Local Loft Episode 278

Metal soldiers of Chicagoland, we honor you. Not just this upcoming Memorial Day Weekend, but every time you fire up this episode. The Chicago area's original metal scene rules the roost on episode 278. Even forgotten 80's metal guitar shredding gods who were once a Rising Force will be be  linked to the Chicago band who features the reigning queen of goth rock.

Indign brings a sheer sonic wall of penetrating ear exploding guitars, combined with clean melodic & unclean angry grunt filles vocals. They join Consume The Divide, Atlanta Is Burning, & The Righteous & Few Saturday night at Brauerhouse in Lombard. Guitarist Manny Canchola joins me to get you psyched to trade headbangs to the extreme.

Bullet To The Heart is already a Rising Force of Goth Rock supremacy, the Chicago melodic metal band, featuring singer Audrey Queen, now goes back to the future, in co headlining with the MTV decade's premier guitar shredder Yngwie Malmsteen on a summer tour. I have details.

Veteran Cow Punk singer Pete Berwick of McHenry County will soon tell fans of legendary Chicago biker rock band The Boyzz From Illinois how he came to write the first official biography of the band, while showcasing his own ragged, ass kicking brand of outlaw country laced rock. I have a track from his new full length album The Damage Is Done. And another opportunity to soak your subconscious in a forgotten thrash metal band from the new home of hardcore  metal, Kankakee, Beneath Ancient Waters, who couldn't stay afloat in the original scene for very long. We rock back ten years ago this week when they made Kat 105.5 listeners drown in their mixture of fast pile driving punk drums & melodic hard 90s style grunge rock.

Fully locked & loaded is this heave barrage of original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock & power pop:

Indign-Son Of Ares

Indign-Acheron Falls (River Of Woe)

The Righteous And Few-Wasting Away

Darker Than Fiction-The Count

Consume The Divide-The Hunt

Pete Berwick-You'll Get Used To It

The Boyzz-Back To Kansas

Bullet To The Heart-Black Widow

Ignescent-Resist

Beneath Ancient Waters (interview in The Kat 105.5 studio-5/23/13)

Beneath Ancient Waters-Dear Maria

Beneath Ancient Waters-Foreverlong