Ahhh Winnipeg - where gig admission prices are cheaper than beer at the bar during "The Almighty" Boozefest, presented by Hammered Incorporated on June 13 and 14 at the Zoo.

Three bux a broken head gets U thirsty street beaters five boozy bands per night, featuring Let's Get Invisible, Damascus, Withdrawal, Putrescence and Liqurd on Boozefest night one; and Tyrants Demise, Legerdemain, Amongst the Filth, Quagmire and Nailbrick on night two.

"We're playing with Quagmire and Amongst the Filth," says Nailbrick lead axeman Lieutenant Commander Thundertron (aka Zadock Shettler). "There'll be some metal, some drinkin'. You know how it is at the Zoo."

Three years ago, the five-piece Nailbrick formed when Thundertron the punk (ex-Insaniacs) teamed up with members of Murder Death Fight, and vocalist/lyricist Lynchamus Maximus Vesuveus (aka just plain Lynch) after meeting up at the Fathouse and sharing common interests in thrash, thrash, skulls, thrash, battle metal, swords and more thrash.

"It's definitely thrash," T-tron pipes about the Nailbrick ear smash. "Old-school thrash. Fantasy-metal meets thrash-metal. Barbaric thrash is the tag.

"I'm glad I found punk before I found metal because the whole punk take on metal makes it more thrash."

Oh and about that thrashy band name: "It's a nail and a brick, two things you can smash skulls with," Thundertron illuminates with a dry chuckle. "They'll both kill you dead.

"Speaking of skulls - we've been having a hard time finding skulls to use onstage. Dollarama used to sell them all year round," T-tron says. "We don't always get our skulls back when we play a show."

Thundertron says Nailbrick is going to commit its headbustin' skull-cracked battle thrash to disc very soon. "We're going to record with Jared Weiss from the Albert," he says. "I can't wait to record. We have some really solid songs. We just move very slowly."

Three years - twelve songs - and the 'Peg metal heads can't get enuff Nailbrick stuff. Gig guy Chris Leskiw (Amongst the Filth) just loves Nailbrick, and U will too when the band marches around the skull-decked Zoo stage with swords and other battle garb, shouting out death-chant epics such as Dagger of Truth, Space Pirates and Ogo Pogo's Revenge.

"Our songs are like stories," Thundertron continues. "He's a sea serpent who lives in the Okanagan Valley. Ogo Pogo's Revenge is about Ogo Pogo being betrayed by King Neptune and the evil mermen, and little do most people know that it was Ogo Pogo who destroyed Atlantis."

Streetbleats
Evil Survives haunts the Albert on June 14 with Raiden (Mark II), Landshark, and WE (ex-Multiple Partners, Vagiants). War on Music's first anniversary celebration continues on June 14 with an in-store gig - 333 Garry Street - with Eviction Party and the Accosters at 6 p.m. Enjoy a BBQ, including veggie dogs, a keg of root beer, and free arcades for customers.

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