METAL bands will be performing in Daventry next weekend.
A Night of Bands takes to the stage at the gig at the Phoenix Youth Centre in Ashby Road next Saturday (April 19) which is designed with a teenage audience in mind.
Among the five groups playing will be two bands from Rugby and one from Northampt
on.
Thracia are from Northampton and have been together for two years, putting on 70 shows around the UK.
They are inspired by a wide range of artists including Greenday, Fear Factory and Alicia Keys.
Exeunt are a six-piece metal band from Rugby who met and performed while they were at school.
The group will be going into a recording studio in the summer to record their first album.
The other Rugby-based act taking to the stage will be Whisper in the Riot.
They have a strong sense of melody and use wild emotive screams in their songs, which tackle both political and personal issues.
Perhaps the best known of the bands performing are two Bristol-based metal bands currently touring around the UK.
Evita are a five piece metalcore band who formed in September 2006 and have had considerable success, having signed up to Glasstone Records.
They have already released their first EP, called Like an Ocean, We Rise Again, with five tracks on it including Embrace the End and Beyond the Rising Sun.
Appearing alongside Evita will be a band called Young Hollywood who are a hardcore metal band also signed up to Glasstone Records.
Young Hollywood released their first EP, called Shotdown, in February 2008.
Both Evita and Young Hollywood are currently touring the UK with their gig at Daventry being one of the last before the tour comes to an end.
The gig has been organised entirely by the Phoenix Live Music Promotion Team, a group of young people who organise all of the acts and gigs at the centre.
Katie Jones, young activities co-ordinator for the Phoenix Centre, said: “The show is entirely run by the young people. They decide who they want to see perform at the event and will organise the bar and the sound and it's great that they get to say what entertainment they would like to see at the centre.”
Tickets, costing £3, are available on a first-come, first- served basis on the door.
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