Monday nights are not supposed to look like this.
On Monday, November 9, Grit & Grind Promotions stacks six heavy bands into the Signal Brewing Company in Corbyville, just outside Belleville, for a $20 bill that runs from nu-metalcore to pop-punk without ever letting the room cool down.
New York’s Resistor are crossing the border for their first Canadian run, a November 5 to 14 swing through Ontario and Quebec with London, Ontario metalcore band Dead Days riding shotgun the whole way.
The rest of the bill is filled out with some absolutely amazing heavy acts, including Short Handed, Violent Aspects, The Struggles Over and 40 To Famous. They all come out of the Kingston-to-Belleville corridor circuit, the brewery rooms and club stages where this region’s heavy scene actually lives.
Resistor’s run itself starts November 5 in Windsor and closes November 14 in Stratford, with Cornwall and Montreal also on the route.
A touring headliner with a brand-new debut album meets the local bands who have been building the local scene one small room at a time, and everybody gets the same stage, the same crowd and the same Monday night.
Curious about the lineup?
Resistor: Long Island’s Turntable-Laced Hardcore Hits With Groove and Teeth
Resistor bring a blunt mix of down-tuned hardcore, nu-metal swagger and turntable cuts that refuse to sit in the background. The Long Island five-piece calls it “knuckle dragging wika wika core”—a ridiculous name for music that hits like a boot to the chest and still knows how to move.
The band started with guitarist Anthony Conti and vocalist Anthony Grambo, who met at a skate park and soon began writing songs together. Bassist Ian Schneider, drummer Peter Smith and DJ Anthony Arce completed the lineup, giving Resistor a sound with a genuine turntable at its centre—not a nostalgic prop dragged out for effect.
You can hear the band’s identity take shape across The New Age Enemy and the 2025 EP Headcase.
Resistor take the bounce and bravado of MTV-era nu-metal, strip away the polish and ram it into modern hardcore. The result is riffs with real weight, vocals that come in swinging, and Arce’s scratches cutting through the low end with a sharp “wika wika” of their own.
Their debut full-length, Bite This!, landed on March 27, 2026. Made with producer Randy LeBoeuf, whose credits include Kublai Khan TX, The Acacia Strain and Gideon, the ten-track record gets in, hits hard and clocks out in about half an hour. “Dead Soul” is the band’s suggested first punch; “XXXL” and “Learning Tools” keep the pressure on.
Resistor write as a unit, getting in a room, passing a guitar around and hammering at ideas until something sticks. Most of Bite This! was played live, with only a few impacts and bass drops added, keeping the album’s muscle rooted in the band’s own hands.
They have taken that energy from Gathering of the Juggalos and an Inkcarceration pre-show to a late-night set in Puerto Rico, then hit the road with Yosemite In Black and on the Back To Tha Gutta tour. Resistor’s aim is simple: make heavy music hit hard, hit low and make the room move. If it grooves, it swings harder.
Dead Days: London Metalcore With Nostalgia, Heavy Hooks and Bite
Dead Days make metalcore that can turn a rush of nostalgia into a full-contact hit.
Formed in London, Ontario, in 2019, the band runs heavy riffs and sharp hooks through the emotional spill of emo, screamo and rock. This is music built to hit hard and stick around after the last breakdown.
The name came from an older song vocalist Don Tuer wrote in a previous band, about the past you can’t get back. That idea still fits: Dead Days look straight at memory and change, then crank the feeling loud enough to shake the room.
The band grew from friendships forged in London’s music scene. Tuer and guitarist and vocalist Ty Coker had known each other for years, and members brought experience from local acts including Horizons, Searching for Satellites, Gracefield and Struggle&Sleep. When the pandemic shut down live shows just as Dead Days were gaining traction, they kept moving by writing and recording.
That work led to Tyrants, released through Theoria Records in 2022 after the band began working with producer Justin “JD” DeBlieck, formerly of Ice Nine Kills. The EP delivered “Suffering” and “Tombstone,” a track that tips its hat to old-school metalcore while still carrying Dead Days’ own melodic pull.
Since then, the band has released singles including “Past Life,” “Death Song,” “ROT,” “NEON GODDESS” and SACRIFICE.
The influences stretch from Alexisonfire, New Found Glory and Paramore to heavier modern metalcore. That range gives Dead Days room to shift from a soaring hook to a punishing riff without losing the thread. Their songs chase the big feelings, then hit the gas.
Dead Days have made themselves part of London’s heavy music circuit, including a 2025 Wacken Metal Battle Canada appearance at Rum Runners. Their November 6 hometown show at that venue leads into the Canadian run with Resistor, which brings them to Signal Brewing Company in Corbyville on November 9. It’s a major stretch for the band: familiar roots, bigger rooms, and no reason to ease up.
Short Handed: Southeastern Ontario Pop-Punk in Hockey Jerseys With Small-Town Anthems
Short Handed play pop-punk with southeastern Ontario stamped across the front. The Belleville-area band pairs fast, hook-heavy songs about small towns and spirals with a live look built around hockey jerseys, regional pride and a full-size skeleton catching a ride in the truck bed.
