Midsummer Meltdown w/ Ceres, From Nothing, & Twice A Year
Saturday, July 26 // Door at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Ceres is a 5-piece metal band, based out of Missoula. Formed in 2019, Ceres has had the opportunity to play Flathead Metal Fest several times, as well as travel around the Pacific Northwest playing shows. Ceres has released 2 albums and a few singles on all streaming services, and are currently working on the third album. They bring a high energy and engaging show to the stage, with original metal and occasional covers like Eskimo Callboy’s ‘Hypa Hypa.’ From Nothing is progressive Metalcore out of Great Falls, Montana. Twice A Year is a hard rock band from Kalispell, MT.
Violent Vira Ticketless VIP Upgrade
Friday, August 22 // $100 VIP INCLUDES -Early entry-Early access to merch booth-Individual photo with Violent Vira-Signed poster VIP PACKAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE A TICKET. TICKET MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY.
Gorgatron, Casket Robbery, & Frontal Assault
Tuesday, August 4 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $15 Gorgatron is a Death Metal band based out of Fargo, North Dakota. The band released Pathogenic Automation via Blood Blast Distribution in 2020. The new record features Cameron Dewald on bass, who joined the band in 2014, long-time members Matt Johnson on Drums and Paul Johnson on guitar, Karl Schmidt on vocals and Neal Stein on guitar, who re-joined the band in 2018. Gorgatron’s sound is based on a “love of the riff” approach to writing and rooted in the old-school stylings of Death Metal and Thrash. For fans of Suffocation, Morbid Angel, Necrophagist, Hate Eternal, Sepultura, Megadeth, Origin, Municipal Waste, Vile, Skinless, Goatwhore, Razor, Nile, Slayer, Etc… The idea for the band started sometime around 2006. After a couple demos and lineup changes, the first record Torturtorium was released independently in 2010. The lineup changed again for the sophomore LP Inner Supremacy, and was released independently in 2015. Gorgatron has completed multiple DIY tours all over the States, from north to south, east to west, and preformed at multiple Metal Fest. From 2006-2020 Gorgatron has shared the stage with many notable bands, Anthrax, Testament, Black Dahlia Murder, Goatwhore, Skeleton Witch, Anal Cunt, Defeated Sanity, Anal Blast, Origin, Pathology, Machine Head, Vital Remains, Havok, Weedeater, Devourment, Eat The Turnbuckle, Beyond Creation, Mortician, Gorgasm, Visceral Disgorge, Jucifer, Unmerciful, and many more. CASKET ROBBERY is a death metal act with an industrialized edge from Wisconsin, USA. The band delve into occultist themes and the horrors of the human condition which has been masterfully captured on their sophomore album ‘Rituals Of Death’. The album was mixed and mastered by Cryptopsy guitarist Christian Donaldson (The Agonist, Ingested, Get The Shot) and received critical media acclaim and features through Metal Sucks, Decibel and Metal Injection. With supports alongside acts such as Cannibal Corpse, Psycroptic, Immolation and Suffocation and 2 performances at the outstanding Milwaukee Metal Fest with the band sharing the stage with acts such as Anthrax, Lamb Of God, Fear Factory and many more, the path of brutal conquest for Casket Robbery is unstoppable. Frontal Assault is thrash metal band from Cedar Rapids Iowa and have been together since 2016. Members are William Hall: Bass and Vox. Anthony Thomas: Guitars and Vox. Kyle Templeton: Drums.
Violent Vira w/ Clarion
Friday, August 22 // $22 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM Vira (Boise, Idaho) is a female rock vocalist and songwriter of Mexican-American descent. Her first single, I Don’t Care, was released on September 24, 2021, a track that would bring her further recognition, and her first EP, Till’ Death Was Never Enough, was released on August 4, 2023. The band begins with Vira and Blank (bassist), who worked together on a couple of songs and then moved to Dallas. There they met Matt and Anthony (both guitarists) thanks to Vira’s announcement on her social networks, communicating that she needed members to form her band. Thus forming the particular sound and name of the band, VIOLENT VIRA.
