[DID NOT ATTEND: November 21, 2025] Stinking Lizaveta / channls (album relase) / Deathbird Earth
For reasons I don’t entirely remember, I’ve added Stinking Lizaveta to the list of bands that I’d like to see.
I think what inspired me to check them out is that they are an instrumental band who play complex music.
And this is the third or fourth time that I am not seeing them. But for some reason I didn’t really feel like going to this show.
channls is a heavy post rock band from Philadelphia. This show was an album release show for them, although they weren’t the headliners. Their bandcamp page says
Formed in 2023 by drummer Jay Yachetta and guitar player Steven Rosplock – veterans of the progressive outfit Phantasm – channls is rounded out by two key figures from the Philly music underground: bassist Vincent King (In the Presence of Wolves) and guitarist Jace Miller (Alright Junior). In a move that borders on poetic irony, the band boasts three frontmen in a project where vocals are conspicuously absent. The band’s sound, rooted in post-rock but unafraid of distortion-drenched aggression, occupies a liminal space between beauty and brutality.
I’m now thinking that this would have been a really good show and I should have gone.
Deathbird Earth are a dup from Philly (BJ – BASS, SYNTHESIZERS, VOCALS; DAVE – DRUMS, PERCUSSION, SYNTHESIZER). I really enjoy watching two people make a ton of noise and their recording has a lot going on. They note:
Deathbird Earth’s sound tends to eschew typical genre classification but is made from a mix of heavy drums and distorted bass layered with keyboard sounds that may or may not be lifted from your favorite classic science fiction films.
I guess you’d call them heavy metal, but there’s a lot going on in this heavy metal. They’re the only band with and singing tonight.
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