Performer Bios

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Ak'Chamel

"Honed and expanded through their travels, and quietly drawing from their South American and Texan roots; Ak’chamel, The Giver of Illness forge a singular sound of desert-scorched psychedelia, fictitious post-apocalyptic shamanism, and impish ritual folk — as unique as the physical theater of their otherworldly live performances.

For over fifteen years they have released dozens of cassettes, several vinyl records, and a handful of cryptic VHS tapes. The trio remains veiled in mystery, yet they tour often—bringing their plague into the ravaged heart of the world.

“Performed in full costume, Ak’chamel are about as weird as we all thought the first season of True Detective was supposed to be” -VICE"

@akchamel_

Returning

Synthesizing currents of black metal, dark ambient, butoh dance, and experimental theater, Returning is a nexus of extreme art in reverence of the living Earth and its cycles. We feel an irrepressible desire to re-member, to speak truth, to light a guiding flame for our fellow wanderers in the cultural wreckage of this age; those who yearn for meaning, those who seek reconnection to primal forms of wisdom and Knowing. We do not seek to recreate a bygone golden age, nor do we revel in dystopian visions of what is to come. Our work is the work of the seasons changing, the planets wandering across the sky, the bodies decomposing in the Earth.

"https://returning.earth/

https://endlessreturning.bandcamp.com/album/numinous"

Holy Locust

Holy Locust is an American Folk band pushing the boundaries of genre and tradition. With songs ranging from the aggressive and experimental to melodic and anthemic. Their evocative group vocal harmonies ascend over dynamic rhythms and catchy melodies, while orchestral strings┬á pull and wail. Their genre bending sound is as at home in a listening room or theatre as it is underneath a highway overpass or punk house basement. Holy Locust's music is a unique and at times haunting statement of defiance against the exploitation of consumer culture.

@holy.locust

https://flailrecords.com/blogs/epk/holy-locust-epk

Duos

DUOS is a two-piece Alt-Psychodoom outfit with deep roots in the Pacific Northwest.

Live-looping, instrument swapping, genre flipping, and obtuse structures are a common theme across DUOS live and studio performances.

Influenced by an eclectic library of artists, such as: Big Business, Horse The Band, From First to Last, My Chemical Romance, The Fall of Troy, etc. DUOS seeks to create large scale sonic adventures from a minimal cast.

@duostheband

Beggar's Canyon

Music is better when it is made with friends. For Beggars Canyon, music goes beyond creating mere melodies—it's about sitting in a circle with your closest buds, crafting something heartfelt. Hailing from Portland, Oregon the six-piece band takes Folk Americana in a new unconventional direction. Storytelling and group vocal harmonies blended with honest lyrics. From upbeat boot stompin’ anthems to somber dark tunes. Beggars Canyon invites you to be their friend.

@beggars_canyon

Arthur Buezo

Arthur Buezo has been one of the hardest working acts in the music scene for over a decade touring Internationally since 2011. Arthur Buezo has self produced 10 albums and won music awards at the PNW Music Awards, in his original style of Savage Folk. Deep songwriting accompanied by a blend of strings & percussion forms an undefinable mix of folk, americana, flamenco, psychrock, metal, experimental and more. Arthur's live performance is surely something to be experienced.

@arthurbuezo

https://arthurbuezo.bandcamp.com

Dumpster Joe and the Boys ft. Kit Stymee Stovepipe

"Do you like crusty old string-band music? Random facts about obscure prewar musicians and vernacular music history?? Singers who sound like they have smoked 100,000,000,000,000,00 cigarettes??? If you answered “yes!” too any of these questions, Dumpster Joe & the Boys just might have just the STUFF™️ for you!

Portland, OR based Dumpster Joe & the Boys play jazz, jugband, hillbilly and country blues tunes from the 1920’s & 30’s on resophonic guitar and cello. On occasion they’ll have pals join them on fiddle, clarinet, musical saw, washboard, tub bass, cheese grater and all other manner of instruments and household appliances. On other occasions, they won’t. Only one thing is for certain; a good time is guaranteed too be had by all once they get too serenadin’ and syncopatin’!"

@dumpster_joe

Miriam Hacksaw

Miriam Hacksaw is an old time fiddler, banjoist, and percussionist based in New Orleans. Mixed Malayali-American, Miriam collects folk songs through her family from Kerala, India, bringing fragments of her ethnic background into the North American folk traditions that she participates in. She plays with the New Orleans-based project “blowgun,” a collective of traditional musicians of different backgrounds using music to connect with ancestral knowledge. In the summers, Miriam tours as the fiddler for the Flotsam River Circus.

Miriam released her debut EP “The Lupine” on the Winter Solstice of 2024, streaming on all platforms as well as available at miriamhacksaw.bandcamp.com

@miriamhacksaw

Orkestar Zirkonium

Orkestar Zirkonium is a mobile, fifteen-member brass-and-drum ensemble that borrows from a variety of musical traditions, composes original music, and kicks out celebratory spectacle in a variety of circumstances. Zirkonium members hail from Circus Contraption, the Infernal Noise Brigade, the Anti-Fascist Marching Band, the Empty Cage Quartet, the Fremont Philharmonic, and other groups; our songs draw from Eastern European / Roma brass, klezmer, Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian jazz, punk, funk, hiphop, and other musical idioms.

https://orkestarzirkonium.bandcamp.com/

Creaturess

Creaturess is a conceptual “cave doom” band originating from Portland Oregon. It is a collaboration between guitarist/composer Jesse Hamlin and singer/guitarist/visionary Joanna Sendejo. Formed in 2023, the project seeks to examine transformation and beauty through the acceptance and internalization of loss, suffering, grief, and the brutality of the natural.

Drawing inspiration from doom metal, black metal, shoegaze, and slowcore, Creaturess fuses traditional heavy sounds with experiential field recording, songwriting, and production processes to capture vulnerability as sound.

Hellslaught

Formed in Seattle in 2024, Hellslaught plays stubborn, vicious and uncompromising blackthrash metal. Their first album Violent Iconoclasm was released on October 31st, 2025 on Witches Brew.

@hellslaught_trash

https://hellslaught.bandcamp.com/album/violent-iconoclasm

Tylo

Tonally and structurally inspired by doom and folk but melodically inspired by goth and pop, Tylo forges captivating despair in the hearth of yearning and damp PNW soil.

@swamp.cow

Witch Agony

Witch Agony emerged from the rain-soaked streets of Aberdeen, Washington, where the coastal fog hangs heavy and the shadows feel alive. Forged in the echo of crashing waves and creaking logging towns, their sound is a haunting collision of fury laden riffs, razor-sharp punk energy, and vocals that scream like a storm breaking through midnight.

@witch.agony

http://bandcamp.witchagony.com/