LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (Tym Morrison), A New Local Metal Band, And New Videos!!

The steady stream of new posts this week continues today with a LOCAL CONCERT ALERT and some new audio recordings from a local metal act, but first, here's a new addition to our band links that you more progressively minded metalheads will want to take notice of!

We have another new-ish local band to add to our Sault Ontario band links, and they are progressive/djent metal band PROV3RB5 (always capitalized), who have been active primarily as an international studio project so far, but have begun more of a local outreach this year. Their founding and only current local member is guitarist Benjamin Roswell, a Brantford native and current Sault Ste. Marie resident with no major prior local band ties that I'm aware of, and he's currently joined by Toronto-based bassist Bryan Lee, who has also doubled as drummer. Until last month, their singer was Australian metal vocalist Josh Ratcliff, who amicably left PROV3RB5 for personal reasons. This band had the misfortune of publically launching in March 2020, and subsequent updates were sporadic at best until 2022, when they began teasing the release of their first single "Treasure Forest" in February.

That was followed by a second single "Sea of Tranquility" in March, and you can hear both songs on multiple social media and music platforms linked here, with the songs getting exposure & play across progressive and metalcore-friendly corners of the internet since. Their third single "Particles" was launched with an online release party (as in, held via Zoom) this past Friday, and it features guest performances by guitarist Kevin Xiong of Minnesota progressive metal solo project Stelliferous and the singer of the masked Ohio metal band Echobreak. While this may not sound all that local in focus, Benjamin is looking to change that, as he did post on the local Musicians Wanted Facebook group last week that he's looking to find a singer, rhythm guitarist, and drummer to fill out PROV3RB5, preferably ones with their own recording studio access, and to send him samples of your compositions above or at this link if you're interested.

The Soo is not completely devoid of djent-able metal musicians (Kraken Mara, anyone?), so hopefully Ben finds some capable hires, as PROV3RB5 are very talented and know what to do towards a highly professional studio sound and visual presentation! Benjamin's an excellent technical guitarist with a lot of diverse influences, Bryan matches nicely on bass, and while no longer in the band, Josh had the screaming and clean vocal ability needed on their first two singles! It'll be interesting to see where PROV3RB5 go from here, but check out their three singles above and more videos on their Facebook page, and here's the well edited official music video from "Sea of Tranquility" courtesy of their YouTube channel!

Next up, here's that LOCAL CONCERT ALERT, as local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison will return to The Mike Case Memorial Stage at The Trading Post on Wednesday, June 1st! Truth be told, I have no clue why Tym is scheduled for a mid-week show like this, especially as June 1st is not a holiday (my first thought is this was a typo and he's playing there on July 1st for Canada Day). Maybe it's just a special thing to kick off the summer months? You may recall seeing Tym play outside of The Trading Post for a string of mostly weekly summer gigs last year from July-September, which were his first public dates since the pandemic began. Hopefully his unplugged hard and classic rock hits find a receptive audience next week, and we'll cover his show at The Mike Case Memorial Stage this weekend in our upcoming weekend concert preview posts. Expect a 7:00 PM start time, no cover charge, and no age limits next week.

And of course, The Trading Post is located at 1332 Great Northern Road, way down if you're not coming from up north already, but it's a nice outdoor spot for a drive, tourism, and meals, weather permitting! Visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and stay tuned for more on his prior show there this weekend in a couple of days!

Finally, here's the latest videos from Sault Michigan classical metal project Theatre of Night's YouTube channel from last week! Continuing their frequent if usually slightly cryptic studio work outside of their holiday season touring, they shared their "Metal Mozart Concerto #11" last Sunday, featuring an audio cover of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart piece. Very solidly done take that effectively metallizes this classical staple! Nice visualizations too, but despite using a band photo featuring singer Rachel Mender front & center, this is an instrumental recording. Embedded below is "Instrumental Dark Acoustic Revenge", an original composition by keyboardist Craig Harrison and guitarist Steve Giles that gives fans an accurately described yet melodic piece of music that sets the right darker mood! It's worth noting that the band has since packaged these songs together on Spotify in a "compilation album" of their instrumental recordings not related to the Christmas season.

I don't consider albums only released on Spotify as "albums" as it's a free platform (this isn't even on Reverbnation), but you can do far worse with your time than listen to 23 well recorded epic instrumental metal songs! Good to see the Theatre of Night crew keeping busy as we approach the summer, so give their newest uploads a listen above & below!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site as the week continues! Thanks everyone!