Inner Surge is an explosive emotionally charged alt/metal/punk band from Calgary, Canada with something to say lyrically. The band has an explosive live show and blends punk, rock, metal, electronic and eastern influences. With an eclectic, intense approach, the band explores politics and deep seeded emotions in it's music. The result is a sound that is compassionate, yet unapologetically raw.

Press Info

Samples of reviews for "Signals Screaming" CD

"From beginning to end, Inner Surge’s Signals Screaming is a disc full of superb music, which will both captivate the listener and bludgeon him with intense, well written audio assaults. Possibly among one of the best imports that Canada has to offer."
- RWS Magazine

"This CD was a great blend of Hardcore, Metal, Punk and Rock. It was deep, aggressive and uncompromising to the sounds of music today."
- Scratch E-Zine

"This is not just a cd of new songs. This is the crest of the wave that Inner Surge has been building for sometime. It’s passion, rebellion, and anger. Signals Screaming is a huge statement, it is saying that Inner Surge is here, and they are here to stay."
- Albertametal.net

"This album is sure to be one of the most essential metal albums of the year."
- X-Treme Productions

"Even the weakest of this band’s releases will blow almost any other band out of the water."
- Independent Clauses

Similar Artists

Rage against the Machine, Refused, At the Drive In, Tool, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deftones

Influences

Refused, Tool, Dead can Dance, Nirvana, Rage against the Machine, Metallica

Bio

Inner Surge is an intense, politically and emotionally charged metal/punk band from Calgary, Canada. With an eclectic, intense approach, the band explores politics and deep seeded emotions in it's music. As opposed to conforming to the 'meathead' mentality of heavy metal and hard rock, Inner Surge's energy is focused on breaking those stereotypes down, and pushing boundaries, both lyrically and musically. The result is a sound that is compassionate, yet unapologetically raw.

The band was formed in 2001 by Steve Moore, who wrote and recorded the debut album "Solus Verum", a 16-track epic with an intensely personal lyrical approach. The next album "Matrika" was recorded at Organic Sounds studios in Calgary, and was released to excellent reviews. Space Junkies Magazine gave it 10+ out of 10, while Bands United described it as "Disturbingly fresh". Inner Surge's "Matrika" also made Punkcanada.net's "Top 10 of 2004" list.

Inner Surge has played many shows such as Warped Tour 2006 at Race City Speedway, the "Rock against Racism 2002 and 2005" concerts in Calgary, the annual CJSW 90.9 Metal Fundraiser and the Southern Alberta Hardcore & Metal Festival. The band has also organized it's own benefit concerts for charities such as Operation Eyesight Universal and the Evan Shaw Foundation.

The band will also be featured on the official movie soundtrack for horror film "Cabras" alongside New Crash Position, A New Way Down, Detlef Zoo, The Morning After, Cede, Lauren Briant and Bizarre from Eminem's band D-12. Directed by Fredy Polania, the film is due for release in late 2007.

Inner Surge's music video for "Retribution Song" explores the band's political views and was partially inspired by the largely ignored Uzbekistan massacre. The video is available at Google video, myspace.com, youtube.com and www.cabrassoundtrack.com for download.

Inner Surge was featured in the new book by Garry Sharpe-Young "New Wave of American Heavy Metal" alongside Dillinger Escape Plan, Mudvayne, Mastodon, and Norma Jean. The band has also appeared on many compilation CD's and DVD's including Canadian metal compilation the Fire Union, Skratch Magazine's compilation CD, where Inner Surge appears alongside Epitaph recording artists Converge and Hot Water Music, political DVD release "When Today Becomes Tomorrow", Phat Mountain Films 2006 snowboarding DVD release, Atom Sounds Records compilation, Synaptic Graffiti's latest release and Funender Music's compilation CD. Inner Surge has also become very popular on various online podcasts and radio shows such as Headbanger's Lab, Fat Cat Radio, Politipunk, Cindycenter, Scrub Radio, the Big Break, and Cyclone Record's Eye of the Storm podcast. Inner Surge is promoted by Cyclone Records.

Inner Surge's newest album is the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking "Signals Screaming", an 11 track assault on human rights abuses and what the band sees as the international "blind eye". Released April 1 2006 through Cyclone Records, the album has been well received by both fans and music critics. "Signals Screaming" is being hailed as "one of the most essential metal albums of the year" from "one of Canada's most promising and most modern-sounding metal bands out there today." The lyrics cover themes such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide in "Wolves", the massacre of peaceful protesters in Uzbekistan in 2005 in "Retribution Song", the repression of the FDA in "No Profit in the Cure", and what the band describes as "self serving corporate groups on the road to destroying themselves". Canadanoise.com says "Signals Screaming is a battering-ram of an album that is impressive and powerful, both in sound and in message. Delivered through a screaming fury along with sung words that are weighted with disdain, the force of its lyrics is impossible to shut out."