Local Loft Episode 169

Metal war has been declared and battle will come down. In this combative edition of Local Loft, more than one metal millitia will go into to active rocking duty. Lace up your combat boots as we kick out the original jams of metal. punk, alt rock, prog rock and power pop from all over Chicagoland and Illinois.

Vicious Attack has exploded across stages since 2007. The five man hardcore thrash metal band from Chicago just released their first full length album, Declaration of War, on April 10th. We deploy two new tracks from it, as I get the dirt on the making of it from singer Alex Rodriguez and guitarist Michael Maskus in an exclusive interview.

The Empire of Fire features three days of blazing local metal and punk in Bradley. Upstate Illinois band Four Horsemyn will be featured on the  second of three days April 23rd to the 25th. 

Rockford's Oppressed Affliction brings a state of un worship amongst the band's followers to an upcoming May gig at The Forge in Joliet.

Convoy trucked their way on through the Joliet/Kankakee area on tour, with one of the founding members once serving a tour of duty in the Marine Corps. Nine years ago this week, they first fell in to the Kat 105.5 studios to play and talk about songs from their second album, Blue Collar America.

Along with these, you're rocking through an explosion of Chicagoland and Illinois music power with:

Vicious Attack-Endgame

Vicious Attack-Declaration Of War

Vicious Attack 2012 (featuring Cecilia Marie Negron)-Voices In My Head

Celestial Serpent-From Shadows Above

Oppressed Affliction-Godless

Four Horsemyn-Unhinged

Skipping Stone-Wither

Convoy (interview in the Kat 105.5 studio-4/19/12)

Convoy-U.S.M.C.

Convoy-Paralyze

Convoy-Knocked Down