"He talked of hits and tours and lots of cash. And all the time it wasn't on. We were betrayed by Rough Trade Lies." (Rough Trade-Stiff Little Fingers. From thier debut album, Inflammable Material. Released 2-2-79 on Rough Trade records. U.K.)
The music business is indeed rough at times. We'll keep the rough nature confined to the groove an of the original Chicagoland Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock and Power Pop music. It's not all rough
Mixed in with the hard hitting, intense quality of Joliet Metalcore band Next To Eternity's music is an operatic second set of clean harmony vocals. A Classical Music chord structure is distinctive, along with cinematic, graphic nature of lyrics, and especially music videos. The world of slasher horror films and video games works its way into the images of Book Of The Dead, their third album, dropping on Friday, February 20th . The day after, they will premiere the complete album live, at a local Metal Showcase show, Saturday, the 21st at the Forge in Joliet. I talk with longtime singer/co-founder Sam Rodriguez and guitarist Mike Spillman.
Making his awesome virtuosos guitar shredding presence known in many bands, The Demon, David Shankle, flies away from ethnic power metal band Wings Of Destiny to help cult Chicago Doom Metal act. The Skull, remake a deadly fine feathered signature tune.
Crossing over language barriers and rocking all nationalities equally, the Czech/American rock act 4 Without had a packed house at the legendary Metro grooving on a wintry Saturday night, 10 years ago this week. Led by effervescent petite singer Jana Vox, I got the only full band interview with them, debuting their only English album, Line Of Love.
A persistent plume of original Chicagoland music will hug the cyberwaves and will make you wiggle and pogo back and forth to the sounds of:
Next To Eternity-The Entity
Next To Eternity-Traumatophobia
Beheading The Icon-Criminal Eradication Order
The Skull (featuring David Shankle & Anton Darusso of Wings Of Destiny)-Who Killed The Rooster? (2026 remake)
Wings of Destiny (featuring David Shankle)-Masters Of War
The Rip Ups-Ground Floor
Vortis-Going My Way
Hangry Ghost-No Good
Horace Pinker-Three Against Me
Megan Hosick-That And You
Voodoo Monkey Child (Featurign Jana Vox)-Deep Water Flash
4Without (Live at Metro 2-6-16 Local Loft Episode 18)
4Without-Kill Him First
4Without-Tonight
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