Thursday was all right for a night of vintage punk culture.
Vancouver based punk author Chris Walter was at Inferno, June 11 to promote his new book “ Under The Cult The Real McKenzies Expose
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The Winnipeg born Walter has written books about Canadian punk icons SNFU, The Dayglo Abortions, Personality Crisis and several punk culture inspired novels.
Bob Scallywag began the night with a set of energetic acoustic punk music after which Walter did a reading from his new book and cut it short after being interrupted.
He made way For Hugh River/ Okotoks/ Calgary female metal trip Perception of Pain who showed girls can rock as hard as the boys.
They played a decent set of punk mixed with metal but with more punk. Their new bassist Zoë Grace-Ann added a basic but driving rhythm to Tanessa Von Meisel’s guitar and Colleen Spunk’s thundering drums.
Spence and Von Von Meisel’s vocals were lost in a wall of sound.
They sounded like a mix of Kittie, Joan Jett and the Plasmatics especially on their song “Hate for the World.”
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were no solos but lots of punk intensity. They will be back in Lethbridge at Inferno, June 25 with Toronto garage punk duo Artificial Dissemination.
I hadn’t seen Lethbridge classic style metal band Lock N’ Load for a few years, so it was nice to see them back. They have been playing a lot more over the past month and have been practicing.
They had plenty of Metallica style riffs and hot guitar solos with a driving bass and drums.
— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
