If you’re a multi-genre music fan, Saturday night’s show at the Pour Farm Tavern in downtown New Bedford could be to your liking – a lineup that features the thrashy hardcore of Blood Feeder, the eclectic stoner rock of High n’ Heavy, and the downtempo solo musings of Cassie Lee.
Blood Feeder will be playing a set of songs from last year’s self-titled debut, along with some songs from guitarist/vocalist Chris Guaraldi’s first punk endeavor, Chris Evil & The Taints.High n’ Heavy will be playing material form their catalog of numerous recordings. Cassie Lee released her debut songs two years ago. All of this music is available online.
With a style that could be described as Detroit-ish Black Sabbath, the band is working on new songs for another album on Italy’s Electric Valley record label, which put out their previous two albums. The four-piece discovered the label via an Instagram post and built a relationship through social media exchanges. Guitarist John Steele says that being on Electric Valley is like “being part of a family,” thanks to the support they have received from the label and other bands on it. But this situation brought challenges to Steele, the band’s chief songwriter – challenges that didn’t exist when the band was releasing their music independently, challenges that he has learned to overcome.
“After starting to get a little following with the last two albums, I’d find myself worrying about what style I was writing. Essentially trying too hard. With the new songs I’m going back to the old Hign n’ Heavy philosophy that” High n’ Heavy has no one genre. We’ve often had reviewers say we’re hard to put in a category. I’ve always loved that. One thing I’ve always tried to do with High n’ Heavy is to not take the writing process too seriously. Ideas flow more freely when you just let them.
The future is open, and I’m excited for people to hear what we’ve been cooking up.”
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