Tag: festival
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WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA returns
WMBC band submissions open till December 29 If you’ve been following Wacken Metal Battle Canada at all, you likely know that things were on hold in 2017. Earlier this month, organizer JJ Tartaglia announced that the Canadian competition is back on for 2018, and WMBC has been taking band submissions since November 7. Canadian bands…
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AFTERSHOCK, Sacramento CA, 21-22 October 2017
Monster Energy AFTERSHOCK Festival’s sixth installment has come and gone, but the music, memories and the smell of California’s finest still lingers in the air. The festivities took place once again this year in Sacramento’s beautiful Discovery Park. With the weather in late October fully cooperating and temperatures in the mid-70’s the festival couldn’t have…
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Aftershock 2017: California metal extravaganza
Last year Hellbounder Gene A. Gaona covered Aftershock for Capital Chaos TV – and interviewed Igor & Max Cavalera: This year, the sixth annual Monster Energy Aftershock festival will feature headliners like Nine Inch Nails, Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde, A Perfect Circle, Five Finger Death Punch, Run The Jewels, Stone Sour, Marilyn Manson, and Mastodon and is primed to sell out once…
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Summer festing in Canada, metal style
A brief look ahead at a few Canadian music festivals of interest to metal fans… If you know of anything we’re missing, let us know! MONTEBELLO ROCKFEST June 22-25, 2017, QC www.montebellorockfest.com Rammstein, Megadeth, Meshuggah, Dee Snider, All That Remains, Soulfly, Protest the Hero, Entombed AD, Ensiferum, Tesseract, Converge, Kataklysm, Blinded by Faith… Metalocalypstick Fest 2017…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Redanda
Reports from the trenches Redanda & Buddy-Boys at NXNE 2014 This is being written with a fairly heavy hangover, but hopefully that means our experience at NXNE 2014 is still fresh in the mind, however hazy. We departed from Hamilton (which a beer girl at the tents at Yonge & Dundas kindly referred to as…
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Hellbound’s Progressive Nation at Sea Awards 2014
In February 2014, Adam Wills and Laura Wiebe flew to Miami, embarked on a cruise ship, and indulged in four days’ worth of live progressive rock and metal. In lieu of a Progressive Nation at Sea 2014 review, they instead have chosen to recognize the highest achievements of the festivals participants with the Hellbound PNAS 2014 Awards.…
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I see your multi-venue, multi-day, multi-genre music festival, and raise you… a two-day, all-day doomfest!
Blame Gary Bettman. Normally, the NHL playoffs end just in time for North by Northeast, but with the lockout pushing everything back, the puck drops on Game 2 tonight with the festival in full swing…
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Finally making my way down to Milwaukee…
You gotta love a city whose major concert hall changed its name to match the fictional venue where Spinal Tap performed in the legendary mockumentary. Alas, beer is probably the first thing that comes to mind when you think Milwaukee–or maybe zoo animals, if you’re into that–but it does have a bit of metal history…
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You’re dead to me, Canadian Music Week!
Canadian Music Week has always been the first weekend in March, and as such, I’ve adjusted/cleared my schedule accordingly for the past few years. But this year, they’ve decided to make a change, moving the event to the fourth weekend of the month. The official reasoning I’ve heard is they want to have it after…