Local Loft Episode 404

2025-10-28

"Curtain Call and lights go dim. Tragedy, love, all lie within. Each player takes his chance to play, and lives to fight another day." (The Damned-1980) It's a final album curtain call for Goth rockers, Bullet To The Heart, but not an official final bow of the band. Saturday Night at Rookie's Rockhaus in West Dundee, they'll play, Echoes: The Final Chapter, live. After all is done, some members, including drummer Draven DC, will rock on in Seconds To Serenity. Both bands focus on death prominently in their...

"Curtain Call and lights go dim. Tragedy, love, all lie within. Each player takes his chance to play, and lives to fight another day." (The Damned-1980)

It's a final album curtain call for Goth rockers, Bullet To The Heart, but not an official final bow of the band. Saturday Night at Rookie's Rockhaus in West Dundee, they'll play, Echoes: The Final Chapter, live. After all is done, some members, including drummer Draven DC, will rock on in Seconds To Serenity. Both bands focus on death prominently in their respective new albums. On Seconds To Serenity's new effort, Nexus, released on Halloween, this Friday, singer Jake LaGuidace has recollections of how death will be for him, after living through the experience of a family member. I talk with Jake about The Void, and their upcoming show on Saturday, November 1st.

Mimi Betinis first got his chance to play Rock N Roll, with Cliff Johnson, in the early beginnings of Off Broadway. I have a never before heard track, featuring surviving drummer Ken Harck, and a throwback to a re formed 90s lineup of Off Broadway, who didn't totally Stay In Time, but later would reunite the classic band lineup of their debut album, ON.

The Untold was telling new Stories Of Love And Death, in their one and only chance to rock a packed crowd at Wire In Berwyn, seven years ago this week.

In your 2025 Halloween Ear Candy Bag, these assorted treats of original Chicagoland Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock and Power Pop. Open both ear canals good and wide:

Seconds To Serenity-The Void

Seconds To Serenity-Without You

Bullet To The Heart-Giving Up (Is Giving In)

The GMO'S-Rat Race

Tyre Fyre-Feed Me (Punk Rock Tacos Totally Punk Anti Government Celebration of The People-7/5/25 Cemitas Poblanas, Villa Park-Local Loft Episode 388)

Flying Heads-Ulther

Claw Toe-The Vampire

Mimi Betinis-Obvious (featuring Off Broadway drummer, Ken Harck)

Black And Blonde-Stay In Time (featuring Cliff Johnson and Mimi Betinis

When Night Falls-Darkest Days

The Untold-Cascadia

The Untold (interview form Wire in Berwyn, 10/20/18 Local Loft Episode 89)