Deathcare Industries Record Release w/ Pilots We’ve Known, .repetend, & Serpentina
Friday, March 21 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Deathcare Industries is a Missoula-based band that mixes the energy of metal with the rhymic and lyrical style of Hip Hop. They’ve been described as “New Nü metal”. They are loud, just how you like it. Pilots We’ve Known is a post-punk/post-hardcore band from Missoula, Mt. purpose-built in early 2017 as an emotional outlet against the noises of our time. They use elaborate arrangements, angular chords and riffs and dynamic vocals to produce an emotional cacophony as the backdrop to attention-grabbing lyrics. After a three year hiatus Pilots We’ve Known are back at it with a crushing-loud vengeance. .repetend utilizes extended range tunings, driving bass and guitar riffs, complex meters, dynamic tonalities and progressive, driving percussion for a total math rock experience. Brush up on your algebra and see if you can count along. Serpentina is a new Missoula rawk band. Big drums, big fuzz, big guitars, big vocals. No big deal. Punk-metal-other-stuff influenced if you need to split hairs
The Browning w/ Swarm, The Defect & Blessiddoom
Tuesday, April 8 // Door at 6 PM // Show at 7 PM // $20 Advance // $25 DoS The Browning is an American electronicore band formed in Kansas City, Missouri in 2005. The band’s musical style is characterized by an eclectic blending of electronicore and deathcore. The group currently consists of vocalist Jonny McBee, drummer Cody Stewart, and bassist/guitarist Akeem Bivens. The Defect is an electronic-rock duo founded by The Browning frontman Jonny McBee and debut singer, Moon, in 2023. “Swarm has carved out such a strong and unique sound for himself that if we were to start a new Mount Rushmore for producers, his songs alone would sculpt out his image in the stone.” -YourEDM Blessiddoom began in the fall of 2005 on a mission to shine a light on social norms that often label people, places, and things as being unwanted or ugly in some way but hold their own inner beauty. Showcasing an oxymoron even in the name, that our doom would indeed be blessid. Having come from modest means Blessiddoom aims to be a voice for the shunned, the societal outcasts or the metal head that was always told they would grow out of it. With lyrics that can be seen as quite serious, Blessiddoom does not take themselves too seriously, ultimately just wanting to have the best parties we can while we are still here. “We don’t have a lot of time on this earth, we weren’t meant to spend it this way.”
INTICE Album Release Party
Wednesday, November 13 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter INTICE is a progressive metal/rock band based out of Missoula Montana. They play the original music of their front man, Cameron Kinney, who plays guitar and vocals. Cameron started the band with guitarist Justin Brantley in Great Falls and met the rest of the band members while studying with them at the UM School of Music a couple years later. Along with Cameron and Justin the band features Josh Smith on drums, Lane Ulberg on bass and Jolene Green and Cade Chastain on saxophone. The band has two albums on Spotify and just finished recording their third album. Formed in 2022, and based out of Missoula MT, wearing their influences and hearts on their sleeves, strides Turtle Tuesday. Your new favorite local band. Meeting and forged in the blazing hot fires of heartbreak, raising reptiles, and playing 20+ year old video games. This electric and exciting DIY basement/garage punk/emo/folk/whatever group is hard focused on delivering you the best possible sounding method of receiving tinnitus. They’ll have you fumbling over your words when asked by your friends as to what genre they play, before you inevitably retire the effort and answer “uhh, rock”. Featuring frontman Kage, drummer Griffin, guitarist Collin and John on bass, expect electrifying performances with tracks whose lyrics detail a splendid range of topics. From whaling about death, to finding happiness, to the woes of public transportation infrastructure. Keep an eye out for their upcoming performances and debut project on the horizon. And in the meantime, they’d love for you to swing by the Hellgate Elk’s Club on Tuesdays to play Super Smash Bros Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Intice, Tephra & Wormwood Nowa
