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/.
Acalvaria + Axe of Volition + The New Nightmare
Saturday, July 20 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Acalvaria is skull fracturing, gut pumping slamming death grind that is absolutely relentless and destructive. A towering wall of crushing sound to throw down to! High octane, heavy hitters from Conrad – Axe of Volition puts on a Show that is sure enough to leave you with a whiplashed neck! Thrashing punk you won’t wanna miss! 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. All tickets are general admission. Artist Supporter Tickets are a way for patrons to provide more financial support to performers. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Gnat Hatcher (OR) + Pay No Mind + Poverty Porn
Sunday, June 30 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 GA // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Formed in Portland in 2022, Gnat Hatcher is Jamie Brito, Chance St George, and Gray Hunter. After releasing the single Obliterate/Woozy, the trio began work on their upcoming album, today is close (due out June 2024). Their blend of noise rock and post-hardcore is unapologetic in intensity. The music takes notes from the standard bearers of the past – Unwound, Shellac, and Slint, while delivering a contemporary sound that is uniquely their own. Poverty Porn was born in 2016, after bass player Anthony and guitarist Kye’s previous incarnation, Deadbeats, was ruthlessly made fun of for being the same name as local Grateful Dead rap cover artists in the Chicago area while on tour. With the new name came a newer sound, faster and more aggressive than Deadbeats, with lyrical changes shifting from personal experiences with addiction to the general fed-up-ness with the world around them. The band has only gotten tighter and more sonically punishing with age, although most recordings were bootleg, practice space quality. This finally changed in 2022 when Nataanii (of Fuuls) professionally put together the latest EP, “Upper-middle-class-softcore”, finally matching up the bands attitude on stage and in recorded media. Upper Middle Class Softcore was released on Jan 6th, 2023, and can be found on all streaming services. Poverty Porn is a BIPOC centered band, Kye belonging to the Meskwaki First Nation (Iowa), Anthony being Puerto Rican, and a drummer or two in the rotating cast of drummers also being of color. Pay No Mind is a skate punk band with hardcore and thrash influences consisting of former members of Stoned to Death and Super Sport (Great Falls). They have taken Missoula by storm opening for touring bands and supporting the local music scene. Two of their members are students at the U of M and have played shows on campus and supported headliner acts throughout town.For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Walking Corpse Syndrome Farewell Show
Saturday, May 25 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 Advance // $15 DOS As Walking Corpse Syndrome prepares to take the stage for their final performance, the Missoula metal band leaves behind a legacy of haunting melodies and gripping storytelling. With a fusion of melodic death metal and atmospheric elements, they’ve captivated audiences, weaving dark tales through intricate instrumentals and powerful vocals. As they bid farewell, their final show promises to be a poignant journey through the realms of the macabre, marking the end of an era in Missoula’s metal scene.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.” At Home in Hell blazes a trail through the metal scene with their explosive sound, fusing elements of thrash, groove, and hardcore into a relentless sonic assault. Hailing from Great Falls, their music embodies raw intensity and unapologetic authenticity, carving out a niche as a powerhouse in the metal underground. Based out of Missoula, Elephant Graveyard formed as a band in 2020. With roots in several genres of extreme metal, they carved their unique sound from the culmination of the band members talents, and influence. Their fans recognize their presence as “highly energetic” “raw” and “brutal”. Checkout “Doombringers” on all platforms!For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
