PILEDRIVER To Perform 'Unannounced' Show This Weekend

October 12, 2005

Frontman Gord Kirchin (a.k.a. Pile Driver) of the reunited classic Canadian metallers PILEDRIVER has posted the following message on the group's official web site:

"We're doing another one of our 'unannounced' pseudo-shows... the nights we try out material to gauge set-worthiness, or try new even stupider stupid costumery on the band, or simply work in the latest 'new-guy' that's replacing the last 'new guy'... in some stupid costumery... all under a fake yet appropriate band name... they're ALWAYS a howl... The next one is again in Etobicoke [Ontario, Canada] at Heads Or Tails (Evans/Browns Line) on Saturday Oct. 15th... This time we'll be performing as
'FÖETÜS PÜKE'. As always, our compadres in choral carnage will be BEER FACTOR! NO COVER CHARGE!!! As in FREE!!!!!!"

A poster for the show can be found at this location.

As previously reported, PILEDRIVER recently uploaded full-length MP3 files of four new demo tracks from their upcoming album, "Metal Manifesto", at this location. The songs available for download are as follows;

01. Blood Bath
02. Metal Manifesto
03. Battle Axe
04. Road Pigs

According to the Internet heavy metal encyclopedia BNR, PILEDRIVER burst onto the metal scene in 1985 "with an over-the-top image (including a ridiculous album cover),tacky lyrics ('Sex With Satan', 'Alien Rape', etc),but also a surprisingly well-executed power/thrash style. [The group's debut] 'Metal Inquisition' was just plain great fun to listen to, one of those guilty pleasures that one could both smile at and headbang to at the same time. Some time later, the follow-up, 'Stay Ugly', appeared, and was quite a disappointment, as the production and songwriting were both below average, and the style had shifted a bit toward messy thrash. Soon after that, the band, disappeared without a trace.

"Years later, the PILEDRIVER story is told. Pile Driver himself (real name Gord Kirchin) tells how the idea of the band came from a record exec who basically just wanted to make a quick buck. The band, as such, never really existed at all, as Kirchin was only hired to do vocals for two separate studio projects (which explains why the two albums differed as much as they did),with all the names made up, as was virtually everything else about the band. Kirchin later formed his own band, DOGS WITH JOBS, and sporadically has been working on solo material since then."

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