May. 12, 2010 - Issue #760: The Meat Issue

Music Notes

Unleash The Archers

Fri, May 14 (9 pm)

Despite what the classically inclined among you may think, BC's Unleash The Archers covers neither modern composer Violet Archer nor indie-darlings the Violet Archers. Apparently, Archers, when unleashed, like to buy leather jackets, electric guitars of the maximum possible loudness, and start singing like a bullfrog with acute bronchitis. Well, not always like a bullfrog—sometimes vocal duties in the Archers' fall to Brittney Hayes,

Unleash The Archers ticks all the requisite boxes on the metal-band checklist: leather jackets, scorching guitar solos, and punishing amounts of kick-drum. The band is also part of a growing group of metal bands fronted by ladies. Hayes does a better job than many in the role, with a background in choral singing and an alto voice in the same range as Glenn Danzig of Misfits and Samhain fame. Sure, the Archers' lyrical tone can be almost comically macabre at times, but that goes with the territory of songs with names like "The Filth And The Fable" and "Eat What You Kill." Metal bands value loud, long riffs more than irony. Unleash The Archers will bring plenty of the former to DV8 on Friday. (DV8, $5)

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