Hellbound @ Heavy Montreal, Day 3: August 9, 2015
Somehow I managed to get off to an even later start on Day 3, disappointingly missing both Omnium Gatherum and Insomnium, who I’d been…
Featured
Hellbound @ Heavy Montreal, Day 2: August 8, 2015
Day 2 of this year’s Heavy Montreal was hotter and sunnier and, for us, off to a slow, humid start. We arrived in time…
AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: Neurosis/Brothers of the Sonic Cloth/The Body @ Opera House, August 6, 2015
Though it had been 15 years since Neurosis last played Toronto, I must confess that I hadn’t waited nearly that long; I caught ’em in Brooklyn in 2012. Nevertheless, it was a rare East Coast performance for the post-sludge godfathers, and one that came with some welcome opening acts–in sharp contrast to that NYC show.
Hellbound @ Heavy Montreal, Day 1: August 7, 2015
It’s been a couple of years at least since my last Heavy Montreal (or Heavy MTL, as it was called then), but if the…
Om @ The Opera House – June 19th, 2015
HELLBOUND.CA @ NXNE 2015 Immense expressiveness. Power, boldness, no need for pomp at all. I don’t believe anybody could really sum this kind of…
Unleashed – Dawn Of The Nine
As I write this review I am looking out over the mighty River Shannon where, centuries ago, the Vikings sailed their long ships to…
NXNE 2015 – Urvah Khan, Cold Cave, Deafheaven
Gig-hopping at NXNE 2015 – from the Bovine to Adelaide Music Hall on June 20th: On the edges of the metal world we get…
Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2015 in Helsinki
The annual Tuska Open Air festival in Helsinki has become my most traveled metal festival aside from ProgPower USA in Atlanta, Georgia. People go…
Liturgy @ The Opera House, Toronto ON, 19 June 2015
HELLBOUND.CA @NXNE2015 “Are you ready for some transcendental black metal?” asked a friend I ran into, while prepping my camera, as the lights went…
BRIEFCASEFEST 2015, TORONTO ON, JUNE 6
Night 2 Oui oui, le black metal Québecois! For night 2, following sets from JUGURTHA, ILMESTYS and DEATH KNEEL, we got into some seriously…