Tag: Canadian
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The Modernettes – View From The Bottom EP reissue
The Modernettes View From The Bottom EP (Porterhouse Records) What Porterhouse Records has been doing over the last couple of years has proven to be pretty thought-provoking. The label had already established a name for itself – releasing deluxe edition vinyl reissues from bands like Circle Jerks, Urge Overkill and All – but keeping a…
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Bishop’s Green – Black Skies EP and Waiting EP
Bishop’s Green Black Skies EP (Pirates Press Records) As cool as some album covers are (and the cover of the Black Skies EP is definitely very cool), the peril is often that the image on the cover of a record just doesn’t match the music. It could easily be argued that Black Skies falls hard…
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Personality Crisis – Creatures For Awhile (Reissue)
Things like this get said a lot but, in this case, there is actually verifiable proof: while they were working, prairie-based punk band Personality Crisis were were in a league of their own. Granted, the band was not around for very long (Personality Crisis formed in 1979 and ran until 1984) and Creatures For Awhile…
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Woodhawk – Violent Nature
I was fairly impressed with Beyond the Sun, the 2017 debut from Calgary heavy rock band Woodhawk – they blew the roof off the Bovine when they played here the following year, too. So that would probably make this one of my most anticipated Canadian releases of 2019. Violent Nature kicks off with the slithering…
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Cruickshank – self-titled
This new Ontario noise rock band is made up of local metal scene veterans, dudes who’ve done time in outfits like Teethmarks and Greber. Their self-titled debut offers up 32 minutes of tuneage for people who like unhappy music. “Clouded” kicks things off, a three-minute, mid-tempo, grinding dirge that even throws some blastbeats into the…
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CJRU 1280’s Metal on Metal Showcase
Saturday, February 23 @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto CJRU 1280AM, Ryerson University’s campus and community radio station in Toronto, is hosting their second Metal on Metal Showcase at Bovine Sex Club. For just $10, check out some Canadian metal acts and support a local radio station. Line-up: HAMMERHANDS / Minors / LILIM / SEIZE /…
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Supermansion – Solar Order
First heard about this Southern Ontario supergroup (of sorts) back in ’07, when they released their first, self-titled Supermansion album. They put out a second record five years later, unbeknownst to me, and now they’ve got five albums under their belt, with Solar Order being the latest, independent release. Not sure if this one is…
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Gypsy Chief Goliath – Masters of Space and Time
Album number four from this long-running Southern Ontario heavy rock outfit sees Gypsy Chief Goliath take a slightly spacier approach. This sextet’s latest lineup includes three guitars as well as keyboards… just don’t call ‘em Hawkwind or anything. Masters… begins with “City of Ghosts,” and its melodic, bluesy, keyboard-accented riff that brings the likes of…
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City and Colour – Guide Me Back Home (3LP)
I must confess that, most regularly, live albums don’t thrill me. City and Colour albums do not often thrill me either, for that matter (long story short, while I was a big fan of Alexisonfire back in the day, I found the first two City and Colour albums staggeringly overwrought); I don’t know that I’d…
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Gruesome Greg’s Canadian TOP 10 of 2018
10. A Low Winter’s Sun Artist: Heron Label: Sludgelord Considering the relative lack of proper post-sludge acts in this country, this release is well worth checking out. Listen to A Low Winter’s Sun on Bandcamp 9. Reminiscence Artist: Empress Label: self-released There’s two distinct types of tunes on Reminiscence — three sub-four-minute tracks, and then…