Anyone under 40 that doesn't know - spend 30 minutes today, go listen to Keelhaul - II. Legendary hardcore and noise rock lineage, and was everyone's favourite bands from the early 00's favourite band.
@hissingchoir@flieldy I'd love younger gens to do an Escape Artist Records revival. Same scene, less popular, IMO higher hit rate, but that's just for my taste.
@MrOwens212 Knut is another. They were getting hyped up in the HH circles, mostly by other bands. I didn't really get it until they unleashed 'Challenger' on the world, which still stands as an absolute masterpiece in that mathy/sludgy/noisy style of metal/hardcore/whatever. Perfect tone.
me, and I was a fan of Keelhaul already, but they absolutely murdered Unsane that night. We stayed with Will for several days later that year on our first US tour.
I miss those guys a lot. We were lucky enough to hang out a bunch and toured with them on the last actual run they did, back in 2013. I met them when I flew down to Chicago to see them with Unsane back in Jan 2003, I had just become legal for bar shows. Unsane was an old fave for
Prepare the Ground IV
June 4 - 6, 2027
Toronto, Ontario
Three day passes are now available, we cannot wait to welcome you back to Toronto, our fourth iteration is gearing up to be wholly unique and special, join us!
Tickets: https://t.co/IFr62tzDLB
15 years ago today we released our 'Venerable' album via @profoundlore with vinyl by Init.
We quit our jobs and dedicated the next 5 years to touring full time in an attempt to reach as many ears as we could. If you got into us on this record cycle, speak up in the comments!
Our 6th album, SUCCESS, came out ten years ago today. @pitchfork panned the shit out of it, (& never covered anything we did ever again) most of our media friends stopped talking to us, & we weren’t offered any support tours again for almost 9 years after that. Happy birthday! 🥳
EYES have just released their new single 'Save Face on a Regular Basis', featuring Jesse Matthewson of @kenmodeofficial !
Stream and watch the video here: https://t.co/ANa7CwksqI
Taken from their forthcoming album 'SPINNER', out April 25th.