BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b87cf7c9-ad43-4b2c-a0d6-3a6d615f4f1b@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261012T015754Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261121T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261121T213000 SUMMARY:KISW (99.9 FM) Metal Shop presents: Psycroptic DESCRIPTION:PSYCROPTIC Australia is home to innumerable death metal bands . Few make their way beyond these shores\, and fewer still garner global respect. Out of those\, only one has maintained that position for a ful l 25 years: Australia’s finest\, Tasmania’s pride and joy\, PSYCROPTIC. When the history of technical metal is viewed in years to come\, the boo ks will come to show that PSYCROPTIC are responsible for a hefty slice o f the genre. The band blasted into the deepest underground in the late 9 0s\, then proceeded to drag the metal scene closer to what they do by sh eer attrition. Their music guides you through the densest of riff jungle s before bursting into the clear with powerfully rhythmic grooves and bl asts\, anchored by the profoundly talented Haley brothers. No band bio i s complete without a quote from the band themselves\, but this bio will need to remain incomplete. All the members are profoundly humble and sim ply let the music do all the talking. Guitarist Joe’s esoteric\, impenet rable picking style weaves musical hooks that wrap around the listener b efore pulling back to reveal Dave’s pulsating rhythms. They achieve a le vel of synchronization only brothers with decades of experience playing together can achieve. There are none tighter. That their telepathic perf ormance is matched by the final lineup of Todd Stern on bass and the cha rismatic roar of Jason Peppiatt is almost unfair. Like all masters\, the y make the impossible look impossibly easy. Most bands take a few albums to find their feet but PSYCROPTIC’s first two releases were underground classics: “The Isle of Disenchantment” (2001 self-released) and “The Sc epter of the Ancients” (2003 Unique Leader). Matthew Chalk (vocals) and Cameron Grant (bass) were part of the first squad who joined the Haleys on their quest for perfection. A relentless touring schedule emerged in Australia\, including legendary appearances at Canberra’s Metal for the Brain festival. Normally this would be the high point for an Australian metal band. Two albums out\, successful shows\, who could ask for more? Tasmania couldn’t contain them and as it turned out\, neither could Aust ralia. Their first overseas tour was Europe in 2004. Matthew was replace d on vocals by Jason Peppiatt\, and PSYCROPTIC went on to record “Symbol s of Failure” (2006 Neurotic). The band expanded their sound with “Ob (S ervant)” (2008 Nuclear Blast) bringing in ambience and atmosphere\, then “The Inherited Repression” (2012) introducing the powerful neck-crackin g grooves that would mark their sound going forward. It also introduced them to touring the US with their first happening in 2010. This pushed t heir lust for the road to new levels\, smashing audiences and stupefying musicians around the planet. They’re unique among death metal bands in that it’s almost pointless to try and list the festivals and countries t hey’ve visited\, let alone the bands they’ve played with. It can be cond ensed to “everyone\, everywhere”. Official estimates are at thirty count ries. Standouts would be their tour of China in 2010\, becoming the firs t Western band to appear in the Inner Mongolian city of Hohhot\, and nea rly getting caught in a three-day long traffic jam. They were one of the earlier Western bands to hit Indonesia’s now-famousHammersonic Festival in 2013. They did a seven-day tour of India in 2017\, roamed South Amer ica in 2022\, and even managed to break into the US during the height of COVID. PSYCROPTIC solidified their American relationship by signing to Prosthetic Records in 2014\, replacing Cameron on bass with US legend To dd Stern in 2015\, then releasing their self-titled album in the same ye ar. At this point something indefinable clicked\, and the band unleashed “As The Kingdom Drowns” (2019)\, a clear step up from their previous wo rk. “Divine Council” (2022) proved that this wasn’t a new level for the band– it’s a new normal. And there is no slowing down. As of late 2024\, PSYCROPTIC are recording a new