Tag: Toronto
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Neal Morse in Toronto, April 2018
An Evening with Neal Morse @ The Great Hall – 21 April 2018 This weekend is one of unadulterated progressive rock for Toronto. On Friday, supergroup Sons of Apollo levelled the Opera House. Tonight sees Toronto host esteemed prog rocker Neal Morse. Tomorrow, a sold-out Danforth will marvel at prog royalty Steven Wilson. In the centre…
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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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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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Enslaved (and more) in Toronto, 20 Feb 2018
Enslaved / Wolves in the Throne Room / Myrkur / Khemmis @ the Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, February 20th, 2018 Decibel Magazine has once again pieced together a North American tour to encourage the extreme metal faithful to leave their domiciles in the colder months of the year. Tonight sees a transatlantic tour alliance between…
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Wardruna live in Toronto, 8 February 2018
Concert review: Wardruna in Toronto @ Danforth Music Hall on February 8th, 2018 In the midst of Winter, Toronto’s snow-framed streets are the vessel for a personal journey, unshackled from the urbanized modernity this ‘new’ city beholds. The wait is finally over. Einar Kvitrafn Selvik and Linda Fay Hella, better known as the folk/ambient duo…
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Wacken Metal Battle Canada returns to Hamilton, ON
After a one-year hiatus, Wacken Metal Battle Canada has returned, with this year’s competitions kicking off in Calgary this past January. This month the battle comes to Ontario, with rounds beginning in Toronto this Friday, February 9 and in Hamilton this Saturday, February 10. The full schedule of shows can be found on the WMBC…
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Events You Don’t Want to Miss, Toronto – Winter 2018 edition
Welcome back to your monthly roundup of live awesomeness! You’ll notice that this edition is extra meaty; this winter, yours truly is adventuring outside of the bitter Toronto cold. This list comprises those gigs which would almost make all that snow and slush worth enduring. Read on, and be sure to pass along the highlights!…