2016 Best of Dayton Underground – Official Round 1 Polling Results!

After more than 23, 250 votes were cast in Round 1, we are proud to  present you the official results for Round 1 of the 2016 Best of Dayton Underground contest!

The Dayton Underground Series – Metal Madness – DESTROYS at Courtyard Lounge

On Friday, September 23rd, Dayton’s local metal fans came together to catch some of the hottest metal around town, and they weren’t disappointed as Letters to the Blind, Omeni, and Forces of Nature destroyed ears and melted faces at The Courtyard Lounge in Englewood!

RESTOCK Recap: Dayton’s Music Community Rocks for Charity

 The 2nd Annual RESTOCK Charity event benefiting the Dayton Foodbank and Helping the Homeless Dayton was an evening of great music and amazing generosity! Oddbody’s Music Room was buzzing with Dayton area music fans armed with boxes and bags of donations in support of two of the Miami Valley’s best charitable endeavors!

The Dayton Foodbank is the heartbeat of an expansive network of over 100 food pantries scattered throughout Greene, Montgomery, and Preble Counties! Through community and corporate donations the Dayton Foodbank continues its work to help relieve hunger in the Miami Valley.

Helping the Homeless Dayton creator Trena Elam is a champion for our area homeless! Instead of ignoring the ever growing problem of homelessness in the Miami Valley, Elam has taken it upon herself to stand up and fight for those less fortunate. Elam distributes donations to area shelters and at times combs the streets looking for those who may be in need of clothing, blankets, coats, and ready to eat food.

Show Alert: RESTOCK 2016 ~ A Musical Showcase to Benefit the Dayton Foodbank & Helping the Homeless | Oddbody’s – Dayton, OH

Hey Dayton music fans! It’s time once again to RESTOCK THOSE SHELVES! Guitars to Gunstocks is proud to present RESTOCK 2016: A Musical Showcase to Benefit the Dayton Foodbank and Helping the Homeless. On Saturday, January 30th, join G2G, Music Connection Dayton, LLC, Artistic Delirium Tattoo, Oddbody’s and fantastic musicians and artists from around the Miami Valley for an amazing night of GREAT music and art!

Valentine’s Day Massacre at The Courtyard – Covering the Scene

Valentine’s Day Massacre at The Courtyard – Covering the Scene
Posted by Mike Ritchie on February 21, 2015
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Troy’s Blanche Devereaux plays and performs metal like they are extracting demons from your inner most self. Basically yanking them out, wadding them up, and before you can breathe relieved, ram them back in. It’s better to have your personal demons contorted, disoriented and confused by the external environment before reinsertion. Mikey Devereaux’s bellowed growl complimented the maniacal sounds from Danny Miramontes and Jeremy Stone. It’s got thrash, metalcore and a bit of black metal putting The Black Dahlia Murder on Cannibal Corpses’s alter of sacrifice. They took the stage burning away the cold of the night on ”Noctural Consumption.” They encouraged all to step in the fire and “Man Up.” It only burns a little. They have been around for a while and seem to keep getting heavier.

RESTOCK 2015 | SAT. JAN. 17, 2015 – Benefit to Refill Dayton Foodbank

RESTOCK 2015 | Benefit to Refill Dayton Foodbank
– by Jimmy Cummings of Buckeye Music Magazine

The Big Four of Dayton Release Quadruple CD’s at Courtyard Lounge » Covering the Scene

Covering the SceneThe Big Four of Dayton Release Quadruple CD’s at Courtyard Lounge » Covering the Scene.

NEW Retail Store Aims for Largest Local Music Offerings Around! | Springfield, OH

New retail shop, Guitars to Gunstocks, in Springfield, Ohio recently opened its doors to feature store owner, Jacob Collins’, beautiful wood carvings, guitars, guitar repair services, and what he hopes will be one of the largest selection of local music and related merchandise in the area!

Later this month, Guitars to Gunstocks will host its Grand Opening Celebration along with the 1 Year Anniversary of its neighbor, Artistic Delirium Tattoos and Piercings! There will be great celebration day only specials, raffles for cool prizes, and live acoustic performances in the afternoon from area artists!

HORLET Throws You the Keys – Metal / Melodic Death Metal / Thrash | Dayton, OH

The Keys of Life and Death, the debut album of Dayton metal band Horlet, is crunchy and tight from beginning to end. This cd has been in my player for a month now and shows no signs of getting stale! The heavy riffs SLAM, weaving lots of tandem melody lines and intricate percussion with great composition and production quality.

2 Great Metal Shows !!!!

by Joel Naugle

Hanks Pub – Josh Deeter’s B-day Party  1.24.14

Close The Hatch – Really enjoying hearing these guys play! They are an experimental metal band blending a lot of different styles into their sound. They have a lot of progressive metal as well: forging new ways of playing, having new ideas on what Metal should be, and taking it to the next level.  At first it sounds soft, and then the voice comes at you like a battering ram, letting you know it’s DEFinitely NOT soft. It reminds me also of other melodic metal,  creating a picture or a work of art within the music. Their music sounds surreal when they slow down the tempo and it features the great bass lines. Guitar solos that light up the atmosphere, and the drums are dynamic.
Band Members: 2 Shauns, 1 Steve, a Rohr , and a Josh kill it when they hit the stage.