M for Metal Showcase @ M for Montreal Music Conference w/ Dissension, Unbeing, Venomenon, Mad Parish, Fallstaf
M for Montreal presents “M for Metal” in collaboration with the Heavy Metal Music Association of Canada (H.M.M.A.C.) to showcase some of Montreal’s up and coming metal talents birthing out of the dubbed ‘Metal Capital of North America’.
November 22nd at Katacombes will find a range of metal genres fused into one night of head banging tunes to get your inner mosh pit going.
M for Montreal delegates along with the public are welcome to a 5 à 7 networking opportunity with a donation from drink sales to Movember fundraising efforts on behalf of H.M.M.A.C. to the Canadian Cancer Society for Prostate Cancer Research.
Bands and Event Details: November 22 @ Katacombes
8h30 : Fallstaf | Website: http://www.facebook.com/fallstafmontreal
Music Videos:
Miller’s Crossing – http://youtu.be/sGpf9asZDPA
Pull The Knife – http://youtu.be/U_YHseGZb2U
The Cost – http://youtu.be/QBpyygUzRko
9h20 : Mad Parish | Website: http://www.facebook.com/madparishmetal
Procession in progress…
10h10: Venomenon | Website: http://www.facebook.com/vmnmtl
VENOMENON is a Montreal POWERTRIO specializing in GROOVE THRASH N’ ROLL, consisting of JOrdan, Scott Stephens and PTG (Drums). The 3 united in the early spring of 2009. After a number of line-up adjustments, VENOMENON performed their first show on June 25th 2009 as a Powerhouse Trio and have rocked anything from dives to legendary Venues. VMN has had the pleasure to share the stage with many great bands such as ANVIL, KILL DEVIL HILL (EX-SABBATH & PANTERA MEMBERS), ENTROPY, VINDICATOR, AGGRESSOR, FATALITY, DISSENSION… STAY POSTED FOR THE RELEASE OF ” S.L.A.M. “, THRASH MTL
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11h00: Unbeing | Website: http://www.UnbeingMusic.com | EPK
Music Video: Chuck Norris – http://youtu.be/5sKW59AgKQk
It’s March of ‘06. The world is asleep. Everything is still. No one is aware that a massive shift in the planet’s tectonic plates has given birth to a juggernaut. Fate has set three individuals on a collision course, their union shaking the very foundations of reality and sound.
Rising out of Montreal’s bubbling metal underground, it can be said that Unbeing have been through it all. Starting out as a three-piece, members came and went, two demos were released to an overwhelmingly positive response, the band won Metal Académie 2 – a two-month-long competition where the band impressed both the audience and esteemed metal judges such as Kataklysm to take home top honors – then decided to shake things up again. Taking the judges’ advice to heart, Unbeing opted to no longer continue sacrificing their creative liberties, removing vocals all-together to finally discovered its true nature in the form of a five-piece ProgEpic InstruMetal band.
But alas, five years after the birthing cries of Unbeing tore holes in the fabric of space and time, individually and as a whole, they have overcome hardships, laughed in the face of danger and stomped on the charred corpse of impossibility. In 2011, the band released its debut full-length album before solidifying its name in the metal community as a five-piece outfit.
Their album spanning 40 minutes of instrumental offerings that screams: There is no turning back, there is no mercy, there is only Unbeing is now set for re-release this September 2013 on vinyl, re-mixed and re-mastered , ready to be received again as a testimony to the group’s composing capabilities.
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11h50: Dissension | http://www.facebook.com/DissensionMTL | EPK
Album Stream – Of Time And Chronic Disease – http://dissensionofficial.bandcamp.com/album/of-time-and-chronic-disease-2
What started out as Set to Kill in 2007 soon turned into a whole different beast, evolving and shedding its moniker to adopt one that was much more appropriate – Dissension.
Trying to define a style that would set them apart, the Montreal quintet arrived at a truly unique and extra eclectic mix of thrash, black and power metal – a sound that soon got people paying attention. Playing with international heavyweights like Tyr, Threat Signal and Cryptopsy, Dissension debuted on the prestigious Heavy MTL stage in 2011 and made it to the finals of the Wacken Battle Canada this year.
Of Time And Chronic Disease is the band’s first studio album, produced by Kevin Jardine of Uplift Productions, (Slaves on Dope, What Comes To Life, One) and mastered by Ryan Morey (Arcade Fire, Priestess, Half Moon Run), and attacks the darker side of human nature, reaching epic heights and somber depths.
The record, which will be released digitally worldwide on September 10 through Believe Digital, is what all Dissension fans have been waiting for and what all metal fans should listen to.
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12h30am – 3h00am: After Party
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