Posts By Asher
0 The Killchain Blog – Review: Solitude – Reach for the Sky
0 EPK – Absinthe From Society – The Angels Ignored Us (EP) (2017)
2. A Man Possessed (4:05)
3. Never (4:49)
4. Worth It (4:04)
EP Length: 16:54
– Production/Mixing: Q’s House Studio
– Mastered: Glen Allan
– Lyrics and Music – Ian Harper. Additional songwriting credit on Worth It to Belledonna
– Band Line Up:
Ian Harper (lead vocals, guitar, bass, and keyboard)
Lexi Graham (bass and backup vocals)
Adam Roberts (drums and percussion)
Additional vocals and percussion by Q Mike.Discography:
2017 – The Angels Ignired Us – EP
2012 – Project Infection (2012) – EP
First launching on to the Edmonton metal scene in 2006 and releasing their debut EP ‘Project Infection’ in 2012, ABSINTHE FROM SOCIETY return in 2017 after a short hiatus with their next release ‘The Angels Ignored Us’ due out February 24th.
Comprised of Ian “Saint Absinthe” Harper, the founder of the band (vocals, guitar and keyboard) and Adam “The Caveman” Roberts (drums & percussion) with Lexi “Shitkicker 9000” Graham (bass & vocals), the trio combine an aggressive sound with ethereal texture.
Their new release ‘The Angels Ignored Us’ touches on emotional themes with a raw heavy backdrop.
Band founder Ian Harper comments:
“Existing fans will love it and hopefully other people who hear it for the first time will be impressed. The EP has a lot of raw sound, which was part of the goal for the EP. We didn’t want anything overly produced because that seems to be the trend these days, and we feel that live music is really at the root of any musical renaissance.”
Influenced by bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, System of a Down, The Tea Party and The Foo Fighters, ABSINTHE FROM SOCIETY are not trying to be innovative, but simply pushing to entertain and reach as many people as possible.
“We find our music attracts different people. We have a heavier sound, but we do have softer melodies. My lyrics are emotionally charged and give each track its own personality. In this new EP, my writings deal mainly with relationships and especially toxic ones, which I’m sure many can relate to along with feelings of frustration and anger as well as sadness. Overall, whether you’re a mosher or someone who stands and grooves, we find we’ll appeal to most in the metal spectrum.”
Live, ABSINTHE FROM SOCIETY give it their all, lots of energy and engagement with the audience that they have been honing since their return to their local scene.
For updates and info, please visit http://www.AbsintheFromSociety.com.
‘The Angels Ignore Us’ will be available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Bandcamp and all major online retailers as of Feb 24, 2017.
EP Track by Track breakdown by the band:
- Hellbent is about someone in a personal crisis tearing everything up around him and forcing everyone they love to watch as they spiral down.
- A Man Possessed is about a dominant personality overwhelming somebody; the devil on your shoulder constantly urging to give in to whatever vice wants to grab on and hold tight.
- Never is about the pain of a breakup and the anger and sadness mixed in when love chooses to leave.
- Worth It is about desperate love and never wanting to give up on it although it could potentially be unhealthy.
0 The Metal Crypt – Solitude – Reach For The Sky
Reach for the Sky is a great example of how to honor your heroes, but through quality songwriting, not actually rip them off. If you like your Metal old school and bruising you’re going to need to check out Solitude.
0 NEWS: Band Submissions Open For Days of The Dead Fest 2017 (Red Deer, AB) – October 27-29

