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Montreal, QC – March 24, 2017

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Canadian Fest Celebrating Women In Metal METALOCALYPSTICK Announce Second Batch of Bands To Line Up

Life Like Fire, Breaking The Silent, Massive Scar Era

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 second batch of bands added to the line up Life Like Fire, Breaking The Silent and the return of Massive Sca Era to join previously introduced 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/
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About the second batch of metal queens and their band’s performing METALOCALYPSTICK:

Break The Silent

Mar is the newest Metal Queen added! Welcome Breaking The Silent!

If there are three things Mar would take to an isolated island, it would be her notebook (with an attached pen!), iPod and headphones. Music and writing are her truest passion, and also, her saving grace, as she identifies them. For her, tenor and falsetto, along with screams, are only a matter of feelings. She deeply feels what she sings. That is something the audience gets to experience when watching her perform. Her wide vocal range has enabled her to dabble into different genre of music, one of them being blues. Though metal is mostly what you will find on her playlist, she has never tried her hand at singing it. That is until Shane Oranchuk, drummer from Breaking The Silent asked her to audition for the band. In August 2016, she became the singer and lyricist of the band. Influenced by power, thrash and black metal vocalists, be ready to be mesmerized by this talented and genuine vocalist.

Breaking The Silent is a 5 piece female fronted metal band from Edmonton, Alberta.The band formed in the fall of 2016 and have been making waves ever since. The group is in the midst of recording their first full length album, which is a lethal mix of thrash, black and melodic metal.

BTS has immediately gained attention in the local and international scene teaming up with Hed P.E, All Else Fails, Tessitura and more. Founding members Mar, Shane Oranchuk,Jason Cullen, D-Rail Dahlmer, and Jake Victor formed the band with the vision of writing melodic and heavy music. With an album and tour in their horizon there is no telling how far this band will be in another year. Stay tuned.
http://www.facebook.com/breakingthesilent

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Life Like Fire

Maddy has been involved in music since the young age of 9 where she started out in lessons for country music. At age 12, she switched over to jazz where she landed a record deal, but turned it down because she had fallen for metal, punk and rock music. This came along when her grandma accidentally bought her a Slipknot CD and her grandpa took her to get her first guitar. Unfortunately she was only able to get in 2 years of guitar lessons and rock vocal lessons before her mom sent her to the streets with nothing, but her guitar and lil dog. Over the next four years, Maddy dropped outta school, moved between friends, park benches, trees and some of the lowest places in Calgary. Her life was eventually turned around by a neighbour who heard her singing and playing guitar outside. He inspired her to do something with her talents and get out there. This lead to Maddy seeking out other musicians and creating her first serious hard rock band in Red Deer, Alberta called Promise Revoked. This band went on to open for big bands like Sum 41, Gob and Sweeney Todd. They were also featured on radio stations, playing big festivals and eventually were signed to a Canadian label. Due to different interests, this band eventually fell apart. After trying out a few different bands, she was recruited by a Calgary band called Silo. This band had great potential and got Maddy back up into the music scene again by headlining shows at the Marquee and playing Our Fest, but with a band member moving away and also unable to find a permanent bass player, this band also fell apart. Hope was not lost, since Silo’s other guitar player Josh had moved into a band house with Maddy. They ended up spending every night playing music and writing songs, which led to creating the band Life Like Fire.

Life Like Fire was born in 2016 from the shattered remains of four popular local Calgary bands. Their combined skill sets create a unique brand of in your face rock ‘n roll that is quickly gaining pace in Alberta’s underground music scene. This band adds a modern twist to an old school sound then tops it off with searing female lead vocals and blistering guitar shred. It’s dirty, rude, in your face and you’ll be left wanting more.
http://www.facebook.com/lifelikefireband
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Massive Scar Era

Massive Scar Era returns to Metalocalypstick having performed at the inaugural year in 2016. Originally formed in 2005 in Egypt, the band plays post hardcore with both metal and Middle Eastern influences along with introducing violins orchestration into their sound. Over the years, MSE has performed at festivals in Europe and USA sharing the stages with bands like Dream Theater, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Kreator, Moonspell and more.
They released their EP “30 years” in August 2016, evolving their sound to incorporate more dramatic orchestration, heavy guitar riffs and intense lyrics.

http://massivescarera.com

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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

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:

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:

Metalocalypstick introduce and welcome back Sevi and Adaria of Forsaken Rite.

Adaria – Drums

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

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