Matriarch
Seattle, WA - punk/metal/thrash
"Sound great...fierce and heavy as hell...taking me back to being on tour with Pantera, no kidding." - Sean Yseult
Seattle, WA - punk/metal/thrash
"Sound great...fierce and heavy as hell...taking me back to being on tour with Pantera, no kidding." - Sean Yseult
Seattle metallic-punk band Matriarch is a fury-fueled ensemble, made up of drummer Malia Alexander, guitarist Marietta Crockett, bassist Casey Nolan, and vocalist Rachel LeBlanc. PNW scene report zine Seattle PA described them as "a hardcore/metal enthusiasts dream team. The riffs are shreddy as hell and meaty as fuck with the 'Get the fuck out of my way' heavy, classic Marshall tone. With punching, hardcore bass lines, heavy, confrontational drumming and almost spoken-word shouting commanding your attention, this band is going to be changing a few things around here by just purely being themselves."
While the aggressive-music scene can be an uninviting and hostile place, these self-identified “Babes” have carved out a space for themselves. Their tracks give volume to the often ignored voice of feminine frustration, disappointment, and rage. The title of their debut album "Hold & Release" illuminates the way in which their music is one place they can safely hold some of that emotion and in sharing they hope to provide others with some of the same catharsis of release.
General Inquiries & Booking:
matriarch.booking@gmail.com
Social Media:
"Matriarch ain't fucking around. The Seattle quartet bust out of the gate with Hold & Release, an eight-song exercise in swift and heavy catharsis for leftists experiencing hourly rage episodes under the world-class corruption of the current GOP. They vent with blunt fury at gentrification, toxic masculinity, inequality, the evils of fracking, music-scene b.s., and wrongheaded patriotism." --Dave Segal, The Stranger
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