YouTube Channel Profile Series: Destroilet's Channel

Here's this month's YouTube Channel Profile, as we again shine a spotlight on a randomly selected YouTube channel whose public videos are at least half devoted to local metal, hard rock, and/or punk artists and/or concerts! This month's channel takes us to another single-band offering, this time one of the most prominent local hardcore punk bands of the 2010s, so here's what you should know in this month's profile!

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Destroilet's Channel (http://youtube.com/destroilet)

Owner: A member of 2009-2021 local hardcore punk band Destroilet, exact identity unclear

Channel Timeline: Launched on October 18th, 2009; Videos uploaded from the beginning of 2010 through October 2013

Channel Summary: The official YouTube channel for Destroilet, it captures their early run via five (generally short) concert videos and two uploads of songs from their 2012 self-titled album.

Why You Should Watch: Fans of Destroilet's ferocious hardcore punk attack will want to check out their content here, and while venue lighting isn't always ideal, you do get a sense of what made them special to subgenre fans of the era! Note that the channel was not used after 2013, prior to the release of the "Fed Up!" split, their brief 2014-15 run as a sextet, and their late-era slowdown in gigs, but numerous fan videos from their mid-late 2010s run can be found elsewhere, and drummer Matt Waples would later post songs of theirs on his own YouTube channel.

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DESTROILET - TENNESSEE DRIVER: The first four videos on Destroilet's channel come from their debut live set in December 2009, when they opened for the similarly named local/Toronto hardcore punk quartet Detroit (fronted by their future co-vocalist Brenton Ellis) at their CD release party at Coch's Corner. This was back when Coch's was located in the Days Inn on Bay Street, now the Holiday Inn Express. Destroilet were exclusively filmed here doing covers, including The Dayglo Abortions' "My Erection" and fellow locals Fistmagnet's "Evil God Hater" from a more distant filmer. Another attendee much closer to the band filmed part of GG Allin's "Murder For The Mission" and, as featured here, "Tennessee Driver" by Hank Williams III's band Assjack. Despite some tinny audio, this is good as you could expect local digital camera video from a concert 15 years ago to be, and Destroilet are already showing their intense attack at this early stage, no doubt helped by members' prior local band work!

Destroilet - Cockteaser Pleaser (4 songs): After putting out a self-titled six-song EP in April 2011, Destroilet opted to re-release it in December 2012 with six more new songs. To promote the reissue, "Eternal Fire" was posted on YouTube later that month, followed by this teaser upload of four of the seven original cuts in 2013 (it also had five covers). In order, you'll hear "Truly Infected", "R.O.Y.C.", and "Eternal Fire" again, followed by "End Me", which is the only song here that was on the original 2011 EP. Featuring Matt alongside late frontman Mike Hull, guitarists John Conway and Christian Foisy, and bassist Adam Larocque, this sampler is a good way to introduce new fans to their studio material, especially with "Truly Infected" leading off! All sixteen of Destroilet's released studio songs, including the four new cuts on 2015's "Fed Up!" split, can be heard on YouTube here and here.

Destroilet - Eternal Fire: The last and most popular video on this channel is a music video for the aforementioned "Eternal Fire", as filmed/edited by Fred Kember with the 705 Video Magazine. This was filmed across multiple cameras when Destroilet opened for The Bunchofuckingoofs at the former Roosevelt Hotel (now Jay's Piston Broke Pub) in August 2013, before being uploaded on Devil's Night that year. While the vocals aren't always lined up with the studio track, this was well put together and captures Destroilet at their relative local peak nicely with a raucous crowd! Of course, Mike was in his element here too with another intense performance with constant motion, and he is definitely still missed in the local scene!

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I hope you guy liked this month's YouTube Channel Profile! Next month in this series, our next random channel selection is of local industrial metal solo project Molten Imp, so look for that on or around November 26th, and stay tuned for more news and notes on the site soon! Thanks everyone!

Green Christmas Party Updates, A New Woods Of Ypres Song, And Much More!!

It's time for some more news and notes, so here's what you should know in the local metal scene today! We've got major updates to an upcoming local concert, changes to an upcoming local hard rock album, a brand new song from a prominent local band, and our latest Christmas surprise as we get closer to the 25th, so let's dive right in, and also check out this month's YouTube Channel Profiles in the post below this one!

