Lakota De Kai- Big Dad Wolf

Photo cred: Tyler Hill

So I REALLY fucking hate Ohio. A lot. However, these dudes (LAKOTA DE KAI) are outta Kent, OH and holy shit do they rule. Their newest release, Big Dad Wolf, is incredibly complete.  It'll thrash your brains out, and then let you feel safe just long enough before you break your neck trying to keep time with the break down. The vocals are raw and incredible. Every time their front man starts to remind you of someone, he changes personality just in time for you to forget. Don't get me wrong though- his sound is very much his own, despite the multiple personality disorder. The rhythm section is tight and rolls with the incredible dynamic punches. The guitar work is also on point. Incredible instrumentation all around. Did I mention that the vocals are fucking phenomenal?

Check the YouTube vid below to hear my favorite jam, "Spliff". Or just save yourself the time and download the whole fucking album on bandcamp. You won't miss the money you spend(only 7 bones!)- hell, you might wanna buy it twice just out of principle. 

Beautiful. They play out here every so often, too. I'm absolutely gonna go see this shit live ASAP.  Cheers to the only thing I like in Ohio that isn't waffle house(I fucking love waffles).

 

For fans of: Every Time I Die, Pianos Become the Teeth, Listener, La Dispute

Favorite Tracks: Spliff(see YouTube video above), Leslie Americus

Thanks for scopin' these dudes out! Keep it fuggin Vile, dudes and dudettes!

 

-XOXO Toph

5 before '15!

'Sup turds!

Welcome to my corner of the Vile world! It's only a couple days until this year is officially friggin dead, and instead of wasting your life with a buttload of shit you already read about on some other spoon-feeding music blog, I'm gonna do you something better. I'm gonna give you 5 releases that I really think went unsung this year, in spite of how fucking incredible they are. A couple LPs, a couple EPs- nothing too overwhelming, I swear.  :)

 +PEACE'D OUT- S/T EP+

For fans of: Spitfire, Every Time I Die, Fear Before the March of Flames

You'll ask me why, and I'll say two words: Steve Choi. If ya didn't know already, this dude plays guitar in The Sound of Animals Fighting and RX(FREAKING)Bandits! His guitar sound is totally surprising, yet right at home, on this 5 track masterpiece. Technical and heavy as fuck, topped with incredible vocals that get melodic at the perfect time.

Hear it on spotify

buy it from siren records

Favorite tracks:  Castlemania(see video above), Cha-Chang-Chang-Chainmail

+LIFE IN VACUUM- 5+

 For Fans of: Fugazi, At the Drive In, BearVsShark

This band is so good and they work way too fucking hard to not be blowing the fuck up right now. They comprise of two ukranian brothers + a bassist, and they're based out of friggin Canada. Crack open a barley pop and try not to crack your head open jammin' on these ten fucking bangers! 

Hear it on spotify,

buy it on bandcamp.

Favorite tracks: I Don't Fit(see video above), You Did It To Yourself

+WAYNE SZALINSKI- BLACK MIRROR+

For fans of: TTNG, Tiger's Jaw, As Tall As Lions

These guys are very close friends of mine, and every time they put something out I lose my shit. This album is designed with the sole purpose of making people touch eachother(or at least REALLY wish they were!). Everything is gorgeous. The guitars are melodic and just technical enough. Andy Milad's voice sounds like the angel of fucking sex, and the rhythm section is the perfect surface for all of it ("it"=sex) to happen on. Nick Galli Has seriously become one of my favorite drummers and I'm so proud of these boys.

Hear it on spotify. 

Buy it at bandcamp. 

Favorite Tracks: Sweetness(see above video), Bandages

 

+PAUL CHERRY- ON TOP+

For fans of: Jay Reatard, Ty Segall,  The Beach Boys

FUN FACT: Paul used to be in a band with half of the dudes in Wayne Szalinski once, and that's how I know him/them(cool story, bruh!). Anyway, this is my favorite thing Paul has done. It's so carefree and fun, making it absolutely perfect for gettin BLAZEDDDD. It also gets to levels of sexiness(ie: "Hey Girl") that rival his homies in WS, and I may or may not have touched myself to it a couple of times(tee hee!).

