I drove five hours to go to this show. That’s not something I mention because I’m Johnny Lovesriffs or something like that, like I’m all hard core, it just means I really wanted to see these bands play together. Nashville’s All Them Witches and Rochester’s King Buffalo were on the road and East Stroudsberg was about as close as they were coming to me. I could’ve waited a month and caught All Them Witches with Windhand — that tour came right through Boston — but this was the one I wanted to catch. These bands, playing together, right now. So I did.

And from the curious layout of the Living Room to All Them Witches drummer Robby Staebler climbing a tree when I showed up, it was one of the best gigs I’ve seen this year, easily (review here). Local post-metallers King Dead opened, and their drummer, Steve Truglio, also happened to tape both King Buffalo and All Them Witches‘ sets for a A/V series he calls My Show — back in 2012 I went to a taping he did with The Atomic Bitchwax (review here) — and the footage of both acts has been posted as part of that series. Needless to say, I’ve been digging in to remember the good times.

Everything All Them Witches played came off their sophomore full-length, Lightning at the Door (review here), and King Buffalo played all three tracks from their 2013 demo (review here) and then some, giving a taste of what their debut long-player will have to offer when it arrives, hopefully sometime in the New Year. Most importantly, both bands were in complete command of their sound — King Dead weren’t half bad either, for that matter — and revisiting the footage only affirms for me host lucky I was to be at the Living Room to see this one in the first place.

Hope you enjoy:

King Buffalo, Live at the Living Room, East Stroudsberg, PA, Aug. 23, 2014

All Them Witches, Live at the Living Room, East Stroudsberg, PA, Aug. 23, 2014

All Them Witches on Thee Facebooks

King Buffalo on Thee Facebooks

Steve Truglio’s My Show

Tags: All Them Witches, East Stroudsberg, King Buffalo, Nashville, Pennsylvania, Rochester

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