July was a busy and turbulent month for sure. Check out all the things that happened in our local scene for the month of July 2022!
Biggest Stories – Anvil to Play The Rockhouse in September – Cancer Bats and Comeback Kid to Perform at The Rockhouse in October – Exciter Featured in The Newfoundland Herald – Grenadier to Perform at Messe des Morts X – Most Likely Forever to be Digitally Distributed by Earache Records – Sons of an Eastern Moon to be Digitally Distributed by Earache Records – Wyte Room Recordings Release Live Video A Selection from Bowring ’22
New Albums Released – Grenadier – Trumpets Blare in Blazing Glory – Nemophilist – Never Morning Wore to Evening, But Some Heart Did Break
New EPs Released – Fucked to Death – Goth Bitches – Gamma Knife – Spiraling Out of Control – Sex Hole – Down with Music! Viva la Noise! – Tunnel Vision – 2022
New Singles Released – Big Space – “Improv 22-3” – Laxidaisy – “A Ballad of Ships and Wolves” – Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid Jammers – “Supercalifragilisticdruginducedpsychosis”
Album Reviews – Cult of Azura – Cult of Azura [by James Titford]
Metal Maniacs – Adam Sharr of Grenadier, Nocturnal Prayer – Greg Ravengrave of Mistwalker, Ratpiss – Jordon Walsh of Grenadier, Goreforge
Merch – Grenadier Reveal New Long Sleeves and T-Shirts – Vertebraeker Reveal New T-Shirts
This month’s episode of the podcast involves us delving deep into dungeon synth from Newfoundland and Labrador. You can find it on Bandcamp and on YouTube!
Albums Archived – The Dead One B.C. – From Hell [EP / Dungeon Synth] – Grey Fawn – Harbinger of Plight [Single / Doom Metal]
Ontarian thrash / speed metal legends Exciter will be performing at The Rockhouse this Saturday on July 23rd, 2022, and in conjunction with their upcoming show, they have been featured in this week’s edition of The Newfoundland Herald.Herald writer Dillon Collins spoke with drummer and founding member Dan Beehler about the upcoming 40th anniversary of Heavy Metal Maniac, their current plans, and the new material they’ve been working on.
You can read the interview in full online at this link: here!
Exciter will be joined by local metal upstarts Grenadier and Vertebraeker. Tickets are on sale now.
August was yet another busy month for us here at Heavy NFLD as news has continued to arrive at a steady pace regarding new releases and the return of larger live events in Newfoundland and Labrador. While Midsummer Mayhem IV has already happened as of the writing of this article, we learned about the lineup announced for both that festival as well as the first incarnation of Brokest Fest. We also got new music from stoner metal outfit Slowpoke as well as the one man Labradorian crust punk outfit Havoc Protocol among others. Continue reading below for all the happenings in our local scene for August 2021!
We also released the 33rd episode of our official podcast in which we spoke to Andrew Mash of Winterhearth about how the band managed to remain show-ready throughout the pandemic, the nature of physical media versus digital media, and their performance at Midsummer Mayhem IV. You can check out the podcast and the interview through our Bandcamp embed below!
It seems to be a rite of passage for the more well known heavy bands to emerge from Newfoundland and Labrador that they will at some point be featured in the island’s premiere arts and entertainment magazine, The Newfoundland Herald, often thanks to writer Dillon Collins.
The latest addition to the list of heavy bands the magazine has covered is the stoner / doom trio Slowpoke, fronted and created by our very own occasional writer Ben Chapman-Smith. Slowpoke was featured in last week’s edition of the Herald in which readers were informed of the group’s upcoming album as well as their album release show at The Rockhouse on August 21st alongside the legendary Sheavy and scene veterans The Birchmen.
You can check out Slowpoke’s most recent single, “Windtalker”, through our YouTube embed below.
Post hardcore / alternative rock outfit Yes, Officer are the latest heavy / alternative music group to be featured in The Newfoundland Herald thanks to the efforts of writer Dillon Collins. The interview involves band creative lead Jeremy Harnum discussing the story and thought process behind some of the songs from the band’s latest record, Autobiography of a Naysayer. You can read part of the interview in the pictures above, or you can pick up the latest edition of The Newfoundland Herald in person or online.
Sadly, as the pandemic lumbers on through the final quarter of 2020 we find ourselves with little news to report on. The biggest story of all is that the space formerly known as CBTG’s has reopened under new management with the name Plan B Bar & Lounge so that’s at least a huge positive.
Aside from that we got a smattering of new singles from Amer Ali, Doom ‘An Blue, Most Likely Forever and Rick Massie, which is awesome, but the rest of October has been sadly quiet with little in the way of new releases.
We can only hope that the final months of 2020 will be better but that remains to be seen.
Biggest Stories Former CBTG’s Reopens as Plan B Bar & Lounge Grind Mind Featured in The Newfoundland Herald
New Singles Amer Ali – “Memories” Doom ‘An Blue – “Ran Down” Most Likely Forever – “Dead and Bloated” [Stone Temple Pilots Cover] Rick Massie – “The Dance of the Dead (and Alive)”
Album Reviews Froze to Debt – Mind Control [Written by Akhenaten] Grole – Grole [Written by James Titford] Winterhearth – Riverbed Empire [Written by Akhenaten]
Albums Announced Everose – Untitled EP
Watch Mistwalker – Live @ AJ’s Bar and Restaurant Winterhearth Cover Metallica’s “Motorbreath” on In the Attic
We also released the 23rd episode of the Heavy NFLD Official Podcast which you can listen to below through our Bandcamp embed. You can also download it for free on the Heavy NFLD Bandcamp page!
