Local Metal Video Showcase!!

We have a lot of videos in the cache to share with you guys, so here's our first local metal video showcase of November! Today, we have new guitar cover videos from a pair of area hard rock/metal musicians, this week's classic video, and to start, here's another newer video from local grunge quartet Haggith! Their new videos continue to pile up, and we have one more to get to probably next week, but we'll continue with this new live video of the band (minus bassist Caleb Cachagee) playing an acoustic swing variant of their reprise of "Wanko"! Uploaded on Saturday to their YouTube channel, we heard this song in a swing style on a previous concert video, but this unplugged take was filmed outside at night, and as a result, the video quality is incredibly dark. Audio's fine though, and it's an interesting take on the original song with nicely matching lead vocals from Daniel Horton, so check it out below, and stay tuned for more Haggith videos soon!



Next up, here's the newest solo guitar video from former Insipid Brutality/Swayze Train guitarist Scott Savoie! Uploaded to his YouTube channel on Halloween, this is of him (in his Genocya shirt) playing an original metal riff with lead, and he admitted that the video was more filmed to test his phone's new camera, even apologizing for sloppy playing. It's pretty good even still though, and he definitely has clear talent (but if you've seen his past videos or live shows, you'd know that), so check out Scott's latest video below for some entertaining guitar shredding!



Thirdly today, here's a new video from a Sault Michigan native that we haven't heard much from vocally in recent years, that being RedStone Riot/ex-Elipzis bassist Ryan Harrison! Over a year before moving to Muskegon, Ryan was the frontman of Absolute successors Riot! By Night from 2009-2010 before switching to bass full time in later bands, and while Riot! By Night videos never made it public, Ryan did upload solo acoustic covers of rock songs onto his YouTube channel through April 2010. Over two and a half years later, Ryan finally uploaded three new vocal/guitar covers there yesterday (in what he's calling "The Pajama Sessions"), including his renditions of the Marvelous 3 track "Cigarette Lighter Love Song", "Push" by Matchbox 20, and (as embedded below) Blue October's "Ugly Side", so check them out above & below! Though very soft compared to his full band output, these offer a glimpse at what his live concert singing might have been like, and he shows clear talent on vocals & guitar, including nice control and use of his vocal range, especially on the Marvelous 3 cover!

These are definitely worth checking out, so I've embedded the slightly heavier "Ugly Side" below, but give the rest of his old and new covers a look at the above links, and stay tuned for more from Ryan's solo YouTube channel hopefully soon!

And finally for today, here's this week's classic video! With Powerslug's only video being oddly taken down, I went back to the drawing board to pick an older video to be featured here, and I went with what I would have used had his Roadhouse Bar & Grill show tonight still been on, that being a video featuring Tym Morrison from last year! As you may remember, the Caveman Morrison frontman played a weekly (and later bi-weekly) concert arrangement at The Service Grill on Korah Road from June 2011 through last fall, which garnered a positive response, and one such show on August 27th, 2011 was the partial subject of a video report & article by local news website Local2! Filmed by and featuring remarks & questions from former Local2 contributor Mike Caruso, this video piece features interview segments with both Tym and Service Grill owner Mike LaRue, including remarks on Tym's music, genres, album, band work, and more, while Mike briefly comments on the renovations, hours, and menu at The Service Grill at the start of the video. Tym's interview is partially laid over him covering "Alone" by Heart at that day's acoustic show at The Service Grill's outdoor patio, which is of predictably great quality given it's news connections, and Tym sounds good here on this softer cover!

It's not every day when Local2 touches on SMS-covered acts, though I wish predictions of more live music at The Service Grill had panned out better. This video was originally uploaded on the article linked above via Blip.TV, and to help share it with a wider audience, I thought I'd upload it to YouTube. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED!! All credit for the video & it's contents go to Local2 & Mike Caruso, I'm just trying to share it with a deserving wider audience! It's a nice video profile and interview for sure, so check it and it's attached article out above & below! (The music begins 68 seconds in)



That's all for now, but stay tuned tonight for this month's "Where Are The New Albums?" post! Thanks everyone!