FOR THE LOVE OF METAL
Heavy Metal Adam and I are always trying to track down the latest Canadian metal releases for our weekly radio show, Kill Eat Exploit the Weak, on CFMU. We play selections from what we find on the air, and post our playlists to the KEEW blog, but we figured some of you might appreciate a recap here.
If you know of any noteworthy Canadian metal / heavy music released in January 2016 that should be listed here, please let us know too by leaving a comment.
If there’s one band that fully deserves a “victory lap” tour, it’s Children of Bodom, who after a good dozen years plying their distinct brand of melodic extreme metal, is finally experiencing some significant success in North America. For most fans who live in the smaller centres, they best they could manage before was to catch Alexi Laiho and his booze-fueled band of flashy Finns as part of a package tour, be it the Unholy Alliance or Gigantour, which usually meant a measly eight or nine songs, maximum, and when a band has six studio albums under their belts, it’s tough to get some variety. So the venue was packed with fans hoping to get a huge dose of the old stuff, and that’s exactly what Bodom gave them.
Adrien Begrand reviews the recent Saskatoon stop on the CoB/BDM/Skeletonwitch tour.