Albums Archived Aeria – Car Fire [Single / Djent] Artach – Eternal Black Winter [Alternative Mix] [Single / Black Metal] Artach – The Fallen Ones [Single / Black Metal] Artach – Fire & Ice [Single / Black Metal] Artach – Ice Throne [Single / Black Metal] King Ego – Spread Ego [LP / Glam Metal] Puce – The Trough [LP / Stoner Metal] Wild Step – Demo [Demo / Stoner Metal]
St. John’s horror film company Grind Mind have had no shortage of coverage around these parts (speaking of Heavy NFLD) in recent days since the release of their latest short Bound by Blood. Of course it wouldn’t be long before these blood-soaked folks ascended into loftier coverage, speaking of course of The Newfoundland Herald.
Grind Mind was featured in this week’s edition of the magazine, being interviewed by Dillon Collins as well as being part of the magazine’s ‘Quote of the Week’ section featuring an iconic, and extremely gory image of actor Francois Van Zyl from Bound by Blood and the above quote from director Shane Mills. You can watch Bound by Blood through our YouTube embed below if you have not yet seen it (and we recommend you do so since it’s quite good!)
The frigid chill of autumn is in the air as we come into the spookiest month of the year and begin to carve the jacks to keep the spirits of the underworld at bay. But before the most metal holiday of the year commences lets take a look back at the month that preceded it, the month in which the last throes of summer die as the slow wasting away of the verdant greens sets in for the equinox.
September was a busy month. Our very own compilation album Burn the Leeches topped the Earshot Charts, the chart system used by Exclaim Magazine to deduce the popularity of music across Canadian radio stations. On top of that we saw Ratpiss announce that they have finally found a guitar player and the one and only Trash Juice reunited after a year of floundering in obscurity.
New music from The Hellfire Club, Monroe, Withered Crops, Artach, Rick Massie and Most Likely Forever graced our ears while Grole, the new side project of Spectral Wound’s Illusory, was also dropped, offering the town of Marystown some much need representation in our scene.
Veritable tons of merch were released this past month, including our very own Heavy NFLD shirts! Speaking of which, if you’d like one, send an e-mail to heavynfld@gmail.com with your shipping address and your preferred size and we’ll get one to you as soon as possible!
We also released the 22nd episode of our Official Podcast which we unfortunately had to cut short due to time constraints, but it’s still available for your listening pleasure. This episode focuses around some of the prog metal that has come out of Newfoundland in the last few years. You can listen to it through our Bandcamp embed below.
Albums Archived Artach – Cold Day in Hell [Single, Black Metal] Artach – Cryoseism [Single, Black Metal] Artach – Ice Raven [Tech Noir Mix] [Single, Black Metal] Artach – Lords of a Frozen Domain [Single, Black Metal] Artach – Night Songs[Cinderella Cover] [Single, Black Metal] Artach – Northward Leading [Single, Black Metal] Artach – Shimmer [Single, Black Metal] Bad Milk – Spitt [LP, Grunge] The Birchmen – Hot L.A. Nights [LP, Progressive Metal] The Hellfire Club – The Hellfire Club [LP, Hard Rock] The Knifes – Pop Country Single (Poisons) [Single, Hardcore Punk] Most Likely Forever + Decay – Natural Born Killers [Single, Nu Metal] Various Artists – A Heavy NFLD Compilation: Burn the Leeches [Compilation] Winterhearth – Riverbed Empire [LP, Black Metal]
Winterhearth mastermind Andrew Marsh must be soaring on the high of the incredibly warm reception to his band’s third full length album Riverbed Empire, which released on August 21st of this year. The reviews are in (though ours is currently still pending) and Riverbed Empire has been considered a fantastic record by many underground metal news sources, with the music video for the lead single “Charmed (By the Dead)” receiving an exclusive premiere on Metal Injection.
Now Marsh is tackling the homefront with Winterhearth and Riverbed Empire receiving coverage in The Newfoundland Herald, Newfoundland’s premiere entertainment magazine. Keep an eye out for the week of September 3rd copy to read Dillon Collins’ writings on the blackened death metal hydra that is Winterhearth.
In the meantime check out Riverbed Empire through our Bandcamp embed below.
Oops! We made a bit of a mistake. On account of incredibly busy home lives and a hectic summer filled with political upheaval and civil unrest we missed our June in Review segment. But hey, better late than never right? Of course it goes without saying that the continued civil unrest going on across the globe has been felt even in our home of Newfoundland and Labrador with everything from Black Lives Matter protests to COVID-19 anti-mask protests occurring on the streets and in front of the Confederation Building and heated discussions, debates and arguments going on across the Newfoundland sphere of social media.
Even in our own community there have been individuals who have been assaulted by the police (as evidenced by one of the biggest stories we published this month in which Kristopher Crane of Nemophilist and Impaled Upon the Mountains was brutally attacked in Montreal) while we decided to put together our first ever compilation album to raise funds to fight racism and discrimination here in our own backyard.
Read on to find out exactly what June 2020 had in store for the punk and metal community of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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