Your favourite local blue Chinese metal crash punk rockers are back! Sykotyk Rampage, fresh off of their third place finish at the Sault College Battle of the Bands, will be back on stage in the spring! In fact, they will be making their debut at The Rockstar Bar on April 7th, with special guests Nebraska Arms, who also competed (and placed 2nd) at that very same battle! If you're wondering why Sykotyk Rampage are headlining, it's likely because this is the first monthly Metal Militia Wednesday at The Rockstar Bar, which will (I assume) feature a metal band on the first Wednesday of each month! So it only makes sense for the metal band to headline the metal night! The show will be at 10:00 PM on April 7th, with a $3 cover charge! This should be a fun show, pencil me in to attend! Confirm your attendance at the official Facebook event page, and if I hear anything else about this show, I'll have it for you!EDIT: The planned Caveman Morrison set for Algoma Hope4Haiti has been cancelled, due to a venue mix-up, apparently The Fury agreed to a show at a different venue. This has been confirmed by Paul Stanghetta from The Fury and from J.D. Pearce from Coch's Corner in his Facebook status and further e-mail discussion. That sucks, I thought I might swing by for some great metal covers after Bring The Fallen wrapped up! However, there will be an open jam night at Coch's, everything's set up if you wanna swing by and jam out some tunes! Just letting everyone know!
And now, five more assorted updates to the Algoma Hope4Haiti lineup, so check all this out! I'll see you guys tomorrow night at Nite-Life!
- Gates of Winter keyboardist Brian Holmes will be making a special appearance at TONIGHT'S show at LopLops Lounge as bassist during Craig West's set. Interesting to note that two past or present Gates members (including Kalle Mattson drummer Jimmie Chiverelli) will be performing there tonight! And for those of you who are unfamiliar with Brian's bass skills, click here to watch a Gates of Winter acoustic cover of a Demons and Wizards song, when Brian played bass in lieu of Steve Furgiuele, who just did backing vocals. Not bad! My source for Brian's involvement is his Facebook status.
- An event page for both nights of LopLops' Haiti benefit shows is online at this location! No word on the silent art auction, so I'm doubting if it's still on, but it does note that all servers will donate their tips tonight and tomorrow to the Red Cross for Haiti relief, which is awesome!
- It looks like the DJs weren't completely excised from Foggy Notions in tonight's set there, as DJ Seith is listed as performing alongside Nebraska Arms and Brad Example. So if you were hoping for some great dance mixes at Foggy's, it's not all completely gone! Click here for my source.
- SooToday lists Stillbroke bassist Kyle McKey as playing a solo set at Bottoms Up Lounge tonight at 10:00 PM. Note that this is NOT a Hope4Haiti show, Bottoms Up Lounge only has Haiti stuff tomorrow night. No word on how Kyle's solo stuff sounds, but keep it in mind if you wanna do something tonight elsewhere!
- A second event page for the Bring The Fallen/Out Of The Mouth of Babes/DJ Spruceau show at Nite-Life has been launched at this location! This one was created by the guys at Nite-Life, the original one has no listed creator, oddly. Keep that in mind!
Next up, a new band has been added to the lineup of next weekend's Garden of Bedlam/Papa Fogals Chair concert at Foggy Notions! Pistols At Dawn, a London Ontario punk/hardcore band, will open the show on February 27th, and you can check out more of their stuff at their official MySpace page! They honestly seem more like an Oddfellows Hall kind of band than Foggy Notions, but they're not bad at all, nice solid hardcore sound! Thanks to Buzz and Derek Turner for the updates! There also may be some other lineup stuff to announce, but we'll wait for official word. But I can tell you this, Crank Sound Distribution will be there doing sound, so everything will sound awesome! I wish I could be there for this one, but alas, we're going to Detroit that day. But damnit, I want you all to go for me, and make this show a huge success! Get full details on this concert as they come in at the official Facebook event page!
Next up, time to update you guys on Sense of Truth's new E.P.! As you know, they have been in studio recently working on their first release, and there's some cool stuff to bring up! Drummer Ryan Haryett posted on their Facebook group's wall to mention that the drum and bass recording is done, with some guitar soloing left to finish before that wraps up. Then it's just vocals left! He also says that their E.P. will have a song never before heard live or otherwise, and apparently, after hearing it "five gazillion times", it still has all the awesomeness! Now that sounds cool in and of itself! Remember, get your first glimpse of Sense of Truth post-studio NEXT FRIDAY at The Canadian Nightclub with Groove Committee! Now I won't commit to this show because every time I get excited about seeing Sense of Truth live, it backfires on me and I get screwed by outside forces. So, I'm going to use reverse psychology. With that in mind, I am not going to see Sense of Truth next Friday, I will not be headbanging and enjoying myself, and I will not have a review and videos posted the night after! Remember, reverse psychology!And finally, more videos have popped up online from Half Past's recent sets at Foggy Notions! There's videos of Breaking Benjamin, Staind, and Sick Puppies covers, as well as (most excitingly to me) decent quality video of their original "War Inside My Head"! Thanks to drummer Chris Thompson for uploading these to his YouTube channel! Click there to check them all out, but here's "War Inside My Head"!
That's all for now, if you don't see a new post tomorrow, I will definitely see you guys tomorrow night at Nite-Life for Hope4Haiti! Thanks everyone!
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