St. John’s hard rock / grunge / alternative rock outfit Nfrared will be performing at the Iceberg Alley Performance Tent this year, and they’ll be opening for the Vancouver pop rock band Marianas Trench alongside the Toronto indie pop artist Mico. The show will be happening tomorrow on Wednesday, June 26th, 2024.
~ Akhenaten
Ontario progressive metalcore band Protest the Hero have never been shy about their love for Newfoundland, thus it should come as no surprise that the band will be making their way to the Rock for two shows in St. John’s on Tuesday, August 20th and Wednesday, August 21st. The band is currently preparing to embark on tour in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their 2013 record Volition.
Almost as soon as the first show was announced it sold out, and so Sometimes Productions has added the second show. However, as of the time of this writing the second show has also sold out.
Protest the Hero will be joined at The Rockhouse by local experimental hardcore / mathcore warriors The Order of the Precious Blood for both dates.
~ 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
July was also a busy month! Tons of new music has been released as well as announced. Check it out below!
Biggest Stories
– Artach Reveal New Logo
– Brutal Youth Return to The Rock for Two Shows in August
– Madison Strip Calls it Quits
– Precious Blood Announce 2023 Maritimes Tour
New EPs
– Carnage – Free At Last
– Cerebral Palsy – Seas of Bloody Mist
New Singles
– Drop Your Trust – “Think for Yourself”
New Demos
– Glitterglue – Shed Demo ’23
– Malpractice – We Don’t Go to Church
– Nerve Shack – Sheep Kill
New Live Albums
– Malpractice – Live June ’89
Album Announcements
– Artach – Untitled New LP
– Triskelyon – Artificial Insanity
New Merch
– Metaphora Reveal New T-Shirts
Albums Archived
– Mistwalker – Oceanic Heritage [LP / Black Metal]
~ Akhenaten
Moncton, New Brunswick stoner punk crew Diner Drugs are heading out on the road this spring, and they’re taking some killer bands with them. The band will be hitting som New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec dates from March through April and will be coming to Newfoundland and Labrador in May.
Dates:
– Friday, March 10th – Saint John, NB @ McGill’s
– Thursday, March 16th – Fredericton, NB @ The Cap
– Friday, March 17th – Moncton, NB @ Xeroz
– Wednesday, April 5th – Ottawa, ON @ The Dominion Tavern
– Thursday, April 6th – Barrie, ON @ The Queens
– Friday, April 7th – Montreal, QC @ Turbo Haus
– Saturday, April 8th – Hamilton, ON @ The Killroom
– Sunday, April 9th – Toronto, ON @ Bar Orwell
– Friday, May 12th – St. John’s, NL @ The Deck
– Saturday, May 13th – St. John’s, NL @ The Abbey (All Ages)
– Saturday, May 13th – St. John’s, NL @ The Deck
While Diner Drugs are touring with the Montreal mathcore / progressive metal band Cell Press, Cell Press will not be joining them for their Newfoundland dates. The band will also be joined by Cambridge grindcore / mathcore band Greber for their Hamilton and Toronto dates and will be joined by Single Mothers, Chastity, and Botfly for their Fredericton and Moncton dates.
~ Akhenaten
The first month of 2023 has already come and gone. Can you believe how fast time passes these days? In any case let’s look at the awesome start that the year got off to in January!
Biggest Stories
– Fogfest 2023 Open to Submissions
– Razgriz Offers Update on Status of the Band
– Reid Music Ltd. Broken Into
– Yes, Officer Signs to Scilly Cove Records
New LPs Released
– Neko Suicide – Bound by Chains and Ripped in Half
New EPs Released
– Fucked to Death – The Penile Code
– Roach Smoking Buddies – Roach Smoking Christmas
– Skreeched In – Skreeched In
New Singles Released
– Category VI – “Firecry”
– Chimp Apparatus – “Garfield”
– Everose – “Flourish”
– Nemophilist – “Aurora”
– This Day – “Euphoric State”
New Demos Released
– Choplicker – Rollercrisis
New Music Videos Released
– Hakapik – “Don’t Make Me Laugh” [Fruit Blood Cover]
Album Announcements
– The Hellfire Club – Untitled LP
– Wendigo – Untitled Release
– Yes, Officer – Untitled LP
New Merch
– Grole Reveals New Hoodies
– Grole Reveals New T-Shirts
Album Reviews
– Dead Inner Youth – Dead Inner Youth [by Stephen]
Watch
– Bazooka – Live Set @ Peter Easton Pub – December 23rd, 2022
– Needle Crafts – Live Set @ Peter Easton Pub – December 23rd, 2022
– Sick Puppy – Live Set @ Peter Easton Pub – December 23rd, 2022
– Tunnel Vision – Live Set @ Peter Easton Pub – December 23rd, 2022
We also released the 50th episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast! This episode focused specifically on grindcore, and as such, is a bit shorter than some of my previous episodes. You can listen to it on Bandcamp as well as YouTube.
