Helping to fill time while they can't play shows, local power rock quartet Re:Born posted a full concert set of theirs from last year onto their Facebook page on Sunday! Specifically, this comes from their Rockstar Bar headlining show on June 29th, 2019, which served as a farewell party for guitarist Blair Burch's son Cory before his year-long move out west. If you want to read my review of Cory's Bon Voyage Party, including video footage of Re:Born and the opening bands, click here. The videos were originally intended for Cory's private viewing as a farewell gift, and the band did warn fans that this was more of a loose, freeform, and "slightly alcohol tinged" set than normal for them. Uploaded in three chunks due to Re:Born's camera having a 23 minute recording limit per video, the first chunk is embedded below, where you can see them tackle Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me", Judas Priest's "Breaking The Law", their original "Running Away", Guns N' Roses' "My Michelle", Kissin' Dynamite's "Sex Is War", ...
...Motley Crue's "Live Wire", and the beginning of Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years". That song is continued into the second video, which also features Re:Born playing Black Sabbath's "Children of the Sea", Edguy's "Lavatory Love Machine" (featuring guest singer Alandra Brooks), their original "Die Another Day", and Billy Talent's "Viking Death March", notably featuring drummer Brandan Glew on lead vocals. The set concludes in the third video with the end of "Viking Death March" and a cover of Halestorm's "Love Bites", and also includes the band leaving the stage and mingling for the rest of it's 10 minute run time. The video quality is pretty good, if not centred to the stage, and everyone's clearly having a good time on a bittersweet night, but the audio quality is the drawback here, as vocals can often be muffled and drowned out by the instruments. Still, this is our longest and most substantial look at Re:Born yet, ad hopefully we'll see them (and everyone else) on stage again soon! Check out the first part of Re:Born's full set below, and see much more above from it!
Next up, lots of talented local musicians will join forces for a special live-streamed "online benefit concert"called SMAC-19 (Sault Musicians Against COVID-19) on Wednesday! Coordinated by new local internet radio station The Borderline, this is similar in intent to last week's Coronafest, but all-local and much bigger in scope and length, with plans to support the Sault Area Hospital Foundation's emergency operations, which is even more important than ever nowadays, though I don't know if/how organizers are facilitating donations. The Mike's Lunch Music Facebook group lists a massive schedule of 20 local musicians and acts performing sets of 15 or 30 minutes apiece, and much like at last fall's The Soo's Got Talent, local rap/party metal trio The Apocalypse Afterparty are massive outliers as the only metal/hard rock band on the bill, with their 15 minute set scheduled for 11:15 PM as the day's penultimate performance (DJ Peter Florio will close SMAC-19 at 11:30 PM.) The other acts largely don't have obvious hard rock ties, but there are a lot of familiar faces!Among artists you'll see on Wednesday (starting at 3:30 PM) are M.D. Dunn, Eric Brombacher (minus The Soo), DJ Seith, ex-Thin Ice frontman Nathan Albidone, Sault Michigan's Tyler Dettloff (ex-Insipid Brutality), Rising Tide guitarist Liam Seymour, Al Wood (minus The Woodsmen), Papa Fogals Chair alum Andy Chillman, Lindsay Pugh, and Jacob Quarrell. Facebook live-streaming has picked up a lot of steam this year as a stop-gap while concert venues remain closed, and hopefully SMAC-19 will deliver more entertaining music performances! Tune into Mike's Lunch Music linked above to watch!
We'll close today with the latest YouTube channel uploads from local death metal solo project Black Cloud, as Peytan quietly uploaded each individual song from his debut demo "Abstract Sounds" there earlier this week, though some have amended titles (like "Wanders" rather than "Wanderers".) However, two brand new instrumental demo tracks were posted there too, entitled "Bloodbaiting" and, as embedded below, "Ghost Stomp". It's not yet clear on if these songs will be part of his next release "Ambient Silence" or not, but if that title isn't ironic, these obviously wouldn't be applicable there. These are works in progress that would benefit from louder and more focused drums, but it's good to hear new stuff from Black Cloud, and while we haven't heard from them on social media in the past month, the new YouTube activity seem like a good sign for fans. Check out "Ghost Stomp" below, and hear more above!That's all for today, but stay tuned for either our A Dire Setback CD review or part 2 of our WLS0 9O.1 FM retrospective series on the site tomorrow, but both are coming in the near future! Thanks everyone!
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