SEVEN KINGDOMS ~ EMPRESS ~ OSYRON ~ MALPHAS
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:15 PM SEVEN KINGDOMShttps://sevenkingdoms.bandcamp.com/album/decenniumEMPRESShttps://empresslegion.bandcamp.com/album/fateweaverOSYRONhttps://osyron.bandcamp.com/album/momentousMALPHASFounded in 2012 by Paul DeSanctis and Eric Dunleavy. Accompanied by Damian DiFrancesco in 2014. The Conjuring EP was released in 2015, followed by extensive playing around the greater Philadelphia area in support of local and national acts. Malphas toured North America with Tengger Cavalry in Summer 2017; garnering national and international attention. Debut album “The 39th Spirit,” released on October 26th, 2018 with Via Nocturna. Malphas toured Europe in June 2019 in support of Keep of Kalessin and Shade Empire. Joshua DeJesus also joined the band. West Coast tour in support of Helsott in 2022, Second full length album TBA…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyfdODou7_Y&t=1195s
Psycroptic ~ Decrepit Birth ~ Dark Waters End
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMPsycroptichttps://psycroptic.bandcamp.com/album/divine-councilDecrepit Birthhttps://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/polarityDark Waters Endhttps://instagram.com/darkwatersend?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==Dark Waters End takes progressive death metal to a level that makes you think twice about nodding your head in standard timing. This eclectic group of musicians teeter on the boundary of what many in the Philadelphia area describe as technical metal, but without the need for a scientific calculator. Their music consists of an all-embracing range of metal, from a variety of influences to create a very dynamic and progressive sound. Dark Waters End has a sound that can range from beautifully-haunting to terrifying in a matter of minutes. Influences from bands such as Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and The Faceless inspire the band to approach metal from all angles and can be aggressive, peaceful, and brutal all within a single song. Additionally, influences from bands such as The Contortionist and Between the Buried and Me have paved the way for the band to incorporate atypical melodies and provide a robust blend of progressive metal.
MIZMOR ~ Unreqvited ~ Oldest Sea
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM MIZMOR https://www.facebook.com/whollydoomedblackmetal https://www.instagram.com/whollydoomedblackmetal Unreqvited https://www.facebook.com/unreqvited https://www.instagram.com/UNRQVTD/ Oldest Sea Formed in 2017 by songwriter Sam Marandola, Oldest Sea began as one woman’s personal exploration of the darker side of experimental folk music. Having newly expanded the project to a full band, Marandola and company now find themselves passing through ethereal corridors and liminal soundscapes with increasingly heavy steps. In this, Oldest Sea represents a unique and welcome entry into the canon of atmospheric heavy music as they continue to expand upon and perfect their otherworldly mystique.https://linktr.ee/Oldestsea
Distant ~ Left to Suffer ~ Justice for the Damned ~ Cabal (The Loft)
AGE RESTRICTION: All Ages Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMDistanthttps://distantofficial.com/Left to Sufferhttps://www.facebook.com/lefttosuffer/Justice for the Damnedhttps://www.facebook.com/JusticeForTheDamned/Cabalhttps://cabalcult.com/
KRUELTY ~ Outer Heaven ~ Goetia
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM KRUELTYFormed in Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 2017, KRUELTY has emerged as the most notable artist to find that sweet spot where the amalgamation of heavy beatdown hardcore and ‘90s American/Scandinavian death/doom metal become s the blueprint of brutality and slam KRUELTY unleash. With KRUELTY you will hear the ultimate convergence of some of the most punishing death metal riffs and the most mind – blowing breakdowns influenced by Japanese and ‘90s East Coast hardcore bands. 2020 saw the release of KRUELTY’s debut album “A Dying Truth” and revealed itself as one of the heaviest albums that year. With their new LP “Untopia” , KRUELTY will release an album even bigger in scope and ultimately heavier than their debut. Expect KRUELTY to crush stages live in your city in 2023 with tours planned in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia etc.Outer Heaven Formed in 2013 from the backwoods of PA, Pennsylvania-based death metal legion​ OUTERHEAVEN​ immediately left a pulverizing imprint on the East Coast death metal scene with their crushing live performances, old-school ethos and string of releases. https://outerheaven.bandcamp.com/album/in-tributeGoetiaOccult death metal from Washington, DC (members of Deliriant Nerve, Low Flesh, ex-Genocide Pact) https://goetiadeath.bandcamp.com/album/goetiahttps://open.spotify.com/artist/1ML8kFJbaoMHGTGN4lH6re
