Hello again, here is another entry in my series of interviews with Winter’s Wake bands!
As I said before: with so many people to talk to, I had to keep these kind of short and sweet — mostly enough for you (the reader) to get a sense of the band’s history, to learn a little about where they came from and what they’re doing now, so you can get excited about seeing all of them too!
Below, you will find what Alan Dubin (Gnaw, ex-Khanate) had to say…
Hey folks, how excited are you that Winter’s Wake is almost here??
I know I really am — there are so many bands I’m really excited about, some of which I’ve never seen before, some of which I’ve been a fan of for a long time, some of which I don’t know that much about yet, but there literally isn’t a single band that I’m not looking forward to checking out.
So when Jon Leone of Allure of the Earth Productions asked me if I’d mind doing an interview with each of the bands leading up to next weekend’s event, of course I jumped on the opportunity!
With so many people to talk to, I had to keep these kind of short and sweet — mostly enough for you (the reader) to get a sense of the band’s history, to learn a little about where they came from and what they’re doing now, so you can get excited about seeing all of them too!
Here is a conversation I had with Karl Simon of The Gates of Slumber…
So all the final details for this year’s Winter’s Wake festival are finally here! The venues, scheduled bands, and ticketing information all have been announced, and I’ve collected all of it right here for you!
*** NOTE: ALL THE FINAL DETAILS FOR THE WINTER’S WAKE FESTIVAL HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AT THIS LOCATION: https://valleyofsteel.net/2013/01/28/winters-wake-2013-presented-by-allure-of-the-earth/ ***
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Ladies and Gentlemen, three more bands (***) were just officially announced for the upcoming Winter’s Wake festival!
At this moment the nearly-complete line-up is scheduled to run as follows:
FRIDAY, 22 February 2013:
*** Vektor (sci-fi thrash from Philly)
Black Anvil (black metal from NYC)
GNAW (experimental industrial/drone/noise, from NYC)
Vit (experimental black/doom/folk from Ohio)
Liquified Guts (brutalgoredeathgrind from Pittsburgh)
*** Meth Quarry (Grim “Dirge” Hardcore from Pittsburgh)
SATURDAY 23 February 2013:
Dream Death (doom metal from Pittsburgh / exclusive area appearance for 2013!)
Blood Ceremony (occult doom rock from Toronto)
Evoken (death-doom from NJ)
Occultation (traditional metal from NYC)
Vattnet Viskar (black metal from New Hampshire)
*** Derketa (doomy death metal from Pittsburgh)
Molasses Barge (doomy traditional metal from Pittsburgh)
Vulture (doomy sludge metal from Pittsburgh)
So that’s where things stand as of right now.
LAST UPDATED 10 January 2013: There will be a pre-show (no details available yet) on Thursday the 21st! More information about that, plus the full details (including venue and ticket information) for the festival will be announced on Wednesday, the 2nd of January, 2013. very, very soon. We hope. Any further information will be shared with you here at Valley of Steel, as soon as we learn anything ourselves! Stay tuned!
Facebook event page for Winter’s Wake: http://www.facebook.com/events/147586328726944/
*** NOTE: ALL THE FINAL DETAILS FOR THE WINTER’S WAKE FESTIVAL HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AT THIS LOCATION: https://valleyofsteel.net/2013/01/28/winters-wake-2013-presented-by-allure-of-the-earth/ ***
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Good afternoon, folks! We are getting closer to knowing the full line-up for next February’s two-day Winter’s Wake festival!
As revealed last week, this Allure of the Earth Productions event is taking place between Friday and Saturday, 22-23 February 2013, in Pittsburgh.
Dream Death, Blood Ceremony, Occultation, GNAW, Vattnet Viskar, Vit, and Vulture were all included in that initial announcement, but today there are four more bands confirmed:
- Evoken (death-doom from Lyndhurst, NJ)
- Black Anvil (black metal from NYC)
- Molasses Barge (doomy traditional metal from Pittsburgh)
- Liquified Guts (brutalgoredeathgrind from Pittsburgh)
Once again, there’s a lot to be excited about here… and I’ll be sure to update you readers with plenty of information about all of these bands sometime before the show happens, so keep watching this spot!
Also, over the next several days AOTE is expected to finally reveal the remaining bands (which includes one more headliner), in addition to ticket information and everything. So stay tuned for that, too!
UPDATE 19 December: three more bands have been announced…
*** NOTE: ALL THE FINAL DETAILS FOR THE WINTER’S WAKE FESTIVAL HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AT THIS LOCATION: https://valleyofsteel.net/2013/01/28/winters-wake-2013-presented-by-allure-of-the-earth/ ***
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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s here: half of the line-up for the two-day Winter’s Wake festival has been confirmed!
Brought to you by Allure of the Earth Productions, this event will be held on Friday and Saturday, 22-23 February 2013, in Pittsburgh.
