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BOOZEWA Announce First West Coast Tour This July

Posted in grunge, Hard Rock, Music, music news, news, noise rock with tags , , , , on April 28, 2026 by Metal Odyssey

Pennsylvania noise and grunge trio BOOZEWA will make their long awaited West Coast debut this July, bringing their loud, heavy, and unmistakably strange sound across California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and Utah.

Formed in 2020, BOOZEWA features Jessica Baker on bass and vocals, Rylan Caspar on guitar and vocals, and mRc on drums. The trio draws from a sonic lineage that includes KARP, MELVINS, SONIC YOUTH, and SWANS, delivering a sound that is both punishing and unpredictable. The band includes former members of BACKWOODS PAYBACK and a current member of ALL ELSE FAILED.

Operating fully DIY through their own DeepRest Records imprint, BOOZEWA has released five records, singles, and EPs. Their latest release, a split with NOWHERE, is available now on 12 inch vinyl. The band has also worked in the studio with TAD DOYLE of TAD.

Known for their intense live performances, BOOZEWA has previously toured with THE OBSESSED, SUPLECS, CKY, AMIGO THE DEVIL, and COMA HOLE. This upcoming run marks a major milestone as they finally bring their sound to fans who have been asking for West Coast dates for years.

The band states they are excited to finally get out west and connect with those who have been waiting. Each show will feature hand picked regional acts.

BOOZEWA July West Coast Tour:

  • Thursday 16 Alexs Bar, Long Beach CA with DAWN FADES, STYGIAN CROWN
  • Friday 17 Redwood Bar, Los Angeles CA
  • Saturday 18 Scotland Yard, Los Angeles CA
  • Sunday 19 Humble Heart, San Diego CA with DEAD TENSION, NO AVAIL
  • Monday 20 Aces High Saloon, Salt Lake City UT with LUCID, SIMIAN
  • Thursday 23 Lucky Liquor, Tacoma WA with PONYBOY, GRRRIZLY
  • Friday 24 Kenton Club, Portland OR with CUE THE SUN, VACANCY FLOOR, CLAMBAIT
  • Saturday 25 The Dip, Redding CA
  • Sunday 26 MATINEE Kilowatt, San Francisco CA with GRAIN, WONDERLAND REJECTS
  • Sunday 26 NIGHT SHOW Winters, Pacifica CA with CAMGIRL
  • Wednesday 29 Yucca Taproom, Mesa AZ with LOST DUTCHMAN, GET TO THE CHOPPER
  • Thursday 30 Transplants Brewing, Palmdale CA
  • Friday 31 Til Two, San Diego CA with INSOMNIA, DOLL RIOT

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Source: C Squared Music

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DRUNK DAD “Ripper Killer” Album Is: Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!

Posted in experimental music, experimental rock, metal music, Music, music news, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on June 3, 2014 by Metal Odyssey

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DRUNK DAD Ripper Killer – releases July 1st, 2014, via Eolian Empire.

DRUNK DAD – When I first heard Drunk Dad’s Morbid Reality EP, I was very happy. Why you query? Answer: Drunk Dad plays Noise Rock and experiments with their sound like it’s the night before doomsday, while giving little or no regard about what others will say about the end result. Drunk Dad has their own terminology for their sound and they call it: Fuck You All Wave.

Make no mistake, Drunk Dad can and will shock you into embracing their music. Maybe. It’s weird how it happened to me. The mixture of several genres of non-mainstream, apocalyptic underground goodness is what Drunk Dad creates and they do it superbly, in my Metal opinion. I sometimes wonder to myself, would Noise be the genre that I would pursue If I wanted to start a band? Just listening to Drunk Dad seems to calm my nerves. After listening to Ripper Killer, I feel as though I took a hammer to an aluminum garbage can and now everything is cool.

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Ripper Killer is Drunk Dad’s first long play and I see it being the launching pad of this Portland, Oregon ensemble. Drunk Dad needs to play Ripper Killer in its entirety at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, just to shut the mouths of and piss off all those plastic millionaire/billionaire dorks that get all the free corporate seats. I’m serious. The overall sound that is Ripper Killer just has to appeal to a cross-section of Punk, Sludge, Hardcore and Experimental fans. If you dig Mr. Bungle and/or the Melvins, you are in for a sonic treat with Drunk Dad. Yup.