D.R.I. ~ Deathwish ~ Roadkiller
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM D.R.I. We are a punk/metal crossover band with our roots set in hardcore. Established way back in 1982, we have about 10 CD’s & 2 DVD’s out on various labels and are considered to be one of the forefathers of speed metal and thrash punk music. We started out in Texas and moved to the Bay Area cause we heard the SF area had free food at the soup kitchens (from which the classic tune was written!!!!!)When we started our influences were bands like Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys. In 1982, our first release, which was really a demo, the 22-song 7″ EP, kickstarted our career as a formidable hardcore band. 22 songs in 17 minutes. Blistering fast, with on-the-dime cuts, and vocals to match. Said to contain the first grindcore blast ever recorded (No Sense). This record was later pressed into an LP, and was considered to be our first official release even though it was only 17 minutes. The 22-song debut eventually was combined with our second release, 1984’s Violent Pacification EP, and came out on CD in the mid-eighties, when that technology reached indie labels.In 1985 we started to listen to bands like Metallica & Slayer. Our second full length release Dealing with It, showed a progression to the metal side of the music genre. This album also was said to make an impact, and helped start the crossover movement. “We fused together our influences, and shoved into the DRI mold, Dealing With It is what came out”. DRI went on mixing its own brand of punk metal releasing: Crossover, Four of a Kind, Thrash Zone, Definition, a live album recorded in 1992, before releasing Full Speed Ahead in 1996 ; our last full length release. We have been re-issuing our old catalog with bonus tracks for the new millennium. We also got a bunch of Live DVD’s in the works, starting with the 1984 CBGB’s live DVD that came out in 2005. Summer of 2016 saw the release of the first new material in years. But Wait..THERE’s MORE came out as a 7″/12″ and CD.The band currently consists of original core members and song writing team, Spike Cassidy (guitar) and Kurt Brecht (vocals), along with Gregg Orr (bass) and Rob Rampy (drums).We are that band with the skanker in the circle. You know, the running man. The mosher. We appeared on a Beavis & Butthead episode. We also held the Guinness Book record for fastest band in the world, back in the day. We played with just about every major band you can name, and most festivals in our travels around the world for over three decades. We now have over 120 DRI songs under our belt, and still play about 35 or so when we play live.Deathwishhttps://deathwish.bandcamp.com/track/wallsRoadkillerRoadkiller is female fronted guitar driven high energy riffage, clearly inspired by the eighties but capable of tapping into so much more. These songs will make you want to tear shit up as you scream along to powerful choruses and nightmarish verses. Check out their latest album “Pick of the Litter” a record fate to make your ears bleed in all the right ways. Roadkiller.bandcamp.com
St. Brigid ~ Rilva ~ L.M.I.
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 7:30 PMST. BRIGID“Berserker Rock ‘N’ Roll, Philly” https://stbrigid.bandcamp.com/RILVA”4 weirdo rock vets from Wilmington and Philadelphia”https://rilva.bandcamp.com/album/rilvaL.M.I.Punk/Hardcore from Lansdale, PAhttps://lmiband.bandcamp.com/music
Bell Witch ~ Spirit Possession (in The Sanctuary)
**All Ages** Doors: 8:30 PM Show: 9:15 PM Bell WitchNothing’s bigger than life. All vastnesses — expanding space, infinite time — crouch inside of consciousness. On a historical scale, to say nothing of a cosmic one, the individual human life vanishes, and yet it’s the only aperture any of us get into reality. It’s barely there, and it’s all there is. That’s the paradox Bell Witch drives at. For more than a decade, the Pacific Northwestern doom metal band has sent tides surging over the seawalls of the song form, unraveling conventional expectations about the ways music stations itself in time to absorb a listener’s attention. Rather than seek catharsis, the duo’s songs heave themselves through time at a glacial pace, staving off resolution in favor of a trancelike capsule eternity. Invoking both boundlessness and claustrophobia in the same charged gesture, Bell Witch cultivates a sense of time outside of time, an oasis inside an increasingly frenetic media culture. For their new album, The Clandestine Gate, bassist Dylan Desmond and drummer Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch’s bounds. Like 2017’s lauded Mirror Reaper, The Clandestine Gate is a single 83-minute track — a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called Future’s Shadow. Spirit PossessionStrange and erratic black metal manifestations from Ash Spungin (Taurus / Ormus / ex-Insect Ark) and Steve Deacock (Ulthar / Mandiscordian Recrogenesis / Alasterp)https://spiritpossession.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-sign
NECROT ~ Skullshitter ~ Oktas ~ Radian ~ Drifter
