Gorguts Bring Colored Sands of Tibet to Columbus
Saturday December 14th, mother-nature was in a piss-poor bitchy mood, showering Ohio with sleet, rain and snow making travel difficult to nearly event missing for many motorist, metal heads and death metal players. The Columbus and surrounding scenes really showed the heart, will and passion it takes supporting heavy music, coming out to the Alrosa Villa for Unkured Band, Dismemberment, Ner...[Read More]
Bobaflex Plays Black Friday
Bobaflex, West Virginia’s answer to the finest cut high-octane spit and shine hillbilly rock this side of the rolling river. They came, played, kicked ass and left. They also braved to play, on the one day where the rough, riotous crowds and moshpits were more dangerous at any given retail giant than at any sophisticated metal show. Where the fights draw blood, especially with high-heels an...[Read More]
Dead Dick and the TBA Band Offer Fourplay
Everyone’s favorite dead and not-rotting fast enough swinging hillbilly from the worst parts of backwoods Kentucky returns to the realm of the living to spread more musical holiday cheer and put smiles on parents faces while terrifying the kids. Just jump on old Uncle Dick’s lap sunny, you won’t feel a thing because neither does he. Dead Dick Hammer, the lovely queen of decomposition Doreen Lav...[Read More]
Laid In Stone: Echoes Left Behind
Detroit’s Laid in Stone release their first feature full-length Echoes Left Behind via Dark Harvest Records. Since 2009 the group’s toured constantly, last year self-releasing the record with the intention of hitting the top of the American heavy metal heap. In June they returned home inking a deal with Dark Harvest in August. Echoes is a record heavy on strong, catchy vocal harmonies count...[Read More]
Pistol Day Parade Feel The Burn
Pistol Day Parade’s Burn is 12 rocking songs of life lessons learned on the broken-heart highway of shattered dreams driving towards the road to closure and redemption. Rock n roll played with soul, emotion and thick bluesy notes layered with catchy harmonies, vocal melodies and personal lyrics dotted red with spilled bleeding heart-beats on paper. Music is a healer and PDP use it to move o...[Read More]
Man Must Die: Peace Was Never an Option
Grindcore driven with guitar riffs screaming from the fret board, sweating bullets as the drum kit goes ballistic at new warp speeds. As a severely pissed off voice yells out ground shaking, cynical diatribes about government control, regulation, individual rebellion, personal demons and the lost faith in humanity. This is Peace Was Never an Option, the new speed/aggression opus by Scotland...[Read More]
Riksha Release: Dream Drops Red
Jager band, Salt Lake City’s, Riksha deliver Dream Drops Red on Dark Harvest Records. A trippy, atmospheric blend of Opeth meets Rage Against the Machine with some Prong flavored energy jolted in. Vocalist Palmer performs the unique task of delivering main vocals with the lyrical rap like rasp of Zach de la Rocha, adding dreamlike background voices ALA Opeth sounding like a masked backward ...[Read More]
Legends Of Thrash Wreck Columbus
Tuesday November 5th, The Legends Of Thrash Tour presented by Columbus Events Group swept through Columbus stopping at the Alrosa Villa like a loud sonic whirlwind as bodies crashed and collided into each other in the pit like a human tornado of souls. LA’s young guns Warbringer brought the early battle cry with Germany’s Euro-thrash hero’s Kreator screaming in at over 30 years of devastation and ...[Read More]
Hanging Garden Release I Was A Soldier EP
Scandinavian six piece Hanging Garden release their second offering this year after their Lifeforce Records debut At Every Door earlier this year. Known for their talent of bringing out the dueling emotions of depression and hope in their intricately influenced creations, available November 18th, I Was A Soldier is a unique if not perplexing fusion of death, doom, post rock, acoustic and fo...[Read More]
Kraptor’s Night of the Living Dead
San Cristabol, Venezuela’s Kraptor is an old school punk-thrash throwback to the cross over days of DRI and crowded early pits of Exodus, Sepultura and Slayer, harnessing the late 80’s-early/mid 90’s sound bringing it modern day. Singer Felipe Alvarez yells with a deep Kurt Brecht like bulldog yell and a bit of John Tardy’s death-doom growl. Inspired by both theatrical and real-life ...[Read More]
Mushroomhead Bring 20 Years of Halloween Havoc to Dayton
What’s cooler than one of Ohio’s own, Cleveland’s masked men playing doomsday in December last year? Coming back the following October and playing Halloween night. Dayton was the third to last show on the 40 date fall tour with returning vocalist JMann. Though mother-nature brought the rain and winds of fury, postponing several little demons and dragons’ stroll through candy land and once again da...[Read More]
Katz Goes Aces High On Halloween
Saturday October 25 the Pre-Halloween bash was going full scare all over Dayton. Katz in Kettering trumped everyone bringing in Aces High, ‘The’ Iron Maiden tribute band playing homage to metal’s scariest and coolest mascot, Edward the Great. The nights Yankee played British invasion included two, 90-minute sets with a costume contest in between and plenty of grisly ghouls, a major French Kiss and...[Read More]