Local Loft Episode 381

Persistent May showers won't bring this or cause it to bloom....A growing harvest of original Chicagoland Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock & Power Pop. Plant your ears into a detailed set of headphones, earbuds or speakers with maximum wattage.

In this sonic garden of melodies and song hooks, Chicago Metal trio Chains Over Razors looks to rewrite the very definition of Modern Metal. They look extreme hardcore, the sound is altogether different. I talk with drummer Andy V. as they will have a big moshing and headbanging audience linked to the chunky power chord and melodic vocal groove, Saturday night at The Forge in Joliet, with Witch Hammer and The Midnight Calls.

Leah Colette certainly dressed and looked the part of a Hardcore Metal musician. But, laid down a set of funky, even jazzy bass riffs as one third of Catapult The Propaganda. She has slingshot her way out of the sludge rocking Joliet trio to form All Outta Gum, an intense four-piece metal band which is a showcase for her raspy, screaming vocal. I have their first single, and news on a new beginning for CTP's two other members, guitarist/singer Robert Bloodworth and drummer Skip Maskeri.

There was a scarcity of obvious similarities, but certainly not appearance wise for Darien based goth rock band Comfort Scarcity. The distinctive high pitched vocal style was there, but no flash guitar shredding or bashing snare drum hits. I dropped in on them convincing a packed crowd that they were not your average face melting rock group, six years ago this week, at Q Bar in their native city.

Reap the bountiful blossom of perennial original Chicagoland music, sprouting up from farthest reaches of cyberspace:

Chains Over Razors-Broken Home

Chains Over Razors-Megalomaniac

Witch Hammer-Darkness Before The Dawn

The Midnight Calls-A Long Time Comin' (live from Tony D's, Elmwood Park-5/3/25

Catapult The Propaganda-Hollowed

All Outta Gum-Deceit

Point A Pistol At The Sun-Next Dude (Live from the Drunken Donut, Joliet-10/28/23

Sons Of Ra-Intrepridation

Poundcake-Botanist

Comfort Scarcity (interview from Q Bar, Darien-5/13/19 Local Loft Episode 102)

Comfort Scarcity-Target Acquired

Comfort Scarcity-Dark Repertoire