Iloilo Rock Community's The Gathering

ILOILO ROCK COMMUNITY presents THE GATHERING corpz de elite
Venue is at JAQ's Bar, Smallville Complex, Iloilo City. 5pm til dawn!

ALBUM TICKET: 60 Php
Present your Album Ticket on May 18, 2013 to redeem the IRC ALBUM. With the Album Ticket you get our IRC Album at its half price.

Venue Price: 120 php
There will be Freebies and Prizes.
For more info please contact: 09394361613

Featuring bands: Xanadu, After Effect, Dr. Tentacles, Slipsyndrome, Dearyanna, Downfall, Kambyada, Temptation
Guest Bands: Diet of Wormz, IRC Allstars, Fugitive (Grindhouse), Murder the Machine (Horns Up), Kaldiro (Iloilo Rock Community)

Kapatiran V [Metal Festival & Dark Art Exhibit]

Once again, Iloilo's Metal Scene is in full gear as the next KAPATIRAN (ng Bakal at Apoy) Metal Festival reaches its fifth in the consistent series of festivals organized by GrindHouse Productions Iloilo which spearheads Iloilo's metal scene. This time, pushing the envelope forward, it's not merely just a Metal gig anymore; it also has a new add-on; being the Dark Art Exhibit, which allows artists to submit and exhibit their works of art.

The event will be on August 18, 2012 at Paseo de Arcangeles (area around Stufyerface), Iloilo City.

for those interested in the Dark Art Exhibit, check out this ad:

THE LAUNCHING OF ILOILO’S FIRST HEAVY METAL COMPILATION

THE LAUNCHING OF ILOILO’S FIRST HEAVY METAL COMPILATION
By Reymundo Salao

Sad thing about most people is that they usually have this negative impression of Heavy Metal. Not only heavy metal, but even in local musicians too. If anybody was to ask me; Who cares about Iloilo’s Heavy Metal scene? Probably my reply would be “Apparently, Not You…” and “…Fuck You”

If you were to underestimate Iloilo’s heavy metal scene, then what I can easily ensure are two things: you are an idiot at understanding at what music is, and you have no idea and no faith in the prowess of Ilonggo musicians.

Heavy Metal may have various definitions and interpretations, but basically, it is that subgenre of rock music that is heavier, more powerful in both emotion and intensity. Many would classify musicians such as Metallica, Megadeth, and Cannibal Corpse as heavy metal. But strictly, in an academic point of view, rock icons such as Led Zeppelin, Guns n’ Roses, AC/DC, and Black Sabbath belong to the classification of Heavy Metal. Because it is more powerful emotionally, lyrically, and in intensity, Heavy Metal can be more complex. It is louder because it has more layers, and it has more powerful emotions. If you think heavy metal is just noise, then you simply are uneducated in understanding the complexities of musical classification.

The complexities of Metal require that its musicians are more skilful, more talented, and more creative. That enough feels like they are a more special forces than the ordinary musician; but if a Metal musician or a Metal band is capable of making their own original music as well? Well that’s godlike in comparison to just your typical musician who merely copies from overexposed pop songs. Simply put out, you better recognize and better listen up, because this here come Iloilo’s Metal Scene rising up with original compositions, making history, putting Iloilo City in the World Map of Heavy Metal; Grindhouse Productions Iloilo, Think Logic Studios, and Sneeze Magazine is about to unleash the Heavy Metal compilation CD album “Iloilo Extreme Music Unleashed” The first ever Iloilo Underground Music compilation, featuring songs from bands Mongrelblood, Deicrypitus, Leprocyst, Fugitive, Krematoria, Mechanix, Tyrant, and Chronus. And to celebrate this album release, there is going to be an album launching gig this Saturday June 18, 2011 7:00 PM at Lanai Bar, Tabuc Suba, Jaro, Iloilo City (in front of Caltex/Starmart, Tabuc Suba, Jaro) featuring the above-enumerated bands and will also feature Blasphemerion, Servorum, Trololo, Dominion, and Dream Come True. The album will be available on the said gig, the first 30 people at the gig will get a free CD. It is going to be definitely an important evening in Iloilo’s Heavy Metal history.

Grindhouse Productions is Iloilo’s premiere organization that is currently extremely active in developing Iloilo City’s heavy metal scene. They have been the ones that have been keeping the fires of Iloilo’s metal scene burning for these past couple of years now. Sneeze Magazine, on the other hand, has been the underground magazine that has been helping Iloilo’s subculture community for years now. You can find copies at EddieMar shop, SM City Iloilo. Think Logic Studios at Arevalo is one of Iloilo’s most prominent recording studios and jam studios, which usually is home to many of Iloilo’s rock bands.

Upcoming Gigs Update

JANUARY 14, 2011
The Tau Gamma Sigma STI College Iloilo Chapter present DROP THE BOMBSHELL. Come and see the finest bands of Iloilo play their brands of music this January 14, 2011. Tickets are at P 50. 

JANUARY 23, 2011
Grindhouse Productions & ELVC Cars present DAGYANG SA GARAHE: A NIGHT OF EXTREME MUSIC; THE ILOILO BACOLOD and; DUMAGUETE REVOLUTION. A Metal Party which will feature bands from Dumaguete: Double Murder Suicide, Bandilang Itim; Bacolod: Servorum; and Iloilo: Chronus, Dominion, Krematoria, Leprocyst, Vilerulent, Nemesis, Deicryptus, and more...
This will be held on JANUARY 22, 2011 3PM to 5AM of JANUARY 23, 2011 at ELVC Cars (In front of UPV, Gen. Luna St., Iloilo City. Tickets are sold at P20 only.

JANUARY 29, 2011
After the Noise of the Dinagyang Drum Beats Fade, Another Noise Begins...
Think Logic Studios and Lanai Bar & Grill presents their monthly Night Class Gig on JANUARY 29, 2011 Saturday. Entitled AFTER THE DRUMS: The Night Class, Post-Dinagyang Party. Featuring Iloilo's Best Rock bands. Entrance is Free.

Bingkong 2010

Sneeze Magazine + Grindhouse Productions present BINGKONG 2010: The Gathering in Shadows. An Evening of Rabid and Monstrous Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. Featuring bands like Carnage, Mongrelblood, Krematoria, Leprocyst, Blasphemerion, and more!!! February 14, 2010 6:00 PM at Mc's chicken House, Bar & Restaurant, Gen. Luna St., Iloilo City

Sneeze Publisher Promethean organized his first Bingkong Party in 1999, at Mariner's Point in Jaro, it was a small festival of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock as well. Around 2 or 3 years after, a separate group organized a Bingkong Party as well. Now, SNEEZE Magazine goes back to the gig scene and has joined forces with Grindhouse Productions in order to make February 14 a day of celebrating Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, and the many other darker and the more angstier aspects of Rock and Metal.

This event is brought to you in part by Rock Ed Iloilo. Please bring Old Books for Donation for the Rock Ed Iloilo's BOOK BIGAYAN CAMPAIGN. These books will be donated to Elementary Schools which greatly need more books that will help the Filipino youth of tomorrow. BINGKONG 2010 also is brought to you in part by Aftersyx Radio, Eksena Iloilo, Online Iloilo, Hotbox Records, & JustAnotherFilmJunkie