Silver Dream frontman Matthew Silver has uploaded five new videos to his YouTube channel, all of which are solo acoustic performances of Silver Dream original songs! Nice to finally hear some more of their stuff, even if it's just solo at the moment. These may not sound all that heavy, but keep in mind that Matt likely altered the arrangements to fit better for a solo acoustic performance. If you've heard their first released studio song, "My Heart Stops", you'll get a taste of what the band will sound like compared to Matt alone. That being said, the new songs are all very well sung, played, and composed at this state! They all have a clear emotion and feeling to them, and Matthew's voice comes through nicely on each! The uploads are for the songs "Evangeline", "Sunshine", "Every Minute", "Baby I Love", and the one I'm embedding here, for the song "Talk To Me"! All have a similar sound given the nature of the performance clips, but "Talk To Me" is the longest, so it makes sense to show this one off! Check it out below, and if I hear more from Silver Dream, especially the full band, you'll hear it here!(Also, in the absence of a band website, I've linked Matt's YouTube channel as the band's site on the SMS band links on your left until an actual page pops up. Check it out!)
Next up, a new video from Woods of Ypres' current North American tour has been posted online on frontman David Gold's YouTube channel! I word it like that because it's a 9:45 long tour vlog! It's an assemblage of various happenings over the past week on their tour, including the destroyed windshield mishap (and their protective mid-drive measures because of it), lots of concert clips from the shows they've played so far, and many other assorted clips from the tour! Among them: How they had supper in Winnipeg, encounters with a prairie dog and a snake, and much more footage from the sights and sounds of a Western Canada road trip, with lots of doom/black metal footage to go around! Hopefully the band releases some full song performances too, cause I know we'd love to hear more from the new album, concerts, and lineup! Check out the vlog for yourself below, pretty interesting stuff!
Thirdly today are some more updates from Sault Ontario hard rockers Browbeat! First off, it appears that the band are looking for a new bassist! It looks like frontman Dutch Vanderploeg will be remaining on guitar after all, so the band now needs a bassist again! I actually found out about this through Matthew Silver from Silver Dream, who uploaded this photo/classified ad to hype the search! If you're interested in joining a local hard rock band and are willing to learn original material, contact Dutch at dutch68@live.ca A.S.A.P.! Also to note: Browbeat have uploaded a new song onto their Reverbnation page, entitled "Moving On"! Sounds good to me, it's heavy and has nice pacing, but keeps their trandemark melody too! Click the above links to check it out, I'll keep you posted on more Browbeat news!
Now here's an interesting discovery I made the other day. Sometimes, when I search for local band updates and pages on MySpace, I'll come across a musician's solo page that has metal/hard rock solo material, or even rarer, stuff from their old bands. This happened to me the other day, when I found the MySpace page for Sault Ontario rock bassist Dan Beaupre. I immediately recognized him from his work in 100 Gran, who weren't a bad rock band, though I wouldn't say they were SMS material. It was reading his bio and listening to his songs that made me go "OK, this belongs on the SMS." It says that one of the bands he played for backed up Dio (how cool is that?), and on the bands he was listed as being a member of, I spotted a few familiar names, like Carbon Black, Metal Militia, and Hollow. Now who else was in those bands....oh, that's right, Tym Morrison! Sure enough, after some extra fact checking, I can verify that Dan and Tym were bandmates! That being said, the Carbon Black and Hollow songs that he uploaded don't feature Tym, they have guitarists Terry Eaton and Adam King, so they must have been recorded before Tym joined or after he left.D
id you catch that? There's Carbon Black and Hollow original material on Dan's MySpace page! I find the two Carbon Black songs uploaded ("Misconception" and "Angry") are catchier and heavier than the Hollow songs ("Flesh & Bones" and "Abducted"), especially "Angry", I'm really digging it's groove! These songs sound really good, I wonder if they were released on a CD or cassette at any point? Because if there's anything floating around on a released album, I'd love to review it here! Dan's got some real bass skill, it shows on these songs, and he's kept it up since in other bands like Tom Foolery, 100 Gran, and The AUC Jazz Ensemble! Dan's apparently working on a new band project as of May 30th, we'll have to see how that sounds! Check out more of Dan's work and back catalog at his MySpace page, see what you think!Also to note: When checking around for other bands related to Carbon Black/Hollow members, I found a band called Buster Cherry from St. Thomas, Ontario, featuring former Carbon Black/Hollow guitarist Terry Eaton and drummer Vince Milosevich. They are metal, and they would absolutely fit in our out of town bands with local members profile series! Not sure when I can fit them in, but keep Buster Cherry in mind!
That's all for today, stay tuned for more news in the next few days! I should have at least one news post before Wednesday, when I plan to profile The Disciples Of Rock and Violet Fuse in our next profiles of out of town bands with local members! Stay tuned for that, and more!
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