"I don't want a Holiday In The Sun. I want to go to the new Belsen." (Sex Pistols-1977 )
The original Chicago area's metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop scene never takes a holiday...not on every music intensive episode of Local Loft.
There's always something new to discover, even in music with an old school, retro twist.
Metal has so many different music styles nowadays. Not just the unclean hardcore grunting vocal. Melodic and progressive metal is just as dominant in the scene. Chicago band WitchHammer combines a sophisticated melodic operatic singing style with just a pinch of angry and aggressive vocal. They continue to work on an almost seven year follow up album to their 2018 debut, Blood Of The Fallen. I talk with the Band's Drummer Tyler Mustard and lead singer Paul. They were hoping to give a long-awaited sneak preview of the new album, We Are Coven, this Memorial Day Weekend at The Forge in Joliet, but the show was unexpectantly cancelled.
Seven years ago, the gruesome tale of a shipwrecked pirate's ghost haunting the vessel he once captained became an illustrious cinematic full length debut album by Oblivion Zero. The Central Illinois based metal act returns with Flaws In Daylight, which is not a sequel to The Revenant. They will present the new album in its entirety Saturday night at Top Fuel Saloon in Braidwood. The correct music video soundtrack for the first single gets a spin here. The Outfit takes a few Quick Turns through The Big Apple in a new music video featuring Mike Gorman, once bassist of the legendary Chicago power pop giants off Broadway.
Evil Engine motored their way onto the set of WGN TV Morning News, and rocked live a week after their guest spot at Reggie's Music Joint the thrash Punk band lead by the colorful female singer Kryssie Ridolphi took a swipe at a former billionaire turned two-time president. We rock back to it, six years ago this week.
Take some more time on, not off, rocking out big time to this prime original Chicagoland music soundtrack:
WitchHammer-Watch The World Burn
WitchHammer-Blood In The Water
Chains Over Razors-Purge The Suffering
Beneath The Hollow-Four-Dimensional Regret
Oblivion Zero-Corrector
The Outfit-Hard On Me
Off Broadway-Stay In Time (original 1979 Atlantic 45 rpm vinyl single)
Pezband-Stella Blue (2025 remix)
The Ugly Lovers-Nowhere To Go
Evil Engine (interview from Reggie's Music Joint-5/26/19 Local Loft Episode 103)
Evil Engine-Upstanding Citizen
Evil Engine-Egression
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