DIRTY TACTICS

DIRTYSWITCH

DISEMBODIMENT

DISLIKING SILENCE

DISONIC

DISORGANIZED CRIME

DISROBE

DISSONA

Dissona is a progressive metal band from the South Suburbs of Chicago. Formerly know as The Vision, Dissona has spent much of their time carefully carving out their desired sound by writing songs that embody various styles and emotions.

DEFCON

DEGRADATION

DEIRDRE DOLL

DEIST

DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN

In 2018, rapper Del The Funky Homosapien and producer Amp Live are on guard at Gate 13. The new album marks the first full-length collaboration between the acclaimed Hieroglyphics MC and co-founder of Zion I and Unified Highway, respectively. The 15-track LP finds both highly respected creatives stepping out of their zones and redecorating the sound and substance.

DELTA 9

DEMILOS

DEN OF VIPERS

DENIAL MACHINE

DENIZEN KANE

DENTAL WORK

DESCARGA

DESECRATE THE HOUR

DESERT SOAP

DESOLATE SKY

DESSA

DESTROPHY

DESTROY BABYLON

DESTROY EVERYTHING

DESTRUCTIVE PLAYTHINGS

DESTRUCTOR

Destructor, Cleveland, Ohio’s legendary premier power/thrash band, return to Auburn with their new 2003 “Sonic Bullet” release. The extended EP contains 46 minutes and 9 tracks of ripping, over-the-top, pounding Destructor-style molten heavy metal!

Auburn president Bill Peters’ first encounter with Destructor was seeing the band perform their very first ‘live’ show in 1984 at The Pop Shop, a club managed by Chris Andrews and located beneath the historic Cleveland Agora. Already working with bands such as Breaker and Shok Paris at the time, Peters fell in love with the band’s untamed energy, great songwriting, wild spirit and charismatic stage presence. The Cleveland metal scene was dominated at the time with ‘technically’ great sounding bands. Many questioned why Peters would choose to work with a band such as Destructor and how he could possibly record and capture the band’s energy in the studio. After all, Destructor were considered to be one of the area’s most ‘anti-technical’ of bands at the time. Despite the rough edges and regardless of the criticisms, Peters had a vision that Destructor could develop into something special and saw something in them most of his industry peers did not. He took a chance and moved forward, signing Destructor to his Auburn label in 1984. The band entered Suma Recording Studios to begin recording their debut album with engineer Paul Hamann at the helm. Destructor’s “Maximum Destruction” album, released the following year in 1985 on Auburn Records, is considered by many to be an underground metal classic and quickly silenced the critics. It became Auburn’s biggest seller and catapulted the band to international success in the metal underground. The album was licensed to Roadrunner Records in Europe several months after the initial release and later reissued by Listenable Records in 1999. Destructor’s crushing ‘live’ performances in the area, both headlining and opening for national acts such as Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth, became legendary. The band received rave reviews and full features in prestigious metal publications like Metal Forces, Kerrang!, Hit Parader and Metal Hammer. In 1987, Destructor entered Beachwood Studios with engineer Jim DeMain to begin recording their second album “Decibel Casualties”. The album, along with Jag Panzer’s “Chain Of Command”, was going to help launch a joint venture between Auburn and major label Island Records. Unfortunately, both projects never saw the light of day. Several months into the Destructor recording sessions, bass player Dave Iannicca was innocently murdered on January 1, 1988. The incident devastated both the band and Auburn president Bill Peters, who had been a good friend of Dave’s over the years. Coping with losing a ‘family’ member was very difficult for everyone to overcome. Destructor needed time to recover from the tragedy and were in no condition to begin playing music again. Peters struggled with his emotions and his dealings with Island Records, who took more of a business stance on the whole situation. Peters eventually decided to walk away from the entire 3-year label deal. It was a tough decision but the right one he felt to make at the time.