album and are booked in for a massive US tour in January 2025 with NILE and SIX FEET UNDER. PSYCROPTIC are no lo nger the local Australian band made good: they are a global powerhouse w ith a footprint the size of the world\, nothing left to prove\, and an e ndless commitment to finding ways to rock you as hard as technically pos sible. Website Instagram Spotify Facebook INFERI Inferi is an American t echnical melodic death metal band formed in Nashville\, Tennessee\, in 2 006. They are renowned for fusing aggressive\, high-speed technical deat h metal with epic symphonic elements and complex melodic hooks. The band 's name translates to "underworld" or "hell" in Latin and was inspired b y the reanimated corpses in the Harry Potter universe. Instagram Spotify Facebook YouTube TikTok COGNITIVE After releasing an EP and full length \, COGNITIVE signed to Unique Leader Records in 2016 and released their album Deformity\, which showed the bands dedication to their craft withi n a tale about their home states own legend about the Jersey Devil. Ramp ing up their tour schedule\, the band continued to write and push themse lves within the genre with technicality\, speed\, brutality\, and songwr iting\, which came to shine through even more on the 2018 release Matric ide\, which displayed more focused effort while increasing speed and tec hnicality even more. The band wasted no time in their touring schedule a nd hit the road supporting Fit for an Autopsy\, Rivers of Nihil\, Throug h the Eyes of the Dead\, Vulvodynia\, Lorna Shore and others\, along wit h an appearance at Maryland Deathfest. COGNITIVE has become a touring ma chine with one goal in mind – always move forward. Now with the release of their new album Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction\, the ba nd has displayed more diversity and song writing more than ever\, and pr oves yet again they are never scared to explore new concepts musically a nd explore new territory. Now signed to Metal Blade Records in 2022\, Co gnitive is not only touring for their last record\, but writing their ne xt slab of brutality. Instagram Spotify Facebook YouTube SUMMONING THE L ICH St Louis\, Missouri fantasy-driven technical death metal band SUMMON ING THE LICH has announced their sophomore album\, Under The Reviled Thr one\, which is to be released via Prosthetic Records on July 26. After t hree years of extensive US touring and shows with the likes of Allageon\ , Gorod and Inferi among others\, as well as headline stints\, SUMMONING THE LICH set about bringing Under the Reviled Throne to life. Intended as a death metal equivalent to The Empire Strikes Back in scope\, the gr oup set their sights on raising the stakes in both story and songwriting . SUMMONINGTHELICHtooktheconsidered approach of eschewing superfluous te chnicality in favor of a leaner and more streamlined focus on song struc ture. Each of the tracks on Under the Reviled Throne were written with t he purpose of guiding the listener through the eponymous Lich’s descent into misanthropy and tyranny\, without sacrificing their idiosyncratic s ound. This balancing act of dexterity and structure is exemplified best on cuts like Return to the Soil and lead single\, My Horrors Unending. T he latter of which succinctly merges SUMMONINGTHELICH’sinclination for e xtremity and stop and start dynamics with rhythmic pummelling and memora ble hooks. With Arrias under existential threat\, Under the Reviled Thro ne is a dazzlingly ambitious tale of hope and resistance in the form of its protagonist Taane (introduced on previously released album track\, T he Forest Feasts). Elsewhere\, The Carrion Fleet’s narrative of the city of Bastell succumbing to flames at the hands of the Lich’s army ushers in the ominously brooding Upping the stakes to dizzying heights\, SUMMON ING THE LICH offers plenty in the way of light among the shadowy figures that lurk within the Lich’s universe of malevolent chaos. All is not lo st. Instagram Spotify Website Facebook YouTube\n\nTickets: https://www.e lcorazonseattle.com/ticketing\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/b87cf 7c9-ad43-4b2c-a0d6-3a6d615f4f1b LOCATION:El Corazón\, Seattle\, WA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/b87cf7c9-ad43-4b2c-a0d6-3a6d615f4f1 b STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR