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So we were excited to announce the release of our boys in WolfShark EP FINDING YOURSELF! Check out these videos they put together to promote the EP in collaboration with Brandan Keller!
Its that time of year again! this friday we are stoked to be a part of the second annual Heart Wood Ball! we love all the bands, you love all the bands, lets get together and party! remember masquerade style attire is suggested but its still cool if you dont! We will have a table set up and lots of love to give! Check out the line up !
SO THIS WEEKEND WE ARE EXCITED TO BE A PART OF KNOCKED UP FEST! BASICALLY IT WILL BE A WEEKEND OF GETTING GNARLY, LISTENTING TO SOME GREAT BANDS, DRINKING LOTS OF BEER, AND PROBABLY PASSING OUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE! WE SERIOUSLY CANT WAIT! A BIG THANKS TO OUR BOYS IN LAKE EFFECT AND CST FOR PUTTING THIS ALL TOGETHER! HERES THE LINE UP FOR SAT AND SUNDAY!
There has been a recent rise in female based alternative bands. Obviously there has always been bands like this around. But it seems to me that I've been seeing more and more bands with female vocals getting recognition, signed and touring. Warped tour was saturated with them this year. Half of the bands on the Journeys stage had female singers. It is very regrettable to say that in the past having an all girl band would be perceived as a gimmick. But that is NOT THE CASE for our friends in CONQUER DIVIDE. These hard working musicians have been giving it all on the road to chase their dream. In no way is this a band of "DO NOTHING BITCHES"
Honestly I had a long drawn out background blog written support these wonderful ladies. But through my research i found this video that was released last month, and i feel it covers everything way better than what i had wrote. So check out this video and meet Conquer Divide.
Imagine the lowest, dirtiest, sludgiest, darkest two piece instrumental band you can think of. Well if Beast In The Field wasn't your first pic...well you are fucking up. The Band is comprised of drummer Jamie Jahr and guitarist Jordan Pries. I once heard a story of how Jordan was attempting to have a guitar painted with the blood of a Virgin! these guys are seriously on another level. being a two piece usually leaves a lot of extra space on stage and what better way to fill up that stage then with full stacks! this is an example of their stage set up!
if you dont wear ear protection then i feel really sorry for you. trust me you can still hear everything wearing ear plugs. Shit you can feel his low notes vibrating through your spine! And yes we know a lot of big bands will have the stage set up with dummy cabs. I can assure you, that is not the case with these dudes! The dudes just played Dirt Fest this past weekend but you can feel it for yourself at Frankies this weekend:
For real though. check out this video and head bang along! shits too good!
WELL ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! DIRT FEST WILL BE ROCKING OUT THIS WEEK! THIS YEAR IS GOING TO BE FULL OF GUILTY PLEASURES! BANDS LIKE FEAR FACTORY, COAL CHAMBER AND EVEN MUSHROOM HEAD! BUT WE ARE STOKED FOR THE STRONG MICHIGAN ACTS LIKE KING 810, CHILD BITE BEAST IN THE FIELD AND OUR BOYS IN WOLFSHARK! COME VISIT OUR TENT AND LETS PARTY HARD AND GET OUR METAL ON !
Well its finally hear! We've been preparing all year for this lil midwest jaunt and we couldnt be more excited! The Vans Warped Tour is one of the biggest tours of the year! We are excited because our boys in We Came as Romans and The 68 are rocking out the whole tour! The Detroit date will be this friday at the Palace. We are stoked for the Wolfshark dudes winning the Ernie Ball BOTB so they will be rocking out the Ernie Ball stage. Also Taking Dreams and Rumours will be rocking the local stage! Head to the shelter this wed to see who wins the last installment of the Warped Tour BOTB and see who else gets to rock the stage! If you are going to be rocking out at warped tour this year...come visit our tent for some exclusive merch that we are releasing just for Warped! We are calling it "Sin Eater" -Aren
SO OBVIOUSLY YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW WHO LET LIVE IS ...OR AT LEAST YOU SHOULD! WELL THE DUDES ARE COMING TO TOWN AND PLAYING AT OUR BELOVED SHELTER. THIS SHOW IS GOING TO RIP FOR OBVIOUS REASONS BUT WE ARE STOKED BECAUSE OUR BOYS IN WOLFSHARK AND NARCO DEBUT WILL BE SHARING THE STAGE! SO YOU ALL BETTER BE THERE!
CHUMP
CHəmp/
noun
informal
noun: chump; plural noun: chumps
a foolish or easily deceived person.
"how can this chump be a detective?"