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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – March 13, 2017
Band Submissions Open For Days of The Dead Fest 2017 (Red Deer, AB) – October 27-29
Applications Open Until April 1st
Halloween may be about putting on a costume and trick or treating around your city block, but in Red Deer, AB it’s about so much more. The rumours in the area describe a mass pilgrimage, a collective gathering from across Alberta and beyond, a zombie mosh pit coming alive. Are the rumours true…? Well during the Days of The Dead Fest, a Heavy Metal Music Festival Costume Party Extravaganza takes over!
Shadows explains:
“At first it was an excuse for a costume party with the bands I’ve developed friendships with, but has gradually changed into something that I feel Red Deer deserves to call its own. The crowds here are so supportive and I love giving them a gigantic event they can look forward to. Days of The Dead came to be because the first year we held it, the festival fell on the Day of the Dead – November 1st.”
Now in its 4th year, Days of The Dead has grown from a two day event hosting 15 bands for both all ages and 18+ to a three night reunion of friends, music fans and a Halloween aficionados.
This 2017 festivities will be held with over 30 bands for a weekend of heavy metal bonding, friendship, family, music, and love on October 27th & 28th at The Vat for the 18+ shows and on the 29th their all ages event at the International Beer Haus.
Submissions from bands and support staff/volunteers for the 2017 edition are now open until April 1st.
Please read the following instructions on applying.
Email your info to shadowsproductionsrd@gmail.com and in the subject line have your band name & DOTD4 SUBMISSION.
They will review submissions after April 1st and listen to all the submissions and go from there.
Please submit the following:
*BANDS*
– Bio
– EPK or links to social media
– Links to your music
– Why should we consider you for the festival?
– Pay expectations
*SUPPORT STAFF*
In search of: Merchandise Crew, Experienced Stage Hands
– Relevant skills
– Previous Experience
Partners:
Gigfly.ca – http://www.gigfly.ca
Absolute Underground Mag – https://www.facebook.com/AbsoluteUndergroundTV/
Broken Neck Radio – http://www.brokenneckradio.com
Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio – http://www.cemr.ca
Crown of Viserys – http://www.crownofviserys.com
PureGrainAudio – http://www.puregrainaudio.com
Pure Rock Radio – http://www.purerockradio.net
Metal Master Kingdom – http://www.metalmasterkingdom.com
Kat’s Metal Litter Box – http://www.katsmetallitterbox.com/
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0 NEWS: Unite Asia Premiere Video ‘The Forever Lie’ All Shot In India By Canadian Metallers ALL ELSE FAILS

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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – March 13, 2017
For Fans of Killswitch Engage, In Flames, Alexis On Fire, Cancer Bats, Five Finger Death Punch
Unite Asia Premiere Video ‘The Forever Lie’ All Shot In India By Canadian Metallers ALL ELSE FAILS

Canadian metalcore band ALL ELSE FAILS released their new EP ‘The Forever Lie’ the past February plus embarked on their first international tour of India to perform at the Unmaad Fest and the Alcheringa Fest (tour diary on Decibel Magazine here). While on tour, the band made sure to capture as much they could visually to share with fans for the end result of their new music video ‘The Forever Lie’ premiered on UniteAsia.org at the following link: https://uniteasia.org/premiere-canadian-metallers-else-fails-release-music-video-fully-shot-india/
‘The Forever Lie’ continues the Edmonton band’s aggressively dark brand of metal that breaks the traditional ideals of their genre. Drawing comparisons to bands like Killswitch Engage, In Flames and Of Mice & Men, the band infuses their music with a variety of elements that includes experimental, classical, synth lines plus spoken word sampling to accent a unique blend of heavy as hell screams and shiver inducing clean vocals.
Album Stream – http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/stream-the-new-all-else-fails-ep-the-forever-lie-now-exclusive-premiere
Music Video – The Sons of Plenty – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgMv8Gbtob8
The release is available for download on iTunes, Bandcamp and all major online retailers.

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“They are by turns pissed and melodic, speedy and anthemic – but always organic sounding….their song “The Sons Of Plenty”, a tune that encompasses all those things and demonstrates what the band is capable of.” – Gear Gods
“Guttural heaviness + impacting music = You’ll like it!” – CFMU 93.3 FM – Master Radio (Hamilton, ON)
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0 National Rock Review – Trigon – Fed Up
The Great White North is known for snow, Molson beer, and hockey, eh. Now we might have to add another pretty good thing, Trigon.
http://www.nationalrockreview.com/album-reviews/trigon-drops-self-released-album-fed
0 NEWS: Canadian Fest Celebrating Women In Metal METALOCALYPSTICK Announce First Batch of Bands To Line Up

