DO YOUR PART – SUPPORT YOUR SCENE

So Diminished Fifth Records has been up and running for about 18 months now and the one thing I’ve learned is there is a wealth of homegrown talent in this region. I mean almost weekly I’m discovering new bands that leave my head spinning. Some I find while searching the regional forums, some word of mouth, and others… find me.

Just yesterday I received and email from a band from St. John New Brunswick called Victims of the Purge they emailed 2 demo tracks they had recorded. In addition to their sheer brutality they had a sweet groove that most bands that heavy neglect.

In addition to those cats, the submissions and tunes I’ve been introduced to since starting HORNS HIGH has kept me more than motivated that I’m not on some hopeless cause trying to prove to the rest of the world that the East Coast Heavy Music scene is thriving. I’ll have a few rough days and start thinking I’m chasing fools gold and the POW! RIGHT THE KISSA I’ll discover this great new band! The shitty thing is D5R is far from a rich company and sadly I can’t work with half the bands I’d like to and once again that is where HORNS HIGH comes in… It is my community service!

A FREE Online Magazine that allows bands to advertise their releases free of charge in the section, well titled, ‘SUPPORT YOUR SCENE’, it also has an ‘ARTIST SPOTLIGHT’ that focuses on two different bands each month, people in different cities have also submitted stories about their Scene (So far we’ve had St. John’s, Moncton, and Sydney looked at), and it includes your standard affairs like, Album Reviews, Live Show Reviews and News.

So I practice what I preach… and I’m preaching to you all now to do what you can to support the bands in your local area and the East Coast Metal scene as a whole! I’ve provided a list of East Coast Bands and all I ask is that you check out just a handful of bands on this list below. (This list was compiled from the Supporting East Coast Metal Facebook Group and Maritime Metal Message Board)

[thedaisy]anthesis (Metal/Death Metal/Grindcore)
Ambiin The Rust (Alternative/Progressive/Metal)
Amnesty (Thrash/Death Metal)
Arcatherion (Death Metal/Progressive)
Archaik (Thrash/Metal/Death Metal)
Autumn Storm (Metal/Classical/Progressive)
Badseed Overdrive (Metal/Rock)
Beneath This Dying Sky (Hardcore/Grindcore/Metal)
Black Frost (Black Metal)
Blackmoor (Metal)
The Bloodletting (Thrash/Death Metal)
Bound in Human Flesh (Death Metal/Black Metal/Metal)
Broken Ohms (Rock/Metal)
Burning Moon (Black Metal)
Cephalectomy (Mystigrind)
Chara (Progressive/Metal/Hardcore)
Chaos Panic and Disorder (Thrash/Hardcore/Metal)
Collapse (Grindcore/Death Metal)
Dead Mourning (Metal)
Defective Perception (Metal/Death Metal/Thrash)
Demiurgus (Black Metal/Metal/Death Metal)
Dischord (Thrash/Death Metal)
DreaD (Thrash/Metal)
Empty Sin (Metal)
Enraged Entity (Death Metal/Black Metal)
Existench (Grind/Hardcore/Thrash)
Fallen (Metal/Hardcore)
FistFight(Metal/Grindcore/Ghettotech)
Funeral Fog (Black Metal)
Gallactus (Metal/Rock)
Havengrave (Black Metal/Thrash)
Hellacaust (Black Metal/Thrash/Metal)
Heavy Doobie (Metal/Other/Thrash)
Huge (Other)
In the Shallows (Thrash/Rock/Death Metal)
Iron Fist (Thrash/Grindcore/Punk)
Iron Giant (Metal/Rock/Southern Rock)
Janus (Progressive/Other/Metal)
Laid to Waste (Metal/Thrash/Death Metal)
Legions of Chaos (Metal)
Lull In Conversation (Rock /Progressive)
Moment of Truth (Metal/Punk/Grunge)
The Monoxides (Rock/Metal/Classic Rock)
Neverdie (Metal)
Obsidian Reign (Metal)
Obsydian (Metal/Thrash/Death Metal)
Orchids Curse (Metal/Progressive)
Ototoxic (Hardcore/Breakcore/Metal)
Pariah (Metal)
Rebecca's Grave (Death Metal/Black Metal/Glam)
Rule of Thumb (R.O.T.) (Hardcore/Punk/Thrash)
Rusted Dawn (Thrash/Metal/Punk)
Severed Reign (Metal/Rock/Progressive)
Sloth (Metal)
Slugbait (Experimental/Metal)
Strong Hollow (Metal)
Subliminal (Rock/Metal)
System Shit (Punk/Hardcore/Thrash)
Terratomb (Metal)
The Kill Floor (Death Metal/GrindCore)
The Sea Divides Metal (Metal/Progressive/Experimental)
This Machine Kills Fascists (Grindcore/Electro/Experimental)
Thy Flesh Consumed (Black Metal/Death Metal/Grindcore)
Uigg (Thrash/Death Metal/Black Metal)
Vennt (Black Metal/Experimental/Other)
Victims of the Purge (Metal/Death Metal)
Vulgus (Thrash/Death Metal/Progressive)
War Pony (Hard Rock)
Weapon (Metal)
We the Undersigned (Crunk/Powerpop)
Wardruids Apocalyptic (Black Metal/Death Metal/Grindcore)
Wohedness (Grindcore/Death Metal/Hardcore)

Cheers & Keep those Horns High!