Pretty Boys Get A Bullet
The Longview Texas four piece Christian hardcore metal band A Bullet for Pretty Boy returns with the follow up to their 2010 Revision: Revise disc with Symbiosis, out July 31st. Formed in 2006 and after touring extensively with Asking Alexandria and We Came as Romans they’re ready for more as they’ll join Demon Hunter; Emery and Sleeping Giant on the high profile Scream the Prayer To...[Read More]
For Today Become Immortal
Prominent Christian metal core band For Today returned in 2012 with a pulverizing new album that leaves the band screaming loud and fans screaming for more. Immortal is the band’s fourth full length album and their first on the Razor & Tie label. For Today has been running nonstop so far this year headlining the Fight the Silence tour and will be playing the Vans Warped Tour summer trek...[Read More]
Becoming The Archetype Delivers “Celestial Complete”
Don’t let the semi-tranquil title Celestial Complete fool you. Inside the cacophony of sounds, the piano, trumpets and trombones are the only non-heavy instruments played on this record. The heavy metal band Becoming The Archetype are Dacula, Georgia natives and this fourth record on Solid State delivers all the heavy sonic bombast you’d expect from Christians that sound like they co...[Read More]
Horlet Bring the Keys of Life and Death
Dayton’s Horlet release their debut album, The Keys of Life and Death, a pulverizing blast of death metal slam-dancing your face into the cold concrete. With 17 tracks including four interludes that violate the ear yet make the brain want to hear more, Horlet takes us to ancient Egypt to hear the voices of the gods. We’re also warned of manmade Armageddon, the ancient curses of unknown dark...[Read More]
Norma Jean Wrongdoers
Norma Jean Wrongdoers By Mike Ritchie Atlanta’s Norma Jean www.facebook.com/normajean release their sixth record and second offering from Razor & Tie, Wrongdoers. 11 tracks of loud in your face noise combustion, performing like bombs going off in your living room. Drenched in screaming metaphor the lyrics pound your face with annihilation minded symbolism. If You Got it at Five You Got it at...[Read More]
Sworn In Deals The Death Card
Chicago’s producers of mind warping metalcore/hardcore escapism to small, dark hideous places Sworn In deliver their debut, The Death Card to an audience that can appreciate its rapid fire hammer to the brain subtleties and water torturous echoes of fading sanity. The 13 songs on The Death Card are an insane asylum’s delight as ripe and delicious as a sample from Renfields personal party platter....[Read More]
Consumption Of the Heart/The Collective Volume IV Play Englewood Cinema
Friday night September 28th local director Andrew Copp premiered the only Dayton theatrical showing of his new film Consumption Of The Heart. A 10 minute short that will be included in Jason Hoover’s upcoming collection of zombie themed films in The Collective Volume V premiering at the November Days of the Dead convention in Chicago. Filmed in two days Consumption is a living dead love story abou...[Read More]
Consumption of the Heart/Collective Vol 4:Emotion Premiere at Englewood Cinema
On Friday September 28 Englewood Cinema will showcase eleven big independent film experiences. Englewood is known for its yearly show of support to local filmmakers including Horrorama and featuring films that could be considered ‘slightly’ off the mainstream radar and older vintage classics that otherwise would never see the big screen again. First up is local independent visionary, artist and Ho...[Read More]
Signs of Life Turn to the Dark Side… of the Moon
On Saturday May 4th Cincinnati’s renowned Pink Floyd tribute band played to their biggest audience to date at Hobart Arena. It was presumably one of the happiest days of their lives. Not every band can get up and play precisely pink but Signs of Life www.facebook.com/SignsOfLifePinkFloyd take it a ‘few’ steps further adding a large screen, trippy lighting, sound effects and play PF classics wit...[Read More]
Zeently Productions Presents Mike Nye Benefit Show
On Saturday April 27, Zeently Productions presented the benefit show for local musician Mike Nye. Five bands came out to support the cause and play some seriously heavy sh- with Architects of Doom, Forces of Nature, King Stench, Spike Opera and The Reefer Hut alongside a crowd of local talent, friends and fans showing up to support Nye in his recovery. While hanging out at a fellow musician’s hous...[Read More]
Fear Factory Brings World Industrialist Tour to Dayton
On Friday April 26, kings of cyber metal Fear Factory returned to the McGuffy’s stage to assault the crowd with mechanized sounds and metalized mayhem. Bringing the Industrialist to Dayton for human assemblage of skin to skin symbiotic fusion, battle and praise, all models shown obsolete were cast into the drone pit center floor and decommissioned. Tour mates Hate Eternal brought their technically...[Read More]
A New Full Moon Rises in Dayton
Photo by Mike Ritchie A new shop has opened in Dayton just a few feet away from the tattooed Jesus sign of Truth n Triumph Tattoo. Amanda Hamilton, formerly of Anything Under the Moon, has returned, re-opened and rededicated herself with to helping the wiccan/pagan community and those in need of guidance, counseling, supplies and just a good friend to talk to. Her new homestead is A Full Moon Risi...[Read More]