St. John’s garage punk outfit Sick Puppy are heading to the mainland for a show at Sappyfest 2024. Sappyfest is a three day music and arts festival that occurs in Sackville, New Brunswick. This year it will be occurring between August 2nd and August 4th.
Check out the fest’s LinkTree for more info at this link: here!
~ Akhenaten
St. John’s experimental hardcore troupe The Order of the Precious Blood will be hitting the mainland once again this month for their first ever show in Toronto, Ontario. The band will be performing on Wednesday, June 12th at The Bovine Sex Club as part of North by Northeast 2024 alongside Discontinuity, Basterds, Falls for the Elderly, Polluted, and Trick Casket.
Get your tickets at this link: here!
~ Akhenaten
Halifax hardcore outfits Thousand Knives and Helsreach as well as Cape Breton powerviolence group Fear and Filth have announced an East Coast tour centered around the upcoming Heavy NFLD Fest 2024. The bands will be performing at a preliminary show in Halifax on July 17th before making their way to the island of Newfoundland for several shows between Corner Brook and St. John’s.
The dates are as follows:
~ Akhenaten
Time for our recollection of everything that happened in March of 2024!
Biggest Stories
– Billy Talent and PUP Announced for Iceberg Alley Performance Tent 2024
– The Order of the Precious Blood Announce 2024 Atlantic Canadian Tour
– Today is the Last Day for the 2024 RPM Challenge
New LPs
– Count Cromulent – Monorail
– Personal Space Invaders – Random Noises, A.I. Choices
– Securitron – Post-Apocalyptic Eras
New EPs
– Corsica – Waves
– Ratpiss – Four Humors
New Singles
– Elder Caius – “Super Destroyer”
– Jaded Truth – “Living a Dream”
– The Order of the Precious Blood – “Cheaper But Will Do”
– Sarra Cenia – “Good News”
New Demos
– JRNL – Demo 3
– Monroe – Repeating Perfect Movements
– The Ram Has Touched the Wall – In the Arms of Death
– Sour Gut – Demo ’24
New Music Videos
– Jaded Truth – “Living a Dream”
Album Announcements
– Jigger Reveals Tracklist for Upcoming LP
New Merch
– Guntmold Release Cassette Copies of Blackened Infection
– Sheavy Announce Vinyl Reissue of 2002 LP Synchronized
Album Reviews
– Glitterglue – Friends Club [by James Titford]
– Needle Crafts – Frow’d Up [by James Titford]
The Scrolls of Akhenaten
– The Scrolls of Akhenaten: March 15th, 2024
– The Scrolls of Akhenaten: March 22nd, 2024
– The Scrolls of Akhenaten: March 29th, 2024
Albums Archived
– 6000apez – The Consequential Mudhole [Demo / Hardcore Punk]
– The Beer Patrice – Dead on the Ship [Live LP / Punk]
– Blender – D03s 1t Bl3nd? [Demo / Cybergrind]
– Clocked In – Clocked In / Year of the Rat Split [Split / Hardcore]
– Coward – King Rat [Demo / Pop Punk]
– Coward – Split [Split / Pop Punk]
– Evan Watton – RPM 2021 [LP / Progressive Metal]
– Kick Gut – Kick Gut / Don’t Split [Split / Garage Punk]
– Kick Gut – The Peter Album [LP / Garage Punk]
– Kristopher Crane – Piss Drunx Theme [Single / Hard Rock]
– Make Mean Everything – Gamma Rays [EP / Progressive Rock]
– Make Mean Everything – Make Mean Everything [EP / Progressive Rock]
– Moss Heather – Summer Flu [Single / Garage Punk]
– Of Wilds – A Ghost at the Strid [EP / Progressive Rock]
– Personal Space Invaders – Eat Your Meat [LP / Experimental Rock]
– Ratpiss – Four Humors [EP / Powerviolence]
– Sarra Cenia – Good News [Single / Stoner Rock]
– Solar Tongue – Consideration [EP / Drone Metal]
– Sons of an Eastern Moon – Borealis [EP / Folk Metal]
– The Strangled – Never Forget [LP / Skate Punk]
~ Akhenaten
Lawnya Vawnya, the annual arts and music festival that occurs in St. John’s, Newfoundland, has unveiled its lineup for the 2024 installment, its 14th iteration. These year’s fest will take place across four days spanning from June 5th to June 8th. Among the heavier and loud artists performing this year are Bread Clip, Carnage, Cuerpos, Doberman, Needle Crafts, and Tunnel Vision.
You can get tickets to the event through this link: here!
~ Akhenaten
St. John’s blackened / experimental hardcore outfit The Order of the Precious Blood has revealed the posters and full lineup announcements for the remaining three gigs of their upcoming Maritime tour at the end of April.
On April 26th the band will be in Miramichi, New Brunswick performing at The Shred Shed alongside Moncton death metal / grindcore outfit Ibex and Miramichi local hardcore punks Ten Dollar Meat Bags.
On April 27th the band will be in Moncton, New Brunswick at Xeroz Arcade Bar and will be joined once again by Ibex as well as stoner punks Yhorm from Sussex, New Brunswick.
On April 28th the band will be in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia at The Bitten Moon Pub alongside Breakneck, Great Value, and Nova Scotia powerviolence / hardcore outfit Fear and Filth.
The posters for these remaining gigs are below:
~ Akhenaten
St. John’s blackened / experimental hardcore outfit The Order of the Precious Blood have announced a new tour. Coming up this April, this marks the band’s second excursion off the island since their formation. The group will be playing a series of shows across Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
The tour dates are as follows:
The band will be joined by the following acts on each date:
The supporting acts for the Miramichi, Moncton, and Glace Bay dates have not yet been announced and there are no posters for these dates as of yet either.
Here are the posters for the two St. John’s dates and the Halifax date:
~ Akhenaten
Nameless Friends are a hard rock band from London, Ontario with elements of punk, glam, and prog woven into their music. The band is currently on tour in support of the release of their first full length record, Blasphemy, and one of the stops on that tour is at The Rockhouse in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The band will be performing tonight, Tuesday, February 27th, 2024, with the show kicking off at 7:00 PM. The group will be joined by local power metal outfit Category VI and beatdown upstarts Chokeslam. Tickets are $12 in an advance and $15 at the door.
~ Akhenaten
Heavy Metal Karaoke, the monthly event that once took place at Stanley’s Pub and has since moved to Lucy’s Bar, has revealed some new merch to join the already released buttons and stickers in the project’s merch catalog. The new merch includes a t-shirt and a tote bag, both of which are available for $30 each. The logo was designed by Shan (@s.h.a.n.made) and the merch was created by UFO Screenprinting. The merch is currently available for pre-order, which can be done through the Heavy Metal Karaoke e-mail at hmknl709@gmail.com or through the HMK Instagram, @HeavyMetalKaraoke. They will be available at the next karaoke installment coming up this Saturday on February 24th or will be available for pick-up at any time for those in the St. John’s area.
~ Akhenaten
Glovertown goregrind outfit Shit Dildo have released their first EP. Entitled Odes to the Fecal Phallus, this EP was recorded live off the floor at The Dank Basement in Glovertown, Newfoundland on August 17th, 2023 and was released on October 16th, 2023 through Bandcamp and YouTube via Viridian Records. The EP features 10 tracks of incomprehensible, noisy grindcore, most of which is improvisational in nature.
You can listen to Odes to the Fecal Phallus via our Bandcamp embed below.
~ Akhenaten
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