As a past student of Art History, I’ve been trained to look beyond the first impression and explore the many inner cavities of the visual creation. With that said, the cover art (or photo if you will) of Drunk Dad’s Ripper Killer, (see atop post), exposes light years of relevance to what is happening in our world today. Albeit shocking to look at, the cover art does symbolize the death that is in our hourly news; whether it’s carnage from a madman firing off a gun in public, wars, cruelty to any life form or even an oil spill from an ocean tanker.

Relating the cover art of Ripper Killer to Drunk Dad’s music just seems to fit; for if the photo turns off the fancy and out-of-touch mainstream, then surely the music heard within will too. Sometimes one picture is truly worth a thousand words. That’s my interpretation, anyways. Metal be thy name. – Stone

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Ripper Killer – Track Listing: Five Pack, Life’s Work, Fuck In Garbage, Light A Fire, S.O.U., Ripper Killer, Worthless, Whiskey Liver

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* For more info on DRUNK DAD:

Facebook: Drunk Dad

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Website: http://eolianempire.com

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LONG LIVE DRUNK DAD.

LONG LIVE HEAVY AS SHIT MUSIC.

Stone.

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FOSSILS – Second LP From Danish Instrumental Duo Two Weeks From Release; Pre-orders Available

Posted in Hard Rock, Metal, metal music, Music, news, noise rock, rock music, rock music news, world news with tags , , , , , , on February 13, 2014 by Metal Odyssey

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Band Announces Record Release Shows Featuring Special Guests

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Danish instrumental Noise Rock duo, FOSSILS, is ready to distribute their second album — the pounding, utterly intense, Flesh Hammer, set for worldwide disbursement on March 3rd via Indisciplinarian.

Consisting of ten precise, noisy and ever-entertaining no-bullshit pieces of music in twenty minutes, FOSSILS‘ succinctly pulverizing Flesh Hammer was created by a band that has refined their trademarks of thunderous riffs and stomping grooves side-by-side with complex rhythms, pouring out their unique, stripped-down brand of instrumental, noisy rock firmly rooted in punk, metal and hardcore. Flesh Hammer was produced by Danish sound-enigma Q (Beta Satan, Entombed), and will see worldwide release via digital download as well as 12″ LP limited to 300 copies.

Preorders for the vinyl are now live; internationally order direct from the Indisciplinarian web shop HERE, while Earsplit Distro is carrying the LP for North America with preorders available HERE.

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In-studio videos of FOSSILS‘ recording sessions, featuring actual live takes and mixes found onFlesh Hammer, have been leaked out over the past several weeks. So far five full tracks have been released, including, “Critical Mass,” “Cat Stalker,” “Stun,” “Spamtastic” and “Crack Horse.”

The release Flesh Hammer will be celebrated with two Danish release shows, at Radar in Aarhus on February 28th and at Beta in Copenhagen, on March 1st. In the unconventional spirit of FOSSILS, these will not simply be “typical” release shows with the usual canapés and support bands, but instead an overload of awesome musical guests will be involved in each of the performances, not at least at the Aarhus gig where the program is quite overwhelming. Aarhus will see the resurrection of FOSSILS‘ old band, the local high-octane rock n’ roll heroes, Studson playing a sweet set of oldies but goodies. Then FOSSILS will mutate into their own doom version, Slissof, covering an old Cola Freaks-classic with several guests from Cola Freaks, Rising and Studson. Hereafter, FOSSILS will perform Flesh Hammer from beginning to end, and finally the dynamic duo concludes the show when joined by numerous vocalists such as Jacob Bredahl (The Kandidate, ex-HateSphere) and Kim Kix (Powersolo) who will interpret various FOSSILS compositions from earlier releases. In Copenhagen FOSSILS will play a more straight-up set and special guests will be the aforementioned Studson, and a second band yet to be announced.

FOSSILS Flesh Hammer Record Release Shows:

2/28/2014 Beta – Copenhagen, Denmark

3/01/2014 Radar – Arhaus, Denmark

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(Source: Earsplit PR)

* For more info on FOSSILS:

http://www.meatrush.com

https://www.facebook.com/fossilsmusic

http://fossilsmusic.bandcamp.com

http://www.indisciplinarian.com

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LONG LIVE FOSSILS.

Stone.

