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What To Do In Pittsburgh This Weekend: Skull Fest 5
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Ladies and gentlemen of the Pittsburgh region, it’s time to sew that Amebix patch back onto your shorts (you know, the one that almost got ripped off by some hardcore kid who kept trying to start a mosh pit the last time you went to a basement show), and make sure your Docs are laced up tight. That’s right, Skull Fest — the annual celebration of all things punky and crusty — returns this weekend!
Dozens of bands — locals big and small, old and new, as well as several traveling from all over the country, and even a couple from Canada and Europe — are scheduled to perform at various locations all over Bloomfield, Polish Hill, and Lawrenceville all weekend long!
Everything kicks off this evening (Friday), so without any further delay, below you will find your schedule of events. Each show is individually priced, but passes are still available which will give you access to everything happening on all three days; just visit the Skull Fest website to buy yours. (Any tickets purchased now will be held at the door.)
VOS Videography 2013: A Mid-Year Retrospective (Part 19)
Kopec’s (Lawrenceville / Pittsburgh, PA), 23 June 2013
Storm King – “Aura of Failure”
Storm King – “Backfill”
Slaves BC – “The Four Horsemen: Wild Hunt”
Slaves BC – “Armageddon”
The Rock Room (Polish Hill / Pittsburgh, PA), 29 June 2013
DeathCrawl – “Kill or Be Killed”
DeathCrawl – “Dead is Dead”
The Osedax – “Time Unveiled”
Meth Quarry – “Afterlife Daggers”
Slaves BC featuring Meth Quarry vocalist Adam Bailey – “Armageddon”
Sluggers (Charleroi, PA), 30 June 2013
Flesh Addict – “Sludge Surf” and “Brain Dead”
Stay tuned, because there will be lots more of these, as more shows take place throughout the second half of this year! Just keep checking back, or better yet, subscribe to the channel and you can get notifications whenever there’s something new for you to watch.
As an added bonus for making it ALL the way to the end of this lengthy retrospective, here is the full-sized version of the photo collage that was posted on Facebook. (Click to enlarge).
NAVIGATION
Part 1 (28 December – 18 January)
Part 2 (01 – 09 February)
Part 3 (16 February)
Part 4 (22 February)
Part 5 (23 February)
Part 6 (02 – 09 March)
Part 7 (10 March)
Part 8 (14 March)
Part 9 (16 March)
Part 10 (22 – 24 March)
Part 11 (28 – 29 March)
Part 12 (02 – 11 April)
Part 13 (12 – 19 April)
Part 14 (20 – 26 April)
Part 15 (04 – 05 May)
Part 16 (11 – 17 May)
Part 17 (18 – 27 May)
Part 18 (31 May – 20 June)
Deathcrawl – Accelerated Rate of Decay
Deathcrawl – Accelerated Rate of Decay (self-released, 16 October 2012)
Okay, true story: earlier this month, I had a cookout for a handful of friends (mostly musicians or music-related folks, just because that’s how I roll). At some point in the evening, as we were standing around the fire and socializing, I remember talking to someone about a song that was playing (I’d hooked up my MP3 player and set it to shuffle); during that conversation, the song ended and the next one began — and on hearing the grimey riffs that were pouring out of the speakers, I then remarked, “Oh, and this is Deathcrawl.”
Well. Standing nearby just happened to be Josh Thieler, vocalist for Slaves BC. You may recall that his band creates some awesome music, and so it’s no surprise that he’d generally have pretty good taste in stuff to listen to. Anyway, I could see that his eyes were all lit up. “I was just about to ask you what this is,” he told me, “because it’s really good. This is Deathcrawl?” I nodded, and he added (I’m paraphrasing here; this was a couple weeks ago), “So, my band is playing with this band at the end of the month??” I nodded again, and his face lit up even more.
Because yes, I’m pleased to say, the Ohioan sludge factory that is Deathcrawl is finally playing a show in Pittsburgh, and that show is tomorrow night!! In addition to Slaves BC, that line-up will also feature Meth Quarry and (coming back to the city for the first time since last summer) The Osedax from Virginia. More details on that show coming up soon, but first, I’d like to bring you up to speed on a band and an album that you really need to be listening to (if you haven’t already)!
Meth Quarry Interview: Pittsburgh’s Grim Hardcore Assault!
Folks, if you’ve had your ear to the ground over the past few months you might have noticed that there has been some rumbling coming out of the dark underworld of hardcore. There has been so much hype swirling around the crusty, grimy beast known as Meth Quarry lately, that the band has reached a nearly mythical status — without having played a single show yet!
But all of that is about to change, because these guys are finally ready to come crawling out of the dank cellar of Pittsburgh’s underground and expose the good people of the Steel City to their grim “dirge” hardcore style. Last weekend I met up with the quintet (guitarists Chris Smith and Kevin Hogue, bassist Aaron Kaczynski, vocalist Adam Joseph Bailey, and drummer Brandon “Fluffy” Baker) to talk about the story of the band’s formation and what sort of things they’ve got on the horizon — I joined them at one of their rehearsals, which took place in the basement of Kevin’s house, so when I say “crawling out of the cellar” I actually mean it literally…
What To Do In Pittsburgh Today (13 October 2012)
Okay folks, tons to talk about and not a whole lot of time.
There is so much happening today, I’ve got to get moving very soon if I want to even hit half of these events. And I do, at least.
You will too, so you won’t want to sit here all day and read a bunch of crap. Let’s get straight to the good stuff, shall we…
Valley of Steel 