Over the next several years, Destructor struggled to keep things going. They went through several bass players trying to move forward but the chemistry continued to be missing. During these years of uncertainty, the band did manage to go into the studio and finish one song from the “Decibel Casualties” sessions, “Storm Of Steel”, for Auburn’s 1990 “Heavy Artillery” compilation. The compilation was dedicated to Dave Iannicca. Unfortunately, the revolving door of bass players continued to take its toll, forcing the band into hiatus in the early 90’s. Destructor resurfaced in 1999 when Listenable Records reissued the “Maximum Destruction” album. Inspired by the rejuvenated interest from the reissue, Destructor entered the studio in 2000 to begin recording new material. After hearing the final mixes, Listenable expressed no interest in releasing the album and decided to drop the band from the label. Bass player frustrations continued to haunt the band and the album was never released. A song from those sessions, “The Triangle”, appeared on the Heavy, oder was!? “Metal Crusade-Vol. IV” compilation.

Finally in 2002, Destructor connected with Boulder bass player Jamie Walters. Although several years younger than the band members, Jamie had been a long time Destructor fan and had seen the band on a number of occasions over the years. Both parties hit it off immediately and Destructor were back on track. Jamie was the missing piece to the puzzle the band had searched for so long and hard. Then in January of 2003, Destructor and Auburn officially reunited. The two parties had been talking for nearly a year and had been unofficially working together since the summer of 2002. Peters challenged the band to write new material and the band delivered with an amazing batch of originals that followed in the same tradition as the “Maximum Destruction” album.

Destructor entered 609 Recording with engineer Don Depew (Breaker) in the Spring of 2003 to record “Sonic Bullet”. The EP, released in the Summer, includes 5 new recordings (“Sonic Bullet”, “Heavy Artillery”, “Silent Enemy”, “Blackest Night”, “Master Of The Universe”), two tracks from the previously unreleased 2000 sessions (“G-Force”, “The Triangle”) and two ‘live’ tracks recorded in 2002 at the Classic Metal Festival (“Pounding Evil”) and at the band’s opening set for Slayer in Cleveland (“Iron Curtain”). The Summer of 2003 has seen a lot of activity from Destructor on the concert front. They performed at two major festivals, the BW&BK “6-Pack Weekend” in Cleveland (headlined by Candlemass and Trouble) and the Bang Your Head in Balingen, Germany (headlined by Twisted Sister and Dio), and opened the Iron Maiden/Dio/Motorhead Cleveland tour date. The band are currently finishing up writing new material and plan to enter the studio next year to begin recording a new full-length.

DESTRY

DETHWARRANT

DETROIT DANNY & THE HELLRODS

DFM

DEUCE

Deuce Funk Monsters are Chicago’s funk stalwarts. Their organic mix of electronic-based funk has been a staple on Chicago’s underground music scene since 2010. Using a healthy mix of digital, and analog instruments the group has evolved into a unique hybrid monster! 

DEUS ABSCONDITUS

DEVILOCKS

DEVILOCKS are a MISFITS worship band comprised of members from SKA/ROCK bands from CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Formed in 2006, the DEVILOCKS’s intent was to perform MISFITS songs as closely to the original recordings as possible. DEVILOCKS perform annually during the Halloween season and have had the privilege to play MISFITS songs to hundreds of “fiends”.

The DEVILOCKS’s playlist consist mainly of “Danzig” era songs with a dash of “Graves” here and there. With 30 songs and counting, we are sure you’ll hear your favorite tune.

DEVILS PIE

DEVILS WHOREHOUSE

DEVIN MILLER

From Rick Saunders at the Deep Blues blog: “Devin Miller ain’t nothing but trouble. He’s a hellraisin’, honkytonkin’, ‘stone lovin’, guitar slangin’, singin’ songwritin’ babyfaced grandson of a pig farmer. Twenty-five percent equal parts Jerry Lee, Keith, R.L., Hank, Elvis, Carl, Johnny, and Jack. That adds up to two hundred percent all American badass.”

