LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (As It Stands), What Would Have Been For Woods Of Ypres, And New Videos!!

It's time for another news post at the SMS, and what do we have on this Saturday morning? Well, today, we have some new audio uploads towards our next feature post, this week's classic video, and some news concerning what would have been for a prominent local band this year, but first, here's a LOCAL CONCERT ALERT!!

Three local metal bands will hit the stage for the first time in 2012 in two weeks at The Roosevelt Hotel! Local hardcore standouts As It Stands and Changing Waves will rock the local stage for the first time in over 4 months on January 19th at The Rosie along with local death metal quintet The Bear Hunters in their own 2012 debut, and if you notice your calendars, the 19th is a Thursday! Is this show part of the Rosie metal night lineage (it's the 41st metal night if true), or is it just the same day? Time will tell, but I'll note that though it's pushing a month since the current promoters officially confirmed a metal night, this does coincide with the old bi-weekly schedule, so take that for what it's worth. This will be the first As It Stands show in Sault Ontario since early August (though they did play a concert in Espanola last month), while it will be Changing Waves' first concert since early September, so it'll be a long time coming to see their hardcore assaults again, and you know The Bear Hunters will bring lots of brutality themselves as this concert's opening act! This concert will have a 19+ age limit, 10:30 PM start time, and no cover charge. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page!

Officially a Rosie metal night or not, this will be a solid collection of local metal bands, and with the waits from their last concerts stretching from 1 to 5 months, it sure doesn't hurt to see them again on stage! Hopefully I can make it out (especially with no Friday morning classes this semester), and stay tuned for updates! While we're on the subject, their oddly titled original song "Oh Herm, Herm Delish" is back online on drummer John Mignacca's SoundCloud page, newly mixed & mastered by Brendan Clace at Dimension Studios, so click here to stream it, and stay tuned for much more on As It Stands' 3rd EP as news rolls in!

Next up, here's the latest news relating to Woods of Ypres and the late David Gold... well, more specifically, what would have been. Another David Gold memorial Facebook page has been launched, but this one is ran by Earache Records and guitarist Joel Violette, and it's already turned out to be a good source for future band news, especially as official band pages were controlled by David only for the most part. One piece of news learned through there was that Woods of Ypres had added Brendan Hayter & Rae Amitay as their new bassist & drummer in November (replacing the Madden brothers), though with David's death, nothing came to fruition towards future work with Woods of Ypres. Brendan is a bassist from the Boston, Massachusetts area, most recently playing in a black metal band named Obsidian Tongue, while Rae (who was the first female band member since keyboardist Jessica Rose in 2007) is a Berklee College of Music graduate, a talented session drummer, and a writer at the website Metal Review, where she posted a very nice tribute post to David on Thursday morning featuring quotes from fans, friends, and surviving band members. According to posts there, Woods of Ypres were planning to rehearse this month towards their first European tour run early this year in support of "Woods V", though details about it weren't elaborated on.

Definitely check out Rae's post at this location, and you can feel the sadness and emotion from all who contributed. I have no doubt at all that Brendan and Rae would have been great choices for Woods of Ypres and what would have been a landmark European tour, but with David's death, it's extremely hard for me to picture the band moving forward in a live setting. Do give their work a listen though, I can see why they were picked to join the band in November! I have much more to share as it relates to David, Woods of Ypres' future, and the "Woods V" release in our next post, so stay tuned for it in the coming days!

We'll close today's post with new videos, and first, here's this week's classic video, our first of the new year! Apologies for it being late, I'll try to get them back on a rough mid-week schedule. With Tym Morrison's solo acoustic shows back in gear for Bossy's Pub N' Grub starting this afternoon at 1:00 PM, it made sense to focus this week's video on him, and I've chosen another video from his metal cover trio Caveman Morrison to upload to our YouTube channel this week! Like our earlier uploads of their covers of "You May Be Right" and "Brown Eyed Girl", this comes from a late 2009 concert at The Rockstar Bar, but in this case, it's of Caveman Morrison covering Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride & Joy", and covering it pretty well too. Not a very heavy song, but they do it justice! Featuring their 2009-2010 lineup, including current drummer Rick White on bass and Jeff "Shrek Ogre" Richards (now of the Barrie rock band The Angels Of Fire) on drums, this video was filmed by a concert attendee and later uploaded in .swf format onto Caveman Morrison's website at http://tymmorrison.com/cavemanmorrison/video6.html. Like before, I apologize for the lighting and the watermark late in the video, those were on the original files.

NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT WAS INTENDED!!! All credit for this video goes to Caveman Morrison and the original filmer, I'm just trying to share this performance with a wider audience like it deserves! It's a solid video and hopefully we'll see Caveman Morrison back soon, but for now, definitely check out Tym's solo shows on Saturday afternoons at Bossy's! For now, here's to the first of 52 weekly classic videos for 2012, with Caveman Morrison's cover of "Pride & Joy"!

And finally, here's some new audio uploads I also made to our YouTube channel a couple days ago. On Tuesday, we're profiling the former local death metal quintet Bring The Fallen in our first Defunct Local Band Profile of 2012, and as I often like to do when I post a profile in this series, I've uploaded a few media files of the band in question onto YouTube. In this case, it's the three publically available studio quality songs from their unreleased debut EP, now on YouTube for the first time! These (and possibly some extra material) were recorded with producer/local bassist Brad Griffith in September 2009 using recording time won at the YMCA Battle of the Bands that March, but the EP never saw a release before their breakup in April 2011. Last I heard, the recordings were waiting to be mastered, and as such, the available songs we have are unmastered mixes. As downloaded from Bring The Fallen's MySpace page (where you can still stream them), the posted songs from the EP were "Stand Before", "Defiling Despondence", and "Exposed Embankment", so click each link to stream the songs on YouTube. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED!! All credit for these songs goes to the former members of Bring The Fallen, I just want to share their hard work with a wider audience like it deserves!

Unmastered or not, these are quality slices of Bring The Fallen's impressive original resume, and there's some good brutal metal to be had with these songs! It'd be cool to get a hold of any other songs they recorded with Brad in 2009, or to see them officially released of course, but for now, hopefully these uploads will help spread the posthumous word about Bring The Fallen! I've embedded "Stand Before" below, but check out more at the above links, and watch out for our Defunct Local Band Profile on them on Tuesday!



That's all for now, but stay tuned for much more news in the coming days, along with our Defunct Profile on Bring The Fallen on Tuesday! Thanks everyone!