Sometimes when it comes to metal shows in the winter…you have to hope for the best weather-wise, especially in New England. Over the past 2 weeks it seems the sky has opened up and dumped a metric ton Read more […]
On a damp and cloudy Tuesday night, at a small sized and beer soaked rock club on Eastlake Avenue in Seattle, Black Metal Warfare was unleashed upon the Seattle faithful in a four-hour melee of satanic Read more […]
Two winters in a row for a jaunt such as this for the steadfast Swedes, who are closing out the touring run in support of 2013’s Construct. And Dark Tranquillilty’s profile may be sturdier than the Read more […]
Night five of the You’re Gonna Pay US tour pulling together bands from Canada, Australia, and California would hit another Providence, RI venue that I had not ventured into previously, Firehouse 13, Read more […]
Making a second run up to Upstate Concert Hall, after being there just over a week ago for Amon Amarth/Sabaton. New York City might have been a bit closer, but Starkill wasn’t playing NYC, and I figured Read more […]
Pre-warned during my interview session with guitarist Nige Rockett and bassist Jeff Williams of Onslaught that the early dates of this tour could be more like Onslaught goes punk, I went in hoping for Read more […]
Six years ago on their co-headline tour with Heaven and Hell, Priest looked tired, and frankly, due for retirement. Whether it was the combination of the lackluster response to Nostradamus, KK Downing’s Read more […]
Options were limited for a weekday show viewing this bill in New England (either a three and a half hour trek north to Burlington, VT on a Tuesday or 1 ½ hours south to Hartford, CT on a Wednesday), so Read more […]
A meeting of the old guard and the new of sorts at the Palladium tonight, Within Temptation establishing themselves for years as headliners through their consistent symphonic metal meets alternative catalog, Read more […]
Strangely dubbed the “Carnival of Death” tour, a moniker that was most certainly used in the early 00’s when nu metal was all the rage, the pairing of Suffocation, Kataklysm, Jungle Rot, Pyrexia, Read more […]
As one of the more entertaining tour names of the fall season, the Reading Rainbow tour features the two shining extreme metal acts (of said Pennslyvania town), Rivers of Nihil and Black Crown Initiate. Read more […]
Last time Finland power metal veterans Sonata Arctica hit New England, it was the start of a cold winter in 2012, and they would have Arsis as their openers. Fast forward to today, and unbeknownst to everyone Read more […]
In my metal tenure, I’ve never gotten to witness Arsis in the live setting despite their touring escapades. When this tour was announced, with Arsis playing the entirety of A Celebration of Guilt, plus Read more […]
Road trips are a necessity for lifers of the metal scene, not only for the bands that need to travel around the globe for their fanbase, but the audiences who clamor to see their favorite artists. Months Read more […]
With a billing of Castevet, Thantifaxath, Pyrrhon, and Artificial Brain, this was bound to be a night that any fans of forward-thinking extreme metal would leave the venue reduced to drooling and slobbering. Read more […]
An annual tradition in Worcester, MA, the three day New England Metal and Hardcore Festival pours through in mid-April, typically before Patriots Day. The 16th installment took place on April 17-19, Read more […]
Ah, the day after a major drinking holiday in Massachusetts. Saint Patrick’s Day can be a festive occasion for some and a major imbibing excursion which leads into a massive hangover for others. Tuesday night Read more […]
Living in the Hudson Valley for a little while now, I’ve always grimaced when shows have come through NYC and not been able to get down there (wife, kids, commitments; all those fun adult things). Read more […]
Going without a shirt in order to show off Viking runic symbols on one’s body > The woes of illness and/or hypothermia in 15-degree weather. Ah, to be young and careless, right? A young gentlemen, no Read more […]
Birthdays can be a time of joy or contemplation, especially when you get beyond your 20’s. This particular tour of Sweden’s Dark Tranquillity, Finland’s Omnium Gatherum, and California’s Exmortus Read more […]
The spaciousness of Stage AE affords show-goers the opportunity to chuck projectiles as they see fit. There’s nothing preventing anyone from bringing their beverage of choice onto the main floor, and by Read more […]
It had been quite a while since Morbid Angel’s last visit to Charlotte, a fact frontman David Vincent would allude to early in their set, but that hardly seemed to matter as a rabid crowd packed the Read more […]
Though metal bands don’t often grace South Carolina, usually setting up camp in its northern counterpart or Georgia, when they do, it’s a safe bet that Ground Zero will be the venue of choice. Located Read more […]
The “Legends of Thrash” tour hit the Palladium in Worcester, MA on a Friday night, with an emo-core oriented show headlined by Attila upstairs in the small, sold-out confines. Heckling ensued outside between Read more […]
The second show in three years of importance to fall on Halloween in Pittsburgh (the other being Opeth/Katatonia, where upon this scribe’s fiancee nearly passed out during Opeth’s set due to utter boredom), Read more […]
Renaming a club can be a tough sell, but it looks like Bernie’s is hoping to be another small venue for national and international heavy acts to showcase their talent in within New England. Soulfly and Read more […]
As an old school die-hard, there was no way I would miss this show; as soon as the tour dates were announced I put in for a vacation day from work to make the hour trek to Cambridge, MA for Vicious Rumors, Read more […]
Helloween makes a North American trek about once every five years, preferring to play a string of select dates as opposed to the standard 4-6 week run. It’s a move done with consideration to costs and Read more […]
The fourth consecutive year Katatonia has ventured over to North America, 2013 doesn’t see a new release from the Swedes, but a three-headed monster in the form of a live release (Last Fair Deal Gone Read more […]
The US incarnation of Vader’s “Back to the Black Tour,” consisting of six bands looking to mercilessly pummel Charleston back to the colonial period, descended on the Holy City (irony duly noted) Read more […]