Albums Archived
– Artach – Ride… Die… Immortality! [Single / Black Metal]
– Artach – Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [Single / Black Metal]
– Canvas – Sweet Dreams [Demo / Alternative Rock]
– Everose – Thorns / Threads [EP / Alternative Metal]
– Grole – With a Pike Upon My Shoulder [LP / Black Metal]
– Hakapik – Pig Skull [Demo / Grindcore]
– Jaded Truth – A City Drowned [Single / Grunge]
– Jaded Truth – Take a Seat [LP / Grunge]
– Jaded Truth – Tsukimono [LP / Grunge]
– Kaspam Cult – Samhain [Single / Crossover]
– Knarl – Shed Demo ’22 [Demo / Hardcore]
– Last Cigar – Don’t Tango (With the Rango) [Single / Stoner Rock]
– Last Cigar – Giving It All Away [Single / Stoner Rock]
– Last Cigar – Live at The Levee [Live EP / Stoner Rock]
– Madison Strip – Empty Shells [Single / Hard Rock]
– Mistwalker – Antichristmas [EP / Black n’ Roll]
– Rick Massie – O Come, All Ye Faithful [Single / Progressive Metal]
– Sick Puppy – Haunt the Hill [EP / Hardcore]
– Smoke Signals – Spite You [Single / Hardcore]
~ Akhenaten
Hakapik, the two piece grindcore band with members split between Ottawa and Montreal (with one member originally from Labrador), released their first demo back in 2020. One of the tracks on that demo was “Don’t Make Me Laugh”, a grinding cover of a song by the fictional band Fruit Blood from the Adult Swim TV show Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio. On December 21st, 2022 the band released a music video for the track, which features their own version of the song playing over the performance clip from the show.
You can watch the music video for “Don’t Make Me Laugh” through our YouTube embed below.
~ Akhenaten
Montreal and Ottawa-based grindcore duo Hakapik have released a brand new demo. Entitled Pig Skull, the demo was released on Bandcamp on October 24th, 2022 and features 11 tracks of ripping, sludgy grindcore.
You can listen to Pig Skull through our Bandcamp embed below.
~ Akhenaten
September, as one might expect, was a busy month. Lots of new music got released and got announced. Let’s take a look at what happened!
Biggest Stories
– Devastator Recruits Cory Fagan on Guitar
– Grenadier Reissue The Levant Sultanate Through Messe Noire Productions
– Leather Up Your Ass / Doom ‘An Blue / Black Absinthe to Perform in St. John’s / Holyrood in October
– Ratpiss Reveal New Logo
– R.I.P. Brandon Tucker
– Triskelyon Release Track-by-Track Videos for New Record Downfall
New Albums
– Disposition – Dissent
New Singles
– Acorn to Great Oak – “Cold Shoulder to the Sun”
– Jungle Cake Gang – “Cataclysmic Rites”
– Mistwalker – “Walking Anachronism”
– Sons of an Eastern Moon – “Warriors”
New Demos
– Knarl – Shed Demo ’22
Album Announcements
– Bankrobber – Sweet Lovely Debt
– Most Likely Forever – Kramasnork
– The Tangerine Machine – Untitled LP
New Music Videos
– Rick Massie – “The River”
New Merch
– Mutank Reveal New Holographic Stickers
– Sarra Cenia Reveal New T-Shirts
– Sheavy Reveal New Denim Patches
Watch
– Knarl / Chimp Apparatus – Live @ Beantown 2022
We also released the 46th episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast in which we delved into harsh noise and power electronics music from the province. Check it out through our Bandcamp embed below.
Albums Archived
– Junko Furuta – 人柱 [LP / Harsh Noise]
– Matrioshka Brain – Split w/ Dionysi [Split / Harsh Noise]
– Mistwalker – Walking Anachronism [Single / Black Metal]
– Various Artists – Newfoundland [Compilation / Harsh Noise]
~ Akhenaten
Two heavy Montreal acts will be making their way to Newfoundland this October thanks to Justin Dean at Make It So Productions. Leather Up Your Ass, a four-piece cover band that serves as a tribute to the best of the best of 80’s metal, consisting of Nick Guerin (Dungeon Works Productions) on vocals, Lee “Whiskey” Hinchey (Doom ‘An Blue, ex-Mindrip, ex-Mutank) and Armen Apekian on guitars, Dano Apekian (Ashes of Eden, Ex Deo) on bass, and Jimmy “Bones” Antle (Doom ‘An Blue, Murtenscythe, Guttrot) on drums, will be making their way to the island as the headlining act.
Joining them will be Doom ‘An Blue, a two piece rock and roll / heavy metal band consisting of Hinchey and Antle on guitar and drums respectively with a rotating cast of mad-villains on bass and vocals for each song. The group performs a combination of original tunes as well as covers, featuring guest musicians such as Fez Khan (Crosstitution), Jesse James Dimitri (Doomed Caravan), and many more.
As an extra special treat, Leather Up Your Ass and Doom ‘An Blue will also be joined by Toronto, Ontario heavy metal band Black Absinthe. All three bands will be performing in Newfoundland for the very first time.
The first show will take place in St. John’s at The Rockhouse on Friday, October 21st, 2022 where they will be joined by local folk metal stalwarts Sons of an Eastern Moon. Doors open at 9:00 PM and the show starts at 10:00 PM.
The second show will take place in Holyrood at The Hat Lounge on Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 where St. John’s old school punks Uneeda will open up the night. Doors open at 7:00 PM and the show starts at 8:00 PM. Both shows require a $15 cover charge.
~ Akhenaten
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