Work place accidents occur every day and can have a big impact on a person’s normal daily life. A stint in hospital, perhaps, hours of physiotherapy exercises and, for some, the inability to play or practice music. For Greg Smith, drummer of central Alberta’s Before The Unseen, this scenario is all too familiar.
“I work for an oilfield cleaning facility, so I clean 400 tanks and clock tanks and anything to do with rig equipment, and was inside a tank when an 1,800 lb piece of ice came off the wall …

You hear the buzzing of drunken voices cluttering the room and you start to get excited. You can literally smell the heavy metal in the air from the 200 sweating bodies that just moshed their asses off to the band before you. You see your band mates plugging in the last of their cables and you hear the last floor tom sound check fire off like a cannon. You walk on stage and grip the mic like it’s your last bottle of water in the desert. You look out into the crowd and …

How do you stay active in Alberta’s metal community?
Being a part of the Pitch Black staff keeps me fairly active in the local metal scene. I also really enjoy putting on shows. Last year, I was heavily involved in organizing Red Deer’s Rock 4 Santa charity show. It was a lot of hard work, but so much fun and such a rewarding experience. When I’m not working on Pitch Black, I spend a lot of time booking/promoting shows and organizing merch for my husband’s band, Awkward Silence.
How did you first …

“Viral Nation” Track List:
1. Viral Nation (intro)
2. Oblivion
3. The Execution
4. Sing For Freedom
5. Ignite
6. Metafilth
7. A Dark Chapter
8. Human Crutch
9. Home
When the four member’s of Obey the Fist headed into Alchemy Recording Studio one November day in 2008, they were quite the optimists.
“We thought we’d be done in two weeks,” confesses vocalist/guitarist Chris Kreuger, “but it took a hell of a lot longer.”
They recorded the final tracks for their upcoming debut album in December 2009, just over a year from when they laid down the first drum tracks with Alchemy …