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The Burial Tide – video from Womansion 12.18.2010
The Burial Tide playing live at Womansion – (another Going Postal show) 12.18.2010 the audience … Read entire article »
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Dreaming Dead (live) — 2 videos from Red Hat (+1 from Exhausted Prayer)
Dreaming Dead Here are two videos of Dreaming Dead (metal from Los Angeles) playing at Red Hat in Concord. You might recognize Elizabeth Schall, the singer/guitarist, who used to be in the band Manslaughter. Her new band is Dreaming Dead, which was touring along with with Exhausted Prayer. Dreaming Dead is Elizabeth Schall: Vocals/Guitars, Juan Ramirez: Bass, Michael Caffell: Drums/Vocals/Samples. Bonus 12.31.2010 adding one from Exhausted Prayer, who played just before Dreaming Dead at same show … Read entire article »
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Metal Meltdown in Berkeley: Repulsive Infestation & Deadly Remains (videos)
Metal Meltdown in Berkeley (at Blakes undergroound) 9.17.2010 with Cold Grave, Deadly Remains, Repulsive Infestation, and Elk. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay long enough for Cold Grave. Also, Elk recently lost a couple of members, so they are now down to 3 members instead of 5. Videos of the remaining two below, Repulsive Infestation (Oakland) and Deadly Remains (Santa Rosa). Repulsive Infestation: Deadly Remains: Haha, check out the crab-dance about 1:40 into the Deadly Remains clip … Read entire article »
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Lungs of a Blast Furnace (video) playing at Craneway Pavilion 8.13.2010
Friday the 13th Metal Massacre, some metal bands playing at Craneway Pavilion: Lungs of a Blast Furnace, The Venting Machine, St Vernon, Serpent & Seraph, plus one or two more. I was only able to catch The Venting Machine and Lungs of a Blast Furnace. This place is CAVERNOUS. Ford used to make tanks here during World War 2. I guess this place has a long history of metal Here is Lungs of a Blast … Read entire article »
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Tidal Wave 2010 – videos of all 14 bands
Here are my videos from this year’s Tidal Wave 2010 free outdoor metal festival. I might add another one or two; but at least now i have at least one video up from each of the 14 bands that were spread across the two days. 7.31.2010 – Here are 14 videos so far, one from each of the bands: Witchaven, Vastum, Go Like This, Elk, Giant Squid, Anvil Chorus, Blind Illusion, My Victim, Amber Asylum, Abysmal Dawn, … Read entire article »
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Grimefest 2010 videos (Feral Depravity, Assailant, Fiends At Feast)
Three videos from Grimefest 2010. Oakland Grimefest, your basic metal-fest in a car wash, wtf?!? When i got there, there were still some families waiting around to have their cars detailed. Meanwhile a couple of vehicles with band equipment waited patiently near the back until everything cleared out enough to unload. Five metal bands in all: Assailant, Lobotomizer, Condemned To Live, Fiends at Feast, Feral Depravity. I caught the first 3 bands; videos below: Feral Depravity: Assailant: Fiends At Feast: … Read entire article »
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Video: Hypocrisy at the DNA Lounge
This show brought to you by Iron Man 2 the video game (seriously). The DNA Lounge played host last night to Hypocrisy’s “USA Tour 2.0″. They brought a pretty good line-up overall – Scar Symmetry, Hate, Blackguard and Swashbuckle – Hypocrisy were, without a doubt, the reason most people were there. I actually arrived somewhat on time and got a chance to check out all of the bands; here’s a brief take on each one of … Read entire article »
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Video: Skeletonwitch, Cannibal Corpse at Slim’s
Damn, I was looking forward to this show for a long time! Cannibal Corpse brought the house down at Slim’s last night. They played for about an hour and a half, included all of the favorites (more or less) and basically reaffirmed everyone’s beliefs that they’re the most legendary death metal band of all-time. As if there are any doubts amongst those out there, Corpsegrinder officially gets the trophy for “best metal head-banger”. I mean, just … Read entire article »
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The Tidal Wave 12 (FREE 2-day outdoor metal concert in S.F.) is BACK!! (final update 7.28.2010)
YES!!!!! CONFIRMED, The Tidal Wave (a FREE 2-day outdoor metal concert in San Francisco) is coming back! This is the big news we have been waiting for. (final update 7.28.2010 – link to videos from the show at bottom of post) The Tidal Wave 12 is Saturday & Sunday July 24 & 25, 2010 Noon-6pm @ McLaren Park Amphitheater, S.F. (a.k.a. Jerry Garcia Amphitheater). This is a daytime event, Noon-6pm both days (Saturday & Sunday). Yes, … Read entire article »
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LidToker Stoner metal. So very stoner. (video)
