Scythia will be opening for Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani and Russian pagan metal band Arkona on December
3rd in Vancouver, at The Rickshaw Theatre as part of the “UKON WACKA North American Tour”.

Joyce Collingwood was formed on April of 2009 in Vancouver, B.C by five girls with the goal of making raw, unpretentious punk. “What kind of music did we want to play together?”, we asked each other. Fast music. Short songs. Punk. Metal. Like the magic of music does, it happened almost instantaneously. The band member’s musical influences range from thrash metal to cumbia. This mix of styles has been an asset when it comes to songwriting and everybody participates in writing and arranging music.

A powerful Adelaide metal quintet based in the Eastern suburbs, with a Thrash-based, Death Metal sound.
Anything of a mix between Slayer, Trivium, Parkway Drive… You name it, it’s likely had an influence.
We are SEVER HILL. Young breed of Adelaide death/thrash metal, ready to grip your balls by the cuff, and squeeze all but brutality out of them, by means of our killer riffs, powerful breakdowns and general fucking awesomeness.
If you’re Severed once, you’re Severed Forever, and SEVER HILL’s fans prove it.
Those who …

Kill Matilda is a relative rarity:  a female fronted cyberpunk group. But that’s just beginning.
Out front is Dusty Exner, daughter of a couple of biker parents from Winnipeg who was born on the same day Chernobyl melted down.  She’s married to Mykal Exner, the band’s bass player.  Guitarist Marlene Loud is a classically trained pianist who prefers Fugazi.  Pynner, the drummer, is an accomplished ventriloquist.  And they have a touring guitarist named Dave Fuckin’ Roberts.
Sort of writes itself, don’t it?
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What is this? Am I on drugs, because the sound wasn’t sounding like it was supposed to be for a metal band, so I realized this was no metal band. How can I explain? It was like listening to Black Sabbath to the 10th potency of noise but in slow motion, do you know what I mean? like listening to Black Mountain backwards, like a melodic Sunn O, yes like Trans Am meets Sabbath. It is doom metal, dense music. “Progressive, Psychedelic DOOM!” told me Jay. Three guitars, a bass and drums conform the band that sounded like an electric storm that fell into the Pats Pub. Imagine the sound of a thunder that roars for two minutes, then when you stop being afraid of the mega thunder, a tsunami of noise comes to sweep you away while a guitar plays a Sabbbathish solo to comfort you in your agonizing last moments. The early metal broke the shell escaping the genre transcending into the realms of noize. These guys are into something good. Knowing Jay the lyrics will be teeth grinding as well and probably direct to the skull.

Out Of The Ruins is the newest and heaviest melodic hardcore band to burst into Vancouver’s music scene

Forged in Vancouver, Inside It Failed roared onto the metal scene in 2006 with a sound and presence that garnered immediate attention.
Their debut Self Titled EP, welds Doc Kohler’s chilling wails with Daryl Davidson’s jaw-rattling guitars to fabricate a unified force over the combined power of Brett Nussbaum’s pulse-pounding bass and Berkley MacDonald’s skull-crushing drums.
The band has dominated the stage with some of Canada’s finest such as Bif Naked, Armchair Cynics, and The Thick of It, to name but a few. In November …

An amazing band from Vancouver BC Canada. We live in an age of misunderstanding. Music is chained to the image of its creators, and ninja are commonly perceived as heartless human weapons whose skills, like those of artists, are cheaply bought and sold. In most music, there is a deviation from real human connection.

Deny Your Maker started as almost all bands do… in a damp dark cave of a basement. The bands roots began when Kurt (The Icepick) Maas (Lead Vocals & Guitar) met up with Ian (Shredder) Buchanan (Lead Guitar) back in the summer of 2008. They started developing their style over the summer with Bassist (Kevin Miller) and Drummers (Dave Hodges & Jon Fink).

Their first album was never released…

Soon after that Kurt moved to the West Coast to pursue his career in Audio Engineering, and Ian, as a faithful band mate, moved with him. “The two of us drove my shitty Cavalier across the country with nothing but a backpack each, and a car stuffed to the tits with guitars and amps, I even had to drive the whole way because of a drinking incident days before which left Ian with a sprained ankle” said Kurt. “It was a pretty crazy journey, we did it old school, and took our time, it was awesome, and expensive, and only drove the wrong way for an hour once”

The band succeeded in securing a development deal, and speculative multi-million record deal with producer Paul Stanley of Kiss and Polygram Records.

Boasting over a dozen TV screens, pool tables, and weekly meat draws, The Princeton Pub has more of a neighbourhood sports bar atmosphere than anything else. That is, until January 14, 2011, when the local rock & metal scene decided to come out and play… Friday nights’ line-up was pulled together in only 4 days and opened with a tremendous acoustic set from Chris Jones (guitarist & singer from Cottonmouth Jones @ www.cottonmouthjones.com ) and Joe Turner (www.myspace.com/joeturnerband ). They traded off on leading songs, casually blending Turner’s alternative & rock style with Jones’ rockabilly & punk influences. The half hour set, highlighted by Turner’s cover of U2’s “New Years Day”, closed with a solid duet punctuated by the trains rumbling outside.

Electro Quarterstaff is an instrumental triple-axe shred team from the northern Canadian plains fully loaded with brain cancer string manipulations and bacon sizzling concussions of percussion. While never a stranger to expansive dynamics, Electro Quarterstaff explores its own fertile garden of shimmery snakecharming melody, groaning seasick harmony, and freewheeling rhythmic explosions in hopes to entrance the most assertive of listeners into a tangled symphony of sludge and frantic fretboard disembowelment.

tarted in late 2005, Off By An Inch ,from Vancouver, BC, plays an honest form of melodic punk rock . Reinforced by the band’s harmonic backup vocals, Off By An Inch belts out buzzing guitar riffs, bouncing bass hooks, drums hammering away at a mile a minute to their frontman’s themes of personal loss, failures, and self-realization.

Being seasoned musicians the band was determined to take a different approach than they had in the past and make sure that playing music remained enjoyable. There is no point in stressing or complaining that you are not getting signed or making it big, that will ruin all of the enjoyment. It should be a party, not a stress fest. The “could have been, would have been, should have been” attitude was out the window and is not permitted. They certainly would welcome a deal if it came along but Sinister Black is interested in being original and writing music for enjoyment.

Two albums. Seven million copies sold worldwide.