WELL THE TAKING DREAMS DUDES ARE AT IT AGAIN! THE LONG AWAITED ALBUM "CHUMP" DROPPED AND IT RULES! ALL ATTITUDE-NO REGRETS. THE TITLE TRACK CHUMP HAS REMNANTS OF LATE 90'S NEW METAL WITH TURNTABLE SCRATCHES ALONG WITH DRIVING HOOKS THAT BRING IN YOUR INNNER RAGE!
CHECK OUT THE TITLE TRACK OF "CHUMP" HERE:
JUST STOP! JUST STOP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING...I DONT CARE IF ITS YOUR MORNING COFFEE OR IF ITS LUNCH TIME FOR YOU OR IF YOUR MOM ASKED TO TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH. FUCK FACEBOOK -FUCK TWITTER OR ANYTHING ELSE RIGHT NOW. GO LISTEN TO THE NEW RECORD FROM THE ARMED. THESE DETROIT LOCALS WERE QUOTED BY ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE AS "THE MUSICAL EQUIVALENT OF WAKING UP TO A DEFIBRILLATOR SHOCK!" WITH SONGS LIKE "FOREVER SCUM" "DEAD ACTRESS" "FUTURE DRUGS" AND SO MANY OTHER THAT WILL TEAR UP YOUR INSIDES!
THIS SHIT ELECTRIFIES EVERY CELL IN MY BODY THAT MAKES ME WANTS TO RAMPAGE!
-AREN
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DONT KNOW WHO WILSON IS....YOURE FUCKING UP! WILSON WAS WITH US FROM THE START OF VILE. THESE DUDES HOLD THE FLAG HIGH OF WHAT IT MEANS "TO KEEP IT VILE" AND SPREAD "FUCKERY!" WE ARE SO PROUD BECAUSE IN LESS THAN A WEEK WILSON WILL BE RELEASING THEIR SECOND FULL LENGTH ALBUM "RIGHT TO RISE." ON RAZOR AND TIE RECORDS THE DUDES WILL BE HAVING A "LOCALS ONLY" RELEASE PARTY AT THE CROFOOT THIS SAT, ALONG SIDE WITH OUR BROTHERS IN WOLFSHARK.
SO FOR THE TIME BEING WE'D LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK BACK AT THE LAST COUPLE YEARS OF FUCKERY, APPRECIATE THE ROAD THAT THEY HAVE FOUGHT FOR, AND GET STOKED FOR THE YEARS TO COME! XOXO -AREN
SO RIGHT OFF THE BAT, FOR THOSE WHO DONT KNOW ABOUT THE SYCAMOUR DUDES, WELL YOU SHOULD BY NOW. IF YOU DONT KNOW WHO BRANDAN KELLER IS BY NOW, WELL YOU SHOULD. BRANDAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AWESOME CINEMATIC VIDEOS THAT THE SYCAMOUR DUDES HAVE BEEN KNOWN FOR. NOW THE DUDES AND BRANDAN HAVE RELEASED THIS LIVE VIDEO FOR THEIR SONG "CALM DOWN JULIET" ON AP MAGAZINES! PROUD OF YOU GUYS!
PS CATCH THE DUDES ON THE TAIL END OF THEIR "TOURS FROM THE CRYPT" TOUR!
PART2
ALRIGHT! FOLLOW UP POST ON OUR DUDES IN WE CAME AS ROMANS! CHECK OUT THEIR NEW VIDEO THAT DROPPED TODAY. "REGENERATE" WAS SHOT IN OUR NECK OF THE WOODS FULL OF PEOPLE IN OUR MUSIC SCENE! SO CHECK IT OUT AND I YOU ARE A LOCAL, SEE IF YOU CAN SEE YOUR FRIENDS OR EVEN YOURSELF.
MAKE SURE YOU GUYS CATCH THE DUDES ON THIS YEARS 2015 WARPED TOUR!
WE ARE STOKED FOR THE RELEASE OF OUR BROTHERS IN WCAR'S 2015 SELF TITLED RELEASE. WE KNOW THE DUDES HAVE BEEN DOING A TON OF TOURING AND TRAVELING ALL OVER PLANET EARTH AND WE KNOW THAT A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE RELEASE OF THEIR LAST RECORD "TRACING BACK ROOTS.'' THE DUDES ARE ALL A LITTLE OLDER, A LITTLE WISER AND MORE MATURE. SO I HAVE A FEELING THAT THIS RECORD IS GOING TO BE FULL WITH WELL PLANNED HOOKS, ANTHEMIC MELODIES AND OVER ALL SHOW STOMPERS.
