Local Loft Episode 123

Go ahead,breathe it in( as long as you're not near any contaminated air) The local hard rock,metal,punk,alt,and progressive Chicagoland and Illinois music scene lives and breathes once again on the cyber airwaves.

Metal is exploited and showcased to the full with Kankakee's Ephinepic. The four man band featuring the intense vocal roar of Cody Zupan (who also belts out the lead vocals for Extraction Point) and the earth crumbling drumming of his brother Travis, returns with Exploit This. It took nearly five years for their follow up EP to their debut,Ignite to be released. They rock in your face with a tune about the horrors of detergent substance abuse amongst other subjects.

Veteran rockers M & R Rush sought out FM radio again,21 years after the legendary Loop FM 98 brought them fan attention. We rock back to May of 2011 when I had the honor of giving them radio exposure one more time.

Four years ago this month, it was the buckshot heard around the city of Chicago. Ghetto Rap Hard rockers Blackmarket Democracy invaded Nite Cap. in May 2016. They rock on, Nite Cap has closed tight, never to have another band tear up the stage again.

Programmable Animal spaced themselves out amongst a crowd of mostly local Joliet Metal bands and a huge legion of fans. I reintroduce you to them when they brought their futuristic industrial sound to The Kat 105.5's Homegrown Tones

Along with these, you're social distancing your slam dance and crowd surfing moves to:

Ephinepic-Tide Pod Suicide

Ephinepic-Mr. Sinator

Extraction Point-Skanakgoat

M & R Rush (5/5/11-Interview With John McFaland and Jeff Luif in The Kat 105.5 studios)

M & R Rush- He's A Different Breed of Kat

M & R Rush-Million Seller

M & R Rush-Rock and Roll Chicago(2004 remake)

Blackmarket Democracy(Local Loft Episode 25-5i/18/16-interview from Nite Cap)

Blackmarket Democracy-Buckshot Republic

Blackmarket Democracy-Fragile

Programmable Animal (Interview form Kat 105.5 studio 5/8/14)

Programmable Animal-Dark

Programmable Animal-Brown In Elation

Programmable Animal-Fate's Surprise