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DRUNK DAD – Noise/Sludge Quartet’s EP Is The Eolian Empire’s Next Conquest

Posted in experimental rock, grindcore, Music, noise rock, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on April 30, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

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In a constant barrage of new noise from Portland-based D.I.Y. noisemongers Eolian Empire, the label’s next conquest comes by way of the filthifying new 12” from local metalworkers DRUNK DAD.

If they weren’t such dirty fuckers they’d be one of the town’s shining success stories of unrelenting hard work and dedication: in a surprisingly short time DRUNK DAD went from favorite-band-shirts-on-their-hearts-on-their-sleeves to a unique and dynamic fusion of the heavy, the noisy, and the aggro, with a healthy dose of high drama, as they consistently churn out some of the most devastating live sets Portland has seen in years. Complex but in-your-face arrangements, push-pull duel-guitar interplay, searing behind-the-head leads, heavy motherfucking bass, and hard-hitting, tight, technical traps with dynamic, disturbing vocals to hold it all together evolves to ethical scumbaggery at its finest.

Morbid Reality, the first vinyl release from Portlandian shitstarters DRUNK DAD, merges off-kilter sludge/noise the Pacific Northwest perpetuates so well into a drugged-out but aggro vibe; elements of scathing crust-ish degenerate punk brutality of El Dopa or Dystopia are cold-filtered with slow-motion acerbic sludge basslines and noxious riffage with a post-Melvins experimental vibe.

Eolian Empire will drop the four-song Morbid Reality via 12” vinyl and digital download on June 11th. In the meantime, DRUNK DAD were recently caught intoxicating the public via Eolian’s massive KEEP OUR HEADS Portland underground compilation alongside twenty-five more of the city’s finest filthriffing acts. Get wrecked with their pungent “S.O.U.” anthem from the comp RIGHT HERE.

Following their spot on one of the Eolian Empire KEEP OUR HEADS record release shows over the weekend, DRUNK DAD have the coolers loaded with frothy ammo as they plan on stumbling south across California this week, with shows booked in Eureka, Oakland and a happy-hour double in San Francisco. They also just booked a hometown record release show at Portland’s Ash Street Saloon with labelmates Diesto on June 7th, with much more public drunkenness to be had in the Summer months.

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DRUNK DAD Public Intoxications:

5/02/2013 The Shanty – Eureka, CA w/ Apocryphon, AM Beers

5/03/2013 Eli’s Mile High Club – Oakland, CA w/ Augers, Old Crow, Abstractor

5/04/2013 Hemlock Tavern – San Francisco, CA w/ Prizehog, Connoisseur

5/05/2013 Bay Area 51 – San Francisco, CA w/ Unifried, Mansion

6/07/2013 Ash Street Saloon – Portland, OR w/ Diesto

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Morbid Reality – Track Listing:

1. Guts

2. Seizure

3. Ritual

4. Scum Fee

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(Source: Earsplit PR)

* For more info on DRUNK DAD, click on the links below!

facebook: Drunk Dad

http://eolianempire.com

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LONG LIVE DRUNK DAD.

Stone.

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BELLIGERATOR “Robot Prostitute” – New Music Video From Noise Rock Trio Is: Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!

Posted in Music, noise rock, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , on March 6, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

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BELLIGERATOR is a Rock band based out of Sixth Street in San Francisco, CA. and have recently gotten in touch with me regarding their new music video: Robot Prostitute. Hell, I liked the song and video so much that I am declaring it as: Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day! Metal be thy name.

Here is what guitarist/vocalist Jim had to say about Robot Prostitute and his band:

“The video was produced and directed by filmmaker David Weber and shot in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood in December, 2012. The inspiration for the video came from wanting to blend a horror movie aesthetic with a slightly humorous theme, while portraying a fictionalized version of the darker side of life on the streets in the neighborhood surrounding our rehearsal studio.”

Belligerator’s heavy blend of progressive and punk draws upon influences ranging from the Jesus Lizard to Big Black to the Dead Kennedys, while maintaining a unique and powerful sound. Our first full-length album came out in 2011, entitled “Next Year’s Music.”

Listen to and watch Robot Prostitute below! Whoa!

You can find more information and links for BELLIGERATOR at www.belligerator.com

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BELLIGERATOR:

Tomas Eduardo Kelley – bass & voices

Jonathan C. Perkins – drums & programming

James Michael Sam – guitars & vocals

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LONG LIVE BELLIGERATOR.

Stone.

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