Beatroute Magazine BC Print Edition December 2017

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THE GEEKENDERS PRESENTS
HOW I MET MY MOTHER
A BACK TO THE FUTURE
PARODY MUSICAL
THE 19TH ANNUAL
ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS
*ALSO PLAYS DEC 18
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
THE SQUARE
THE GENTLEMEN HECKLERS PRESENT
STAR TREK: GENERATION
NO DRESS REHEARSAL:
A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO
GORD DOWNIE
KITTY NIGHTS WEST PRESENTS
PEE WEE'S BURLESQUE
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
ALSO ON THE 16TH!
JANE GOODALL BIOPIC JANE
THE GEEKENDERS PRESENTS
A HARRY POTTER
CHRISTMAS BURLESQUE
THE FICTIONALS COMEDY CO. PRESENTS
IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY
CARDS AGAINST VANCOUVER LAUNCH
#IAHATRIO
ANOTHER WOLFCOP
LOVE ACTUALLY
YIPPEE KI YAY, MOTHERFUDGER!
DIE HARD
FRIDAY LATE MOVIE
WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954)
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
FRANK CAPRA'S
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
WILL FERRELL IN ELF
THE CRITICAL HIT SHOW!
#DNDLIVE, IMPROVISED EPIC FANTASY
AMERICAN PSYCHO
FRIDAY LATE NIGHT MOVIE
STANLEY KUBRICK'S THE SHINING
JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING
PATRICK MALIHA'S
NAUGHTY LITTLE NEW YEAR'S EVE
NEW YEAR'S DAY HANGOVER MARATHON!
HAUSU + THE BIG LEBOWSKI
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
DOUBLE BILL!
RIDLEY SCOTTʼS
BLADE RUNNER (1982) &
BLADE RUNNER 2049
COMPLETE LISTINGS AT WWW.RIOTHEATRE.CA
CANCER BATS
CANADIAN HARDCORE GROUP PUTS THE BAT IN BLACK SABBATH
ANA KRUNIC
Cancer Bats turned their one-off cover project in to an Ozzy-fuelled touring act.
There are plenty of bands that start off their careers
playing covers, and very few that go the opposite
route, especially after already finding success with
their original music. Toronto’s hardcore punk
golden boys Cancer Bats landed in the situation by
accident.
“It started in 2011, when we were booked to play
a festival in the UK called Sonisphere,” explains lead
vocalist Liam Cormier. “Slipknot were headlining as
the last band of the festival. The organizers said to
us: ‘What if you guys figured out a cover set to play
SCRAPE RECORDS
LOCAL RECORD SHOP REINVENTS ITSELF AS MUSIC LABEL
JOHNNY PAPAN
SCRAPE Records was once
Vancouver’s go-to shop for everything
hard rock and metal. They sold tickets
to all the heaviest shows, stocked
their shelves with the grittiest tunes,
and even brought some of the world’s
most notorious thrashers in-store for
intimate performances.
In early 2016, Vancouver’s
heavy-metal rock-shop closed its
East Broadway doors. However,
in celebration of SCRAPE’S 20th
anniversary, the shop’s owner, J.J.,
announced the former record
store would be reinvented into an
independent music label.
SCRAPE Records has already signed
its first band: extreme metal outfit
Zimmer’s Hole, which consists of
vocalist Chris Valagao as well as Byron
Stroud, Jed Simon, and Gene Hoglan
from Strapping Young Lad. Hoglan
is considered one of metal’s greatest
drummers and has also performed
in notorious groups such as Death,
Dark Angel, Fear Factory, Testament,
and cartoon death-metal band
Dethklok from Adult Swim’s show
Metalocalypse.
J.J. confirms that Zimmer’s Hole
at the end of the night for anyone who wants to
keep partying after Slipknot closes out the festival?’
Obviously, we agreed.”
Organizers began advertising a mysterious
Black Sabbath cover band called Bat Sabbath to
festivalgoers, holding back from revealing the
group’s true identity.
“People thought it was the Foo Fighters. All I
could think was, man, they’re going to be bummed,”
laughs Cormier. “But the cool part is that it worked
– it ended up being packed. We thought we were
is already making demos for their
upcoming album, which is aiming
for a Fall 2018 release under SCRAPE
Records. In the meantime, SCRAPE
will be reissuing the band’s first three
albums, Bound By Fire, Legion of
Flames, and the notorious When You
Were Shouting at the Devil… We
Were in League With Satan.
J.J. will be putting together a
sampler disc to help promote B.C.
bands as well as the growing label.
He is looking not only for new artists,
but also for future employees. As of
right now, J.J. is running the show on
his own, with hopes of changing the
label-artist dynamic in a way that will
benefit both parties to the fullest.
“I really want to establish new ways
that a label can work with bands,”
says J.J. “There’s a certain structure
I think is useful to follow, but to
me it’s really important to work
with the bands. I want them to be
involved in the process – I want to
be communicating with them on
an even playing field. I want them
involved in putting the product
together, not feeling that anyone is
trapped.”
Photo by Niall Burns
“I reached out to a lot of people
I’ve known in the industry for 20+
years and asked them, ‘Do you think
starting this label is a wise idea? Or
am I just completely insane?’” he
concludes. “Then I think of when I
opened the store. I had no idea if that
doing it as a one-off show, but in a perfect storm
of technology, everyone recorded the set on their
phones and uploaded it to YouTube. So we finished
the tour, and literally by the time we got home
hours later, we already had offers to play in other
cities as Bat Sabbath.”
The videos are still up, and it’s evident why they
were contacted about bringing more Bat Sabbath
to the world. Their sound adapts to Sabbath well,
not to mention Cormier’s incredibly enthusiastic
performance.
“I’ve really gotten into playing up the showman
aspect of it. I’m wearing a cape and motorcycle
boots, and my shirt’s tucked in but it’s completely
unbuttoned. I have a really good time playing with
the Cancer Bats, but I’m really into how far I go
with this character that is the maniac fronting Bat
Sabbath. It may be more entertaining for me than
anybody else, to be honest.”
Bat Sabbath plays the Cobalt on January 5 with
Waingro and Woe Monger and January 6 with Dead
Quiet and We Hunt Buffalo.
would work or not, and it worked out
for nearly 20 years. This may not, and
that’s fine. But you don’t know the
outcome until you try.”
For more information, contact orders@
scraperecords.com.
December 2017