Party: Sabertooth Micro Fest - Day 2

Party: Sabertooth Micro Fest - Day 2

Sabertooth website:
http://www.sabertoothpdx.com/

3-Day Pass Tickets: http://bit.ly/Sabertooth3DayPass

Saturday, February 6

McMenamins and Portland Mercury present
"Sabertooth Micro Fest"
featuring:
Red Fang
YOB
Witch Mountain
Eternal Tapestry
In Lola’s Room: Blasphemous Brew Fest
Al's Den: Chris Couch (World's Finest)
A musical celebration of the Crystal Ballroom's psychedelic history
sponsored by Mercury, Sizzle Pie, Jackpot Records and VooDoo Doughnuts
7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show
All ages welcome
$30 advance, $35 day of show
"Sabertooth Micro Fest"
McMenamins And Portland Mercury is excited to announce the full lineup for the Crystal Ballroom's 2nd Annual Sabertooth psychedelicstonerrockmicrofest, a property-wide musical celebration of the Crystal Ballroom's psychedelic history.

Click here for the listing for all three days!

3 Day Passes and VIP tickets available!

Red Fang

Website:
http://www.redfang.net/
YOB

"Yob might be one of the best bands in North America," declared Ben Ratliff in a feature New York Times article in March of 2010 that can be best described as gushing. The Eugene, OR-based doom metal trio has seen similar praise worldwide, with a growing host of fans citing the band as one of the most profound and accomplished doom metal phenomena of the twenty-first century.

It's all too rare for a band to reach such moderate success and massive acclaim based on sheer quality of music. There's certainly no overt commercial bow on any of YOB's five albums. Songs commonly stretch beyond the twenty minute mark, and to date there's never been a radio edit or any effort to appease anyone but the band's muse. Indeed, the shortest song on latest album opus The Great Cessation clocks in at over seven and a half minutes of bludgeoning heaviness and cosmic wandering.

The journey began back in 1996 when vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Mike Scheidt began composing classic doom metal riffs in the vein of his heroes, Sleep, Cathedral, and Black Sabbath. By the turn of the millennium, the band had recorded debut album Elaborations of Carbon, and was rapidly growing from a NW secret, to a highly sought after support act for tour stops by luminaries like High on Fire and Isis. By 2003, Candlelight had the rights to sophomore album Catharsis, a record with a side-spanning title track that breaks twenty-three minutes into a heartbreaking odyssey. Upon completion of Catharis, Scheidt invited drummer Travis Foster to join the band, and Foster's immaculate percussive force became a signature element in YOB, as fundamental to the sound as Scheidt's alternately monstrous growls and triumphant, soaring wail.

Full US tours commenced due to a symbiotic partnership with then-fledgling Nanotear booking agency, and YOB proved to audiences night after night that it had chops and sonic glory to deliver that exceeded the promise of its albums. Brian Slagel of Metal Blade records took note, and the man who discovered Metallica, Slayer, and Voivod took YOB under his wing. Two fantastic albums were released, 2004's The Illusion of Motion, and 2005 masterpiece The Unreal Never Lived. By this time, YOB had shed the sound of its early influences, and was in turn creating a new and original doom sound that would in turn inspire others, from young upstarts around the world, to avowed YOB fans Tool. (Tool drummer Danny Carey went so far as to proudly sport his YOB t-shirt in promotional photographs).

Then YOB went into reclusion as the line-up shifted, and Mike Scheidt took several years to regroup and try his hand at other projects. Scheidt is a family man living in a small town, and in the real world, there are bills to pay. He trained hard in a form of Israeli self-defense called Krav Maga, eventually becoming an instructor. Between teaching this grisly martial art and reading extensively in eastern philosophy, Scheidt struck a fine spiritual balance which has led to seemingly endless creative inspiration.

In 2009, YOB re-awoke from its slumber, releasing the surprising and long-awaited The Great Cessation (it's debut for Profound Lore records), which proved the band retained every ounce of inspiration, and accrued recognition on nearly every year-end list, from the Village Voice to Terrorizer. More surprising still was how much YOB's legacy had grown during its hiatus. Invitations to perform at Scion Rock fest between Shrinebuilder and Pelican were followed by the unprecedented response at YOB's first European appearance at the fabulous 2010 Roadburn festival in Holland.

By 2011, YOB stood at a crossroads. Would a world hungry for doom support the band, or would YOB remain cloistered in the grim northwest, appearing only when the moons align? The choice was taken from the band's hands as sixth album ATMA was released to massive critical acclaim. Lengthy tours of the US and Europe followed, and YOB's popularity went from speculative to soundly proven. Fans quickly lost count of year-end list appearances for ATMA. And at the dawn of 2012, something magical happened: TOOL called...

