LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (The Saigon Hookers & The Locals Attack) And Powerslug Concert Previews!!

Happy November everyone! With the Halloween season sadly behind us, we're beginning a new (and hopefully busier) month with this post featuring previews of the only two hard rock concerts I know of this weekend, and leading off, TWO LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS! These new Sault Ontario gigs are pretty notable in their own respective rights, and they'll add well to what I hope is a busier local concert month, so read on below for what you need to know!

Did you miss the Garden of Bedlam-headlined Rad Zone birthday bash on Tuesday night? Well, pray the roads are better on November 10th, as the local metal standouts will be back at The Rockstar Bar that night as openers for The Saigon Hookers' return to Sault Ontario! The Kitchener hard rock quartet (and good friends with the former members of Lion Ride) will be back at The Rockstar Bar one week from Saturday for their third ever local concert (and first in over 16 months), and it'll be great to see them back in town! Their mix of classic rock, metal, and punk has attracted a solid local following and a few entertaining albums, and they should be welcomed back up north next weekend! However, rather than the inactive Brad Example & The Role Models, the openers will be the aforementioned Garden of Bedlam, and their metal fury will be welcomed on the 10th, in what might be the first time they've played with another band at The Rockstar Bar! A 9:00 PM start time is advertised for this show, you must be 19 to attend, and I imagine a cover charge of around $5 is in order. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page!

This should be quite an intense concert, and it's great to see both of these bands back upstairs at The Algonquin for differing (yet similar) reasons! I absolutely 110% plan to be there, so keep an eye out for any possible updates as they roll in, and just in a final Garden of Bedlam note, their album "Everything Will Die" is finally available on iTunes! You can pick it up there at this link for $16.90 or $1.69 a song, so if you want an official mp3 copy of it, head there to download it!

Also in new concerts, The Locals Attack once again on November 26th! Taking on the sub-branding of the Dead In The Van all ages concert on March 4th, this will be a very similar concert in many ways, as it's also a J.D. Pearce-promoted ALL AGES concert at The Canadian Nightclub with a wide array of local metal & punk bands, so who's currently confirmed? Four bands so far (none yet from Dead In The Van), including new local thrash band Pillory, local/North Shore death metal trio Crimson Crusade, new local punk band The Northern Tragedy (featuring Changing Waves bassist Terrence Gomes on drums), and "blue Chinese metal crash punk" quartet Sykotyk Rampage, which adds to a diverse lineup of bands so far! In terms of milestones, this is Pillory's first announced live concert, Crimson Crusade's first public concert since the departure of guitarist Brock Pinder, theirs & The Northern Tragedy's Canadian Nightclub debuts, and Sykotyk Rampage's first Canadian Nightclub appearance since the Kiss Battle of the Bands almost three years ago, and there's a lot of newer & established talent in these bands, so don't miss them all (and more) on the 26th!

More bands are being sought to fill out spots on this lineup, so if you're at all interested, message J.D. on Facebook at this location or via the Facebook event page to see if your band can get on! I know J.D.'s hoping for a few high school age bands (especially given it's all ages status), so if your band is, don't miss out on this opportunity! For reference sake, Dead In The Van: The Locals Attack in March featured Frightlight, As It Stands, Redundant, For All That Is Lost, Inhuman Methods, and "Evil" Greg Callaghan, alongside the former Late & Loud and the now-London based Valentine's Day Massacre, so there's a hint for what we could expect on November 26th. Start times, band order, and cover charges have yet to be announced, but stay tuned to the above links to stay in the loop! It's great to see another all ages multi-band concert like this on the horizon, and kudos to J.D. for getting another one in the works, which will add to an already promising November for local metal concerts! Stay tuned to the SMS for further updates as they come in, and get your bands on this!

And finally for today, here's a preview for a pair of heavier concerts on this quiet concert weekend, as Powerslug are back at The Rapids Lounge at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino TOMORROW NIGHT & SATURDAY NIGHT! Thanks to Kewadin Casino's entertainment page, their stops there are always welcome for advance coverage (given their lack of an online page to plug them), but regardless of the notice, the two Chris' & Bob should deliver a fun night of heavier covers for their fans at the Soo Kewadin branch this weekend! Admission should be free for tomorrow & Saturday's shows, with 21+ age limits and 10:00 PM-ish start times likely. For more details, check the above links! These should be some solid concerts to help kick off November, so don't miss them if you're craving some hard rock in the Eastern U.P. this weekend! For a preview, I was going to share their only public video here (from a show in Ludington earlier this year), but it was deleted from Facebook for unknown reasons in recent months, but hopefully media of theirs turns up again soon, and trust me, Powerslug have the talent and heaviness to rock Kewadin this weekend, so don't miss out!

That's probably all for today, but stay tuned tomorrow for this month's "Where Are The New Albums?" post, a video-heavy new post in the coming days, and more! Thanks everyone!