When you live in New England, it’s not often that an underground traditional heavy metal festival happens in your backyard, but that’s exactly what took place from June 10-11 at Ralph’s Rock Diner Read more […]
Meant to be touring the States last year, Swallow the Sun has finally made it back to US shores for a fall 2021 tour. Given the drought of touring due to COVID, it seemed like a reasonable Monday night Read more […]
One part of the ‘new reality’ that we live in today is that of live streams. Love ’em or hate ’em, they are an addition to the world of live music, and are a benefit to musicians who are unable to still Read more […]
It has been quite some time since a live show review was written for this site! Due to COVID, things went dark for a long time, but now things are opening back up here in the US and that means that it’s Read more […]
It’s been more than four months since RPM Fest wrapped up its fifth year of hosting what has become the biggest heavy music party of the summer in New England, featuring the best in rock, punk and metal. Read more […]
Six months ago Stitched Up Heart did a short tour with Kaleido (which also hit NJ’s Dingbatz) and the pair of bands hit it off so well that they’ve quickly come back through together again. This time Read more […]
It’s been a while since I had traveled down to the heart of NYC for a show. Sure there were some shows at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn last year, but in looking at my expired credit cards on the ParkWhiz app, Read more […]
Cancellation. A word no one likes to hear – but has happened at least one other time on this current month-long Meditations Over North America tour featuring Kataklysm, Exhorder, Krisiun, and Hatchet. Read more […]
It’s nice to have concerts that are announced way in advance in order to make some future plans sometimes, and it gives fans something to look forward to. This Delain/Amorphis/Anneke van Giersbergen tour Read more […]
Always a persistent force on the road, it seems Soulfly was just touring the US in support of their latest album, Ritual, this winter. A tour that also hit Dingbatz back in February. Though said show Read more […]
A few weeks before the actual night, a couple of separate tours would end up merging onto The Loft portion of the Chance venue – making this normal downstairs show more of a two-tier, mini-festival Read more […]
A billing that sure to please old school metal fanataics, Metal Church and Doro teaming up for a 2019 tour with Images of Eden as support offer plenty of evidence that veteran traditional metal acts can Read more […]
Speculation and anticipation abound in the metal landscape, especially when waiting in line to get into a show. Most of the patrons know one of the main three ‘singers’ of The Three Tremors – but Read more […]
Historically speaking, the night before Thanksgiving can be pretty hit or miss with shows,no matter the artists involved. Holiday travel, or incoming guests can severely diminish a potential fanbase. Read more […]
Friday, Nov. 16, Ralph’s Rock Diner, Worcester, Mass. Following the demise of heavy/speed metal quintet Spellcaster, guitarists Bryce VanHoosen and Sebastian Silva, bassist Gabe Franco and drummer Read more […]
Without a doubt, one of the fall’s biggest tours for fans of a little melody in their aggression, the co-headline of Dark Tranquillity and Amorphis, with Moonspell and Omnium Gatherum in tow, combined Read more […]
With Cellar Darling being announced last year as a part of this year’s ProgPower USA Festival in Atlanta, many hoped that the trio, comprised of ex-Eluveitie members Anna Murphy, Ivo Henzi, and Merlin Read more […]
Well documented throughout the site, Night Demon remain workhorses at the ground level to achieve all that they set out to do – bringing the ethics and essence of traditional heavy metal with 70’s/80’s Read more […]
Another face melting humid summer day in the Northeast, Fete Music Hall would be host to a killer package of bands with Colorado thrash maniacs Havok headlining. Receiving ample support from Jungle Rot Read more […]
Clearly still riding quite high on the success of last year’s The Sin and The Sentence, Trivium have been hitting the road near constantly since the album’s release. This latest ‘mini-tour’ stretching Read more […]
First dates of new tour runs can be an adventure for all parties involved. From the behind the scenes people to the bands themselves, it’s not quite a well-oiled machine when taking things from planning Read more […]
Ah, Independence Day. The declaration of freedom for the United States of America during the latter part of the 18th Century. It only seems fitting on a holiday most associated with family gatherings, Read more […]
With Dead Rhetoric keeping a close eye on Boston’s Seven Spires for the past few years, it seemed logical that we should be sure to check out their first ever full-fledged US tour. Combining forces with Read more […]
Back from round two of heavy shows at Alchemy, this would lean more towards the heavier rock, groove, and melodic metal side of things for a Monday night. It’s always a challenge to be successful on Read more […]
The second date of their current North American tour run hits Providence, RI for its lone New England stop – promising to be a night filled with exotic metal and it’s surrounding symphonic, progressive, Read more […]
With the initial announcement for this tour coming out around a year ago at this time, there’s been plenty of time to anticipate one of the spring’s biggest tours for melodic metal fans. Three bands that Read more […]
With the rather horrendous winter/spring weather here in the northeast, it’s been spotty for this scribe to be able to get out to many shows (particularly living in the middle of nowhere). So when a show Read more […]
Call it the nostalgia factor – or call it just putting in the plain old-fashioned elbow grease – Saxon are riding high these days in terms of popularity. Their latest studio album Thunderbolt has hit Read more […]
The news of Glenn Tipton having to sit out Firepower touring activities due to his battle with Parkinson’s rattled many a cage, particularly those of the belief that Tipton is Judas Priest’s musical Read more […]
Consistently bludgeoning their core followers with a sound that can only be Crowbar, the legions came out to pay homage to the quartet that they’ve held near and dear to their hearts since the early Read more […]
