Local Loft Episode 218

Today's technology often inexplicably fails you. It did for me just now as I was making out a playlist. Oh, for the good old days of Swamp Metal, or Ghetto Metal, Horror Punk. We don't need a fully functional time machine to return to an updated mixture of all those genres. The greater Chicago area and Illinois original local music scene can catapult us back there, while continuing to evolve and change. 

I first discovered Convoy in the late Spring of 2010, and was impressed big time by their raunchy mix of 70s Southern Rock and Sludge Metal. They return to Brauer house in Lombard on Saturday, April 2nd for a special benefit gig. Drummer Mike Getz (Makalu Gee on Facebook) joins me to look forward to this.

Whut? will tear up the stage at McGoos in Southwest Suburban Bedford Park this Saturday night. The show could be a bittersweet one, as long forgotten Chicago hardcore metal band, Crime Spree surprisingly reunites for a fallen former promoter. A look ahead to this.

Deadman's Hand put's the term of another singer to rest. Who will take the place of Laurence Dutch Devries as he splits? I offer a possibility.

Once a vocally gifted radio commercial and jingle singer, Michelle Caruso co-formed the not totally commercial Chicago power rock band Circle Of Fate. I invited them to The Kat 105.5 studio ten years ago this week.

Along with these, you'll be putting a lot of Spring in your mosh step by jamming to:

Convoy-Nothing Left

Convoy-Flood Of The River

Advorsa-Amalgamation Of Horror

Crime Spree-In Our Blood

Whut?-Goddamn Waste

Fierce Atmospheres- High And Hellbound

Deadman's Hand-Season Of The Wolf

Eyes Of Anguish-Thorns

Royal Son Of A Guns-Two Fist Full Of Nothing

Naked Raygun-Superheroes

The Repellants-You'll Never Be As Good As Me

Circle Of Fate (interview in The Kat 105.5 studio-3/24/12)

Circle Of Fate-What If

Circle Of Fate-Sanctify

Circle Of Fate-Skeletons