Serpents of Secrecy – Ave Vindicta
While Ave Vindicta is the band’s first album, Serpents of Secrecy are no strangers to the Maryland doom scene, featuring members of Sixty Watt…
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Caskets Open – Concrete Realms of Pain
As one of Finland’s most legendary bands once sang, we really do have Doom Over the World nowadays. What started off with outfits like…
Forming the Void – Reverie
In some ways, Forming the Void got lucky. Their tour with Church of Misery ended in early March, about a week before the world…
Tyrant – Hereafter
Now, there are a lot of Tyrants in the metal world – this outfit isn’t even the only Tyrant from California. But, other than…
Volcanova – Radical Waves
I guess it’s maybe not so unusual to come across a stoner rock band from Iceland – after all, nearby Sweden has done just…
16 – Dream Squasher
It’s almost hard to believe that sludge metal is roughly 30 years old now, but as SoCal outfit 16, which put out its first…
Pale Divine – Consequence of Time
In some ways, Beelzefuzz’s loss was Pale Divine’s gain. The two outfits already shared three (out of four) members before the latter played its…
AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: CULT OF LUNA/Emma Ruth Rundle/Intronaut @ The Opera House, March 3, 2020
Now, I don’t listen to Cult of Luna very often, but the last time they came to town with Julie Christmas, it was an epic experience — albeit a somewhat abbreviated one…
AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: CHURCH OF MISERY/Black Wizard/Forming the Void @ The Garrison, February 18, 2020
For many Canadian fans, the wait to see Church of Misery was very long. Their last set of scheduled Canadian dates were cancelled by the U.S. government shutdown back in 2013, and no attempt had been made to return to our country…until now.
GRUESOME GREG’S TOP 15 CONCERTS OF 2019
Gruesome Greg looks back on some of the best shows he shot in 2019.