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Two Bay Area Bands Join Summer Slaughter’s Amazing Line-Up
Props to All Shall Perish and Decrepit Birth for getting on this tour. I mean – Look at that line-up! I’m not sure why some folks have complained about the bands on this bill – most of these bands are friggin’ amazing! I mean, they’re mostly all super technical death metal with some deathcore thrown-in, but what do you expect from a tour called Summer Slaughter? If my memory serves me correctly, last year this … Read entire article »
Exodus and Heathen Schedule What Appears to be a One-Off Show at Slim’s in June
We just got a letter from Slim’s saying that Exodus and Heathen will be playing a show together in June, along with local metal bands Anvil Chorus and Passive Aggressive. I can’t find anything about this from Exodus or Heathen but, rest assured – there are tickets available for it! This is great because Heathen haven’t really scheduled any American tour dates and seeing Exodus, well, that’s just always fucking fun. In case you weren’t aware, … Read entire article »
RIP Peter Steele
You will be missed, and your contribution to the music we all love will never be forgotten. 1962-2010 Rest in Peace, Peter Steele … Read entire article »
Faith No More Make News Again, Thankfully Mike Patton’s Junk Is Not Involved.
A few months ago I posted about how I wasn’t that big of a Faith No More fan, but that I appreciated what the band had done for music. Shoot, I tried buying tickets back in February but the band already sold-out every single show in San Francisco months in advance. Now, every music outlet in the country has basically already covered this story, but seeing how this is a Bay Area … Read entire article »
Son of Aurelius Live Up to the Hype, But Will it Last?
The land where the forest meets the ocean sure produces some heavy-ass death metal bands. Decrepit Birth, Band of Orcs, Son of Aurelius and a ton of other independent-labeled death metal bands now call Santa Cruz home. I guess all that forest and green herb makes for a good metal-conducing atmosphere. A few big-name metal blogs have been hyping up Aurelius’ album, The Farthest Reaches, for quite some time now. I probably first heard of the band … Read entire article »
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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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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Early Album Review: Imagika’s Portrait of a Hanged Man
I got an opportunity to have an early listen (actually you can too, at this location) to Imagika’s next album, Portrait of a Hanged Man. The album comes out next month and marks what appears to be the band’s 7th album since the band’s formation in 1995 (followed by the x-rated version, Portrait of a “Hung” Man, nyuck, nyuck). You have to admire any band that makes it to 7 albums, shoot I guess most … Read entire article »
Ashkira Push Modern Metalcore Boundaries
Metalcore hasn’t really ever been my thing. I’ve found a majority of it to be stale and repetitive, but I found something different in San Rafael band Ashkira. Their catchy and melodic tunes are enough to make any Lamb of God fan faint, and their heaviness could make any Parkway Drive fan weak in the knees. Even if you don’t identify yourself as a fan of Lamb of God or Parkway Drive, Ashkira are definitely … Read entire article »
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A New Force to be Reckoned With – Vastum (Video)
I used to work as an usher at Bill Graham concerts for over two and a half decades. I worked at the Warfield, the Kabuki, The Fillmore, Wolfgang’s, the Old Waldorf, the Greek Theater and many other venues. I got to see almost every major touring band you could think of: The Stones, The Who, The Dead, Metallica, U2, Tom Petty, Santana, and countless others over the years. One of my favorite privileges was getting … Read entire article »
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