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Quest For Fire @ CMW 2009

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) March 13, 2009 1:59 pm
Background/Composition: Quest For Fire were pieced together with the remains of Cursed and The Deadly Snakes. The cover to their lone album has some sort of flaming goddess woman on it, which rather succinctly represents their sound. Grade: 91 Comment: It was unfortunate that 90 per cent of the Horseshoe's patrons decided to leave right before...
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Mudhoney Return To Toronto

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 22, 2008 4:10 pm
Toronto's Quest For Fire opened Friday night's show. This quartet of Toronto music scene veterans include former members of Cursed, No No Zero, The Deadly Snakes and Nordic Nomadic. That means they know all too well what formulae work in terms of shows. Their sound was absolutely massive from beginning to end. The crowd ate up their thundering...
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Mudhoney (photo by Aviva Cohen)

Quest For Fire — Quest For Fire

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) August 26, 2008 2:10 pm
The problem with most stoner rock is it lacks restraint. Take Black Mountain's In The Future, for example. It's a mostly great album that could have been a classic minus the 17-minute wankfest "Bright Lights." Enter Chad Ross and his second post-Deadly Snakes band (Nordic Nomadic, more of a solo project, is the other). Quest For...
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Black Mountain Find Clarity In Montreal

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 4, 2008 4:00 pm
There's nothing quite like seeing a band you love in a tiny venue. Not that I've seen Black Mountain in any huge ones (having missed that Coldplay tour), but their show at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern in October should have been a great one. Too bad nobody told the sound guy. That performance, where the B.C. group debuted much of the material on In...
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Alexisonfire Give Fans A Late Christmas Gift

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By John Papamarko (CHARTattack) January 29, 2008 2:30 pm
"Fuck Mississauga" was the sentiment shouted by a boisterous fan "rehydrating" in the beer cage. It was a sentiment shared by many who attended Friday's Alexisonfire show at Sound Academy, a make-up for those fans unable to make the trek to Arrow Hall during a December snowstorm. I walked in as openers Arkells, whose blues...
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Alexisonfire's Chris Steele (Photo by Jason McLoughlin)

Quest For Fire — Lights From Paradise

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 31, 2010 3:54 pm
Indie bands like Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene need to prepare themselves because this country's next big export is going to be stoner rock. I'm sure Broken Social Scene would laugh at that while Kevin Drew fumbles for the roach in the nearby ashtray, but they don't represent the stoner rock we're talking about. Black...
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Song Of The Day: Quest For Fire's "Set Out Alone"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 27, 2010 11:25 am
"The Greatest Hits By God," the opening track on Quest For Fire's Lights From Paradise sophomore album, is like a slowly building storm that eventually leads to the explosion that is "Set Out Alone," its second song. On that tune, singer Chad Ross sounds like he's hollering from behind a cloud of dust, sand, rain and...
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Quest For Fire Announce Fall Tour Dates

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) October 27, 2009 1:56 pm
Quest For Fire have announced a North American tour beginning in Waterloo, Ont. on Nov. 11 The stoner rock group will jump on the Canadian leg of the Priestess/Early Man tour before headlining their own dates and heading to the U.S. The band, comprised of guitarist Andrew Moszynski, guitarist/vocalist Chad Ross, drummer Mike Maxymuik, and...
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CMW 2009: Thursday Night At The Horseshoe

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By CHARTattack Staff May 20, 2009 4:23 pm
Relive the memories or check out what you missed during the first night of CHARTattack's Canadian Music Week 2009 lineup at the Horseshoe Tavern in March. Featuring performances by: The Lovely Feathers, $100, Women, Gentleman Reg (with a guest appearance from Land Of Talk's Liz Powell!), Chad VanGaalen and Quest For Fire. Check out the video...
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Pumping: Quest For Fire - Quest For Fire

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) April 17, 2009 2:26 pm
Pretty much everything about Quest For Fire is awesome: their name, their sound, their live show... I only wish there were a couple more "songs" and probably a batch less noise. It's probably the difference between them being underground stoner fodder and the next Black Mountain.
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Quest For Fire Collect Beer Debt

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By Shawn Despres (CHARTattack) March 11, 2009 3:21 pm
It seems Toronto's Quest For Fire got a little creative when answering their CHARTattack CMW '09 preview questionnaire. Guitarist Chad Ross shared an entertaining tale involving Default, stolen booze, and vomit that just wasn't true. "We never played with Default," admits the apologetic Ross. "But if we did, we would have...
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Quest For Fire: CMW '09 Special

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By Shawn Despres (CHARTattack) February 26, 2009 4:03 pm
Quest For Fire are composed of former members of acclaimed acts The Deadly Snakes and Cursed. They blew minds and speakers with the powerful psychedelic stoner rock on their 2008 eponymous debut. Chad Ross spoke with CHARTattack about his seemingly unquenchable thirst and culinary skills, which could potentially make him quite popular with...
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Quest For Fire's Free Show

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 4, 2008 12:18 pm
Quest For Fire will play a free show at Toronto's Sonic Boom record store on Saturday. The show takes place at 5 p.m. in Sonic Boom's basement, where all the vinyl is. Sonic Boom videotapes the shows, so it's a safe bet that a tune from Quest For Fire's set will be up on their website a few days after the show. Quest For Fire — composed of...
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Quest For Psych-Rock Fire

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 8, 2008 1:21 pm
Quest For Fire used to just refer to either the 1911 novel by J.-H. Rosny or the 1981 film based on that tome. But Quest For Fire is now also a Toronto stoner rock/neo-psychedelic rock band whose self-titled debut comes out on Aug. 12 through Storyboard Records. The six-track record is the result of the demise of The Deadly Snakes and Cursed, two...
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