Spawned from Vancouver’s underground metal scene back in 2008, death metal trio Auroch is on a mission to give Canadian extreme metal traditions the respect they deserve.
The band, which plays Armstrong’s Branding Iron Pub tonight, brings them to the countless “maniacs” always anticipating the next epic death metal assault.
Following a number of smaller releases, Auroch is finally unleashing its soon-to-be-titled first full-length album this summer.
“The album is the inevitable and natural point of evolution from the past releases,” said guitarist/vocalist Sebastian Montesi. “These songs came together over the past year and represent the fiercest, fastest, most harrowing and barbaric of our written and certainly recorded material.”
Showcasing the band’s metamorphoses from thrash metal band into a full-fledged death metal assault, the debut full-length album is “raw, relentless and tapping into a musical current of the wrath of (horror writer H.P.) Lovecraft’s Ancient Ones. Any and all who question or condemn modern conventions should sympathize with the ideologies and mythos provided. Fans of barbaric blasting and technical shredding should associate with the musicality,” said Montesi.
Also performing tonight at the Branding Iron starting at 9 p.m. is Vernon’s Xul, Armstrong’s Odinfist and Calgary’s Breathe Knives. Cover is $5.
The show comes before the full-on metal assault that is the Armstrong Metalfest when bands from throughout the Okanagan and western Canada converge at Hassen Arena for the two-day festival, July 20 and 21.
More information and tickets are available at www.armstrongmetalfest.com.
