Tomorrow night at The Rockstar Bar, "blue Chinese metal crash punk" rockers Sykotyk Rampage will make their debut at that venue for Metal Militia Wednesday! Last seen headlining the delay-filled Tyler Yuke Memorial at The Outback, this should be their first set with a length longer than a half hour since last year, so fans should take notice! Joining them tomorrow will be RedD Monkey, the Toronto/Kelowna based classical-punk band featuring former Smeltzer bandmates Steve Mozarowski and Kevin Overton on vocals/guitar and drums, and Steve's brother Pete on the cello! Unique sound, different from Smeltzer, check them out on their MySpace page! Unique sound, largely thanks to the cello! And there IS a metal connection with RedD Monkey, as Kevin Overton was Gates of Winter's drummer in the mid 2000s! However, seeing that this is "Metal Militia Wednesday", never fear, Sykotyk Rampage will bring the intense night of soundscape you desire! With 22 albums to draw from, who knows that you'll hear? They're hard to describe, check them out on their official SoundClick page!There will be a $3 cover charge at the door, the concert has a listed 10:00 PM start time, confirm your attendance at the official Facebook event page! This should be a fun concert full of unique music, hopefully there's a good turnout! I might be there, depends on the homework situation tomorrow night, stupid end-of-semester crunch. But if I do show up, there will be a review and photo album on Thursday! For a video preview, here's a clip of "the original crash band" performing their song "Treating You Bad"!
Next up, a popular local music message board has received a major move and facelift! The 705 Scene Forums, the second incarnation of the original forums from the old Sault Music Scene, have moved to a new permanent server! But it's not just that, now they have a new domain name, forum name, layout, and lots of new features with no ads! Now, the forum is called 705 Video Magazine, and it's now hosted at 705vm.com. The new forum has an expanded member page, a calendar, member blogs, and an integrated photo album, which hopefully will catch on! My big complaint is that the old forum, topics, and accounts weren't carried over, which I do realize might have been impossible to do easily, but now it's like starting over. Especially with how The 705 Scene itself has had all it's old forums and posts deleted in lieu of a notice about 705 Video Magazine. Oh well, the new forum should do pretty well, and honestly, it's a step up in terms of restoring some old Sault Music Scene features, so there you go! Click here to check it out, and remember, YOU WILL HAVE TO RE-REGISTER THERE, YOU CAN'T USE YOUR OLD ACCOUNT!
And now, we have a new solo project from a local hard rock musician! Bad Side guitarist and former The Bear DJ Jason Mapes is trying his hand at some solo material, and has launched a Facebook page all about it! Jason will also handle lead vocals in this project, so it will be interesting to hear how he holds up by himself vocally! His backing studio musicians include Bad Side collaborators Rich Blair on bass and Dan Furmanik on guitar, with Rob Johnson behind the drumkit! Now we know from Bad Side's track record and discography that Jason has the goods to deliver some great hard rock, but we won't know how he sounds by himself until some material is posted, which hasn't been done yet. As soon as I hear any of Jason's stuff, I'll be sure to share it with you guys! In the meantime, click here to become a fan of his on Facebook!
And finally for today, I have some newly found videos from come local concerts! Firstly, we have yet another video from December's Three Days Grace show at The Essar Center, well, 4 actually! Youtube user wessephremfecteau has 4 clips from the concert online that I never found until today! The videos appear to be from the stands, are off of a cell phone and are pretty jittery, but the audio isn't terrible! Only one though, his recording of "Bitter Taste", is over 95 seconds. Still, check them out at this location, and I gotta wonder, how many other videos from this show are online? Oh well, check out his clip of "Break" below!
And finally, here's a clip from a local show at The Oddfellows Hall from way back in April 2007! This is of Burlington metalcore band Dead & Divine performing their song "San Dimas" from that show, which notably featured the now defunct As It Stands as one of the openers! YouTube user gregsacco8 uploaded this video about a month after the show, and this is one of those videos that I'm really surprised I didn't find much earlier...maybe it's the lack of mentioning the Soo in the description. Oh well, this is definitely from The Oddfellows! The audio is slightly staticy on louder volumes, but it's decent quality, and it's another nice look back on a concert gone by! We need more of these hardcore all ages shows, what say you guys? Take a look at the video!So there's some more updates for you all on this Tuesday afternoon, I shall be back very soon with much more, including my review of Integrated System of Machines' debut album! When? Tomorrow or Thursday. Stay tuned!
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