Local Loft Episode 246

Putting the ROCK in Rocktober. There's plenty of original Chicago area metal, punk and alternative rock to fill a candy bag (sorry, Charlie Brown, it's not that kind of rock).  This ain't your daddy's old school FM radio promotion, this is always sweet (er than candy) Chicago area local music scene. Hit play and dig in!

Drawing inspiration from modern world peace scenarios, and not ancient and modern-day medieval TV series and films. Chicago's Black Sites rocks you with their second EP, Untrue, featuring extensive instrumental intros and the heartfelt melodic vocals from Mark Sugar. He joins me to talk about their upcoming show Thursday night at Reggie's Music Joint, with west coast Progressive Metal act Hellfire and Peoria's Innersiege.

Plainfield's Endgame returns with a scorching royal house of pain in Serpent Whisper, their first new music for the band since Before It's Too Late four years ago. I've got the first new single off the soon to be released EP.

After moving away from his high-pitched vocal fire as singer of the melodic thrash metal act Fierce Atmospheres, Taran De Pablos gets ready tom unveil The Midnight Calls. He was in Fierce Atmospheres only a year, when he started Hellbound Sons, an old school Led Zeppelin-ish blues rock band. Thye made their blazing debut at Wire in Berwyn six year ago this week. We rock back to it.

Along with all this, you're scaring up a pre-Halloween original Chicago area music treat by letting your ears digest the tasty rock morsels of:

Black Sites-Sword Of Orion

Black Sites-The Night They Came For You

Innersiege- Firewind

Chokesetter-Barn Burner

Misfire-Red Flag

Endgame-The Palace Is Burning

NoneWillFall- What You Get

The Time Beings-Lemonade

Shoes-Tomorrow Night

Hellbound Sons (Taran De Pablos & Rick Morrisey interview from Wire in Berwyn-10/1/16 Local Loft Episode 39)

Hellbound Sons-Heathen (Live at Wire in Berwyn-10/1/16)

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