Philly Music Fest Presents:
Horrendous with Lástima & ShyGodwin at MilkBoy
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Doors: 7:00 PM | Show: 8:00 PM
21+
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About MilkBoy
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Please Note: MilkBoy’s stage is located on the 2nd floor and is standing room only. All patrons must be able to walk the flight of steps in order to enter the venue, as there is no elevator in the building.
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About Horrendous
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“Surprises always come up during writing — spontaneous ideas pull you into new territory and enable the realization of novel possibilities that previously were inaccessible.”
Such are the words from Horrendous drummer Jamie Knox when discussing the creation of the band’s fifth full-length, the highly anticipated Ontological Mysterium. Knox’s quote also encapsulates Horrendous’s approach to extreme metal. Since 2009, the band has capably tapped into the inaccessible by providing a fresh, unconventional take on death metal that harnesses technical brilliance with elaborate, mind-melding melodies, frothy, spewing vocals and labyrinthine song structures. This combination has made each Horrendous long player a clinic in the gratifyingly unorthodox. The trend continues on Ontological Mysterium.
The follow-up to 2018’s Idol was recorded, mixed and mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios in Virginia, which doubles as the homestead of guitarist/vocalist Damian Herring. While the band (completed by guitarist/vocalist Matt Knox and bassist Alex Kulick) finished much of the songwriting for Ontological Mysterium in 2019, its recording was delayed by the 2020 global pandemic and various life events. Horrendous eventually finished recording in early 2022 and mastered the album before the start of 2023.
The album upholds Horrendous’s position as one of the underground’s best outside-of-the-box extreme metal bands. Having long abandoned concern whether people would appreciate their “uniqueness,” Horrendous has embraced its role as a band willing to veer far from death metal conventions, intentionally stretching and breaking norms. To wit, the band primarily views its music as filtered through a death metal lens. This may be Horrendous’s defining trait: By not accepting parameters, nothing is off-limits.
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About Lástima
Lástima is a post-black metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are currently active and unsigned/independent. The band's genre is post-black metal.
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About ShyGodwin
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alien rejects™ sponsored by late-stage capitalism, ShyGodwin is a grunge hardcore duo from planet earth selling u back ur humanity.
ShyGodwin is a pandemic baby, during the lockdown in 2020 we started making music in Lee’s mom’s garage. We were in California at the time and bounced around until we moved back east. Lee’s from California/South Africa and Jasmine’s from South Jersey. We’re based in Philadelphia.
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About Philly Music Fest
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7 Nights - 22 Bands - 1 City
Philly Music Fest is a Non-Profit Music Festival Benefitting Philly Musicians & Music Education for Kids.
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