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Montreal, QC – March 13, 2017
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Canadian Fest Celebrating Women In Metal METALOCALYPSTICK Announce First Batch of Bands To Line Up
Tessitura, Körperlose Stimme, Meteor Tree, Scythia, Hedks, Forsaken Rite, Remnants
Get ready for Mountains, Camping and the Women of Metal!
Artwork by Abradinfluence
Promo Video: https://youtu.be/9jBp7TQ-eww
Based in Valemount, BC near Jasper National Park with the beautiful backdrop of the Canadian Rockies, there stands an outdoor festival that just doesn’t celebrate Heavy Metal, but embraces the power of women in metal.
Formed in 2016, METALOCALYPSTICK FEST was created to present a unique experience within the Western Canadian metal community, a gathering of similar views, aspirations and musical taste. (similar to former mainstream music festival Lilith Fair.)
Founded by Kaija Kinney of Vancouver’s Anarcheon after researching a lack of female based metal festivals to apply her band to, Kinney took matters into in her own and decided to produce the event.
Kinney comments:
“This festival means the celebration of both sexes coming together and creating something amazing. People like to say women in metal aren’t a big deal anymore and that we are all the same. I feel that is untrue, this is still a male dominated world and woman are still looked as lesser. I want to showcase all these bad ass ladies and celebrate the differences of men and woman rather than pretend we are all equal. Truth is we are different why can’t we celebrate that?”
In addition to the festival celebrating women in metal, the METALOCALYPSTICK FEST gives back to the community by being a non-profit organization dedicated to raise funds and donating 100% of proceeds to local charities Girls Rock Camp, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, Earth Protectors plus an audience picked foundation.
The 1st annual Metalocalypstick hosted female influenced metal bands from across Canada and the world such as Brazil’s Nervosa (Napalm Records), Egypt’s Massive Scar Era, Hollywood’s The Maension, Valfreya, Scythia, Mortillery (Napalm Records), Van Halst, Dead Asylum, Juliet Ruin, Violent Betty, Omega Crom, Körperlose Stimme, Elysium Echoes, Solborn, Monarch Sky, Forsaken Rite, Anarcheon, and Suspended.
Preparing for their 2nd annual year, the outdoor festival for women in metal is proud to announce their first batch of bands added to the line up with Tessitura, Körperlose Stimme, Meteor Tree, Scythia, Hedks, Forsaken Rite and Remnants.
METALOCALYPSTICK presented by Gigfly.ca is being held during Canada Day weekend on July 1st and 2nd in Valemount, BC. For tickets and more info, please visit the following links:
www.metalocalypstickfest.rocks
www.facebook.com/metalocalypstickfest/
Event Page- www.facebook.com/events/1158984924137688/
Ride Share – www.facebook.com/groups/metalocalypstickfestrideshare/
About the first batch of metal queens and their band’s performing METALOCALYPSTICK:
Tessitura:

Cyn Mercredi has been a force to be reckoned with in the Canadian Metal Scene for years. Aside from being an active contributor to the underground metal community by working at the local venues and volunteering countless hours of time to promotion and festival work, she boasts an impressive resume of membership in heavy hitting bands. Prior to her work with Tessitura, Cyn’s undeniable vocal talents were showcased in Kriticos and The Dead Cold. Upon joining Tessitura in mid-2016, the band was taken aback by the sheer talent and raw energy that she brought. The addition of Cyn offered a widened sound with a dual vocal attack, as well as an unmatched energy in the live environment.
Since 2008, Edmonton-based Tessitura have been taunting the western Canadian underground metal scene with their eclectic blend of melodic death metal, progressive music and classic thrash.
They meticulously craft their unique sound by layering the edge-of-your-seat, earth-shaking guitar work of Stephan Ceña and Chris Devries, backing it up with Leillyn McColman’s up-lifting bass lines and the driving drum patterns of Gord Alexander, and finishing the sound with the dual-vocal freight train of Ceña and lead vocalist Cyn Mercredi’s powerful screams and haunting growls.
Tessitura can be heard at one of their thunderous live performances, or on their current releases, ‘Savage Embrace'(2013) & ‘Battle to Eternity'(2010).
www.tessiturametal.com
Körperlose Stimme:

