Ten out-of-town music festivals worth the trip
Looking to make the most of the B.C. music festival scene, and your loonies? Here are 10 events worth hitting the road for this summer.
http://vancouversun.com/entertainment/festivals/ten-out-of-town-music-festivals-worth-the-trip
Hellbound.ca: Hopeless Youth
“You could break cement blocks with some of these breakdowns!”
http://hellbound.ca/2016/06/hopeless-youth-devil-walk/
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Montreal, QC – June 7, 2016
EP Promo Request here.
For fans of Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Combichrist
ProjektF.net | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube | Soundcloud | iTunes
Montreal Industrial Monsters PROJEKT F Posts New Video ‘Unbegun’
Headlining ‘GothFest’ In Montreal June 19th
New EP ‘The Butterfly Effect’ Out Now!
June 19 – Katacombes – Montreal, QC (GothFest) – info
To watch ‘Unbegun’, please visit the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOK3Q2e8564
Album Stream – The Butterfly Effect – https://projektf.bandcamp.com/album/the-butterfly-effect
In additional news, PROJEKT F will be headlining day 2 of the first edition of GothFest in Montreal, QC on June 19th at Katacombes. The festival features 14 dark bands from across Quebec, Ontario and New York. For full details, please visit the following link here.
1. The Butterfly Effect (1:32)
2. Tongue (4:53)
3. Cut Your Wings (3:46)
4. Unbegun (3:49)
5. 03:47:09:08:1945 (1:58)
6. Fatman (4:24)
7. When the Angel Fell From the Sky (4:56)
Album Length: 25:22
About:
Projekt F was founded in 2006 by Jonh M. Miller, lead singer and main composer of the band. Inspired by rock/industrial/metal music of the 90’s, Projekt F quickly made a name for themselves in the underground music scene of Montreal. Miller was joined by William Hicks (bass) in 2010, Simon Sayz (guitar) in 2013, and Fred Linx (drums) in 2014.
Their first EP named “0000” saw the light of day in 2009 with 500 physical copies made by the band being sold out in no time, and more than 1000 digital copies downloaded. Continuing to evolve in the Montreal Industrial scene, the band accumulated a large number of shows across the Province of Quebec and Ontario with their musical originality and their intensity on stage. In 2012, the band was invited to play alongside Combichrist at the biggest industrial music festival in Canada, Kinetik Festival. During the last few years they have shared the stage with international bands such as Motionless In White, Revolting Cocks, Angelspit, Nachtmar, Left Spine Down, Slaves on Dope, New Years Day, For Today and Ice Nine Kills.
Projekt F has also had the opportunity to do a performance of their song “Room 13” in a TV pilot called “Cause and Effect” (produced by Vaas Media). Their song “Oophorectomy” is also featured in a short movie called “Purple Love” (produced by Les films de la meute), featured at the 2013 Cannes Festival.
Taking a darker and more personal musical road, Projekt F launched their album “Skins” in 2013 and 2014’s EP “Under The Skin”, which is now followed by their newest EP, “The Butterfly Effect” released on March 4, 2016. It is said to be a direct sequel to their previous conceptual effort ”Skins”.
MEMBERS:
Jonh M. Miller – Vocals/Piano/Synth
William Hicks – Bass
Simon Sayz – Guitar
Fred Linx– Drums
For more info, please visit www.Projektf.net.
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Adolyne – ‘of Ash / of Shit / of Shame’ (2015) (No List Records)
For fans of Old Man Gloom, Today Is The Day, Rorshach, Neurosis, Converge, KEN mode
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Label: No List Records
PR Rep – Jon Asher – ashermedia(@)gmail.com
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“The track (Brawler’s Fracture) is plenty oppressive and hurtles into a hurt-inducing display of quick-draw drum blasts, atonal noise-rock riffery and the frightening howls of Hamilton. Though never letting up in its intensity, the back half of the track slows down the pace considerably, opting for more snail-paced gloom and doom and distorted vocals.” – Exclaim
“of Ash / of Shit / of Shame is the total package when it comes to music that evokes anger just as much as it creates a claustrophobic atmosphere. Densely packed together math riffs and hoarse vocals, shared equally among all four members of the band, sit side by side with dark, almost Tim Burton-esque moments of strings and piano manipulation” – Metal Injection
“More than a band, it’s a primal scream, a rejection of comfort, and a point of convergence for all extremes and abysses” – Metal Oddities
“Adolyne has a new album out, it’s really fucking good if abrasion, self-loathing, discord and flirtations with the edge of out of control gets you hard/wet.” – Decibel Magazine
“Geezus. I have no idea how these guys keep getting more and more extreme. Expect plenty of bizarre breakdowns and a good thrashing that’s not unlike a beating with a burlap sack full of rabid cats.” – Ominocity.com
“The most obnoxious, misanthropic album I heard all year, this is the perfect soundtrack to your daily Two Minutes Hate” – Adrien Begrand, Pop Matters/Basement Galaxy
After a series of false-starts, unceremonious firings and infantile rows, Adolyne officially assembled about a dozen years ago as a means to keep warm through the endless prairie winter that they were either too dumb to abandon or stubborn to admit defeat to. Less a product of their surroundings than a direct reaction to artistic absences in their immediate vicinity, the band spent their initial years harnessing vulgar sonic philosophy and a reactionary base-level onslaught into one of the most incendiary live shows in Western Canada. Noise-rock petulance, post-hardcore abandon, and a spiraling metallic thrust collide violently in to an animal that is as much merciless volume worship as it is nightmarish existential crisis.
