kudos to Dave for shooting so much footage, and give this a watch for yourselves below!

Next up, this Facebook video of Tyler Reiner's drum solo when they opened for Anvil (his dad Robb's band, of course) at The Rockpile in Toronto on November 17th, 2023 was uploaded by the Facebook page Reviving The Rock, and while the band did comment on it, we never mentioned it on the SMS at the time, so I don't think they shared it on their own. This 35 seconds-long square video solely focuses on Tyler, and it's a solid drum solo while it lasts, so give it a watch for yourselves below!

Lastly, the most recent of the new-ish Spades GT videos comes from their October 26th concert opening for The Exploited at The Piranha Bar in Montreal, where Caro Thibault filmed them playing "United" for the YouTube channel ChicksRockMedia. If the band was aware of this video, I assume it was never shared because it's a 30 seconds-long sidestage clip with very dark stage lighting late, so even when Dan (in the foreground) is playing his solo, you don't see much after the first 18 seconds. What we hear does sound good, so give this one a watch below, and click here to check out more videos from the other bands at The Piranha Bar that night!

That's all for now, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the SMS soon! Thanks everyone!

Demon King/Celestial Scourge Concert Video Showcase!!

Today's post takes us to Christopher Paci's excellent YouTube channel for the first time since late last year for some new concert videos, and while I don't know where he has been since October, it's good to see him back with his camera rolling! His first concert videos of the year were actually at The Irish Rovers' concert on March 14th, but 10 days later, he was at Soo Blaster for that night's Demon King-headlined concert from Underground Events SSM, and he filmed all five bands there across seven videos! We'll hold the Pillory video for our next post of videos from Chris' channel to keep things at a consistent length, but let's start with the headlining Nashville death metal band, who got two videos here. Chris filmed Demon King playing their set-closer "Tyrannical Reign Of The Deciever", and as embedded below, their set-opener & new album's title track "Death Knell", so how do these videos turn out?

Effectively in the "second row" for the last two bands (with zoom deployed), Chris got some solid footage of Demon King that accentuates their brutally crunchy sound well, and the bass resonates nicely in particular, so give their Soo Blaster videos a watch above and below!

Next up, Chris also filmed two videos from co-headlining Norwegian tech death metal quartet Celestial Scourge on March 24th, including their set-closer "Ancient Forms" and, as embedded below, their first song "The Advent Of Deities". Definitely a more progressive and mathy sound, but with more guttural vocals than we saw with Demon King, so note your death metal preferences accordingly, but Celestial Scourge definitely melted faces at Soo Blaster, if these videos are anything to go by! Check them out as well!

For the opening three bands, Chris only uploaded one video apiece, and for the night's other touring band, he filmed London, Ontario death metal quartet Sentiment Dissolve playing their song "Omnipotent Panopticon". If you look them up and are curious, no, guitarist Nicholas Luck is not the same-named local musician who fronted Aldous in the early-mid 2010s. If you saw Sentiment Dissolve at Jay's last year, this won't be a surprise, but they are clearly having fun up there (look at their attire!), and they deliver an intense tech metal sound with enunciated growling vocals that will appeal to many metalheads, so don't bypass their video below either!

We'll close this post with the later-slotted local opener, namely progressive metalcore quartet Convergence in their first live concert set of 2026! I am not immediately certain of this song's name, as it doesn't match their two released studio singles since Stephen joined, but to be fair, I can't check if it's a song that was previously on "Dead And Dreaming" because they delisted that instrumental EP. Effectively complex and brutal sound here with very skilled guitar work and strong harsh and clean vocals, and it's good to see some all-too-rare live video of Convergence, so give this a look below!

That's all for now, but when we pick things back up from Chris' channel (ideally soon), we'll look at the Pillory video and what he shot at his most recent hard rock concerts, so stay tuned for all of that in the near future, plus more recent news and notes! Thanks everyone!

LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (The Sky Pilots), A New Local Band, And More Recent Updates!!

I hope everyone is having a good Easter Sunday! Whether you could call a new SMS post an Easter treat is debatable, but I do have a new news post to check out, including new videos and updates from two bands featuring Fitswitch alumni, LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS for the E.U.P. next month, and leading off, a new addition to our Sault Ontario band links, so here's what you should know, whether you'd found your Easter eggs or not!

