Weekend Concert Previews & This Week's Classic Video!!

It's time to preview this weekend's metal & hard rock concerts in the Twin Saults, so that's the bulk of today's post, but we've also got this week's classic video, as linked to one of the performing bands over the next few days! I know that there's a pretty big metal show that was announced on Facebook this afternoon, but I promise that's coming in our very next news post! For now though, let's begin our previews!

As a late addition to National Youth Arts Week in Sault Ontario, Bear Hunters/Borderline Divine guitarist Mitch Sirie is promoting a FREE ALL AGES metal concert TOMORROW at The Roberta Bondar Pavilion! The large white tent downtown isn't a familiar site for heavier concerts, especially being outdoors, but the hope is to make this the first of many, so here's who to look out for tomorrow night! Five metal bands (4 local) will descend upon the Roberta Bondar Pavilion tomorrow night for their first public outdoor concert, including headlining grime/crust notables Shit Liver, melodic death metal quintet The Bear Hunters, Desbarats death metal quartet For All That Is Lost, local deathcore standouts The Valentine's Day Massacre, and extreme metal quintet Winkstinger (replacing As It Stands), so take note of this extremely brutal lineup! Most of the bands were last seen at the Humane Society Battle of the Bands last month, but Shit Liver will hit the stage for the first time since the Ypres Metal Fest, while Winkstinger haven't been seen live in almost three months. Sounds like a great lineup to me, and hopefully these guys can melt all the faces that are there tomorrow! Also, note that drag queens & kings from the "Drag It Out" at Sault College will be in attendance later tomorrow night, so be ready to work!

The bands are slated to start at 5:00 PM tomorrow (not 4:00), it's a FREE & ALL AGES event, and though they're aiming to wrap up by 10:00 PM, it may run a bit later. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page! I'll absolutely be there to rock out with you guys tomorrow, and I hope this is a huge and issue-free success so that more metal can rock the tent downtown in the future! Celebrate National Youth Arts Week & local metal tomorrow night, and I'll see you guys there! For a preview, here's Shit Liver playing their song "Shit Will Prevail" at the future Coch's Corner last fall!



Meanwhile in Sault Ontario, after his set with The Bear Hunters wraps up, drummer Johnny Belanger will head across town to The Roosevelt Hotel for the first of two weekend concerts with his other band Caveman Morrison! Previously a one night only gig, the prominent local metal cover trio will rock The Rosie tomorrow night & Saturday night for the first time in three weeks this weekend, and you know Tym & company will have some awesome metal & hard rock covers in store for their fans! Their latest Rosie stops were announced in March, and I again apologize for the extremely late coverage of them on here, so make sure to spread the word and check them out this weekend! 9:30 PM start times look likely, you must be 19 to attend, and there shouldn't be a cover charge. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page! This should be another solid weekend of great music from Caveman Morrison, especially with the frequency of their recent gigs, which is awesome to see again after months of sporadic shows and live absences. Go see Caveman Morrison this weekend if you can, and for a preview, here's the band covering a Foreigner classic in December!



Finally for known metal/hard rock concerts this weekend, Marquette hard rockers Nudge are finally back in Sault Michigan this weekend! This prominent & talented quartet haven't been seen in the area since November, but it'll be great to finally have Nudge back at The Satisfied Frog after an almost 6 month break! These will also be their first local dates with new drummer Jed Thibeault, following the departure of Eric Schlumpf in December, so be sure to give Jed a warm welcome to the Soo this weekend! After the move of their planned February local dates to Gladstone (which featured Eric's short lived replacement Tim Rousseau), we're definitely overdue for Nudge's hard hitting cover attack, but also note that they'll have new merchandise on sale, and frontman Danzo McCracken will be playing an acoustic solo show at The Frog TONIGHT as well, so head on down there to hear his softer side! As usual, Nudge's shows this weekend have 10:00 PM start times and 21+ age limits, but I don't believe there will be a cover charge. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page! These should be some solid nights of hard rock and metal covers this weekend, so go rock out with Nudge tomorrow night and/or Saturday night at The Frog! For a preview, here's Nudge covering Queen's "Tie Your Mother Down" in 2008!



And finally, here's this week's classic video, and I've chosen local extreme metal quintet Winkstinger for our latest older non-YouTube video upload! They've been bringing their entertaining and brutal brand of metal to the stage since late 2010, and one of their earlier concerts was on January 20th, 2011 at the fifth Roosevelt Hotel metal night (more on that series soon), which I reviewed on the site way back when. As has become custom at their live concerts, they covered Otis Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose" (a.k.a. the Blues Brothers car chase theme) followed by their original "Stop! You Can't Interrogate Someone With Brain Damage!" at this show, and that very performance (along with on-stage banter from singer Alan Wells) was filmed by an attendee! Drummer Jonas Gasperas later uploaded the results onto Facebook the next day, and though people's heads get in the way, the quality isn't bad at all! If anything, the original video (which you can see at http://facebook.com/photo.php?v=1807806922881) is dark, but I've corrected the lighting since uploading it. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED!! All credit for this video goes to the original filmer and Winkstinger, I'm just trying to share this video with a wider audience like it deserves!

This is another fun and very heavy video of Winkstinger in action, including their resident merman Jesse Cook, and it definitely shows their energetic brutality nicely! Check out this 2011 video of Winkstinger below, and go see them TOMORROW NIGHT at The Roberta Bondar Pavilion!



That's all for now, but stay tuned for a stacked news post tomorrow morning! Thanks everyone!