Artist description Fast Heavy Melodic Punk Rock

Music Style Punk Rock, Hardcore

Musical Influences Pennywise, Strung Out, Slayer

Similar Artists Pennywise, Strung Out, Lagwagon, NOFX, Vandals, Sick Of It All, Millencolin, Earth Crisis

Artist History We called the record 'SECTORSEVEN' to indicate that it is a new start for us." - Jon Gauthier, SECTORSEVEN With humble rural beginnings in small-town Grimsby, Ontario, SECTORSEVEN's brand of high octane, metallic-hued punk rock is bound for bigger and better. Over the years, what started as goof-off sessions in a barn, has evolved into a tight punk assault with the release of their third full length release (fourth overall). Recorded at London, ON's EMAC Studios with Producer Joe Vaughn (Kittie, Bomb 32), SECTORSEVEN's self-titled release is their first of all-new material on Sonic Unyon Records. It is also their first recording as a four piece since guitarist Ryan Allan's departure last autumn. "Things have changed," says SECTORSEVEN vocalist Jon Gauthier. "Now that we're a quartet, our attitude is different... we are at our most focused ever." SECTORSEVEN live and breathe the punk ideology but fulfill their musical vision with metal influence. They succinctly manage to take parts of metal and blend it into their own brand of high-energy punk rock. It reflects the music scene today, with the crossover infusion of punk, hardcore and metal. A video was recently completed for the track 'Stand Alone' at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario by longtime band friend Walter Biljan. Biljan also directed the bandıs videos for 'You Never Know', (nominated for a Much Music Video Award in 2000 for Best Independent Video), 'Honest Liar' (a regular rotation video at Much Music in autumn 2001) and 'On A Fence'. SECTORSEVEN have toured tirelessly across the US and Canada in the past five years and have played shows with many different bands including: SNFU, The Vandals, The Ataris, Rise Over Run, Goldfinger, Chore, Varga, Grade, Bad Blood, Union 13, Belvedere, Downway and Jersey. The band also took part in all the Eastern Canadian dates of the 2001 Warped Tour.

Group Members Brad ParentLee WilliamsonJon GauthierMike Burke

Instruments drums, guit. bass, vocals

Albums Dual (Sonic Unyon) Sectorseven (Sonic Unyon)

Press Reviews The fast and the furious Sectorseven manage their anger musically - "You know that split second when you are so angry you feel like you want to kill someone, and you have to control that urge to be destructive and smash something?" asks Sectorseven front man, Jon Gauthier as he ponders the overall feeling of his bandıs new self-titled album."To me thatıs an intriguing feeling. To be able to control those urges is a lot of what the album is about." While itıs good to express your anger in a positive way, itıs even better to channel it into a ferocious album of 12 blistering tracks of high-energy punk-metal mayhem. The pride of Grimsby, Ontario has just unveiled such an album, an eponymous release which should do more than just save Gauthier the cost of some anger management seminars. "We wanted to kind of assert ourselves with this album," says Gauthier on the reason for self-titling their second full length release. After the departure of guitarist and founding member Ryan Allen, the band contemplated packing it in for about three seconds before they headed back to the studio, making their best effort to date. "When Ryan left the band we dropped to a four-piece, which meant we had to pay more attention to our playing, and less on just jumping around and going off." Hardcore fans neednıt worry, despite theyıre more professional approach, the band still manages to "go off." Perhaps youıve seen them doing so recently in a music video? Sectorseven have somehow managed to get the MuchMusic gods to smile down upon them. Not only has their video been slotted in ever-elusive daytime rotation, but they actually got played more than once. Videos by independent hardcore bands usually donıt see the light of day, let alone follow Ja-Rule. "I think they like us because our videos are so short," explains Gauthier who says an average SS song clocks in at around 2 minutes. "We never expected it. Iıve had people tell me that we should take advantage, and I should start writing love songs or something. But weıre never going to do that. Itıs not like weıre going to start showing up for practice saying okay boys letıs write some hits." Although you are not likely to find said "hits" on their new album, what you will get is a fast and furious mesh of punk rock and heavy metal that Gauthier attributes to the varying personalities in the band. "There are two guys in the band that are total skids and they only listen to metal Then the other two are really into punk rock. Actually thatıs not true, weıre all basically skids. Some are just worse than others." JASON KELLER. Plant S Magazine - Extreme Sounds Leave it to the punk-rock pride of Grimsby, Ontario to make a sport of live music - or is it the other way around? Whatever the case, sectorseven has made a name for itself by providing the flesh-and-blood soundtrack to such action packed events as Canada's premier wakeboarding competition, Wakestock, and Toronto's annual skateboarding championship, SkateSpace. Not surprisingly, the high-energy quintet has successfully licensed a number of its songs for sure as score material in several extreme sporting videos. Those tunes were culled primarily from the bands two independent CDs Comfort Zone and Long The Way - both of which were recently reissued by Hamilton indie powerhouse Sonic Unyon Records under the collective auspices of the Dual CD. A brand new new sectorseven album is scheduled for release before month's end. Chuck Molgat, Planet S Magazine, Saskatoon SK, 09/05/2002 sectorseven s/t Sonic Unyon Four angry Canadians making loud and appealing noise, what more do you really need to fucking know? Maybe that these guys play a mean punk metal driven set and are one of the brightest talents out of the great white north. This is punk as it was mean to be, dynamic and rough, no pussy fucking around going on here. Sectorseven can triturate any fucking pussy pop punk band out of Canada. This shit is pure gold yo, go buy it! Adler Floyd The Nerve, Vancouver BC, November 2002 VuWeekly - Sectorseven exceeds the speed limit, even inside the garage You want cred? Well, Sectorseven has it in spades, fool. Before they could start their set during a gig in Brandon, Manitoba, the local authorities shut the show down after a fire extinguisher was fired off in the crowd and alarms were sounded. As luck would have it, a kid in the crowd offered to let the band play in his garage. Which they did. “There were about 30 kids in this place, and we were rocking out the tunes,” laughs guitarist Lee Williamson. “But it was two in the morning, and the cops showed up. We got a good six or seven tunes in before we got shut down again. We got to play for some diehards, that’s for sure.” The Grimsby, Ontario natives thrive in a live setting, where their savvy fusion of metal riffage and the mindset of punk rock is at its most confrontational. Critics might scratch their heads over which column the band’s self-titled release on Sonic Unyon should be filed under, but Williamson says he has a simple answer. “If I were to coin a phrase,” he smiles, “it would have to be fast rock. I figure that if anyone asks me, I’d just say that. The other guys might say we’re a punk band, but they’ll also say we’re not. If they actually have ‘punk band’ in the dictionary, then maybe we could come to a conclusion.

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Location Grimsby, Ontario - Canada

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