CHECK OUT THIS TEASER AND PRE ORDER...CUZ THERE IS ALWAYS COOL EXTRA SHIT THAT COMES WITH PRE ORDERS! SO DO IT!
THIS WEEK WE ARE STOKED FOR THE RELEASE OF OUR BOYS IN RUMOURS FIRST MUSIC VIDEO FOR THEIR NEW SINGLE BLACKLISTED! CHECK OUT THE TEASER HERE!
ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! FUSHION SHOWS PUTS ON THEIR ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND FESTIVAL: BLED FEST! SOME WHERES AROUND A THOUSAND KIDS PACKED INTO STAGE AFTER STAGE (CAREFULLY SEPARATED) ROCKING OUT TO THEIR FAVORITE LOCALS AS WELL AS A STRONG NATIONAL PACKAGE!
THERE ARE SOOO MANY GOOD BANDS PLAYING THIS YEAR! CHECK THE LIST!
MAKE SURE YOU CATCH SETS FROM OUR BOYS IN NARCO DEBUT, LAKE EFFECT, FLINT EASTWOOD, BOYS OF FALL
SO MOST OF YOU MICHIGAN LOCALS ALREADY KNOW WHO AND WHAT GIFT GIVER IS. BUT FOR THOSE WHO DONT, GIFT GIVER EXEMPLIFY THE BEST PART OF THE MICHIGAN METAL SCENE AND THEY BRING IT IN THEIR NEWEST RELEASE: SHIT LIFE. WITH SONGS LIKE CURSED, BASTARD DEATH WISH, SCUMBAG PT2 AND MONEY SHOT YOU WILL BE TAKEN TO A PLACE...A DARK PLACE BUT A REAL PLACE NONE THE LESS. THESE ANN ARBOR NATIVES ARE REPRESENTING THE MITTEN HARD! SO GO BUY LISTEN TO SHIT LIFE FOR YOURSELF! AND SUPPORT THOSE WHO MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF THIS FUCKED UP WORLD!
PS CREEP THEIR NEWEST MUSIC VIDEO "TRENDKILL"
So I know I keep reviewing really twinkly emo/post rock stuff, and I promise I'll get to some heavier stuff soon, but local dudes keep hitting me with these incredible releases and I'd be really fucking shitty for not showing them to you! Not too long ago I showed you guys the single "Hauntings" by Lemix J. Buckley, and now I get to show you "Forgive Yourself" and finish what's been started :)
Cred: Marlene Lacasse
It's a short lil' fella, with only 4 tracks, but it friggin' hits you. You go from the poppy, yet noodly, yet somber single to open with. Vocals chime in repeatedly "Does anybody have a gun? Won't you clean up when I'm done?". Heavy shit. Definitely a darker themed set of songs, despite the glassy twinkly finish. It's beautiful, though. Josh(Gill) and Gage(Welch) compliment eachother well with the sings and the strings. Then we check into "Bluff" which sort of sticks to the theme of "Hauntings", but seems to get even darker, as it seems to be telling a story from a convicted killer's vantage point- "Smiling in my concrete room//Remembering how I dismembered you ". Gorgeous guitar work and brilliant pacing by the drummer, Mr. Alex Bazzi, who's love for Zach Hill shows in this one. Kudos to Bradley(Lockheart) for holding it down on bass with such an animal on the skins. ;)
Next we hit a spacier sounding "The Advocate", which really is a change of pace with a waltzy-er pace to go with the echo-ing guitars. It slowly builds in to a much more driving sound and pounds away till the end. Most excellent. But they saved the best for last. "Complex Up" really just shows off everything you'd love about these guys. Kicks off with a really bright, dance-y riff and verse that leads to this glorious chorus bit that just makes you wanna touch yerself. The VERY BEST PART, however is the incredible, building climax of and ending. Josh starts screaming in-between croons, and it all just ends in the right place, with Josh Screaming "I'm fucking sorry". Juicy, twinkly, emotive songs from an incredible Metro Det. area band. Check it below:
SEE? I fucking love these songs. Go download this shit. Listen to it repetitively and check these guys out live, they post shows on facebook!
In the meantime, I need to figure out why my poop is neon green!
See ya next week <3
-XOXO TOPH
PS- MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!
Hey guys!
As you probably already know, Wayne Szaliniski has won my heart with their full-length effort "Black Mirror" last year. Since the album's release they have gone through some changes, and now they are headed out on a whopper of a tour! I took a sec to chat with frontman Andy Milad, who doubles as one of my favorite people on earth!
PHOTO CRED: Daniel Balderas