Adolyne incites an ugly musical knife fight between 90’s Noise mongers from the heavier end of the Amphetamine Reptile fold and the brooding sonic theorists of the Hydra Head Industries class, while assorted voices from the post-hardcore and math-rock crowds goad them on with unsavory and dangerous advice. For those who haven’t the time or stomach to be entirely educated on the background of this savage rumble though, journalist and filmmaker Craig Silliphant was best able to express what to expect from Adolyne in his review which warned “Adolyne is a cathartic, primal force that will tear down your soul and spit it in your face….. It’s usually a cliché to say something defies categorization, but I’ll take a punch in the face before I’ll offer a definitive description of the music that Adolyne makes. It’s best to just get the hell out of the way.
“Fractions of Failure” is an addictive blast that demands you to press play again before the dust can settle. Hopefully there’s more to come from Anion soon as these four tracks are an enticing glimpse at their powerful potential.
http://thesludgelord.blogspot.ca/2016/06/anion-fractions-of-failure-ep-review.html
“Canadian rockers Black Absinthe release their latest EP titled “Early Signs Of Denial” and it’s an EP you should check out. Ranging from classic metal like Black Sabbath to modern rock in Alice In Chains, add a bit of stoner rock, black metal and power metal and what you have is a varied mix of some great music at hand.”
http://www.therockpit.net/2016/Black-Absinthe-Early-Signs-Of-Denial-Review-2016.php
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – June 6, 2016
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For fans of Converge, Cult Leader, Playing Enemy, Botch, Kittens, The Jesus Lizard
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ANION To Perform At Sled Island June 24th; New EP ‘Fractions of Failure’ (No List Records) Out Now!
The band is performing in support of their new EP ‘Fractions of Failure’unleashed this past May via No List Records with a fresh new line up featuring new vocalist Sean Bouchard and new drummer Tristan Helgason (ex-Ghost of Modern Man, Molten Lava) to join guitarist Steve Speanzyk and bassist Cole Benoit. The EP was recorded by Jesse Gander at Rain City Studios with artwork done by Demian Johnston (Great Falls/Playing Enemy) to follow ANION‘s 2013 full length‘Without Solace’.
Full EP Stream – http://anion.bandcamp.com/album/fractions-of-failure
About:
Anion was formed in early 2010 in a diesel soaked rehearsal space with one purpose – to create the music that its members wanted to hear. No scene points, no genre devotion – just a desire to create devastatingly heavy and ultimately ugly music. Riff driven and intense, the music stands apart with an underlying foundation of ugly and intense hardcore, healthy doses of abrasive noise rock and heavy sludge mixed in to create a unique sound that Anion are known for.
Their new EP/7” record entitled “Fractions of Failure” was released on May 20, 2016 via No List Records and features artwork by Demian Johnston (Great Falls/Playing Enemy). This EP, recorded by Jesse Gander at Rain City Studios, sees the recorded debut of new vocalist Sean Bouchard and new drummer Tristan Helgason (ex-Ghost of Modern Man, Molten Lava), elevating the band to a new level.
Anion’s last full length LP, entitled “Without Solace”, was released in September 2013 via No List Records on gatefold vinyl and digital formats. This album, recorded with legendary producer Matt Bayles (Botch, Mastodon, Isis) at Red Room studios in Seattle, WA, “Without Solace”.
Having played with bands such as Indian (Relapse), Helm’s Alee (HydraHead), Thrones (Southern Lord), Black Elk (Crucial Blast), KENmode (Profound Lore), and Ghostlimb (Vitriol), among many other well-known acts, Anion’s live shows are intense and abrasive. Not soon forgotten, they have gained notoriety for these live performances in various publications and websites such as Exclaim! and Beatroute.
With the digital Manolete EP, the Carrion King 7″ and the handcrafted Corpseflower cassette among their releases, Anion has had extremely favorable reviews in publications/sites such as Terrorizer, Maximum Rock and Roll, Exclaim!, Hellbound and more.
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