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 6:00 PM Show: 6:30 PM NECROThttps://necrot.bandcamp.com/album/mortalSkullshitterhttps://skullshitter.bandcamp.com/album/goat-claw Oktas Oktas is an epic post doom metal band from Philadelphia. “A righteous, true exercise in brutality and breadth. The Finite is your lungs and The Infinite is the amount of concrete being poured in them. All this low end onslaught and a human, emotional resonance too? Even more devastating.” – JJ Kozcan https://oktas.bandcamp.com/album/the-finite-and-the-infinite Radian RADIAN’s debut LP, Chapters, was dubbed by BrooklynVegan as, “…roaring sludge metal that fans of High On Fire and early Mastodon should probably feast their ears on.” The Obelisk wrote how the album, “…smashes and crashes with just that extra bit of aggression one finds underlying the most satisfying of sludge metals,” continuing, “…the crux of Chapters is roaring and pissed off and the formative dynamic in the tracks serves as much to highlight that as it does to contrast it.” The Sludgelord asserted, “The heaviness of Chapters cannot be understated. Low tuned riffing rattles the earth to its very core, with punishing density and a molten anger that burns clean through the soul. Melodic lines sing like weeping angels, creating a stark contrast to the destruction RADIAN unleashes.” https://radianakron.bandcamp.com/album/discordian Drifter Power trio cosmic sludge from Atlanta. https://drifteratl.bandcamp.com/album/drifter
Thotcrime ~ Cocojoey ~ Zombieshark! ~ The Civil War in France
**All shows 21+—valid ID required** Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM ThotcrimeThe usual pitfalls and tribulations of getting a group of people into a room to write and record an album do not apply here. With members hailing from Champaign-Urbana, IL, Philadelphia, PA and Nottingham, UK, THOTCRIME’s approach to crafting their brand of Cybergrind is an embrace of technological advances and DIY collaboration via Discord servers, instant messengers and online community. Their latest release, D1G1T14L_DR1FT, the follow up to 2020’s ønyøurcømputer, sees THOTCRIME continue to gleefully abandon genre convention in favour of boundless individuality and invention. They cohesively blend together disparate influences from 100 Gecs to The Locust. D1G1T4L_DR1FT finds the international act steadfastly embracing exultation and conquering all that stands in their way. Tracks such as Tweet This! and Critical Codependence (featuring diana starshine) bubble enthusiastically with hyperpop-isms amongst grind and emphatic declarations of triumph in the face of modern day adversity – be that the relentlessly ill-disposed and cynical news cycle we all find ourselves plugged into, pervasive anxieties or interpersonal turbulence – whilst tracks such as the opening This Isn’t Foundation, Now Give Me Your Skin Please? and Central Dogma play to THOTCRIME’s more caustic hardcore and metallic edges with dizzying results. THOTCRIME’s prolific output to date has seen the band generate a buzz in online music communities and garner praise from Bandcamp Daily in the publication’s profile on the burgeoning cybergrind movement at large. This June the band will be together in person for the first time as they hit the road to play shows on the East Coast and in the MidWest. They are taking their friend and burgeoning hyper pop/cybergrind act Cocojoey for support. New single “A Better Kind of Shot” comes out 5/12. “We’re extremely excited to be performing together as a full unit for the very first time. When K and I started this project all the way back in 2019, I don’t think either of us expected we’d be able to do something like this. And being able to bring Cocojoey along with us on this run is really cool, their music is so fun and they bring such a great energy in their live performance.”https://thtcrime.bandcamp.com/Cocojoeyhttps://cocojoey.bandcamp.com/Zombieshark!https://zombieshark.bandcamp.com/The Civil War in Francehttps://thecivilwarinfrance.bandcamp.com/