Vocalist Tyler is the engine of the show, steering the banter and giving the choruses to the crowd. He’s been spotted in a “SHORE 69” sweater while the rest of the band rotates through Leafs, Mighty Ducks and Oilers colours. That sense of fun never gets in the way of the songs.
Short Handed’s debut album, 35 to Life, arrived in May 2025, giving the band a full set of original material to take across southern Ontario.
The record leans into pop-punk’s big choruses and restless pace, with songs about small-town memories and the moments when life starts to spin out. “Stirling” is a hometown anthem for anyone who still remembers the streets they used to roam.
Their 2026 single “Tooth & Nail” keeps that contrast alive. Its lyrics sit in a hollow place while the arrangement charges forward, turning the tension into another shout-along. Short Handed know how to make a song feel bruised without letting the energy drop.
The band’s hockey sweaters are more than a stage costume. They make the regional identity visible, from the 613 in the band’s handle to the familiar towns and rooms along the corridor. After playing Belleville twice in June, including a set at Zwick’s Centennial Park, Short Handed return to the area for the Signal Brewing Company show in Corbyville on November 9.
The road show comes with extra characters. Skeletons in band merch have become part of the touring setup, and fans are invited to send in their own clips for the band to share. Short Handed bring the songs, the jerseys and the props, then leave room for the crowd to make the night their own.
For Short Handed, the point is simple: make small-town life sound huge, get the room singing, and have a damn good time doing it.
Violent Aspects: The Mystery Name on the Poster Worth Arriving Early For
Every deep bill has one name that sends people searching, and on this poster that name is Violent Aspects.
The band carries the shortest paper trail of the six acts, with no streaming footprint to preview and no headline bills to point at, just a slot on the biggest heavy poster the corridor has produced this fall.
For the crowd, that makes Violent Aspects the purest discovery slot of the night.
The Struggles Over: Kingston Corridor Band Earning Its Place One Support Slot at a Time
The Struggles Over are a Belleville metalcore band earning their place in the Kingston corridor one loud room at a time.
Their story runs through support slots, local festivals and new music, with every show adding another line to a growing live résumé.
One early marker came on August 31, 2025, at The Mansion in Kingston. The band joined Radio Wasteland and Master Nate & The Reprobates on the bill for Ottawa quartet POSTE’s Kingston debut, a night that put local acts alongside an out-of-town draw.
That was not a one-off. The Struggles Over also appeared at the 2025 Grit & Grind Fest, sharing an all-ages bill with Dead Days, Ascension Blacklist, Opal In The Sky and other regional acts.
Later that year, they joined the lineup for a Kingston show featuring Thunderor, Exorcist and W.A.S.P. vocalist Chris Holmes.
The band has kept moving since then. In 2026, The Struggles Over joined The Fixer at Kingston’s Overtime Sports Bar and sat down for an interview and live performance on the Artists Unloaded podcast. The activity points to a group building its audience through stages and direct connections with listeners.
There is new music in the mix, too. “Disarray” arrived in 2025, followed by “Dragged” in 2026, giving curious listeners a way to meet the band before the next show.
The Struggles Over come from Belleville, but the Kingston connection is clear. Small venues, shared bills and crowds moving between towns are the infrastructure of this scene, and the band has been part of that circuit from The Mansion to Overtime.
40 To Famous: Kingston-Area Alt-Rock Regulars Who Move Between Punk and Alternative Bills
40 To Famous are a Belleville alt-rock band who have built their name the hands-on way: by showing up, sharing bills and moving easily between punk and alternative crowds.
Their place on the November 9 Signal Brewing lineup connects two sides of the corridor, Kingston’s busy club circuit and Belleville’s local punk rooms.
The band’s Kingston run includes a May 2024 show at The Mansion with Toronto punk bands Single Mothers and The Anti-Queens, plus Kingston acts The Backsteps and Nocturnica.
On March 1, 2025, they returned for an Ontario alt-rock bill with Listen Up Kid, Ottawa’s Neon Ghosthouse and Kingston’s Echoes.
40 To Famous have also appeared at The Mansion with Monach, Nothing Serious and Among Legends. That connection continued at The Toucan in February 2026, where the same four bands shared another bill. Meanwhile, a Belleville punk show at the Belle Pub paired 40 To Famous with Knifehammer, Lumpfish and Hayley and the Pirate Queens, putting them in a louder, rougher setting closer to home.
That ability to move between alt-rock and punk bills is part of the band’s appeal.
They can land on a night built around melodic Ontario rock, then turn up on a punk-heavy lineup without needing to reinvent themselves for the poster. The result is a band with ties across the corridor and a growing list of rooms where audiences have already seen them.
Get Your Tickets to See All Six Bands at Signal Brewing Company on Nov. 9
The show is Monday, November 9, 2026 at Signal Brewing Company, 86 River Road in Corbyville, just outside Belleville.
Doors open at 6:30 pm and the show starts at 7:00 pm, and with six bands on the bill, that start time is a real one.
Tickets are $20.00, and sales close at 5:59 pm on November 9 unless the show sells out first, so the early sets are no time to still be in the parking lot.
Six bands, one brewery stage and a touring package in the middle of its first Canadian run add up to the heaviest Monday night on the corridor’s calendar.
