Locals are getting hard to find in Pueblo, Colorado but Mineral Palace are all life-long residents of the steel city. Formed in a basement post-pandemic and influenced by a mix of punk, hardcore and 80s/90s alternative the 3-Piece have created something very hard to pin-down musically. 

 

The band's namesake comes from one of the city's greatest achievements and failures, The Mineral Palace. A grand palace inspired by the ancient Egyptians built in 1889 to showcase the state's vast mineral wealth but it quickly fell into bankruptcy and disrepair and was closed within 30 years. In the 1940's the vacant palace was demolished and all its minerals were sold off to fuel the war machine only leaving behind some photos, a park and a lot of mystique. 

 

In Pueblo, something as grand as a literal "Mineral Palace" can be swallowed and forgotten by time only leaving a ghost of what was. There are a lot of ghosts in this town and in the music that comes from it.