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”.

Metal band Nihilate will be playing Funky Winkerbean’s (35 W Hastings) Thursday September 15th to wrap up their Western Canadian tour in support of their new album Synthetic Order. Local bands Dodging Daylight and Royalty Revived will open the show.

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”

This thrash metal band is ready to release their new CD The Divine Equal coming out fresh from the press on February 1st but you can take a peek at their fast and loud songs on the 22 of January at the Funky Winkerbeans in downtown.

Titans Eve came together when brothers Brian (guitar/vocals) and Kyle Gamblin (guitar/backup vocals) decided to start their own musical project in 2008 after the departure of previous projects. The line up of Titans Eve was completed with the recruitment of Jesse Hord (bass) and Casey Ory (drums), from there the Vancouver-based band have set out to create honest, powerful modern metal and have repeatedly piled into the “Titan Train” (i.e. their 2007 Ford E-350 van) and traveled across Canada,

On May 15th VanMusic held its first metal show with Fuse Breaker, Magnus Rising and Sinister Black at Pat’s Pub.

Holy Metal!  What a show.  Fuse Breaker is a new band for guitar guru Chris Thomas, while this was Fuse Breaker’s second show it was Chris’ 179th.  Chris Thomas has got to be one of the premiere guitar players in the city, if you haven’t seen him live you should.  He puts every ounce of sweat into his guitar and releases intense crisp melodies as smoke rings rise  from his fingers.  …

This episode starts off as a prerecorded show as Oswaldo is traveling through Hungary and Budapest.
After about thirty minutes the show is interrupted with a special live metal report with Chris Thomas and Dave Schroeder from Fuse Breaker.
Chris plays a little live acoustic and we preview the new Fuse Breaker tracks along with some Red Ant Army, Sinister Black and Magnus Rising.

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Fuse Breaker was started by Guitarist Chris Thomas “Red Ant Army – Dielectric – Thomas/Thomson”.
In late 2009 after the break up of “Red Ant Army” in the fall of 2009 he hooked up with “Dan Thomson” who he had been doing work with his solo efforts “Thomas/Thomson”. The idea had been running rapid in Thomas’s brain to do something heavy again but smoother and sexier. Threw trial and error Fuse Breaker was born. With the addition of the hard hitting Dave Schroeder on Drums – This …

It blends the sound of Grunge and Metal together to create a unique texture of music. It retains the heavy riff based structure of metal with the dirty chordal grandeur of Grunge.

Cobweb Society is an independent four piece punk/rock/metal band based in Vancouver, Canada.

In 2002, Cobweb Society was created in a 1971 VW bus named Daisy on a cross-country journey of Canada. After experiencing the country’s infamous winters on the road, vocalist Carly Moew and guitarist Jay Savy decided to return home to East Vancouver.

A kick ass band from Vancouver playing industrial metal, rock on!
Imagine Trent Reznor armwrestling James Hetfield, with Rob Zombie as referee….now you’ve got a good idea of the Edges of Seven sound. Simply put, a fusion of heavy rock and electronic influences plus one important element: “originality”.

Sinister Black hit the scene hard early in 2006 playing their first gig at an all ages show in New Westminster at the carpenters hall. It was a television filming for the local music show Friday Night Revolution. This quickly spread word about the unique sounding band and their sound. Around the same time the band discovered every underground bands claim to fame,…myspace .. With a new myspace up and running the band gained friends and fans at a rapid pace.