Napoleon, Big City Germs, Heavenly Blue

Napoleon  www.napoleontoronto.com

Based in Toronto ON, Alt-Punk four-piece Napoleon has been attracting attention from fans and media alike within their local Toronto scene since they formed in early 2018. The band has managed to develop an impressive resume in the short period of time they have been active. Napoleon has had the privilege of performing alongside acts such as Juno Nominees Single Mothers, Cancer Bats, Escape The Fate, Like Pacific, Indian Handcrafts, and Michale Graves of Misfits just to name a few. This is largely thanks to their highly energetic live show, described by Canadian Beats Magazine as, “loud, sweaty, and completely overwhelming in all of the best ways.”

Big City Germs www.bigcitygerms.com

These Vancouver-based gonzo punks bring their national "Chaos Party" tour to Toronto for their debut performance in the city. Big City Germs exploded onto the Canadian indie music scene in 2022 after fostering a significant online following during the darkest days of the pandemic by releasing multiple singles and bizarre music videos. Their fierce and eclectic style of gonzo punk is a multi-genre cavalcade of catchy hooks and face-melting drops; at once inscrutable yet curiously inviting. After a series of sweaty, sold-out shows and backyard mosh pits in their native Vancouver, they were quickly picked up for a 10-city national run of shows, infamously dubbed the “See You In The Pit Tour”. The rest is history.

In the summer of 2022, they released their self-titled debut LP on CD and digital streaming services. Not ones to shy away from political discourse, the album is led by their searing cover of Ukrainian resistance anthem “Bayraktar” – originally composed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces -  which they translated into English and updated the polka-esque instrumental to a ska punk banger. The track is currently totalling several hundred thousand streams across multiple platforms worldwide since its release in March 2022, going on to peak at #13 on the Turkish alternative charts. They followed this release up with “Post Truth” – a biting critique on the state of the news media – along with a hilarious music video that features band members mocking themselves in compromising situations. Chartmetric currently has them rated in the top 8th percentile of bands globally with “Punk” as the primary genre.