Led by visionary frontman Steve Austin, Today Is The Day reigns as one of the most unique and influential bands of the past two decades. The band’s violent and anthemic style, which blends metal, noise, psychedelia, and rock, has won worldwide acclaim ever since the debut album, Supernova, first hit in the early 90s. Eight studio albums have been released on such labels as Amphetamine Reptile and Relapse—including modern-day classics like Willpower, Temple of the Morning Star, and In the Eyes of God—and the band’s changing lineup has included such musicians as Brann Dailor and Bill Kelliher, who would later go on to form Mastodon.. Today Is The Day has toured the world…
Emerging onto the metal scene from Savannah, GA in 2005, Black Tusk specialize in a brand of sludgy metal they call “swamp metal.” The band, consisting of members Andrew (guitar/vocals), Athon (bass/vocals), and James (drums/vocals), combines the drive of fellow Savannah residents Baroness with the thick and murky stoner sludge of High on Fire. In 2005 the band self-released its first demo, Demos and the Demons, as well as the album When Kingdoms Fall, which was released on Wrecked Signal. Two years later they self-released another album, The Fallen Kingdom, and kept their prolific release schedule going the following year with Passage Through Purgatory, released on Hyperrealist…
Formed by brothers Jesse (guitar/vocals) and Shane Matthewson (drums) and long-time friend Darryl Laxdal (bass), the group released several demos from 1999 to 2003, leading to the release of their debut full length Mongrel on Escape Artist Records.
Several tours followed with the likes of Relapse Records’ The End , Sulaco and American Heritage in addition to regional dates with Mastodon, Burnt By The Sun, Anodyne, Pelican, Harkonen, Breather Resist, The Dream is Dead, Psyopus, Daughters, and Buried Inside across the Midwestern and East Coast United States, and throughout Canada. In 2004 Laxdal left the band, only to rejoin in 2005 to finish the band’s follow-up record Reprisal,…
Fight Amp hail from West Berlin, New Jersey, and their harsh, unforgiving brand of post-hardcore harks back to the Amphetamine Reptile label’s influential ‘90s roster, with additional nods to noise-rock, sludge, punk rock and metal rounding out the picture. Steeped in the hardcore ethic through and through, band members Mike, Jon, Rebecca and Hissem, reject last names out of hand, and recorded several independent singles and mini releases leading up to their full-length debut for Translation Loss Records, 2007’s Hungry for Nothing.
