Heading out to go load gear soon, so I'll make this quick.
We're a 2 piece instrumental metal band, I like to call our genre "Cthulhu doomnoise." The guy who does my tattoos put us in touch with a bar owner who was trying to put together a metal show to benefit a friend of his who was in a motorcycle crash. Cool, we're in! Show is in 2 weeks, short notice, but whatever.
No fucking word from the venue owner until 2 nights ago, and now we're the ONLY metal band on the bill. Before us is a folk/jazz group, and then a party rock rent-a-band style group is doing 90 minutes before us. Nobody wants to bring their own gear, so everyone asked us for drums and amps. We got so fed up with waiting on show details from the owner that was said "fuck this." Owner has done 0 promo or anything, I can't even find websites for the other bands playing.
Now we're just gonna show up with 2 guitars, no drums, and play some Sunn style shit. OR, if the vibe is really bad around 1AM (when we're supposed to go on), we'll just plug our pedal boards into the drummer's switch and play Mario Kart on stage and fuck with the noises from that and call it art.
Fun times.
Update: first band is on and they're a Chicago style blues band and I have no idea what we're doing here.
After the Bombs are fairly well known/well distributed and Parasytes were at least north america trendy for a bit so I thought you may have known the..
I'll definitely check them out, thanks for the tip comrade
Definitely do. Here's my hometown favorite.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNf6xg7fpxc
Napalm Raid and System Shit are from here and also got decently known. Decontrol from Winnipeg are one of the best dbeat bands ever. They tried to your, made it to Montreal, got hooked on dope there and lived in a van behind the venue for 10 years after. Their album In Trenches rips hard. Inepsy was huge but Im not into the motorcrust thing, but they were pioneers for that. BC has a huge anarchist black metal/blackened crust scene started with Black Kronstadt and Iskra. Leper and Mutiny are sweet bands from that scene as well. The prairies are all about Mincecore. SixBrewBantha and Aragothles are sick. Massgrave are also from Canada.
Ooohh, I've heard several of these bands, just wasn't aware that they're canadian
Also gotta ask which bands? If they're people I know they may be happy to hear they're known overseas
I've def heard Napalm Raid, Inepsy, and Iskra. And somewhat certain I've heard Massgrave.
Massgrave is Disrupt kinda crust and they have a split with Stormcrow. Napalm Raid's first show was opening for my first band. The guitarist and bassist live across the country now, the drummer still lives here and just had a kid.
That's pretty much the case for anything Canadian anyone has heard of.
In my defense though, one of my all time fav bands of any genre is Voivod, and I've always known they're canadian lol
Our entire Strat as a nation is to just kinda get lost in the noise that is America and go unnoticed, so it comes with the literal territory.
Ya, that makes sense
Oh, Blasphemy is from here, so we are responsible for War Metal. I'm deeply sorry about that.