Heavy Choir

One of the creative thrills we get from putting on our more thematic gigs like Dark Rituals is seeing what costume ideas some of our choir members come up with!

This Saturday's event at Valhalla Brewing & Taproom's Brewhall, and for next week's Goldfields Gothic: Festival of Dark Ideas in Maldon, we're exploring a 'gathering of the Gods' - old world, new world, light and dark. 🪽

Heavy Choir's Melanie, who will also be performing a cover of 'Last Resort (Reimagined)' by Falling in Reverse, shared her costume idea:

'I am going as Atropos, the 3rd of the 3 fates.

✨In Greek mythology, The role of the Moirai (the fates) was to ensure that every being, mortal and divine, lived out their destiny as it was assigned to them by the laws of the universe. For mortals, this destiny spanned their entire lives and was represented as a thread spun from a spindle.
the 3rd and final of the three fates, Atropos chose the manner of death and ended the life of mortals by cutting their thread of life.

I have a spindle of glowing thread attached to my waist and a pair of scissors with which to cut the thread of life.'

(We saw the glowing thread at rehearsal last night - it's awesome!)
Got your tix for Dark Rituals II? Grab 'em here: https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dark-rituals-ii-the-gathering-of-the-gods/168934

We had such a brilliant time at The Gasometer Hotel a couple weeks ago - and what an awesome audience! Massive thank you to everyone who made a serious effort to brave the Melbourne winter on a Sunday night no less, to rock out with us! Because of you legends we rated this as one of our all time favourite gigs!

Next up: we're bringing our occult themed event Dark Rituals II to Geelong's Valhalla Brewing & Taproom on Saturday 27 July and then to Maldon's annual Goldfields Gothic: Festival of Dark Ideas on Saturday 3 August, joining the decadent evening line-up with The Sweet Sickness Band, Death of Art, One Part Gin and more...

+++ Tickets available now +++

::: Dark Rituals II - Valhalla Brewing & Taproom
https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dark-rituals-ii-the-gathering-of-the-gods/168934

::: Goldfields Gothic: Festival of Dark Ideas
https://www.ticketebo.com.au/maldon-vintage-machinery-museum/goldfields-gothic-festival-of-dark-ideas
Photo courtesy: IG

Welcome to Term 3! Our northside chapter has relocated to The Gasometer Hotel on Wednesday nights - a huge thank you to the awesome crew here for giving us a home to SING. MORE. METAL. 🤘

👉THIS SUNDAY @ The Gasometer Hotel | We're showcasing a bunch of epic songs from the Heavy Choir repertoire like this catchy as hell Ghost banger - and also performing some new ones for the first time! (Tool, Within Temptation, Alice Cooper and if you want it bad enough, maybe some Iron Maiden... 😅 🤘)

We're squashing about 40 singers onto the Gaso stage for two big sets, don't leave us hanging!!! Get your tickets now! 🤘

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/b27f0f4c-5016-426d-8c0e-53e2d7a7d5e1

Heavy Choir - Faith - Ghost Performed by Heavy Choir - a community uniting metalheads in harmony across ability, gender and generation, from Melbourne, Australia.Faith - GhostFrom: Preq...

When Stacey angrily warns Biff he's "got another thing coming!" it's game on for the rival gangs in Heavy Choir with this Judas Priest cover... 😅 🤘
Feat. musicians from C - NTACT:
Scottie Ogie McGyver
Con Milo
John Sanders
Ben Quirk
Chapel Off Chapel

Heavy Choir - Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin' Performed by Heavy Choir - a community uniting metalheads in harmony across ability, gender and generation, from Melbourne, Australia.You've Got Another Thin...

When Heavy Choir ROCKS an Iron Maiden classic with a live band at Chapel Off Chapel - this is what happens 👇
Feat. musicians from C - NTACT:
Scottie Ogie McGyver
Con Milo
John Sanders
Ben Quirk

Heavy Choir - Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name Performed by Heavy Choir - a community uniting metalheads in harmony across ability, gender and generation, from Melbourne, Australia.Hallowed be Thy Name - ...

Welcome new Choir Master to the Heavy Choir team!!! We are beyond thrilled to announce that Alana officially takes the helm as Choir Master of our northside chapter starting this week! 🤘

Alana brings a wealth of teaching, mentoring and performance experience to our team, but it was her mix of empathy, adaptability and community focus as a leader that made all the difference. (Okay, and the fact she has an oddball sense of humour like our Music Director Dee Davidson probably helped, too).

Not least of all, Alana is a specialist in the metal vocal genre. She's not into name-dropping, so we'll do it for her: bands she has worked with include and to name a few... and has run a vocal workshop . We think this stacks up as pretty awesome cred. (She's already been running harsh vocal workshops for the choir each term).

We're excited to collaborate with Alana as part of our team, and look forward to the combined skills, experience and vision that Alana and Dee can offer our Heavy Choir members on their vocal and performance journey. 🤘

Fact: Singing makes you feel good. Singing METAL with METALHEADS is even better. 🤘

We've got very limited spots in Heavy Choir for the year but you can sing with us at our pop up METAL CHOIR at ALT CVLT this Saturday for Record Store Day --- from 3:30pm!

