The Roosevelt Hotel metal nights officially return THIS THURSDAY! While the planned return on May 24th didn't pan out, the series undergoes it's second relaunch in under 7 months on the last day of May with Bear Hunters' guitarist Mitch Sirie now on the booking team, and he's brought us a solid lineup of local bands for the 44th installment, including the three most frequently seen bands on Thursdays at The Roosevelt Hotel! Local hardcore quintet As It Stands will headline on Thursday in their first concert since their strong performance at the Humane Society Battle of the Bands, but it will also be their second straight metal night appearance, having been the local support at the 43rd installment on March 15th. It'll be good to see A.I.S. again, their brutal hardcore stylings are always welcome, and you know they can draw a crowd! Joining them are local death metal bands The Bear Hunters & Shit Liver, fresh off of opening for Fuck The Facts each, and you know they'll brutalize all who attend with their unique takes on death metal! Like the past all local metal nights, it's a free event with an advertised 9:00 PM start time, but judging by the Facebook event page, it's also all ages, continuing the trend from the Waster-headlined show in March. Check the above links for more details!I can 100.23% guarantee I'll be there on Thursday, and hopefully you guys can come out too! While the Die Mannequin-headlined punk show there tided over some of you guys for Thursday concert action, it's great to see Rosie metal nights back after such a long absence, and I hope to see all you guys there for it's grand return! That said, when is the next metal night taking place after this Thursday?
Just one week later, actually, as the 45th Rosie metal night will go down on June 7th, marking the first time that Thursday metal nights have ran on consecutive weeks since the end of the Dismembertainment-booked shows 8 months ago. Two bands have been announced so far, including local extreme metal quintet Winkstinger in their first metal night appearance since February, and you know they'll be ready to melt faces with their entertaining and alcohol fueled brand of metal on June 7th! They'll be joined by local metal quartet Borderline Divine (the former Stillbroke) in their first ever Roosevelt Hotel appearance, and it will also be bassist Justin Polutanovich's first Rosie metal night since opening for The Dayglo Abortions with Skull After Betrayl almost a year ago! Their increasingly heavy brand of hard rock will be welcomed next week, as they definitely impressed at the West of Hell show, so don't miss them next Thursday! A third band is to be announced for this show, and we'll keep you posted for sure as updates roll in. This should be a 9:00 PM or later affair too with no cover charge, but age limits are pending. For more details, check the Facebook event page! Sounds like another great concert is shaping up, and hopefully you guys can come to this one too, so stay tuned for updates as they come in!That's all for new Rosie metal night announcements that I can tell, but Mitch also confirmed the lineup order in another Facebook event page for the 46th metal night on June 21st (I don't believe there's one on the 14th.) Apparently, Desbarats death metal band For All That Is Lost will headline, followed by The Bear Hunters in their 20th metal night appearance, and fellow Debarats notables Inhuman Methods (with their new singer Anthony Tverdal) as openers. Sounds good to me, and I'm interested to hear Inhuman Methods' new lineup, so stay tuned for much more Rosie metal night news as it all rolls in, and don't miss the series' return on Thursday!
Let's close this post with new videos, starting with a new video from Wednesday night's Fuck The Facts-headlined show at The Canadian Nightclub! This comes from Garden of Bedlam guitarist Josh Belleau's brand new YouTube channel (separate from the old Chainsaw666 one), and he filmed parts of the three opening bands' sets for this 12 minute video! You'll see clips of For All That Is Lost playing most of their original song "Ripped In Two", followed by portions of Shit Liver playing around 5 songs (but they all go by quick), and The Bear Hunters playing "Bloodthirst" and "Dominate" (I believe), and they're definitely well shot! Josh got lots of great angles on a nice camera, but Shit Liver sounded a bit staticy at times, and aside from some of their shorter material, no full performances are featured in the video from start to finish. Also woulda been cool to get some Fuck The Facts footage, but Josh did great filming all this, and hopefully we'll see more videos of a local metal relevance on his new channel soon! Check out Josh's video of the opening bands from Wednesday at The Canadian below!
And finally, here's some cool archive videos I was recently alerted to that deserve a mention on the site! Asylum Country guitarist Terry Eaton shown me a few videos of his old local metal band Hollow from way back in 1994! Yes, the same band the reunited last August for a pair of local gigs. These were uploaded onto drummer Vinnie Milosevich's YouTube channel in 2010, and though I don't know what venue these were shot in, there's definitely a pretty good crowd! The quality isn't fantastic, and at least half of the stage view is cut off by attendees' heads, but you do get a bead on how talented Hollow were in their prime! I assume Terry & Vinnie were joined by Luigi Miceli, Tym Morrison, and Dan Beaupre in this lineup, but the video quality makes it hard to 100% verify that. Despite the 18 year old VHS quality, Hollow sounded really good here, very tight and well versed in this material, and the vocals are great too, though some lyrics were flubbed here and there. The videos are of their covers of Metallica's "Master of Puppets" and "Creeping Death" and Pantera's "Cemetery Gates", and they're an awesome glimpse back in the local scene (curse my age), so I highly recommend checking them out! Click the above links, and here's "Creeping Death"!That's all for now, but stay tuned for more news this week, plus our Insipid Brutality album review! Thanks everyone!
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