Hear it on Spotify

Buy it on bandcamp

Favorite tracks: Everybody's Burnin' Out(see above video), Hey There, Brother

 

+2194- DEAD PEASANT+

For Fans of: Norma Jean, Thursday, At the Drive In

This two piece workhorse used to be based out of MI, but they moved out to Minot, ND. I miss them a lot.  Tim is a fucking post-hardcore guitar wizard and Matt is a goddamn machine. I cannot wait to see what's next from these fellas. Be sure to look for these guys, they live to tour and they fucking kill it live!

Hear and buy it on bandcamp

Favorite tracks: The Light Controller, Dead Drums Beat

 

Thanks for the read, guys. I'll be back with more music next year!

Follow "vilecompany" on spotify to catch my 2014 playlist, and other playlists in the future. 

 

Love you all, and don't forget to keep it VILE! 

 

-Toph

XOXO

BOYS OF FALL LIVE AT VANS WARPED TOUR!

We are stoked on this new video for "First Rate Pyro"  by Boys of Fall's From this past summers Vans Warped Tour! Video Cred goes out to Brandan Keller

Also Just Announced this upcoming show we are rocking with the Dudes of Boys of Fall, Assassins and Sycamour! 

The Shelter and St Andrews Hall!

Hey Guys! Recently we started working with our good friends at Live Nation. We have two sets of tickets up for grabs for a couple of different shows in the next couple of weeks! Check out Instagram and our Twitter for your chance to win! 

10/7 – The Amity Affliction w/ For The Fallen Dreams, Obey The Brave, Favorite Weapon at The Shelter

10/13 – Stray From The Path w/ Counterparts, Expire, My Ticket Home, Argus, Turncoat at The Shelter

10/21 – Fit For A King & Being As An Ocean w/ Gideon, Wolves at the Gate, Capsize, Cities & Years at The Shelter

A T H E N A S G R A C E

Recently we had the Pleasure of having with Nikolea Dumitrescu from Athenas Grace over to HQ. NIk talks to us about the story behind The Cardinals Ep and his battle with suicidal impulses. He also let us know about their new single coming out in the next month and recent tour with Like Statues and Argus. 

Check out their music video for their song "RAT"

ASSASSINS PLAY THROUGH THY KINGDOM COME VIDEO

For all you guitar nerds who are interested in watching and learning something new. Our brothers in Assassins made a play through video for their song "Thy Kingdom Come" Check it out and enjoy! 

Music Mondays with Jeff Tuttle of Old Gods

So a good while back we had Jeff Tuttle of Old Gods stop by hq and rock out a quick interview. Only it turned into one of the longest and best interviews we've experienced to date. Jeff regaled us with stories of growing up in the Detroit music scene, to being a guitar player in Dillinger Escape Plan , to his current project Old Gods and he even dropped a bomb on us about an upcoming solo project called Malo Konjche! Normally we would just condense the interview down into a 10 minute video our sound bite that you could breeze through, but this interview is too good to leave anything out. Its memorial day, so take a little time out and listen to this rad interview from one of the most interesting as well as most brutal live performers in Detroit. -Aren 

oh and check out this bonus audio about a Jeff meeting Trent Reznor & the rest of Nine Inch Nails!

Vile Interview with Wilson front man: Chad Nicefield

Many of you know about our brothers in the band Wilson . You have heard stories of their fuckery and how they are melting faces across the US. We decided to get you a closer look into the brain of Wilson frontman: Chad Nicefield.

Vile: Besides being the frontman of Wilson and having a great beard, what else should we know about you, Mr. Nicefield?

Nicefield: I was born and raised in Port Huron Michigan. Started playing music when I was maybe 10 and I started my first band with my buddies back home called Winston Churchill Youth Brigade, when I was 15 years old. got into a massive car accident when I was 16 years old and lost my life and at that point decided when I was in the hospital that I was going to change what I was currently doing which was basketball and focus all my time into making music. 180 degree change of my ongoing life choices to focus completely on music. So I mean, I pretty much am an open book You can read about anything that I’ve done because Ive just played music and shit in peoples hands for the past 20 or something like that. So yeah as far as being in a band and having a good beard and where I was grown is all Ive ever done in my entire life.

