As the fall season brings upon a bounty of different touring choices, this writer decided to forgo the NYC date of this tour the previous evening due to a combination of catching a different show in town, Read more […]
Nervosa/Suspended – August 7, 2016 – The Wreck Room, Peterborough, NH Talk about having to roll with the punches. Imagine you’ve outlaid an extensive worldwide tour in support of your latest album, Read more […]
Having witnessed the 2013 Summer Slaughter festival and seeing this year’s line-up (the fact that it was in Poughkeepsie certainly sweetened the deal), it seemed high-time that a second round was in Read more […]
Another stellar lineup would hit Metal Thursday at Ralph’s this evening – featuring California’s road warriors Holy Grail in the middle of a small headlining tour with Kentucky’s Savage Master Read more […]
May 25, 2016 – Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY How many times to you get to catch a big name act like Lacuna Coil in the intimate venue setting at this point in their career? Despite the 2 hour Read more […]
A real no-brainer to take a trip down to Brooklyn on a Thursday night to take in such a massive line-up of extreme metal, with both veteran and up-and-coming acts from start to finish, Hate Eternal’s latest Read more […]
Metal Thursdays have been a mainstay at Ralph’s Diner in Worcester, MA since 2006. Filling a need for the local and international scene for bands and fans alike, it’s been amazing to see it reach over Read more […]
The Swedish scene, for those of you unfamiliar with it, might not be what you think. Considering the high number of quality rock & metal bands per capita in this country, you’d think there was a huge scene Read more […]
Ventura, California power trio Night Demon have taken the metal underground by storm ever since bursting onto the scene with their eponymous EP in 2012. The band has crisscrossed North America with the Read more […]
Already being in Rochester, NY to visit family, it seemed like a perfectly good excuse to go catch Amon Amarth on their current tour at the Water Street Music Hall. Driving past the venue a bit past 7PM, Read more […]
While more and more bands are touring in support of a favorite album’s “fill in the blank” anniversary, few can rival the lasting impact of Fear Factory’s Demanufacture. An album that arguably Read more […]
Avantasia, the heavy metal rock opera created by Edguy vocalist Tobias Sammet, is known the world over for its epic concept albums, impeccable musicianship, and cadre of special guest vocalists and musicians Read more […]
With the promise of hearing The Black Dahlia Murder’s Unhallowed debut in its entirety, and snagging the DR-approved atmospheric death metal band Fallujah as direct support, catching this past Tuesday Read more […]
Fear struck the hearts of many in the thrash community when Metal Church fired David Wayne – especially considering his one of a kind screaming propensities on those first two studio albums. Fortunately, Read more […]
On quite the sold-out show streak, Nightwish played what will probably be their most subdued and curious show of the tour in Homestead, PA, which is located right outside of Pittsburgh. Reason being, the Read more […]
Winter weather rears its snow-apocalypse wonders the morning of this headlining set for Philadelphia, PA’s progressive sci-fi thrash quartet Vektor – so much so that some of their planned merchandise Read more […]
Sometimes the metal gods just smile down upon you. Originally scheduled to play the Boston House of Blues as support on the North American Cradle of Filth tour along with Butcher Babies on January 27, Read more […]
After some just plain bad luck between cancelled tours and family emergencies, Epica planned this early 2016 jaunt as a “make up” from their cancelled dates with Eluveitie and The Agonist last fall. This Read more […]
Word got out very early concerning this four band package tour – announced late last summer through all the normal official band social media channels- so for most of the staff on this website, it’s Read more […]
Big difference from Corrosion of Conformity’s last visit here in 2012, where the Mike Dean-fronted version of the band held it down on Election Night, of all nights. Without the big-name draw that is Read more […]
American power metal mavens CAGE are currently on tour in support of their latest album, Ancient Evil, and since the San Diego quintet doesn’t often make it out to the East Coast, their stop at Firehouse Read more […]
In celebration of 30 years of total world domination, the intergalactic overlords known as GWAR invaded the Worcester Palladium in Massachusetts on Nov. 14. It’s always an entertaining spectacle for Read more […]
Catching Allegaeon back in April (one of my first shows of 2015), it seemed appropriately fitting to bookend the year with Allegaeon once more in the live setting. Initially Act of Defiance, Allegaeon, Read more […]
Blind Guardian – November 4, 2015 – Altar Bar, Pittsburgh, PA Certifiably not a melodic metal and/or power metal town, Blind Guardian’s date in Pittsburgh was bumped from the larger Carnegie Music Read more […]
Previously catching Amaranthe on their headlining run back in May, there was a bit of surprise to hear that they were going to embark on a second headlining run so soon. But there was also quite a bit Read more […]
Finally settling in to my new Connecticut living situation, opportunity arose to check out the opening date for the second leg of the North American Darkness in a Different Light tour for local progressive Read more […]
As the old saying goes, the show must go on. In the case of Vancouver, Canada’s Unleash the Archers, planning a two month North American tour swing months in advance with Brazil’s Hibria had to be Read more […]
Skulls were crushed and necks were wrecked, as Overkill and Symphony X kicked off their co-headlining tour at The Palladium in Worcester, Mass., on Friday, Sept. 18, transforming Massachusetts into Thrashachusetts. Read more […]
A decade ago, a tour like this in the States would have been inconceivable. Just goes to show the tremendous push of classic/veteran metal bands…they won’t die off; neither will their audience. For Saxon, Read more […]
Last time I took in Chicago’s High Spirits would be 17 months ago, a Monday night in April at the intimate Dusk nightclub in Providence, RI. Blowing me away through their old school NWOBHM charm and Read more […]
