The Bear actor Matty Matheson has began a brand new hardcore band known as Pig Pen with Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil.

Matheson, who’s additionally chef and web persona, portrayed Neil Fak within the extremely profitable Hulu collection, which stars Jeremy Allen White (Shameless). However now, Matheson has revealed that he began a band with MacNeil a number of years in the past.

“A couple of previous mates obtained collectively a pair years in the past and wrote and recorded 10 songs over two days. We simply wished to hang around and see what’s up. That is our band. We’re Pig Pen,” Matheson wrote within the caption of an Instagram publish with a clip of considered one of their music movies.

“A Matty hardcore band was lengthy overdue,” somebody commented on Matheson’s publish.

“Man’s simply doing facet quests now,” one other added.

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There is no details about official singles or an album right now, however their first present will happen Friday, April 25 at Sneaky Dee’s in Toronto, Canada. Tickets for Pig Pen’s present already offered out on-line, however followers can be part of a waitlist to see if extra turn out to be out there at a later time.

Who Else Is in Pig Pen?

A publish on the band’s personal social media notes that Matheson is the vocalist of Pig Pen, MacNeil performs guitar and likewise offers vocals, Daniel Romano is on the guitar, Ian Ski Romano on drums and Tommy Main on bass.

MacNeil, who’s additionally a member of the teams Gallows, Black Lungs and Dooms Kids along with Alexisonfire, joked about his busy musical profession in a publish on his personal Instagram.

“Simply once you thought I could not presumably be part of one other band. We go and begin Pig Pen,” he wrote within the caption.

He additionally shared a photograph of the entire band on his web page, which you’ll see beneath.

Matheson’s Hardcore Background

Though some may suppose this can be a new enterprise for Matheson, he really performed in hardcore bands earlier than he grew to become referred to as a chef. One of many bands he was in was known as Intercourse Tears, which he mentioned briefly throughout an episode of the Legendary Kitchen’s Final Meals collection.

Matheson defined throughout a Knotfest podcast interview that he stopped attending reveals and actually being concerned with the music scene in his mid-20s, as a result of that was when his culinary profession began to take off.

After Energy Journey’s Riley Gale died a number of years in the past, Matheson made a social media publish in tribute to the vocalist, which additionally contained a little bit of element about his personal musical beginnings.

“Within the hardcore scene I’ve met among the finest and worst folks and the duds slip away however the good ones you maintain onto. I held onto Riley! I might not be the particular person I’m at present with out going to reveals in Buffalo/Erie/Rochester/Syracuse/Albany within the late ’90s/00s,” he wrote.

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