Local Loft Episode 395

2025-08-26

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"We know only rock n roll...got only rock n roll...cannot breathe!" (Four Horseman-The Clash 1979) We know only original Chicagoland rock n roll in every Local Loft podcast. And we give metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop plenty of room to breathe and thrive. Breathe it in, the unique mix of hardcore punk and thrash metal from Four Horsemyn. This four-man Chicago band had a pogoing crowd inhaling fresh non humid air, topped with a lot of venom to spit out over gun violence, overeating, media f...

"We know only rock n roll...got only rock n roll...cannot breathe!" (Four Horseman-The Clash 1979)

We know only original Chicagoland rock n roll in every Local Loft podcast. And we give metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop plenty of room to breathe and thrive.

Breathe it in, the unique mix of hardcore punk and thrash metal from Four Horsemyn. This four-man Chicago band had a pogoing crowd inhaling fresh non humid air, topped with a lot of venom to spit out over gun violence, overeating, media fear mongering over worldwide diseases, as they opened another outdoor Punk Rock Tacos show at Cemitas Poblanas in Villa Park. I talk with singer Nick Smoots, drummer Johnny Park, guitarist Justin JJ Kilzer, and bassist Bob Matzke, who reveal t plans for a fourth full length album where they won't hold back on more venom spewing at pop culture and maybe even the highest elected officail in the country.

The fiery venom of the dragon's breath can be extinguished by the blazing guitar shredding of David The Demon Shankle. Shankle and singer Tony Engel are in the process of recording the second album by veteran metal act GraveReign. I've got the scoop on it, and don't expect a Southern Fried Metal incineration at this year's Kankakee Estival Festival, but a fiery alternative band (in name anyway) returns.

The Skies Are Shifting went into full on overdrive as they cruised into Wire In Berwyn six years ago this week with a eclectic new age meets hardcore metal sound. We rock back to it.

Over the ear hairs and through the lungs, every orifice of your body is rocked by this essential Chicagoland original music soundtrack:

Four Horsemyn-Bang Bang

Four Horsemyn-Persistence of Pestilence

Revel Noise-Revel Noise

KW3-Nature Boy ( live at The Lighthouse, Chicago)

Sons Of Ra-Vashkar

Besso And Friends-Lots Of People

Shaper-What's Rite

Feanor (featuring David Shankle)- Sirens Of Death

GraveReign-On The Wings of Fafnir

The Skies Are Shifting (interview from Wire in Berwyn 8/26/19 Local Loft Episode 110)

The Skies Are Shifting-Long Sleeve