by Scott Roos photos by Tracy Creighton ( Copperblue Photography ) Sunday, March 1st, at SaskTel Centre brought together three bands whose music helped define alternative rock radio in the 1990s and early 2000s. With Econoline Crush, Big Wreck, and Live on the same bill, the night leaned heavily into familiar songs, big guitar moments, and an audience eager to revisit the soundtrack of their younger years. Econoline Crush Econoline Crush opened the evening with a compact seven-song set built...

by Scott Roos photos by Scott Roos (Scotty the Rooster Photography) Forty years is a long time to be doing anything. Forty years of thrash metal? That’s practically a miracle. Yet here we are. The Bay Area wrecking crew known as Exodus, one of the original architects of thrash metal’s glory days, are gearing up to unleash their latest slab of carnage, Goliath . It lands March 20 through Napalm Records, and if drummer Tom Hunting is any indication, the band didn’t exactly stroll into this...

by Scott Roos Hollow Dominion with new vocalist Aurel Dumont Out on the flat prairie where the wind never really stops and the winters still mean business, heavy music finds a way to grow in the strangest places. Regina’s Hollow Dominion are proof of that. The deathcore crew from the city that rhymes with fun are about to drop their new single “Lifesblood” on March 12 - and it carries a little more weight than your average release. This one’s a goodbye. “Literally, yeah,” guitarist Brenden...