Victoria and Vancouver Island have a lot of musical talent, and Victoria Buzz wants to highlight some of the best and brightest local artists and bands.
Every Monday, there will be a fresh ‘New Music Monday’ article to help people find and support local artists and bands that are up-and-coming, well established or hidden gems!
For this endeavour, Victoria Buzz has partnered with our good friends at CFUV 101.9 FM, UVic’s campus radio station, to find and select the musicians and bands for this regular column.
This week, CORRODE is the New Music Monday highlight!
Since releasing their debut EP, Demonstration, in July 2024, Victoria-based hardcore outfit CORRODE has been hard at work writing, recording and playing shows.
Now, they have a new split EP out with Slewfoot, who are based out of Barrie, Ontario.
CORRODE is comprised of Dalton Kuijer on drums, Nia Al-Maliky on vocals and Aiden Shepherd on bass and Kallum McIntosh on guitar, with the added support of Colton Porter who recorded with the band on this split.
“Colton’s in this really cool black metal band called Empalement,” Kuijer told Victoria Buzz.
“He joined us for a while and he wrote a couple new tracks with us, including one of the ones on the split, and he recorded with us for that split.”
With a slightly different lineup, CORRODE played a number of shows through the last year and a half, all while thinking about what they wanted to do for their next release.
Ultimately, they opted to find another band to collaborate with on a split release and find a record label to release it for them.
CORRODE recorded their two songs meant for the split in May 2025, and had lined up a label in the United States, but then the collaboration fell apart.
Despite the split falling through, the band remained determined and wanted to find another band to contribute to the split.
“It all kind of just fell through,” said Kuijer.
“So after sitting on these songs for so long and wondering what the hell was going on, I decided to reach out to some friends back home in Ontario.”
A friend recommended Slewfoot as a collaborator, who were just about to go into the studio to record some of their new material, so Kuijer reached out to see if they could work a deal out.
“Slewfoot is really, really good. I love their music, they’re so heavy and they are a hockey themed hardcore band which is so sick,” he added.
Slewfoot agreed and wanted in on the split, so Kuijer next turned his attention towards finding a record label to release the finished product.
He ended up talking to End Note Records, based out of Connecticut and southern Ontario, who were instantly into releasing the split.
“They got back to us really quickly, and are going to release tapes, and then we released it like, two days later,” said Kuijer.
Highlight tracks – “Nothing Left to Give” and “Threat Display”
Al-Maliky says that “Nothing Left to Give” is the favourite of the two among her bandmates, but “Threat Display” holds a special place in her heart, as it was the first that she wrote all the lyrics for.
“I wrote the lyrics for it when I came to tryouts,” she explained.
“It’s kind of funny, because at the time of recording, ‘Nothing Left to Give’ was our newest song and ‘Threat Display’ was our oldest song,” Kuijer added.
Both said that it’s interesting to listen to the two tracks back-to-back, because you can hear the growth in the band’s sound between them.
Al-Maliky says she wrote “Nothing Left to Give” when she was feeling particularly drained by life.
“I was kind of in the trenches, working a lot of overtime, and just being really burnt out,” she said.
“I was feeling drained from every facet of life.”
Meanwhile, she says “Threat Display” is one of the more lyrically significant songs she wrote with CORRODE.
“It kind of mirrors mental health struggles, and the whole meaning of a threat display is kind of a bluffing behavior that animals do, like intimidating someone with no intent to hurt them,” said Al-Maliky.
“Its a nod to life making you tougher than you actually want to be, if that makes sense.”
Listen to “Nothing Left to Give” below:
Check out the split EP by CORRODE and Slewfoot in its entirety on Bandcamp, Tidal, Apple Music and Spotify.
Coming up soon, CORRODE will be playing an all-ages show on February 21st in the halfpipe at Influence Board Shop in Victoria, alongside fellow local hardcore outfit Coup D’état, Camcorder, as well as headliners Mal Criado and Suffering Unseen.
For those hoping to get a physical copy of the CORRODE/Slewfoot split, End Note Records is selling them online and CORRODE says they will be sold at upcoming shows.
Follow CORRODE on Instagram to stay up-to-date with any future shows and releases they might be cooking up.
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CFUV is a non-profit campus and community radio station that plays a ton of local music of all kinds across Vancouver Island. If you like to support local music they are an amazing resource with a plethora of new local tunes in their arsenal.
“CFUV is the best—they do such a great job of highlighting up-and-coming artists,” said Al-Maliky.
“I’m from Vancouver, which has a strong music scene, but there’s nothing quite like CFUV as a station that puts a spotlight on smaller acts and puts them to the forefront—nothing as significant to the culture.”
Tune into CFUV 101.9 FM on air or online!
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