The Green Christmas Bash scheduled for Saturday night at Feedback has been postponed, moved, and halved, so here's what you should know concerning changes to this concert. The original Facebook event page for it (itself the second for this concert) was deleted & replaced with this new event page confirming a number of changes, most notably that this show has been moved from Feedback on Saturday night to Coch's Corner on Tuesday night. No reason was publically announced for the date or venue changes, though despite the post-Christmas timeframe it now falls in, the show is still hyped as the Green Christmas Bash. I'll say that the date change makes sense, as I'm sure more people will be available to go when the show isn't on an actual holiday, but I wonder what prompted the move to Coch's Corner? Hopefully it's as simple as a date conflict or holiday commitments, but I don't know for sure. That said, the lineup for this concert has been cut in half with the changes, as local death metal quartet View To A Kill and the folk/alternative outfit Ye Olde Mold Pickers have both been removed from the show's lineup. Again, I don't know why either band dropped out, but it's disappointing to see them not on this show, and hopefully it's as simple as a schedule conflict for both.

That said, this show is still going on with local punk trio RedD Monkey and local crash quartet Sykotyk Rampage bringing some entertaining hard edged music to Coch's Corner on Tuesday, so take note of that for your post-Christmas musical entertainment! There shouldn't be a cover charge here either, there's a 10:00 PM start time listed, and you must be 19 to attend. Check the above links for more details, and stay tuned likely this weekend for more on this show as part of our next batch of concert previews!!

Next up, this is a complete surprise to me to see this, but a new song from local doom metal standouts Woods of Ypres has been posted online! Entitled "Travelling Alone", it's another slower and melodic doom metal number from next month's "Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light", and though band pages have yet to formally post or acknowledge the song, the German branch of Metal Hammer Magazine has uploaded the song for fans to check out at this location (note that you'll need a translator to read the text there.) According to this post on Metal Assault, frontman David Gold confirmed that "Travelling Alone" is about travelling to foreign lands, experiencing different cultures, and interrogative discussions about existence and God, and he added a lot of personal experience-tinged thoughts about the song's meaning there. The song sounds good, but I'll hold detailed thoughts until we review "Woods V" early next year. If you wanna check it out, follow the above links, or check out this YouTube upload below from YouTube user Khalil Mikael! Kudos to him, despite the outdated band photo!



Thirdly today, here's some updates from local hard rock solo artist Mike Haggith, specifically concerning his upcoming 45th studio album! On Monday, Mike announced that next month's scheduled new release "410 To Scotland" has been renamed "Neighbourhood Watch" after an impromptu photo shoot for the album, and a new album cover (on your right) and slightly altered track listing is now out for the album as well. More specifically, the opening track "Who Owns Space 82?" has been "indefinitely scrapped" in lieu of a new song named "Stalking Booze & The Raptor", while a title track for the album has been added at the end, and an instrumental named "Room 822" is a possible inclusion as well. The album on the whole is the same though, including the January 25th release date, so the experience of "Neighbourhood Watch" should be about the same as it would have been before! For more, click here for to stream promising instrumental mixes of two songs, and click here for Mike's updated discography entry on this album. This is definitely shaping up to be another quality album from Mike Haggith, and hopefully it gets a good response when it comes out next month! Stay tuned for more on Mike's solo project as I hear it!

And finally, here's our latest Christmas surprise, and it's a full demo release by a local band, that being Sault Ontario hardcore quartet Changing Waves! We haven't heard much from them in almost 4 months, but since their debut last year, they've quickly became a talented sight at local metal concerts. Select fans were lucky enough to get clearer versions of some of their originals on May 19th when the band distributed free copies of a demo called "Demolisten" to attendees of their show that night at The Roosevelt Hotel, and I was a recipient of one of the demos! I don't believe that Changing Waves had copies of "Demolisten" at any other concerts they've had this year, so I'd assume that this demo isn't in print anymore, but for the holiday season, I thought I'd post the songs from their demo onto our YouTube channel! The demo (which featured hand burned & written CDs & jewel cases with differing designs) featured 6 songs with a total length of around 19 minutes, including their songs "Tital", "What's It Supposed To Do?", "Jung Jung", "Jenny", "Lockdown", and "Away", and you can click each link to hear the recordings that Changing Waves made for each song on the demos, which all show promise and some good diversity to their hardcore sound!

NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED!! All credit for these songs goes to Changing Waves, I'm just sharing them with a wider audience like they deserve! Note as well that all 6 songs from this demo are featured on the band's MySpace page (along with an unused song named "Beadsbeadsbeads"), but some YouTube exposure for these songs is always welcome! Check out the opening track from "Demolisten" below, and stay tuned for more from Changing Waves as it comes in!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for post-Christmas concert previews, more news and Christmas surprises, our next Saultites In Out Of Town Bands Profile on Repetitions, and much more over the next few days! Thanks everyone!