DEVON KAY & THE SOLUTIONS

We were born, Now we are here. We sometimes get boners.

DEVOURMENT

Devourment is a brutal death metal band and was formed in 1995 after demise of local Dallas based death metal band Necrocide by drummer Brad Fincher and guitarist Braxton Henry (both from Necrocide) along with vocalist Wayne Knupp.

DEXATEENS

DEXTER

While DeXter (Chicago) originated in 2002, the current lineup came together in 2010. Original band members Drew Heckman and Thomas Pace continue to mix disturbed-pop song writing with clever progressions and distinctive vocal harmonies. In addition to this foundation, the newest band member Sean McGarry and incumbent drummer John Noyes (The Nubile Thangs, Gooey) bring with them dynamic skills that expand the bands’ musical palette. In May 2009, DeXter (with then guitarist Jeff Hilbert) proudly released a follow up to their 2003 debut album: “Before [The Space Between] After”. The sophomore offering: “Locus of Control”, is a well-rounded collection of music featuring strong songwriting, potent vocals, as well as infectious rhythms and riffs. DeXter once again collaborated with Matt Denny and Rob Ruccia of Chicago’s Uptown Rcording Studios to produce this memorable Indie-Rock record.

Over the past decade, DeXter has rocked such great Chicagoland venues as The Petrillo Band Shell, Martyrs’, Reggie’s Rock Club, Evanstion S.P.A.C.E., Elbo Room, and many more. 2013 promises to be another productive year for the boys as they continue to bring their high-energy live outings to venues all over Chicago and the midwest. In addition, the production of the band’s 3rd studio album is nearly complete. A 2013 release date is expected for the dark, electric-driven “Blue Shadows”.

DEXTEROUS ROY

DGAF

DI NIGUNIM

DEADLANDS

DEADNIGHT

Forged in the Chicago underground in 2003, DEADNIGHT began as a two-piece studio project with the goal of creating music that is memorable and timeless. With their ferocious old-school thrash riffing, screaming guitar solos and haunting atmosphere, DEADNIGHT’s blackened sound is truly unparalleled. After releasing their debut album “Messenger of Death” in 2008, the band has gained international recognition throughout the underground. “What DEADNIGHT does in terms of melodic guitar is more closely related to what DISSECTION was doing about a decade ago; the guitar leads, while melodic, are distressing and melancholic as opposed to upbeat and harmonious.

DEADSET

DEADSPACEPILOTS

DEADSTAR ASSEMBLY

DEAF CHILDREN PLAYING

DEALS GONE BAD

What do you get when you mix the chugging rhythms of Jamaica, the energy and emotion of American Motown, and the overthe-top pub/rock of the Pogues? Now in their 14th year, Deal’s Gone Bad is touring extensively with its strongest and most consistent line-up in its history. With elements of ska, rocksteady, reggae, and American soul, DGB is sure to please on the dancefloor as well as on their fourth release to date, “The Ramblers” on Megalith and Jump Up! Records (March, 2007). Although the band draws its influences from classic Jamaican (Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Ken Boothe) and American (Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, The Temptations) artists, the sound is a uniquely modern combination, unlike anything else on the scene today. Deal’s Gone Bad will appeal to fans of both soul and Jamaican music, as well as anyone looking for a turn on the floor or a song in their hearts. While “The Ramblers” is a testament to the strength of the songwriting, as well as the close-your-eyes-and-its-Otis voice of Todd Hembrook (his first record with the group), it is in live performance where the boys truly shine. Deal’s Gone Bad shows are a combination of soul rave-up and island dance party, with the force and energy of any punk band worth their salt. Lace up your dancing shoes and slip into your sharpest suit or pencil skirt, Deal’s Gone Bad is coming to your town so get ready!

DEANNA DEVORE

DEAR ADORA

DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS

DEAR CHICAGO

DEAR LANDLORD

DEAR LIFE