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Horrendous: Live in Toronto, Saturday August 1st, 2015
A good way to play a new city for the very first time – no openers, just pure unadulterated crushing riffs. The setup at this bar was a little unusual, yet this was no distraction. The delighted crowd was treated to an incredibly satisfyingly long (eh heh heh… heh) set… More info/pre-order their upcoming new…
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Full Metal Parenting #10: Money
A lot of metal fans will tell you that the genre has taken them on journeys to dark, unexpected, and wholly beautiful places, leading them to question nature, reality, and the meaning of existence. Well, welcome to parenthood! It’s pretty much the same, and often twice as loud. Parenting is livin’ after midnight by default…
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ProgPower 2015: Day 2 (Thu, Sep 10)
ProgPower XVI: THURSDAY The Thursday Kick-Off Show originally featured Royal Hunt frontman DC Cooper performing a set that would span his career; that fell through. No big deal – just add heavy metal legends Armored Saint and Saxon to the bill, and you have yourself a fucking show. But it started with Brazil’s Almah, a band…
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AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: PENTAGRAM/Electric Citizen/Satan’s Satyrs @ Grog Shop, Cleveland, October 11, 2015
Pentagram was scheduled to come up here for NXNE in June, but got denied at the border. So when I heard they’d be playing within driving distance–on Canadian Thanksgiving, no less–I just had to scratch that itch, eh?
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ProgPower 2015: Day 1 (Wed, Sep 9)
ProgPower XVI: Wednesday We arrived to Wednesday’s Midweek Mayhem show in time for Ashes of Ares just beginning their set. We missed out on local stalwarts Halcyon Way, because we arrived in Atlanta a little too late to get there in time. Halcyon Way’s sound has evolved over the years, but it’s basically proggy power…
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Mick Wall’s Getcha Rocks Off (book review)
Writing about music now is very different from Mick Wall’s decades of involvement in the music industry, working both in PR and as a writer. Then it was very hands-on. Wall was part of the action. Now it’s digital and antiseptic, with less and less human interaction (much like all life is becoming now). It’s…
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AC/DC from the front row…and the not-so-cheap seats
Hard to tell from watching these guys that AC/DC is in their sixties. Seeing em live in 2015 wasn’t all that different from watching em 7, 15 or 19 years ago. But you sorta get the feeling it’s their last tour, and they saved their best for the occasion. Not just the obvious cuts like…
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Faith No More & Napalm Death @ Austin Music Hall – July 26, 2015
Faith No More & Napalm Death @ Austin Music Hall – July 26, 2015 words by Jay H. Gorania images by Richard Guerrero Many have been picking up their jaws from the floor since Faith No More’s reunion in 2009, and those jaws have repeatedly smashed to the ground with the news of additional tours…
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Headstones @ Maxwell’s, Waterloo ON, July 10th 2015
Headstones with A Rebel Few at Maxwell’s, Waterloo, Ontario, July 10th, 2015 The caliber and quality of Headstones as a live band has never been in dispute in this critic’s mind, but that doesn’t mean the band doesn’t shine just a little brighter in some circumstances over others. To put it in simple terms, there’s…
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AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: High on Fire/Pallbearer/Lucifer @ Opera House, August 13, 2015
A couple years back, I did a list of reasons why I like Matt Pike on my blog. While it didn’t top the list, one thing that always impressed me was the type of talent he always brings on tour. This latest trip was no exception!