Oh my. Another day, another East Bay warehouse show! Here’s Stoner Metal band LidToker, playing at WC. The crowd starts waking up around 11 minutes, just in time for… a pillowfight? LidToker – at WC – 4.17.2010 roseman (kevin) | MySpace Video … Read entire article »
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Slaughter By The Water Thrashfest (3 videos)
“Slaughter By The Water Thrashfest”. Who could resist? As soon as i got to the Oakland Metro Operahouse (after filming another band’s first gig) I got the camera out; just in time too, the party was about to go *nuts*! They had crowd surfing. They had beach balls. They had stagediving. They had inner tubes. They had silly-string. They had piñatas. They had inflatable sheep (any show with inflatable sheep is my kind of show). Here is … Read entire article »
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House Shows – Hazzard’s Cure at Womansion
One of the cool things about the house shows (especially in the east bay) is that everyone ends up naming their house. House shows are an awful lot of fun and can be very intimate. So intimate that you are in constant danger of falling over into the drumset The Hive. The Swamp. Wolves Den. Riff. Womansion. Yellow Room. Gingerbread House. Bone House. Red Hot Compound. The Soundtank. Sometimes it’s in the basement. Sometimes in … Read entire article »
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A Quick Video of Fear Factory From Last Night’s Show
Here’s Fear Factory performing Powershifter at the Grand Ballroom last night in SF. One of the opening bands canceled and I missed Amon Amarth (fail), but I did get to see FF’s entire set. The last time I saw them was a few years ago in Hollywood when they were on tour with Strapping Young Lad. That show was better. I have a few other observations: The banded sounded pretty awesome, but they didn’t play anything off of Archetype, which kind of sucks. I think a lot of people left after Amon Amarth. Fat people love Fear Factory. Also, I’m pretty sure Fear Factory love fat people. The Grand Ballroom still blows. -DS … Read entire article »
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North Bay Metal – INTANGLED
In addition to the infamous East Bay we all know and love, there is also the North Bay’s Santa Rosa area for a nice hotbed of hardcore music. House shows up there tend to have some of the wildest pits. Crust, Punk, Metal, Thrash, Grind, they got plenty of it. If it was just a little bit closer to home, I would be at tons of shows up there on a regular basis. Intangled is one … Read entire article »
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Farewell To Thee, Light This City (Video)
(Photo from their last.fm page) While all the cool people were down in L.A. attending the Golden Gods awards, the rest of us scrubs were out on the town getting our fix of underground heavy metal! In case you didn’t know, San Francisco melodic metal band Light This City are on a “farewell tour” of the west coast. They have a slightly different line-up at each show, but the show last night at Parkside included noise-punk-core … Read entire article »
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Neurotoxicity (video) – some live metal from the east bay
I’d like to welcome the newest contributor to Bay Area Metal Scene, a person who we’ll simply call Roseman. I befriended Roseman through myspace some time back (yes, some people actually like myspace), and it didn’t take long to notice that he had what seemed to be just about every underground metal/rock band from the Bay Area on video – good video (all things considered for a bootleg, that is)! Luckily for me, Roseman said … Read entire article »
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Black Gives Way to Bootlegs: Alice In Chains at The Fox Theater in Oakland
All the rockers in Northern California came out to see Alice in Chains rock the Fox Theater in Oakland last night, and I mean ALL the rockers. The place was so packed most people could barely move. Luckily, we’re not most people, and we shoved (politely, of course) our asses into the pit real fast! There were young (waved to a little 5 year-old walking by) and old (the average age had to be 40+) … Read entire article »
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Here’s Some Clips from “The Other” Metal Monday Show This Week
It seems to be occurring with greater frequency that there are multiple shows on the same night, forcing folks to choose between which bands they want to see. Luckily, there’s a thing called video. Metal4Metal.com took some video of the Periphery/Animals as Leaders show on Monday night and posted it to YouTube, which I have graciously re-posted here. I will definitely have to see these guys on their next passage through – unless, of course, Exodus is in town again that night… Check out the videos after the jump! … Read entire article »
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Toxic Bootlegs: Exodus, Arch Enemy and Arsis.
