Category: Reviews – Live
Hellbound is always there, lurking in the crowd, while the band blisters the very air.
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Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2017 in Helsinki
Once again I find myself in Helsinki to attend the Tuska Open Air Festival, which has become a staple in my yearly concert plans. The weather called for rain, but for the most part we were lucky to dodge shit weather — mostly. One thing I love and admire about this festival is that the…
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Extreme Noise Terror + Napalm Raid @ Coalition, Toronto, 27 June 2017
Extreme Noise Terror are a hearty staple in the diet of any grindcore or crust punk consumer. So given Toronto’s sizeable punk community, it’s understandable that tonight’s first date of their Canadian tour sells out. So far, so good. However, main vocalist and sole original member Dean Jones was denied boarding his flight from England…
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Annihilator + Entropy + Mason + Mutank @ The Opera House, Toronto, June 24, 2017
One of the most successful Canadian ‘80s metal icons strikes down in Toronto following their first show here in 23 years just last year. Jeff Waters and his merry band of men are probably Canada’s most famous thrash metal squad so seeing them play Europe more than their home province is disheartening. At least two…
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Fates Warning + Infinite Spectrum @ Mod Club Theatre, Toronto on June 21, 2017
One of progressive metal’s earliest instigators, Fates Warning, returns to Toronto tonight. Being the vanguards of metal’s most skilled genre that ignited the enviable careers of Dream Theater, Opeth and Queensryche, it’s exceedingly criminal that Fates Warning remain so underrated. Recently, these Americans recruited a wave of younger supporters as the retro heavy/power metal trend…
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Weedeater + Black Wizard, 21 June 2017 at Mavericks in Ottawa
Well, it was great a opportunity, and that doesn’t happen much anymore, for this contributor to go see a show on a Wednesday night. And it would not have been without friends in Black Wizard putting me on the guest list. I got to the show late because of traffic and deciding upon which pub…
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Taake + Helheim @ Velvet Underground, Toronto
Infamous Norwegian black metallers Taake have endured a headache of a journey crossing the Atlantic for their North American tour. Their American visas were not approved before the tour kicked off, resulting in dates being canceled on a day-by-day basis with just a couple of days notice at most, hoping the visas would arrive the…
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Razor + Anvil @ Club Absinthe, Hamilton, June 3, 2017
Want to see Canadian history come to life? One of Canada’s premier thrash exports, Razor, is slicing through Hamilton so tonight is a must-attend event for any hardened thrasher in the Southern Ontario region. Supplementing the bill are the insistent heavy metallers in Anvil, whose award-winning documentary catapulted them into the global rockers’ consciousness. New…
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Tengger Cavalry + Felix Martin + Malphas @ Hard Luck Bar, Toronto on June 5, 2017
Dreaming of being a Viking is so passé! How about being a Mongol Shaman? Mongolian folk metal gallops into Toronto yet again tonight. Following their show last year, Tengger Cavalry return, their brand new album Die on My Ride in tow. Formed in 2010 and with an impressively extensive discography already, this Chinese-origin band does…
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Hard Charger + Satanarchist @ Coalition, Toronto on June 8, 2017
Countless bands blur the line between metal and punk so it makes sense to see a tour that showcases these two extreme genres together as equals. New Brunswick crusty rockers Hard Charger are joining forces with Portland, Oregon’s anarcho black thrashers Satanarchist for a coheadlining trip across Canada. Tonight it hits Toronto’s beloved Coalition but…
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Windhand + Satan’s Satyrs @ Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto May 19, 2017
What better way to kickstart the weekend than at a gathering of dirty doom metal? Tonight sees US doom mongers Windhand and Satan’s Satyrs hit Toronto for an exclusive Canadian stop on their current tour. Doom’s popularity these days cannot be understated so it’s unsurprising that the classic Horseshoe Tavern is bustling with attendees. Virginia’s…