Where: Alt-Cvlt | 7e Station St, Frankston
Who: You! All welcome, no experience needed - just sing for fun and the love of metaaaaal 🤘

Songs you'll get to sing with us:
1. One - Metallica
2. Would? - Alice in Chains
3. Aerials - System of a Down
4. You've Got Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest
5. Aces High - Iron Maiden
6. Ashes to Ashes - Faith No More
7. Seasons In the Abyss - Slayer
8. Duality - Slipknot
9. Poison - Alice Cooper (he might make an appearance?)
10. Wish I Had An Angel - Nightwish
11. Mr Crowley - Ozzy
12. Faith - Ghost
13. Ace of Spades - Motorhead

One of our northside chapter's final rehearsals at The Bendi - great memories here with these metalheads -- never a dull Thursday night, for sure! Big, big thanks to our Music Director, Dee Davidson for doing double Choir Master duties this term while we've been looking for a new CM to join our team... 😏

Term 2 will start in a couple weeks -- stay tuned as we introduce our new Northside Choir Master (we're so excited about this!) 🤘
..and don't forget you can sing with us THIS SATURDAY for Record Store Day at ALT CVLT! Doooo it...

Starting today 👇 We've got metal specialist Alana K Vocal coming in to teach a series of workshops this year on harsh vocals for Heavy Choir - from foundations and safety to key techniques, our singers will be extending their vocal knowledge and capability for singing with heat, gravel tones, growling and screaming. 🤘
Death or Glory

Metalheaaaads... after a big summer break, there are just 2 weeks until Heavy Choir kicks off 2024! We've made our singers wait long enough... 😆🤘 And what's ahead for Heavy Choir will be revealed VERY soon: new songs, workshops, and gigs!

Keen to join? Just a few spots left for northside and southside: www.heavychoirproject.com/join

Our big show needed a live band, and we were insanely lucky to have these guys again! But let it also be known, after these guys got together for our first Heavy Choir show last year, they ran away with one of our choir members and formed heavy metal cover bands C - NTACT and Rare Maiden! 😂

Throughout the year, these guys gave their time and skill to support the choir, and we are grateful that our singers got to perform with such incredible musicians.

It's not easy to bring the live metal band element to a choir gig. It takes great sound management and, not surprisingly, a theatre style venue to get the best balance of vocals, screaming riffs and well, Con Milo (as long as you keep him behind some perspex!).

A special mention goes to bassist Scottie - who is tasked with coordinating the band, and did a mighty fine job. You got them there on time, and rocked.🤘🙏

Thank you Scottie, Con, John and Ben for rocking out with us Chapel Off Chapel this year!!! 🤘🤘🤘

Some stunning shots from last Saturday night at Chapel Off Chapel --- featuring:

Heavy Choir!
Band: Scottie G, Ben Quirk, John Sanders, Con Milo (members of C - NTACT)
Dancers: Billie Spindler, Emily Zumstein, Angus Eastwood, Nathan McLaughlin

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📷 Credit: Lordrobsatan
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Being a heavy metal choir means part of the fun when performing is getting dressed up! For our big show this Saturday, we've given the choir creative licence with the dress code being "dark glam" - open to whatever these guys want it to be. Some are getting crafty like Christine's "Alice in Chains-inspired" outfit, while others are patching up old and new battle vests (any excuse, really 😅), and adding studded glam to a tux. There'll be lace, corsets, leather, horns, fishnets, chains, studs and dark robes - and co**se paint, most likely. It's a tribute to all things heavy metal, goth, dark or glam - but ultimately, the freedom to creatively express their individuality!

One week to go till we're on at Chapel Off Chapel!! We had our last session with the band yesterday - and these guys are sounding and looking 👌 This week we bring all the final performance elements together: 33 choir singers, the band, sound and lighting design, and 4 incredible dancers - it's a real theatrical heavy metal show for both nostalgic metal fans and the curious!

Also, we don't get to perform with the band a lot (it's a huge undertaking) so get your tickets before they SELL OUT - it's going to be an awesome night! 🤘
🤘Get Tix: https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/heavy-choir-band/

It's a common question! Can anyone sing or really learn to? Research finds it's actually an "interplay between nature and nurture" - so even if you didn't exactly inherit musical genes, your environment plays a big role.

So, we'd venture to say that stick around long enough in a choir and you will get better at singing! (Actually, pretty sure that's backed by research too 😏).

Check out the article below, it's a good read, featuring details on the mechanics of the voice and how we make and filter sound (if you're curious!).

Are we born to hold a tune or can we learn it? The science of singing New research sheds light on whether singing talent is a matter of nature or nurture.

Why would people ever think metalheads are just angry devil worshippers? 🤔😂

Join us for Dark Rituals tomorrow night - with just a few tickets left, doors from 6pm. Get in early, warm your blood with a dark beer and delicious food before the rituals begin. 🤘

7:00pm:
Candlelight Doom with Deadlifts and Deathmetal
8:00pm:
Thaddaeus
9:00pm:
Heavy Choir

🤘https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dark-rituals/154131

We're getting ever closer to capturing a full Heavy Choir photo - these are the metalheads who kicked off our big Term 3 last Saturday, southside at Death or Glory. 🤘

(Cheers to Rusty who put in all that effort to rearrange the shiny silver balloon letters to make the word HELL, so we would take a photo underneath. 😅)