METAL FUCKING MONDAY! Arch Enemy, Exodus, Arsis and Mutiny Within steam-rolled through San Francisco last night at the Grand Ballroom. I have mixed feelings about this place, but most of them lean towards that one feeling, what’s it called? Oh yeah – MURDER. As in, “I want to murder everyone that works here.” So many rules! “Don’t stand here.” “No video allowed.” “4 dollars for water.” on and on and on. It’s like, with all these rules in place you’d think there would at least be awesome sound, but of course, it’s the complete fucking opposite. For such a grand ballroom their sound blows grand ball sacks. I missed Mutiny Within because the Bay Bridge had traffic and because I’m always late. Arsis had a pretty good set list, but the … Read entire article »
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Bootlegs: Nile, Krisiun, Immolation
Finally! It’s been a long time coming, but I finally got to see Nile. Actually, it seems like everyone got to see Nile – it was a sold out show! I really wanted to see Krisiun as well, so I got to kill to birds with one stone. Nile were crushing. I love how epic and thematic their shows are. Dallas needs a little work on his stage banter between songs, but otherwise they worked the crowd into nothing less than a voracious frenzy. Immolation were pretty awesome, but admittedly, I don’t know as much about them as I probably should. Krisiun were just as heavy as I thought they’d be, although the crowd wasn’t at capacity at this point and wasn’t as loud as it could’ve been. Dreaming Dead I … Read entire article »
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Bootlegs: BTBAM, Cynic and Devin Townsend.
It was a sold-out Monday night show last night at Slim’s! I didn’t take any chances this time with tickets, since the last time Cynic came through town with Meshuggah it sold out way in advance. Overall, the show was pretty prog-tastic! Scale the Summit were a great opening band, Devin Townsend was his usual charismatic self, Cynic shredded and BTBAM rocked-it pretty hard! As usual, I was able to grab a few bootlegs. Enjoy! … Read entire article »
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Bootlegs: Behemoth, Septic Flesh
Good lord was it hot last night! People were passing out left and right! I haven’t seen Slim’s that packed – ever. Behemoth pretty much tore the roof off of the place. I think they could’ve played every song they knew and everyone would’ve been okay with that. They had a good mix of old and new, although I didn’t really notice any material from The Apostasy. Septic Flesh were alright, they had some good stuff but I could’ve done without some of the “cheese” factor. I didn’t catch too much of Lightning Swords of Death, but their bassist had a Cliff Burton-esque bass solo to close the show out. I was able to catch a few videos of Behemoth and Septic Flesh in between the mayhem. Enjoy. … Read entire article »
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Bootlegs: Devil Driver / Suffocation / Goatwhore
Friday night metal! Last night was some epic times my friends. Not just because of the bands playing, but epic because there were so many of you fine folks out enjoying themselves. Epic because you all most likely had a chance to meet each of the bands between sets and after the show, and perhaps you even talked with the gents from Machine Head or High on Fire. These crappy bootlegs don’t do the night justice, but they do capture a little bit of the feeling. Enjoy! While you’re at it, be sure and check out this interview Dez gave last night to the Hard Rock Chick! … Read entire article »
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Faceless – Fetus Bootlegs
The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Beneath the Massacre, Suffokate and Enfold Darkness played at the DNA Lounge last night in what amounted to a weird amalgamation of Death Core, Death Metal and Progressive Metal. Despite all the venue’s seemingly amateur approach to sound (like playing house music while a band is performing) and light (leaving the lights off during the band’s performance), each band managed to pull-off a pretty solid-sounding set. The Faceless closed out the … Read entire article »
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Some Videos from the Mastodon / Dethklok Show This Weekend
I captured a couple of quick videos from the concert this weekend. Overall, it was a pretty awesome show. I was way impressed with Mastodon and Dethklok were obviously just out of control. High on Fire were awesome – and friggin’ loud! Converge, I’m sorry to say, didn’t really fit in. They had tons of energy, but it got kind of lost because their vocalist just made the same parrot-squawking noise the whole damned time. You’ll see the fans boo them off the stage at the end of their set. Ouch baby! See the videos after the jump. … Read entire article »
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Warbringer Thrashes Berkeley
Thrash metal is alive kicking ass right now, especially in the Bay. 924 Gilman hosted Warbringer and a shit-ton of other thrash metal acts from all over to rock the ears off of all the kids that could fit in the graffity-laden rafters and sticker-covered halls. Seeing this when you walk in makes you realize you’re in for a good time: … Read entire article »
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Satyricon, Bleeding Through (cancelled), Toxic Holocaust and Cthonic at Slim's 10/11/2009
Got a couple of pictures from last night’s show at Slim’s. I have to say, it was a pretty fun event. For those of you that didn’t get there until Toxic Holocaust, you missed a great opening band, Chthonic. Actually, let me clarify – A LOT of people missed Chthonic. Where the fuck was everyone? Both opening bands were hanging out for meet-and-greets … Read entire article »
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