Every year the heaviest rock bands in the world venture to unassuming Youngstown, Ohio to play Emissions from the Monolith, a non-stop music festival held over the Memorial Day weekend. With Chicago being just eight hours away, the city is an essential stop for the bands touring around this event.

Over the past few years Chicago has been barraged by the "Emissions" bands. They hit the city hard over a two week period starting in late May and ending in early June. While some clubs have been hospitable to the bigger bands that come through, a lot of the smaller groups have had to either pass up Chicago due to over-booking or get stuck playing on unfitting bills.


The founders of the Premature Emissions fest, Stu Helm and Sean Patton, have set out to make this two and a half week jaunt an unforgettable experience for Chicago show-goers, or maybe we should say forgettable, depending on how hard the partying is.


The Premature Emissions festival amalgamates the majority of touring bands heading to Youngstown with the loudest bands from Chicago, the mid-west and beyond. Over 75 metal, rock, doom, psych, space-rock, sludge and noise bands will partake in this 17-day hell ride.


The Venues

The festival will be held at The Note, home to the ChicagoStonerRock.com hosted "Cosmic Doom" Wednesdays, a weekly showcase of heavy bands, DJs, subversive art, and other commodities. Some of the bigger shows will be held at the Double Door, followed by late night after-party performances at The Note. Double Door and The Note are conveniently located across the street from each other in Wicker Park, making the late night bar crawl a little easier.

The Bands

Akimbo
American Heritage
Amplified Heat
Arch
A Thousand Knives of Fire
Audiobon
Behold! The Living Corpse
Black Cobra
Burnout
Chapstik
Conifer
Couldron
Crisco Fist
Darediablo
Darkfog
Decibators
Delicious
Devil to Pay
Dixie Witch
Dove
The Dutchmen
Earthride
18 Speed Trannyv
Eldemur Krimm
Eyehategod
Fallopian Dude
Fistula
Gasoline Fight
Gates of Slumber
Glasspack
Gravitron
Grimble Grumble
Hips from Hell
If He Dies He Dies
Imperial Battle Snake
Indian
Johnny Vomit
King Valley
Kita
Knife of Simpson
Lair of the Minotaur
The Last Vegas
Melk the G6 49
Minsk
Murder Junkies
Negative Reaction
Ocean
The PB Army
Pines
Plaguebringer
Reactavox
Red Giant
Roadsaw
Rollo Tomasi
Salt of the Earth
Sleestak
Solace
Superchrist
Sweet Cobra
Test-Site
Throttlerod
Torajikku
Trifog
T2
Tummler
Urinal Mints
Velcro Lewis and His 100-Proof Band
War Injun
Yakuza
YOB
Zaius


The Shows

Friday, May 20, 2005 – The Note
Behold! The Living Corpse (Chicago)
Conifer (Maine)
Melk the G6 49 (Indiana)
American Heritage (Chicago)

Saturday, May 21, 2005 – The Note
Eyehategod (NOLA)
Akimbo (Seattle)
Sweet Cobra (Chicago)
If He Dies He Dies (NOLA)


Sunday, May 22, 2005 – The Note
Negative Reaction (New York)
King Valley (Maryland)
A Thousand Knives of Fire (Maryland)
War Injun (Maryland)
Black Cobra (New York/California)


Monday, May 23, 2005 – The Note
Fallopian Dudes (Michigan)
Decibators (Chicago)
TBA


Tuesday, May 24, 2005 – The Note
Solace (New Jersey)
Ocean (Maine)
Dove (Florida)
Test-Site (Wisconsin)


Wednesday, May 25, 2005 – The Double Door
Darediablo (New York City)
Minsk (Chicago)
Rollo Tomasi (Chicago)
2 am after-party at The Note, with TBA


Thursday, May 26, 2005 – The Double Door
Dixie Witch (Texas)
The Last Vegas (Chicago)
Delicious (North Carolina)
Eldemur Krimm (Maine)
2 am after-party at Nick\'s Beer Garden, with TBA


Friday, May 27, 2005 – The Note
Amplified Heat (Texas)
Tummler (Illinois)
18 Speed Tranny (Chicago)
The Dutchmen (Chicago)


Saturday, May 28, 2005 – The Note
Earthride (Maryland)
Gates of Slumber (Indiana)
Salt of the Earth (Indiana)
Sleestak (Wisconsin)


Sunday, May 29, 2005 – The Note
TBA


Monday, May 30, 2005 – The Note
YOB (Oregon)
Indian (Chicago)
Yakuza (Chicago)
Trifog (Chicago)


Tuesday, May 31, 2005 – The Note
TBA


Wednesday, June 1, 2005 – The Note
Devil to Pay (Indiana)
Chapstik (Michigan)
The PB Army (Ohio)
Roadsaw (Massachusetts)


Thursday, June 2, 2005 – Venue TBA
TBA


Friday, June 3, 2005 – The Note
The Chicago Showcase
Lair of the Minotaur (Chicago)
Superchrist (Chicago)
Plague Bringer (Chicago)
Couldron (Chicago)


Saturday, June 4, 2005 – The Note
Murder Junkies (Massachusetts)
Zaius (Illinois)
Johnny Vomit (Chicago)
Urinal Mints (Indiana)


Sunday, June 5, 2005 – The Note
Grimble Grumble (Chicago)
Audiobon (Chicago)
Gravitron (Chicago)
Darkfog (Chicago)

http://www.emissionsfromthemonolith.com/

http://www.chicagostonerrock.com/

also on a side note why hasn't anyone posted about Today is the Day and Circle of Dead Children playing at O'Breins on the 23rd. that show is gonna be insane !

Friday, May 20, 2005 – The Note
Behold! The Living Corpse (Chicago)
Conifer (Maine)
Melk the G6 49 (Indiana)
American Heritage (Chicago)

Fuck, I wish I could be there. American Heritage is awesome.

The 24th looks pretty good too, I heard that that band OCEAN is pretty good.

Ocean sucks wicked hard, someone lied to you.

I wished I could have gone to see grimble grumble.