CVLT Nation HQ just got home from a few weeks up in Vancouver, BC and one of the highlights of the trip was the sweet fucking Weedeater show we went to at the Electric Owl! The neighborhood was right on point for a Weedeater show – sandwiched between junkies and drunks and across the street from punks. The crowd was early to catch locals Hoopsnake, who exploded with sound, bass and drums reverberating through the room and leaving us feeling like we were definitely going to be deaf at the end of the night. Hoopsnake are a part of the underground heavy revival happening in Vancouver right now, and are a promising look into Vancouver’s current and future impact on metal. Next up were local legends Bison B.C., who had packed the place by 10:30pm which is pretty unheard of in this city. They absolutely crushed our minds and eardrums, and justified the crowd’s early presence 100%. The drummer’s muse is definitely Animal, and he led the band with crazy abandon and wild thrashing. By the time Weedeater got up on stage, the crowd was primed, and so was Dixie as he slugged back what little was left of his bottle of Jack. With eyes askew, he led the band in their unique brand of sludgey Southern doom, but again their new drummer, Travis Owen (WHORES), was something of a focal point. Tossing his sticks and thrashing almost more wildly than Bison’s drummer, he laid down a pummeling beat and was highly entertaining at the same time. This one’s a keeper! Check out some amazing photos of this night taken by our Vancouver photographic homie Ted Reckoning…they will give you a better idea of the radness of this night than my words ever could!
Bison B.C.
Weedeater
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