mosh pits
Raven Black – The Scream Tour Shattered Cincinnati
On Friday, August 18, the 2023 Scream Tour slithered and creepy crawled into Cincinnati onto and across the Legends stage leaving blood, sweat and deep fingernail marks in its wake. The trek headlined by L.A. based theatrical dark metal circus Raven Black gave a dolled up performance complete with props and possessed passion. Direct support came from the modern day Vampira, Living Dead Girl with t...[Read More]
Imperial Triumphant’s Death Metal Ecstasy at Legends
Due to on site headliner interview, Couch Slvt was not covered. On Thursday February 2, Legends Bar & Venue in Cincinnati was engulfed and bombarded by death metal legions in the Spirit of loud, brutal Ecstasy. The pit never stopped on the upper level once the riffs and growling began and that night was no exception. Kentucky’s Darkdruid opened things loud and violent with Couch Slvt ...[Read More]
Reborn Dead Tour Celebrated Leprosy-era Death in Cincinnati
July 21st the club and floor of Legends Bar in Cincinnati was rattled, shook and nearly decimated by the blunt force trauma of the five bands that blessed the stage that evening. The Reborn Dead Tour slammed into Southern Ohio smashing bones together and rattling retinas with a near continuous evening pit whether classic or circular. Singer, guitarist Matt Harvey Exhumed, Gruesome, Rick Rozz (ex-D...[Read More]
Evil Invaders – Shattering Reflection’s In Deepest Black
Belgium-based extreme metal new blood Evil Invaders have released album three, Shattering Reflection. A sharp, iron-clawed, speed banging attack designed to whiplash eardrums and damage flesh and bone in the pit. The reflection was a five year project with blood, sweat and tears embedded in the songs, lyrics and riffs. The four-piece outfit is ready to shred and stomp their way across the post-pa...[Read More]
Fall of Stasis – A Brutal Chronology Begins
From the heights of Canada comes a new force of blistering cold and northern darkness in the form of Montreal’s Fall of Stasis. The fall was formed in 2014 with intent of creating unidentifiable original music with an eclectic, progressive, symphonic punch to the ears. Their demo came in 2017 with this year’s new full length The Chronophagist teetering with black metal influences and heavy prog. J...[Read More]
Casket Robbery – Everything to Gein
Death metal is a unique subgenre in the world of heavy music. To some it’s a choice, others a calling. Most do it for the passion and release of playing it and not fame and fortune. If you choose to perform the music of instant mosh pits you need a good name leaving no mystery to the sounds you’re creating, whether inspiration comes from an asylum, mortuary or cemetery. Though, when you choose a n...[Read More]
The Convalescence Celebrate A Deranged Decade at Thompson House
Sunday August 15, the extreme metal caravan known as The Convalescence brought their traveling horror show to Northern Kentucky for a night of loud, screaming metal. The haunted halls and walls of The Thompson House shook with decibel-laden vibration, causing spirits to come screaming out of hiding. If only they could talk as loud as the bands. The six-person Northern, Ohio based brood brought a l...[Read More]
A Transplant back to the Live Wasteland
On Friday, May 14, The Southgate House Revival hosted an evening of deafening death metal brutality as four bands pummeled the stage and attending ears. The night marked the beginning resurgence of live music and return of metal to the Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati area promoted by The Transplant Group. As the planet slowly seems to be crawling out of the pandemic, normalcy is starting to return ...[Read More]
Mechanical God Creation – The New Chapter
Milan Italy’s death metal acolytes Mechanical God Creation will release the next chapter of their headbanging, growling history in late March via Goatmancer Records. They’ve released “Warface” introducing new material to slap ears around with in the meantime. Created in 2006, they’ve shared stages and festival spots with Behemoth, Septicflesh, Kreator, Dragonforce and Rotting Christ touring throug...[Read More]
Electrocution – Psychonolatry
Italian thrash icons Electrocution return in 2019 with a loud, shredding vengeance releasing the deafening Psychonolatry. A massive musical onslaught containing 11 tracks that will annihilate any speakers and ears in proximity. Spawned in the early ‘90s like many of their classic American contemporaries, they’ve toured their homeland, shaking stages and soil with gore-fiends Carcass, Motorhead and...[Read More]
Terrifier – Weapons of Thrash Destruction
Vancouver BC’s, Terrifier marked 2011 with their thrash debut Destroyers of the Faith. They may have borrowed a few words from Priest but they adapted their sound according to the rules and ramming speed pits of early West Coast thrash. They’ve sounded their war cry grabbing handfuls straight from the white hot molten furnace, hurling fistfuls of liquid metal lava to any and all non-believers and...[Read More]
Belphegor Conjures the Dead in Ohio
Austria’s death, black metal blood-stained blasphemers Belphegor played the Buckeye state Saturday Aug. 28. The foursome performed a blackened ceremony to a packed house at Oddbody’s, full of hot, sweaty, somewhat intoxicated followers and disciples. The show was part of the bands 11th North American raid through the U.S. Guitarist/vocalist Helmuth put together a savage live beating for the crowd ...[Read More]