Category: Off-Season Programming

Initial Shock #23

Up next!

Initial Shock presents:

THE NAUSEA (BC)
https://thenausea.bandcamp.com
Funerary harsh noise (Grave Infestation, Ahna, etc)

SEHTKOR8 (BC)
https://sehktor8.bandcamp.com
Industrial sound collage (Worker, Grave Infestation, Ahna, etc)

MOUNTAIN OF WOE (NY)
https://mountainofwoe.bandcamp.com
Droning sound walls

Local support:

TASKMASTER

SPLINTER ASSEMBLY

 

September 13 2026

Neverclub – 160 St. Viateur Est, #307

7PM

$15 PWYC

Initial Shock #23

Initial Shock #22

Initial Shock presents:

JHK (NY)
Energetic harsh noise from NYC’s premiere noise sound tech and one half of Ende Tymes festival. A Montreal return!

Kiran Arora (NY)
UK/US ex-pat applies surgical expertise to atmospheric, tonal computer music. “a film-like portrait of cryptic, nocturnal stillness”

Local support:

Axiom
Stan K.
Blaahhnn

July 25 2026
$15 PWYC
7PM
Neverclub

Initial Shock # 22

Photos from Initial Shock #18

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Clinical Trials / AK / Jacob Audrey Taves / Paxillus Succubus

Malpertuis played in darkness, but you can see footage of their set alongside everyone else’s on the Initial Shock YouTube channel.

Paxillus Succubus photo by Initial Shock, all other photos by Patricia Jeanson.

Thanks everyone for coming out on a Tuesday night! There were a couple competing crossover events but it was still a nice time. Up next are some Initial Shock co-presentations with Suoni per il Popolo, including Lucas Abela and Death Kneel on June 25, and then Initial Shock IV weekend begins on July 3! Hope to see you all soon.

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Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela / Death Kneel / Alex Motta & Aleida Perez (Suoni x Initial Shock)

Suoni per il Popolo presents a session of experimental sound at La Sotterenea on June 25th. Featuring Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (formerly Justice Yeldham) performing on his signature instrument: amplified glass shards. The bill includes double bassist Alex Motta and violinist Aleida Perez for a set of contemporary improvisation, alongside DEATH KNEEL, the project of Max Klebanoff, who uses binaural manipulation and the Octatrack. Tickets: 20-27$.

Presented with Initial Shock.

Initial Shock #18

Next up! Initial Shock Gig 18

Jacob Audrey Taves (AB)
Cut-up sound and noise collage on tour! AKA Holzkopf

Reaching Needles (ON)
Ottawa’s finest/harshest/kindest

Paxillus Succubus
Ambient industrial noise

Malpertuis
Melancholic electronics from the Axiom dungeon

AK
Channeling the spirit of 80s industrial noise

June 2 2026
P’Tit Ours
7PM $15 PWYC