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. By setting up gigs in Portland, Seattle and elsewhere (and doing the same for acts looking to tour through Central Oregon), he has established quite a network of likeminded musicians across the Pacific Northwest.…