Heart Fest
Eternal Sleep
Association Récréative de Gatineau (ARG), Gatineau QC, September 6
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2015
It has to be a challenge to play dark music in the daylight, especially when the venue is awash in it thanks to a wall of windows. Eternal...
Malfunction
Association Récréative de Gatineau (ARG), Gatineau QC, September 6
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2015
The most exciting moments of Malfunction's set didn't come when they played their newer, more metalcore-leaning songs, but when they played...
Homewrecker
Association Récréative de Gatineau (ARG), Gatineau QC, September 6
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2015
In what might have been one of the most inadvertently punk speeches of the weekend, a gentleman working the venue prefaced Homewrecker's se...
No Warning
Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 5
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2015
The last time No Warning played Canada was a decade ago, in Quebec with Sum 41 and Yellowcard — "the pop punk band with the violin,"...
Expire
Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 5
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2015
Expire came up through the hardcore scene — actually, the last time they played Heart Fest was on their rise — and expanded bey...
Iron Golem
Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 5
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2015
You know you're in for something special when the pit explodes before the music even starts, and so it was when Ottawa's Iron Golem announc...
Badlands
Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 4
PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2015
Prodigal son Evan MacIsaac returned from Calgary with "Ottawa Hardcore" emblazoned on his back. Yes, he was wearing his own band's shirt, b...
Cruel Hand
Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 4
PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2015
"We got strip-searched at the border. We're Cruel Hand. Let's go," was the first utterance of this Portland, Maine band's set. Sure, the si...
