Here is the final installment of our Fest VI wrap up. Here we go, here we go, here we go!
It’s been said that Sunday is the hardest day to play during the Fest weekend. Everyone, for the most part, is hungover and/or tired and it definitely starts to show on that final day. Exhaustion aside, I think it’s pretty safe to say that everyone was ready to go out with a bang.
If you’re a sucker for pop-punk (and I know you are), then you probably loved The Gamits, the under-appreciated, young, scrappy punks who broke up way too soon. Alas, there is hope! Chris Fogal, frontman of the group, has started a new project titled On High, featuring members of Drag the River, Love Me Destroyer and Rocky Votolato, among others.
The group’s debut album will be put out by Suburban Home Records around March or April of next year. The group’s sound does stray from Fogal’s pop-punk background and has “more in common with Black Sabbath or Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets” than anything the Gamits ever did.”
If you want some tunes, download On High’s 3 song demo right here.
I’m glad I brought earplugs to go see Om at the Middle East. As I may have mentioned about another band, any group featuring members of Sleep will be heavy and loud as hell. So it’s no surprise that Om are just that, even if they aren’t as forthright about it with crushing riffs or things like that, but instead play it much more subtle and even handed. On the last night of their current tour, Grails and Om certainly shook the foundation of the tiny Middle East Upstairs, while pissing off the venue at the same time. Read on after the jump!