Vile: The majority of the local music scene are fans of Wilson and their “fuckery”, but for those who aren’t as familiar, how would your describe your guys’ music?

Nicefield: I would describe our music like a thousand bastard swords whipping through the air in the middle of the night or 24 bottles of PBR and then that PBR is strewn upon the floor of your weekdays worst nightmare. I’d have to go ahead and say that we’re fucking rock n’ roll. The idea of our music is to bring light and life to the live music experience. In general, rock n’ roll is supposed to be about that. So, that’s what we preach.

Vile: Speaking of “fuckery”, how did you guys come up with the word? Tell us your definition.

NiceField: The definition to me is anything that feels too good not to do. And a lot of other people can construe its kind of, I guess, oblivatory on top of that being a little bit cliché to say “it’s whatever feels good man”. But yeah, how we coined that term in general because originally when we wrote the record we named a song “Viking Pussies Fuck Off” and once that was finished and we recorded it, I was having a conversation with one of my friends and said “Dude, we just wrote this song and it sounds like full blast fuckery.” And I was like, “Dude, I think I just got the fucking records title off that. We just kind of went with the flow of it. “Fuckery” to us is the embodiment of Wilson

Vile:  What is the experience you want a first timer at one of your guys’ show to have?

Nicefield: All smiles. Might be a little cheesy but like I mentioned having a good time at a rock n’ roll show is sometimes few and far between because sometimes people are caught up in the scenery of things, if you will. They’re not so much caught up in the music and the emotions its giving them. And having your own little fucking party, if you will, is what we hope each person takes away from the show.

Vile: Wilson has branded themselves as being quite the party animals. Does this transfer over to your lives off the stage as well?

NiceField: If anyone that knows us is reading this, they know that what we put ourselves through on a daily and mainly weekend-ly basis. On the road we take our partying pretty seriously but in the sense that we put it on the stage and its left on the stage. We like to drink a lot and have a good time but like, we’re also there to be entertainers and you entertain when you’re puking on stage and can’t sing a song correctly. So I think we definitely party harder when off the stage and when we’re not on the road. 

Vile: Wilson was a part of Shiprocked a couple of weeks back… Tell us a little bit about how the opportunity came about and what the tour in paradise was like for you guys.

The tour was announced and I was talking to a team member of ours and I was like, “Hey, I don’t know if there is any way this could possibly happen but, if you could reach out and see, because one of the other bands he works with was on it. And the guy was like, ‘Yes!’” I’d have to describe Shiprocked as one of the top three experiences of my life. Number one, being what I aforementioned about being in the car accident because it changed my life from what I was doing to what I’m doing now. Number two, Shiprocked because it was fucking awesome. And number 3, is the first time I saw my own seaman shoot out the tip of my penis. So if you could sandwich Shiprocked in-between losing your life and I guess, bearing life, I guess you could say it was pretty fucking awesome.

Vile: What were a couple of the bands you shared the stage with during Shiprocked? What were some of your favorite performances to watch?

Nicefield: I kind of went onto the ship not having like a sour attitude towards the lineup but this isn’t something I would particularly listen to, like, its not something I’m currently jamming. But I left with a completely different situation because these are all bands we all have listened to at some point. Like we’re talkin’ Papa Roach, Sevendust, Candlebox, Living Color. Like, that was one of the most incredible things for me because I got to see Living Color play. So I would say, out of all the things that were on there was Five Finger Death Punch and In This Moment, the two best shows i saw were Sevendust because they’re a machine and I mean, there were so many good ones. The last night I watched Papa Roach for the first time ever and the ship was like was hitting all these huge swells, and it was just crazy. And these dudes just went out without a fucking flinch, and were like, “Well that’s a little weird but lets keep going!” and gave the most ape-shit performance ever. I had listened to their first record but never really did after that because my mood changed who I was but these dudes have been doing this this long and still go that fucking hard?