The future of doom looks bright indeed. And YOB has not had to compromise along the way. There will never be a sacrifice made when it comes to writing and producing the ultimate progressive heavy metal music. Nor will the live presentation be anything but stellar. YOB IS LOVE. (2012, Nathan Carson)



Website:
http://www.yobislove.com/
Witch Mountain

Witch Mountain was founded by guitarist/songwriter Rob Wrong and drummer/manager Nathan Carson in Portland, OR in 1997. In those days, if you didn't wear a cardigan and play sloppy indie-rock on a guitar you bought at a garage sale, you were not going anywhere. But the band was committed to its roots in the Blues, Rock, and Metal. Carson and Wrong shared a love of the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Judas Priest, and the Beach Boys. By the time the Homegrown Doom demo was recorded in '99, the band was already on its 4th bass player (he didn't last long, either).

Since those early days, Witch Mountain's accomplishments read like a laundry list: Three albums for Profound Lore, a single for Scion, a comp track on Adult Swim's metal compilation. Festival performances at Roadburn, Hellfest, Hopscotch, and tours all over Europe and North America with the likes of Nik Turner's Hawkwind, Cough, Lord Dying, Spirit Caravan, Weedeater, were all great successes. Likewise, the major press has levied accolades on Witch Mountain, from Pitchfork to NPR, Spin to MSN, Noisey to Rhapsody. If you can name a band that influenced doom, be it Candlemass or Blue Öyster Cult, Sleep or Diamond Head, Saint Vitus or Uli Jon Roth, Witch Mountain has shared the stage with them.


2015 brings new blood to the group, with vocalist Kayla Dixon taking over for the recently retired Uta Plotkin. Dixon's talent and enthusiasm continues to revitalize the band, which is remarkably far from jaded after nearly 18 years as a unit. Latest album Mobile of Angels won worldwide praise, and placed on most Top 20 Year End lists for metal music in 2014. Now, with latest and greatest bass player Justin Brown (#11, we think...) in tow, the group is set to tour America once more, this time in support of its longtime friends YOB.

Once against the grain in every way, time and culture has cycled the band into a new era where Doom is somehow considered cool, and Witch Mountain is recognized as an organic, unwavering stalwart of the scene.



Website:
http://witchmountain.bandcamp.com/
Eternal Tapestry

Eternal Tapestry started in the fall of 2005, conceived after original members Nick Bindeman and Dewey Mahood discovered their mutual love of Sonny Sharrock and Neu! It was these two vastly different artists who helped the band's sound take shape, free improvised guitar with structured rhythms and lots of layered ambient sound. They asked a few friends to join them in the band and so it began. Nick's younger brother Jed moved to Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2006 and joined shortly afterwards. At this time both Nick and Jed were playing drums as part of a six piece band, making very chaotic and dark psychedelic music. A few members came and went around this time, leaving the core trio of Nick, Dewey and Jed to continue on their own. Most of the limited edition LPs released to date document this trio. In 2009 Ryan Carlile joined the band on saxophone and synth, and just in the last year Krag Likins joined as bassist, completing the current line up. The members of Eternal Tapestry are extremely active in the experimental underground. Nick explores minimal synth music as Tunnels, with an album to come on Troubleman Unlimited in 2011. In addition Nick plays guitar in the psychedelic/improv group Jackie-O Motherfucker. Dewey has recorded solo bliss out music as Plankton Wat since 2002, and explores the outer realms of dub as Edibles. Jed has played in the bi-coastal drone/rock band Heavy Winged since 2004 and has released many records with the band over the years, with the latest being a release on Type Records. He also joined Jackie-O Motherfucker as their drummer at the beginning of 2010, and plays in the minimalist/techno project Operative. Ryan plays as one half of the electronic/drone duo Cloaks. Jed and Dewey also collaborate with Barn Owl as the group Garden Sound, whose debut album came out this fall on the Digitalis label.

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Eternal-Tapestry-130663863669064/timeline/
In Lola’s Room: Blasphamous Brew Fest

Blasphemous will offer patrons a curated tasting experience comprised of unique products from seven innovative fermentation houses. As these products are often extremely small batch and rare, offerings will rotate based on availability. This is our way of introducing a bit of chaos to the typical "brewfest" formula. In keeping with this idea, we will strive to eliminate the inertia of line-waiting as well, and add a bit of stylized atmosphere for good measure.

Website:
http://www.sabertoothpdx.com/#!beer-fest/c20vz