Published 10:35 am Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Vacancy Floor has been one of Bend’s busier rock bands over the past few years, playing a bunch of gigs both locally and regionally and building some buzz despite playing music that isn’t — and this is meant as a compliment — for everyone.

“They make hulking, sludge-caked doom metal that doesn’t sound like any other band in town,” I wrote on these very pages last summer. “Indeed, if you dig foreboding fuzzed-out guitar riffs, bass lines that’ll send a ripple across your chest and vocals that sound like a big scary dude yelling at you from the depths of his firelit cave — all moving in unsettling slow motion! — then Vacancy Floor is for you.”

The man behind the band’s busy schedule is singer and bassist Buddy True, who books most of Vacancy Floor’s shows.…