Jimmy Kimmel can gargle a dangerously wet fart but thumbs up for bringing on Knocked Loose. Recently nominated for an Emmy for ‘Suffocate’, they went all out with pyro, a pit, and bringing on Poppy. Check it.
LDB Showcase Vol. 2’s lineup and date dropped this morning. Hot off the heels of a very successful Vol. 1, the second event will be January 11th, 2025. Vol. 2 will stay at Portal and stay $10. There will have 2 new Louisville hardcore bands debuting at this show as well. Get your ticket today through Portal, or show up early as there will be 100 tickets held for DOS sales. If this one goes anything like the previous show, things will run on time so don’t wait until the last minute.
Gates to Hell
Surfaced
World I Hate
Constraint
Shogun
Draped In Black
All Gods Die (first show)
Wave of Mutilation (first show)
$10
Doors at 5:30
Music at 6:00
Show over by 10:30 so people can go to Denny’s or old people can go home to ice their backs
New metalcore band All Gods Die has dropped their opening salvo on Louisville’s musical landscape this morning. There’s an intro and 3 songs of chugging spinkicks here with (thankfully!) lyrics available. Guests on the last track – Wrath of Heaven – are the Two Witnesses crew. Online chatter has been pretty positive so far, hopefully there will be some shows lined up in the near future, maybe as part of another Louisville Hardcore showcase. Check out the Demo on Spotify, Apple Music, or Bandcamp.
New Straight Edge Louisville/Lexington terror xGAARGOYLEx is hitting their first Louisville show this Friday with a new EP. Entitled CITY IS MINE, there’s 5 songs of duplicated As and Xs up on Bandcamp now ready for your consumption. Eaach song has lyrics posted so you caan be reaady for their set opening the LDB Louisville Hardcore showcase at Portal, they’re going on at 6:30pm. Hopefully they’ll be some tapes available.
Not to be outdone by the Slint or Rodan reissues out today, Nero has been digitally resurrected thanks to Temporary Residence, Ltd.
From Temp Res:
Nero were a band formed in Louisville, KY by four teenagers who were collectively obsessed with incorporating the sounds and ideas of local legends like Slint, Rodan, and Crain into the burgeoning post-hardcore scene of Washington, DC that included Fugazi, Hoover, and Pitchblende. From 1994 to 1997, they played countless shows in and around Louisville, and recorded three separate times in Louisville and DC – sessions that would yield only two singles, a compilation appearance, and one full-length (a curious concept album dedicated to Frank Herbert’s Dune). More than a half-dozen songs would never see the light of day – including most of their recording session with The Warmers’ Juan Carrera at the famed Pirate House in DC. LP3.14 collects all of those recordings for the first time ever. J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines) newly mixed the Pirate House session in 2021, and Dan Coutant mastered the whole collection, elevating the impact of these largely lost works to a level deserving of deep discovery.
You can catch the full release on Bandcamp