There will be fourteen bands altogether between those two days, and seven of them were announced today:
- Dream Death (exclusive 2013 appearance in this area for the recently reunited Pittsburgh natives)
- Blood Ceremony (female-fronted, flute-oriented, occult doom metal from Toronto, Canada)
- Occultation (traditional heavy metal/doom from New York City)
- GNAW (experimental industrial/drone/noise, also from New York City)
- Vattnet Viskar (from New Hampshire; they had, without question, one of this year’s best black metal releases)
- Vit (experimental black/doom/folk from Swansylvania, Ohio)
- Vulture (Steel City Sludge, whom any visitor to this website should already be aware of!)
Lots more details will be emerging soon (possibly as soon as next week) — such as the exact location, ticket information, the remainder of the bands, and scheduled times — and I will be sure to share all of that with you as soon as I hear anything! So stay tuned!
UPDATE 05 December: four more bands have been announced!
UPDATE 19 December: three more bands have been announced, leaving just one more to be confirmed…
Hello again, readers. To paraphrase a certain local musician’s recent post on Facebook, there are like 8,000 killer shows taking place right here in Pittsburgh this month! It seemed like about half of those were taking place last weekend (see here for a summary of those), but there are tons more going on this week too! Some big names, and some not-so-big but who have been talked about frequently on this very blog… details below.
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Good morning, readers, I hope you are doing well today. I just wanted to share this with you in case you haven’t already seen it, because That Devil Music, one of my favorite metal websites, has posted an interview with Argus, one of my favorite semi-local bands! (Semi-local, because they are just outside of Pittsburgh too, but in the opposite direction from me.)
Anyway, you can read the interview here — and see the band address such topics as the reaction to their second album (Boldly Stride the Doomed, out last year on Cruz del Sur Music); whether they consider themselves “doom metal” (spoiler alert: they can equivocate about genre as well as anybody); and what the future holds as far as upcoming shows (special mention is made of them playing the 31st Street Pub next month for the Dream Death reunion) and their forthcoming third album.
Enjoy!!
Welcome to this week’s installment of the “Signmeto” Unsigned Band of the Week feature, which is where I profile a band I’ve discovered on the “Sign Me to Roadrunner Records” website, and then give you the opportunity to listen to a few songs from somebody you might never have heard before. My hope is, you might find something you really dig, and then when they explode in popularity and sell a million records, you can scoff at all the bandwagon-jumpers, saying you’ve been a fan since the beginning.
All of the bands I’ve written about so far in this weekly column have been people who’ve contacted me directly, actively seeking reviews. If your band has already written to me, don’t worry, I’ll get to you soon — I’ve got a few more lined up for the next several weeks. But today is a little different because it’s a band I ran across last weekend when I was writing about the upcoming Dream Death reunion show — one of the opening acts for that show is a local band I hadn’t heard before, so in the course of writing that article I had to do a little research to find out who they are. That was Closer to Hell, a death metal band from Ford City, PA (just a little while north of Pittsburgh in Armstrong County). After I located their Facebook page, I found that they also had an account on Signmeto, where I was able to give them a listen. So naturally, I decided to include them here so you could do the same. Continue reading
Yes, that Dream Death. The Pittsburgh doom legends from the 1980s. The ones who attained cult status in local metal lore, after they had split up and reconfigured themselves as Penance. They recently posted an update on Facebook announcing that they were getting back together the last line-up of the band (which included all of the founding members except for bassist Ted Williams, meaning that this also includes all the members of Dream Death who later went on to form Penance) for a one-time-only show!
Pittsburgh metal legends Dream Death are reuniting for one show.
This will be the line up of:
Brian Lawrence (Goodbread)
Mike Smail
Terry Weston
Richie FreundWith special guests Argus and one more TBA. 21+
Saturday, April 21, 2012
9:00pm31st Street Pub
3101 Penn Ave. (Penn Ave @ 31st St. Bridge)
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Update, 5 March 2012:
The band has announced that tickets for this event are now available!
Tickets for the April 21st show are now available.
Tickets can be purchased for $15 at Smails Custom Drum Shop.
www.smailscustomdrumshop.comThe following options are available:
Check or Money Order
Cash
PaypalMake Checks and Money Orders payable to Mike Smail
134 Market Street
Kittanning PA 16201
724-548-4725PayPal Paypal Address is: mike@smailscustomdrumshop.com
** IMPORTANT **
Please include your return address so the tickets can be mailed back to you.
You can find out more by visiting the following links:
Dream Death: Facebook
Journey into Mystery album (CD – rare, out of print!
Pittsburgh Sludge Metal live album (CD
Penance: Facebook
Parallel Corners album (CD
Alpha & Omega album (CD
Argus (featuring vocalist Brian “Butch” Balich, also currently of Penance and Molasses Barge):
Facebook / official website
Boldy Stride the Doomed album (CD
Closer to Hell: Facebook
Read the Valley of Steel profile of this band as the “Sign Me To Roadrunner Records” Band of the Week
31st Street Pub: Facebook
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