Edmonton, AB vocalist / guitarist Verteidigung Frostkeit first found her voice and talent with the crushing metal of Angrif. The path was laid and the bridges burned to light the way forward into the sonic assault known only as Korperlose Stimme.
Korperlose Stimme formed from the ashes and remains of some of Edmonton’s finer projects. With that in mind, they forged ahead to create something unique in metal. Both blackened and deathlike, the sound is not like anything heard before.
https://www.facebook.com/KorperloseStimmeMetal/
Meteor Tree:

Vocalist and Guitar: Theresa Bishop
Theresa Bishop’s love of music bubbled out of a need to heal the emotional traumas she endured throughout her life. This “antidote” has been infused with her aboriginal background; creating her own unique way of self expression. Theresa feels that as long as there is music and art being birthed on this planet, there is still hope for humanity.
Bassist: Ana Eries Luyben
Ana Eries Luyben is a bassist who gravitates towards the healing mechanisms of art. Always pulled by this magnetism, she met her husband and fellow Meteor Tree band member at a young age. As a bassist, her absolute pleasure is creating dark grooves and contact with spirits through the vibes, which are the elements she hopes to birth into the music of Meteor Tree. Ana left El Salvador at the age of 4 and is fascinated by ocean currents.
Every object holds the potential of propagating a wave of frequency into our universe. Affecting everything, like droplets hitting a puddle of water. An input of energy to any object disturbs the particles and forces the object into a vibrational motion; at its natural frequency. Any musical scale, with its pure fluidity of mathematics and nature, is a discovery-not invented. The vibrational physics of music is heard as a language by the creature it captures; acting the part of a true universal language connecting all beings. Meteor Tree is our discovery of this language.
https://meteortree.net/music
Scythia:

Celine has been drumming for 17 years and has been Scythia‘s drummer and backup vocalist since 2010.
She’s been in various bands from the Vancouver area and in 2010 filled in as touring drummer for the punk/metal band Fattooth (Montreal).Her drumming skills have taken her across Canada, US, to Brazil, Germany and Finland for performances and recordings.
She is also the guest co-lead vocalist for Vancouver’s power/thrash band Omega Crom and has sung (guest) vocals on a dozen other projects.
Her drum influences include Tool, Fear Factory, Blind Guardian, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Clutch… Her style of drumming fuses elements of early progressive rock with metal.
Her vocal influences include Rob Halford, Maynard James Keenan and Ann Wilson (Heart).
https://www.facebook.com/scythiametal/
Hedks:

Twitchy and Taser of HEDKS of Vancouver, BC.
Claire “Twitchy” Carreras is a Vancouver heavy music veteran, playing in bands such as Joyce Collingwood, Life Against Death and the short, but magnificent Wisteria. A dedicated technical player Twitch effectively ties together sludgy grooves, power chugs and tasty leads for every stoner-thrash-punks wet dream. The unique ways of boosting her every growing sound combined with her wild and menacing on stage presence, Twitch, the guitar player and vocalist for HEDKS is a force to be reckoned with.
Taya ‘Taser’ Fraser is the drummer of stoner-thrash group HEDKS. Her playing style is unique- emulating the rock greats of the late ’70’s – ’80’s fused with today’s elements of punk and metal. A very active member of Vancouver’s music community, she books local and touring bands with promotion/ management company Art Signified as well as co-founding and hosting numerous events at Studio Vostok, an arts and entertainment venue located in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown.
Vancouver, BC duo HEDKS brings you the tastiest morsels of sludge, doom, punk and metal neatly packaged for immediate consumption. No refrigeration required. Setting themselves apart from the standard limitations expected from a two piece, HEDKS have managed to perfect the huge sound, catchy hooks, and melting riffs typically found in stoner thrash bands with more members and more beards. Since the band’s conception they have been steadily making a name for themselves among peers and fans alike.
https://www.facebook.com/hedks.smashface/
Forsaken Rite:

