LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Bone Yard & Project 906), Plus New E.U.P. Metal Videos!!

One final post for this February 2023 today, and we're mostly heading to Sault Michigan and area, including via some new videos from two prominent original acts, but leading off, here's some seasonal LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS on both sides of the border next month!

Local blues/hard rock quartet Project 906 will return to nearby Hessel for a St. Patrick's Day concert on Friday, March 17th at The Islander Bar! Fresh off of their trip to Brimley on Saturday, this will be Project 906's first gig at the 134 South Pickford Avenue nightclub since they performed there over Halloween weekend, and the seasonality had drawn them back to Hessel next month, so expect the usual Irish/green-dyed frills for the occasion! Just lucky timing this year that St. Patrick's Day is a Friday, huh? If there are specific promotions linked to the holiday, I haven't heard pray tell of them, but follow the venue and band's social media accounts for more in that regard. As far as I can gather, this show has no cover charge and an 8:00 PM start time, and of course, expect a 21+ age limit. Visit the above links for more on Project 906's St. Patrick's Day show!

Next up, let's head north to Sault Ontario, where local southern hard rock cover trio Bone Yard will return to Jay's Piston Broke Pub for concerts on Friday, March 17th & Saturday, March 18th! These dates were announced via this new Facebook concert calendar image covering the band's dates next month, though the Jay's gigs are the only ones that Bone Yard hadn't already announced on their Facebook page in some form or fashion. Last seen at Jay's earlier this month, the March dates obviously fall on St. Patrick's Day weekend too, and while it's hard to imagine that the former Reggie's West will pass on the opportunity to partake in the Irish-themed festivities and green beer and whatnot, remember that this is the first St. Patrick's Day under Jay's ownership of the Korah Road bar, so we don't know what to fully expect. Regardless, expect these shows to be at 9:30 PM with no cover charge and 19+ age limits. See above for more details!

While we're on the subject, Bone Yard definitely did not play at Reggie's Place this past weekend (Shirley Marie Kominos replaced them), and while they never announced the cancellations or gave a reason for withdrawing, they did share this "Reel" video on their Facebook page on Friday morning (unembeddable externally) revealing that they were working on original music, and that "things are brewing in the Bone Yard camp". You can hear the guys jamming in the clip, but the black & white vertical video doesn't show anyone on camera, primarily just Greg's drumkit. Bone Yard have teased working on originals before without a finite release, but this clip does sound promising, so check it out above!

We'll head back to Sault Michigan and the E.U.P. for the second half of today's post, starting with a new music video from local classical metal band Theatre of Night's YouTube channel! Premiering there as a scheduled upload on Friday, this is for their original and non-seasonal song "The Killing", which was first released back in 2014, and features Italian singer Ida Elena on vocals (remember, before they started touring, they worked with European singers like Ida and Gaby Koss on studio material). I believe the band proper has updated the song for this new posting, which can also be heard on major streaming services, though Ida's guest vocals remain intact. "The Killing" is sung from the perspective of a murder victim, and the accompanying black-and-white music video features an assortment of dark and ominous video clips fitting the lyrics, plus isolated shots of keyboardist Craig Harrison and guitarist Steve Giles performing.

No other band members (let alone Ida) are shown performing on camera that I can tell, but note that both in 2014 and now, the song was always more ethereal in tone and never called for drums. The dark overtones fit the lyrics well, even if it's not "heavy" in a metal sense, and Ida's vocals are a great match, so whether you're hearing this for the first time or again, do check out "The Killing" for yourselves below!

Finally, here's some new videos of St. Ignace metalcore quintet Heavy Lies The Crown's concert in Kalamazoo on Saturday night.... well, of one member! After the show (which saw them open for Sleep Signals at Papa Pete's), drummer Jaxon Massaway uploaded five drumcam videos focusing on him playing "*69", "Knucklebutter", "Time Diffuser Or Something Else", "Choke", and as embedded below, "A Sold Soul (A.S.S.)" (they retitled it with the acronym like that, don't shoot the messenger!) The videos are sometimes positioned too high to really show off Jaxon's playing, but you can see that he is a skilled drummer and that should bode well for their album recording sessions in progress! It would have been nice to see the whole band, but these are primarily to focus on Jaxon, not just a poor angle, so keep that in mind. The brutality on display will please fans, so give these new videos a look/listen below!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for much more on the site next month! Thanks everyone!