Fresh off of their live concert debut yesterday at Beck's Bar, we can now add new local hard rock quartet 5 Dollar Bribe to our active band links, as they have launched a Facebook page! They were already on Instagram and TikTok, but neither platform is as feature-rich and intentionally designed for usage as a formal band page. There's not much on their Facebook page yet, but a video of them covering 3 Doors Down's "Loser" at Beck's is floating around on personal Facebook accounts. While they have more unexpected band choices in their repertoire, how often to you see 3 Doors Down covers locally? It is a well done cover if you can find it, and R.I.P. Brad Arnold, of course. In terms of new public content, 5.D.B. did post some new "meet the band" images on Instagram where you can learn more about the members' favourite bands (Tyler pulls some real deep cuts!) and other roles.

Their only new video since we first spotlighted Five Dollar Bribe on the SMS is embedded below, where half of the band do a comedy sketch to promote the matinee gig at Beck's and a contest to win an official band t-shirt (had you liked and tagged the post on Instagram or TikTok, you'd have been entered for a chance). Fun for what it is, so give it a watch below, and we'll have more from 5 Dollar Bribe when it goes live!

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Next up, here are those LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS, as Munising, Michigan classic/hard rock cover quintet The Sky Pilots will return to our area for concerts on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30th at The Northern Pines Lounge at the St. Ignace Kewadin Casino! The only brand new hard rock-leaning shows announced in either regional Kewadin branch's entertainment pages through the next two months, these will be The Sky Pilots' first St. Ignace shows since early November, though I must profusely apologize, as they also returned to The Rapids Lounge in Sault Ste. Marie for concerts on March 13th and 14th, as per their Facebook page. I've gotta keep better tabs on The Sky Pilots, especially as they played in the E.U.P. five times last year, and they are fronted by former Electric Motor Fish/Swayze Train singer Melissa Strand, so I am sorry for missing last month's gigs, but I hope they were a huge hit!

Of note, last month's shows were actually the Pilots' first concerts of 2026, regardless of locale. Next month's shows do not fall on the Memorial Day long weekend, which is the week prior this year. As usual for Kewadin lounge gigs, these are at 9:00 PM with 21+ age limits and no cover charges. Visit the above links for more details on what should be a fun weekend of old school rocking covers from this talented U.P. band!

Also today, here's an update from a band that we haven't talked about on the SMS in months, namely Sault Ontario/Barrie crossover thrash band Spades GT! There is a reason why updates dried up from their camp, and while I have not seen an official public statement about what happened, what I would characterize as "sudden personal differences" arose in mid-December, and I'll leave it there pending 100% public word from the band about their future or lack thereof. Their last show (to date?) was at C.W. Coop's in Barrie on December 13th where they opened for Pale Horse Ritual, and what happened internally arose before they could post a recap video from that show or their November 14th gig with Anvil in Delhi. However, I did find something brand new that I'm surprised that the former Jack Spades never promoted, as they featured on a live album last year! Fans will know that Spades frequently travelled to Meyersburg in Southern Ontario for the annual Spiderfest, which is the basis of this Bandcamp-exclusive album.

The "name your price" album "Spiderfest 2024 RP001" was released on June 11th, and it features one live cut each (in performance order) from the 2024 festival lineup, with past local headliners Random Killing, The Ripcordz, and The Bunchofuckingoofs among the 23 included bands. This rendition of "Succubus" from 2023's "Sewer City Radio" features the band's summer 2024 lineup, including then-new guitarist Matthew Voros and the soon-to-depart James Roy Daley on bass. Strong (if quick) performance with really nice recording quality across the board, so give this punk compilation a listen above, and we'll let you know if Spades GT clarify their status publically!

We'll close today with new videos from local doom/sludge duo The Spaceship Opening's Facebook page! One of the videos features an off-camera Andrew MacDonald testing his new bass cab, and while the musicality of it is debatable, he is getting deep powerful bass out of it (ask what appears to be a burned out match midway through!) The other video is another live recording from the same concert seen in their first two official public videos (which is apparently "all we have" as of Friday). I did want to clarify as to what event their three performance videos actually came from, as the event took place before I could verify The Spaceship Opening's sound/genre. This was a fundraiser for the Sault Theatre Workshop on November 29th, where they and DJ Seith opened for comedy rock band The Floor Between Us, who also headlined a show there the previous day with a different opener lineup.

No word on who November 28th openers A.D.H.D. are, but that name alone will make it hard to look them up! Kudos to all involved for supporting the Sault Theatre Workshop and their programming, and you can see videos of The Floor Between Us that weekend on their new Facebook page! As for The Spaceship Opening, this video actually features Andrew on vocals, so they're not an instrumental-only band. It is a little faster and punkier than their prior two songs, but it's hard to get a sense for Andrew's vocal capabilities, as he sings in a relative monotone that, while well suited to alt-rock, may not show his full range. Not a bad drum-and-bass number, so give it a watch below, and stay tuned for more from Andrew & Ralph!

That's all for now, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the SMS this week! Thanks everyone!