Local Loft Episode 208

Great local metal, punk, alternative, progressive rock and power pop for an even greater cause. The cause doesn't always have to be charitable. It can be simply to alleviate a state of boredom caused by a prolonged pandemic. Music always picks up your spirits, so throw up the volume on this new fresh collection of tunage, and get ready for a serious soul uplift.

Veteran Chicago doom metal act Faces Of The Bog gets up and out to Blue Island Beer Company, the first weekend of February to play their first gig in 2 & 1/2 years. I talk with guitarist Trey Wedgeworth about their headlining show at Doomed Days of Winter on February 5th.

From the land of Huskies, DeKalb, comes Blunt. They will plow their way, without the help of their Northwest Illinois city's Big 10 football team , Southwest, to play with the Sorceress Stoned, Suzi Uzi and Black Road, at the sixth birth bash for Metal Monkey Brewing in Romeoville, January 29th. I talk with singer/guitarist Ben Gonzalez.

Vent to Atmoshpere breathes new life into their pile driving metal with their first new full length album in almost four years, The Struggles of Being Alive. A blistering new cut from that.

Threatening The Order joined the ranks of prominent female fronted suburban Chicago hard rock band, and posed a real crushing threat to the competition at the nationwide Empire Productions Chicago Battle Of the Bands, and heated up the blood and adrenalin of a big headbanging crowd. I caught up with them again six years ago this week in a rock back.

Along with these, you're blasting through (with your hand on the volume knob cranked to 11 times 11) all lethal virus mutations to:

Faces Of The Bog-Weight

Faces Of The Bog-The Weaver

Pale Horseman-Tundra

Vent To Atmosphere-Parasite

Central Disorder-The Descent/Insurrection

Blunt-Good Bag

Blunt-Distraught

Black Road-Torches

Threatening The Order (interview from Reggies Rock Club-1/17/16)

Threatening The Order-Soul Inside

Threatening The Order-Something To Prove