Thursday, February 13 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter INTICE is a progressive metal/rock band based out of Missoula Montana. They play the original music of their front man, Cameron Kinney, who plays guitar and vocals. Cameron started the band with guitarist Justin Brantley in Great Falls and met the rest of the band members while studying with them at the UM School of Music a couple years later. Along with Cameron and Justin the band features Josh Smith on drums, Lane Ulberg on bass and Jolene Green and Cade Chastain on saxophone. The band has two albums on Spotify and just finished recording their third album. Tephra plays slow-burning doom with a focus on atmosphere and melody. Thick guitars and brooding synths drag everything down into a heavy, hypnotic haze, with haunting female vocals floating somewhere above the wreckage. Like everything you’ve ever known, it builds, it crushes, it fades. Featuring members of Shramana, Nightwitch, and other Missoula heavy acts, Tephra makes music for an impending long, slow collapse. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Blessiddoom w/ Ceres & The New Nightmare
Friday, October 18 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 Advance // $15 Day of Show Blessiddoom began in the fall of 2005 on a mission to shine a light on social norms that often label people, places, and things as being unwanted or ugly in some way but hold their own inner beauty. Showcasing an oxymoron even in the name, that our doom would indeed be blessid. Having come from modest means Blessiddoom aims to be a voice for the shunned, the societal outcasts or the metal head that was always told they would grow out of it. With lyrics that can be seen as quite serious, Blessiddoom does not take themselves too seriously, ultimately just wanting to have the best parties we can while we are still here. “We don’t have a lot of time on this earth, we weren’t meant to spend it this way.” Ceres is a 5-piece metal band, based out of Missoula. Formed in 2019, Ceres has had the opportunity to play Flathead Metal Fest several times, as well as travel around the Pacific Northwest playing shows. Ceres has released 2 albums and a few singles on all streaming services, and are currently working on the third album. They bring a high energy and engaging show to the stage, with original metal and occasional covers like Eskimo Callboy’s ‘Hypa Hypa.’ The New Nightmare is a hard rock band out of Missoula sharing tales of living through the new nightmare. Thrash metal / grunge / and psychedelic influences with haunting vocals and driving riffs. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Nox Novacula: Feed the Fire Tour w/ Fuuls & DJ Gingerbat
Tuesday, August 27 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $12 Advance // $15 DOS In some twisted alternate reality, Bauhaus’ macabre, psychedelic take on post-punk languished in obscurity, never reaching the legions of disaffected teens that were desperately waiting for something like that to come along. Luckily, in this timeline, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” kickstarted a gothic revolution whose echoes are still resonating today. Enter Seattle deathrock stalwarts Nox Novacula. Formed in 2017, Nox Novacula delivers a no frills, traditionalist take on deathrock that distills the form’s strongest elements into a potent and timeless formula. Their most recent effort, 2021’s Ascension, could easily be mistaken for a long-lost companion piece to Christian Death’s magnum opus, Only Theatre of Pain. Ice cold, reverberating guitars, tastefully theatrical vocals, a precise, energetic rhythm section, and occasional injections of atmospheric synth evoke the best components of goth rock’s most compelling progenitors. From the triumphant apocalypse anthems of Sisters of Mercy to the chorus-drenched post-hardcore goth of Burning Image, Nox Novacula assembles its influences into a recognizable but fresh sound that both pays homage to the genre’s roots and strives to grow beyond them. Whether you rushed out to buy black lipstick after seeing Return of the Living Dead in 1985 or you’re a relatively new convert ensnared by goth’s recent, long overdue resurgence, Nox Novacula’s masterfully crafted brand of urgent deathrock will satisfy. Fuuls (or fools) is a raucous decolonial post-whatever punk ensemble based out of the PNW. The collective is led by trans indigenous front woman, Nataanii Cornelius, known for her piss-and-vinegar onstage fervor. As a revolving door outfit of friends and family, the band gives pocket tight chaos in a wildly electric live experience. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
