When:
September 9, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm America/Vancouver Timezone
2018-09-09T17:00:00-07:00
2018-09-09T21:00:00-07:00
Where:
Astoria Hastings
769 E Hastings St
Vancouver, BC V6A 1R3
Canada
Cost:
$10 plus charges / $15 at the door
Contact:
The Invisible Orange
604-614-2311
Slave To The Grind - A Film About Grindcore :: Astoria Pub @ Astoria Hastings | Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada

This is the Vancouver Premiere of "Slave To The Grind - A Film About Grindcore"

Sunday, September 9, 2018
Astoria Hastings.
719 East Hastings Street. Vancouver, BC
Doors 5:30pm | Screening starts at 6:00pm
Ages 19 and over

Tickets on sale now at Red Cat Records, Neptoon Records and online at the "Ticket" link on this page.

Special afterparty with performances from Zuckuss (Band) and Pest Synapse!

SYNOPSIS

If you lived in Flint Michigan, USA in the 80s, you likely worked in an auto factory. If you lived in Birmingham, England in the 80s, you likely worked in an industrial setting. If you were a teenager in either of these cities during those years, you either accepted your fate or broke the mold. In defiance of tradition, groups of punk rockers and metalheads in these respective cities created a new sound, and consequently a new genre of music, that was too punk for metalheads, and too heavy for punks.

Grindcore fused the anarchistic attitudes of the UKs Punk scene with the speed and drunken aggression of Death Metal, which was simultaneously being created in the US. When Napalm Death released ‘Scum' in 1986, world-renowned BBC DJ, John Peel, announced that ‘Grindcore’ was the fastest and most abrasive sounding music imaginable, and he was right.

Immediately, musicians were torn. Many believed Grindcore to be an anti-capitalist, cathartic blast of jokingly short songs. Lyrics were often aggressively pro-choice, anti-homophobic and anti-racist. While others inverted the genre with the hopes of becoming as offensive as possible when it came to band names and lyrical content; likely a 'fuck you' to the mainstream.

Slave To The Grind is the first documentary on Grindcore to capture the genre's 35 year life span. The film takes you to Japan, the United States, UK, Australia, Singapore, Finland and Sweden to discuss why the genre has persisted, and changed, over time.

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