Category: Reviews – Live
Hellbound is always there, lurking in the crowd, while the band blisters the very air.
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Thantifaxath and more in Toronto, March 2018
Thantifaxath / Cleric / Pyrrhon / Suffering Hour @ Coalition T.O, 28 March 2018 Metal is often accused of lacking creative development and rehashing the past. Briefcase Show Inc. has done a fine job at curating tonight’s event and laying waste to such trite assertions. The bands at the Coalition are all relatively youthful outfits, each…
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Iced Earth / Sanctuary in Toronto, March 2018
Iced Earth / Sanctuary @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto – 26 March 2018 Tonight is a more solemn affair for melodic metal fans. US heavy metal battalion Sanctuary were confronted by sudden tragedy. In December last year, the metal world was struck with the devastating news that vocalist Warrel Dane had died of a heart…
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Primitive Man / Spectral Voice in Toronto, March 2018
Devastating death metal is the order of the night. Concrete slab-throwers Primitive Man have returned to desecrate TO alongside fellow Denver inhabitants Spectral Voice – one of the more dynamic acts to ignite the death metal subterranean in recent history. Lee’s Palace is buzzing with extreme metal adherents eager to abuse their aural capabilities. Primitive…
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Nightwish at The Fillmore in Charlotte
Nightwish delivers the Greatest Show on Earth 10 March 2018 @ Fillmore Charlotte – Charlotte, NC Floor Jansen, at this point, has arguably established herself as the ideal Nightwish vocalist. That’s not to disparage Tarja or Anette, but many found Tarja to be too polarizing for the band and the die-hards rejected Anette pretty quickly…
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AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: Woodhawk/Mountain Dust/Hawkeyes/Low Orbit @ Bovine Sex Club, March 30, 2018
I was a pretty big fan of Beyond the Sun, the debut album from Calgary stoner rock trio Woodhawk, so when I heard they’d be coming out on a cross-country tour, I knew I’d be there with boots on. Good Friday brought a fistful of heavy rock outfits to the Bovine, where many an Old…
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HEAVEN SHALL BURN and more in Saarbrücken, Germany – March 2018
Heaven Shall Burn / August Burns Red / Whitechapel / In Hearts Wake @ the Garage, 21 March 2018 Sweat, thick air and powerful beats: In Hearts Wake, Whitechapel, August Burns Red and Heaven Shall Burn rock the Garage on Wednesday evening in Saarbrücken, Germany. garage-sb.de In Hearts Wake First timers in Saarbrücken, Australian metalcore…
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Dying Fetus and more in Toronto, March 2018
Dying Fetus / Thy Art Is Murder / Rivers of Nihil / Enterprise Earth / Sanction @ the Opera House – March 18, 2018 On March 18, 2018, I drove up from my hometown, about two hours away to go to the Dying Fetus show at The Opera House with a few of my friends.…
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Morbid Saint live in Toronto, March 2018
Morbid Saint @ Coalition T.O on March 9th, 2018 Time to lock up your children! Underground thrashers Morbid Saint have arrived in Toronto. Formed in 1982 in Wisconsin, the five-piece released the highly respected Spectrum of Death debut album before undertaking the route of so many ‘80s thrash acts and dissolving by 1994 when the subgenre…
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Watain and more live in Toronto, Feb 2018
Watain / Deströyer 666 / Revenge @ The Opera House, Toronto on February 25th, 2018 Wolf fetishes are the meal of the day as frequent tour partners Satanic Swedes Watain and black thrash attack Deströyer 666 spread their blasphemy across North America. Opening this leg of the trek iare Canadian war mongers Revenge, ensuring this line…
