Now as you're all aware, Woods of Ypres rocked Sault Ste. Marie last night (my review's immediately below; check my photos out on Facebook), but recently, they've also been getting lots of press! In Saturday's edition of The Sault Star, Brian Kelly wrote up an article on Woods of Ypres, featuring an interview with frontman David Gold! The article discusses the band's future plans, the meaning of "Your Ontario Town Is A Burial Ground", why he and Woods returned to Sault Ste. Marie on a full time basis, and even the band's possible end! I know it's late to mention this, especially when it plugs yesterday's show, but again, I don't get the paper. It's still a good article, with some interesting hints to the band's future and some cool information on the band's history! If you have Saturday's paper, you can find it there, or online at this location!
But that's not all! Now, if you were at the Woods of Ypres merchandise area at last night's show, you may have noticed a few flyers on the free table, and a couple were of interviews with Woods of Ypres! One is from the May issue of Windsor Arts & Music Monthly (remember, Woods were based out of Windsor originally), and the other is an interview with the now defunct Metal Maniacs magazine from last year! Both are really cool reads, and hopefully some of you guys thought to yank them off of the free table! If they were smaller, I'd scan them to show you, but the copies are bigger than my scanner, so it'd take some work to get a good copy to show. However, WAMM are in the process of re-uploading back issues to their site, so stay tuned to their official website for when Issue 2 returns, cause there will be a Woods interview there!
Finally for Woods-related stuff, I've added the official MySpace page for Woods of Ypres' label, Krankenhaus Records, to the Other Local Metal Links on the right of the page! Krankenhaus is an independent label owned by David Gold that have released all of Woods of Ypres' CDs, among other bands! If you were at Saturday's show, you could have grabbed two free CDs from a pair of Krankenhaus artists, Oshawa death metal band Wetwork (featuring former Woods drummer Chris Mezzabotta) and Vancouver black metal Vanquished! I'll have to give both a listen! The Krankenhaus Records' MySpace page hasn't been updated recently, but for anything Woods of Ypres and Sault-related, I'll be sure to let you guys know!
Now, for some news from a different local band! Local hard rockers Stillbroke have quietly replaced one of the originals on their official MySpace page with a brand new song,"Tear Me To Pieces"! It has taken the place of "Forget", but no worries, we'll still get to hear it on their upcoming EP "Never Enough" when it's released! I like the new song, but I promise to hold full judgment until the EP comes out! As well, the band have announced that some of their songs have been added to the playlist on American internet radio station K94! They'll apparently be on the playlist Mondays between 8:00 and 11:00 PM, so stay tuned to K94 online at this location to see if you hear Stillbroke on a major internet radio station!
Before we get to the poll, I just wanna alert you guys to a few changes I made to the SMS CD review schedule. I had been planning to review the new Sykotyk Rampage album this month, but I haven't heard any word on it yet. August 1st has long since came and went, and with no imminent release being reported, I'm pushing my review of it to next month. In it's place, I have plans to review Lion Ride's debut EP, Awesome, pending my ability to get my hands on a copy! Hopefully, if nothing else, they'll be available at their show August 28th at Coch's Corner, which I fully want to attend! So there's your changes, Lion Ride this month, Sykotyk Rampage next month, and October....no surprise here, Woods IV: The Green Album. I'll keep you guys posted!
And now, we've come to the end of voting in this month's Local Metal Poll! The question I posed was "What was your favourite Sault Michigan metal concert in the first half of 2009?" Well, thanks to the 10 people who voted! I'll chalk up the low totals due to minimal exposure with Sault Michiganders, but I hope to slowly grow the SMS over there with time! The winner of the poll (with 3 votes) was Nixxon Dixxon, who have played numerous shows there this year! I'm a bit surprised, I thought more people would vote for a big show at The Dreammaker's Theater, but it looks like local support won out, and deservingly so! Free Refill and Staind tied for 2nd with two votes each, Bad Side, Kilacel, and "Other" tied for 4th with one vote each, and all the other choices tied for 7th with none.
And now, it's time for a new Local Metal Poll! I was debating a few choices for a question, but I decided to go a bit off-center for this one, and it concerns one way bands make money. Many local bands will produce various types of merchandise to help promote the band, make some money, and hope that the fans will support them. Many of you do your part and buy merchandise, some of you don't tend to. But there's definitely some things that seem more popular than others, and maybe should be more focused on for selling at shows. So I pose this question: What band merchandise would you be most likely to buy at local shows? Here are your choices!CDs/EPs: Nothing beats getting some new studio material from your favourite local bands, at least to me. Are you the supportive type that will buy their CD at shows?
T-shirts: A standard for many bigger bands like Woods of Ypres and Garden of Bedlam, shirts seem to fly off the merch tables. Is that what you want to buy at shows first and foremost?
Stickers/Buttons: They're cheap to make and cheap to sell, often free! But its that the thing you most like getting, or is it just a side to your main purchase?
Patches: Though not as common in metal circles, patches are an affordable way to accessorize clothing with your favourite bands without paying too much. But are they even worth buying?
Hoodies: Lots of you wear hoodies, but bands don't often produce hoodies for merchandise. How about that, would you buy a hoodie if a local band had them for sale?
Hats/Toques: Some people wanna see their favourite bands on their heads. Are you among them? Would that be your first choice to buy if it was available more at shows?
Posters/Pictures: These aren't common either, but there's a market for them. Look at all the posters and photos at big time shows! Put em on your wall, get them autographed, why not?
Anything affordable: Some of you aren't picky, you'll buy anything if you like the band enough and have the cash. Is this the category you fall in, or do you have specific wants?
Other: Maybe there's some funky thing not listed above that you'd wanna buy with a local band logo on it...hell, it could be anything! Vote here if the #1 thing you wanna get isn't listed!
I'm really interested to see what you guys think in this poll, cause I know a lot of you wanna support local bands, so let's see what's most likely to result in you giving them your cash! That's all for this post, barring a major news story, expect a new post tomorrow night, when I'll preview the weekend's slate of shows, including Quite Frankly, Nudge, and more, so stay tuned for that! Thanks everyone, and VOTE TODAY!!!
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