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Steamboat Springs — The way Guy Del Hierro sees it, there's not much reason to go on stage if you're just planning to play some songs and leave.

"Our attitudes, as far as how we go about it, we play every show like it's our last show," Del Hierro said of his Steamboat Springs band, Noface, which he describes as a "groovacious metal" act.

"We all have face paint, which is part of where the name Noface came from. It kind of promotes that we're not individuals, that we're more or less a unit. We become different people, basically, when we put on a show, so you're not just seeing a band play some music - if that makes any sense," he said.

On Saturday, Noface will join local hard rock act Amputators in opening for Denver punk band Red Stinger. The live sets are part of a party celebrating the release of "Slednecks 11," an extreme snowmobiling video put out by Compound Films, a Steamboat-based production company.

The show is a big one for both local acts - it's a bit of a reunion party for Noface, and it's the only Steamboat show in the works before Amputators' as-yet-unnamed first record is ready for consumption.

"It doesn't really draw from one influence, I think," Amputators singer and harmonica player Keith Thibodeau said about the band's recently mastered record. "It's a combination of what we all listen to, which is heavy rock, blues and punk."

While the three bands on Saturday's bill have their genres laid out for them, none of those bands make much of an effort to stick with those genres. That would kind of go against the point of rocking.

"Of course the subject matter is generally rated from R to X, so it's not for mass consumption. But we don't care, really. I think the music is just getting back to rock 'n' roll," Thibodeau said.

"Slednecks 11" has the same sense of disregarding boundaries in the name of doing things that are awesome. Co-producer Clayton Stassart said the film includes a record-breaking jump, along with "really, really incredible stunts and lots of deep snow." Local film crew Bent and Broken Productions opens the night with a 25-minute snowmobiling and snowboarding video called "We Like Snow."