Vile: You said that those are band you arent necessarily jamming right now. So what are some of the bands you are listening to currently? ...No judgement

Nicefield: What i was listening to on the way here may not be what i have been necessarily jamming as of late, but I have a new found love for the band Slipknot. So i was jamming that on the way over here. But I would have to say that beyond that I have Tune Yard in my record player right now, I have a band called Gypsy Hawk form Los Angeles, a disc from a band in Detroit called Against the Grain, Silver Snake, American Sharks, Dinosaur Pile Up, Oh and the Toadies.. I'm always listening to the Toadies.

Vile: What’s on your guys’ schedule for the upcoming year as far as touring goes?

Nicefield: Well we can announce some of the tours, but we will be on the road in april may and june, We will be on a couple more cruise ships this summer. I can announce Rock'n the Range in may with Mastodon, Korn and other modern rock bands. 

Vile: Your first album, “Full Blast Fuckery”, was released last summer and kicked so much ass… What’s in the works for your follow up album When can we expect to hear some new tunes?

NIceField: Well we are currently writing that record now. We have been going on multiple writing trips, like we are headed to a cabin in march for a little over a week. We are headed out to  LA to sit with a guy and track some of the stuff we are working on. We are planning to have like written done this summer and everything recorded and done (fingers crossed) in hopes to release in early 2015!

Vile: If you had to chose your favorite song to perform, what would it be and why?

NIcefield: My favorite song to record now, is this new song that we have been opening our sets with. The song is tentatively called "Fire" for now. We are really stoked on it because its the first time that the five of us have written organically together. In the past its been me jason and james, or me jason and puhy, or kyle jason and puhy,but this is the first time we have all came together to write these songs at the same time. Mainly because some members werent at the initial writing process for full blast and they have joined the band more recently than others. 

Vile: Anything else we should know about? 

 NiceField: I have webbed toes, and one time i killed this frog when I was younger and I feel really bad about it. 

You can check out Wilsons recent video College Gang Bang below: 

19th Annual Motory City Tattoo Expo!

Its that time again. Time for the 19th Annual Motor City Tattoo Expo! Come one come all and get your tattoo boners on! Local Mi artist such as Mark Hedgie of signature tattoo, CarlyCunningham, Bob Tyrell, Jay wheeler and many many more! The expo will take place at Detroit's very own Renaissance Center. 

For all of you who are visiting from out of town and getting a hotel down town. What are you going to do after the expo closes down–well we’ve got you covered.

Get nuts at the Shelter Friday night for Van Halentine’s Day. Here’s a quote from the event’s description, “….hits you square in the forehead with SCREAMING GUITAR RIFFS, EXPLOSIVE DRUM BEATS, BONE RATTLING BASS, AND in the midst of it all, a figure emerges from the smoke and flashing lights.” That’s literally all you need to know.

Saturday night hit up the Magic Stick for the Fourth Annual Detroit X Detroit show! Watch 15 kickass musicians each perform a 3 song set of another locally grown band or artist. 

The Handgrendades as Phantasmorgia. 

After Dark Amusement Park as The Supremes. 

500 Club as the Suicide Machines. 

 

Okay, you get it. Be there or, well…. your loss.

Find out more about this one HERE!

Alright, well that was your weekend run down. 

Hope to see everyone out and about this weekend!

and whatever you end up doing...

Keep it Vile.

-Dani Fahs

W A R P E D / T O U R / I S / C O M I N G !

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! The time when we get burned, bruised and dehydrated for a day out in the hot scorching black top! Why do we do it? For a chance to party and watch a ton of our favorite bands give it all in one solid day of music. So make sure you pre hydrate and plan your day out right. Because for one day, thousands of us become family and celebrate not just any life, but the life we want to live. So come one and come all and check out unforgettable performances from our brothers in ....

Make sure you guys make it out to see these bands from our staff pics!

AUGUST BURNS RED                        LET LIVE                        BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 

OH SLEEPER                                   ARCHITECTS                      THE AMITY AFFLICTION 

STICK TO YOUR GUNS                     VOLUMES                      WHILE SHE SLEEPS 

UPON A BURNING BODY                   BMTH                            LIKE MOTHS TO A FLAME

OH DONT FORGET to creep  Substream Music  Magazine and check out a special Vile Discount Code found in the magazine! Hope to see you guys there! -VC