Author: Gruesome Greg
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The Shrine – Bless Off
I was pretty impressed with these guys when they opened for Red Fang last month. While they’re not reinventing the wheel, they sure know how to roll it, bringing down some brief blasts of heavy vintage tuneage. It’s almost like one of those semi-obscure heavy bands from the early 70s (Dust, Bang, Gun, take your…
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If The Flatliners are half as fatty as these french fries, then Imma stay the fuck away!
Unless you’ve been listening to pop punk for the past couple weeks, you probably know that The Flatliners are Canada’s answer to Jethro Tull. No, they don’t have a flautist that likes to stand on one foot, but apparently, they’re the least metal band to be nominated for a Juno since…
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Black Space Riders – D:REI
When I first reviewed this German band of Lars Ulrich lookalikes’ (seriously, the band photo in the press pack is uncanny) debut album, I made some remark about how it must be a concept album cuz every song had the word “black” in the title. Well, now they’ve gone and released a proper concept album,…
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Culted – Oblique to All Paths
By Gruesome Greg Bit of an interesting back story to this death-doom unit, mostly from Winnipeg, but with a Swedish singer they’ve never actually met in person, exchanging songs over the internet and whatnot. OK, so maybe that’s not so unusual in this day and age. Anyhoo, the band’s sophomore effort begins with massive, 19-minute…
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Just got back from Austin, and boy, are my arms fat!
Seriously man, don’t drop me in an area surrounded by fast-food and Mexican restaurants and expect me to lose weight. That aside, the inaugural edition of the Housecore Horror Film+Metalfest was an agile affair…
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This Tour Cancellation is Brought to You by Nik Turner
Hawkwind will not be playing the Mod Club tomorrow, and if you read between the lines, it’s pretty clear who the band is blaming for this postponement.
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“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Kyuss!”
Well OK, maybe I can. But either way, Vista Chino put on a pretty solid set at The Phoenix last night.
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Just a few more sleeps to the Sabbath gig…
To date, I have never seen Black Sabbath live–Heaven and Hell notwithstanding. Of course, I know that their bassist isn’t the only geezer in the band anymore, and they’ve got some nobody on drums for this tour, but hey, I can’t help but be at least a little excited for the gig at the ACC…
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Soooo, if I drag my butt down to Baltimore, I get free beers? Bonus!
The hardcore show of the summer takes place in Baltimore next month as the 25th anniversary tour of Eyehategod and the 30th anniversary tour of Agnostic Front collide at the Ottobar September 13th. But wait, there’s more…