Hailing from the southern plains of Saskatchewan, Adaria’s past was lived out with an early desire for adventure and glory. Though she had enjoyed her days of progressive and power Metal, she knew that there was something more she was yearning for in the world. Journeying West in search of change and a new life, Adaria came to discover the world of folk metal along the way. She knew that this was what she had yearned for, she had her purpose in place. Though search of party members was at first slow, Adaria eventually caught word of the war master Archon, who had just emerged from the darker realms of music in search of something new. Adaria quickly convinced Archon to consider the adventure that she offered and it soon after came to pass that Forsaken Rite was born. Though quiet and somewhat shy, Adaria brings a fierce determination to the war party unlike any other. Her honesty and loyalty ringing true, her foundation brings a unity to the band that binds them strongly together. Her thunderous drums boom and well throughout their songs and bring a most immense power to the war party. The sword-maiden ties them to one another and brings to their tales the virtues of friendship and camaraderie.
Sevi – Accordion
Sevi came to Forsaken Rite from the forested lake lands of Western Alberta. The war party had found its footing in the world, but still lacked a certain magic and splendor to its ways. A long-time companion to both Archon and Eiveen, Sevi’s keen ear for the classical arts as well as her passion for the piano (among other instruments) made her an immediately appealing addition to the band. After making her way to Edmonton and eventually finding a home in the capital, it was not long until Sevi procured the appropriate equipment and became Forsaken Rite‘s keyboardist. Along the way she found a desire to pursue the Accordion. With passion in her heart she made the change to Accordion. With a wistful and reserved, yet graceful and defined nature, she brings to the stage both a flowing and magical beauty of symphonic melodies, as well as the jovial and hearty rhythms of the accordion. It is not in her way to engross the listeners of our tales with power and awe, but instead to enchant them with a harmonious and natural beauty. The druidess of Forsaken Rite ties the war band to nature, and the beauty and wonder of the world we live in.
Forged in the northern plains of Canada in the city of Edmonton, Alberta on October of the year 2012, Forsaken Rite had emerged. As far as the mountains of the west and the frost bitten plains of the east they at last came together to birth the war party in its infancy. Though small in number they used the inspirations they had all brought from their pasts to form a sound unlike any they had done before. After many seasons of change, struggle, and friends come and gone, Forsaken Rite was ready to take the land by storm.
FB- https://www.facebook.com/ForsakenRite/
Remnants:

Brittny South is a drummer from Edmonton, Alberta! She enjoys cooking, sports, tattoos, martial arts, her dog and of course drumming with the guys! She strives to push herself to have no limits and always work hard for what she wants.
Remnants is a hard hitting metal band hailing from Edmonton Alberta carrying multiple influences from each of us as individuals.we enjoy all ranges and genres of metal and music alike
https://remnants2.bandcamp.com
Partners:
Gigfly.ca – http://www.gigfly.ca
Absolute Underground Mag – https://www.facebook.com/AbsoluteUndergroundTV/
Broken Neck Radio – http://www.brokenneckradio.com
Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio – http://www.cemr.ca
Femme Metal Webzine – http://www.femmemetalwebzine.net
Metal Master Kingdom – http://www.metalmasterkingdom.com
PureGrainAudio – http://www.puregrainaudio.com
Pure Rock Radio – http://www.purerockradio.net
Women of Metal – http://www.womenofmetal.net
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0 Metal France – All Else Fails – The Forever Lie
0 Danger Dog Reviews – Radio Free Universe – Casa Del Diablo
Radio Free Universe and Casa Del Diablo rock the new century by making the old school the new school with their heavier, bluesy melodic hard rock. Try to keep up. Recommended.
http://www.dangerdog.com/2017-music-reviews/radio-free-universe-casa-del-diablo.php#.WMWKxDvyvcs





