Ohio
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]
Close The Hatch – Modern Witchcraft
Dayton Ohio’s Close The Hatch has spent the last decade making unclassifiable noise reminiscent of the best and worst parts of a prolonged acid trip. They’ve conjoined the dark morphing soul of Pink Floyd with the darker composing creativity and personalities of the four inhabitants. Creating a mesmerizing opus of atmosphere, doom, experimental noise and ideas conjured by perverse influences. Sin...[Read More]
Into Pandemonium – Darkest Rise
Straight from the depths and darkest corners of the Dayton, Ohio metal family comes the conjuring of 6-piece extreme band Into Pandemonium. They’ve used guitar strings and drum sticks to paint broad genre-crossing strokes tapping black, extreme and technical death with vocal experimentation beyond growls and screams. The young blood drips like a sacrificial chalice fermenting a new brew from a new...[Read More]
Famous Monsters Tour Opens Halloween Night in Harrison
On the most sacred night of the year for horror fans, freaks and practitioners of all things dark The Blue Note in Harrison, Ohio hosted a gathering of very living humans, some looking more decomposed than others. Costumes ranged from funny to frightening from rotting flesh, to cadaver blue. With face painted femmes walking amok to screaming victims and the masked stalkers that help keep coffins o...[Read More]
Revolution at Rose Music Center
On Sunday July 22, the Revolution 3 Tour came to Rose Music Center to entertain Huber Heights and surrounding areas. The pavilion packed in, as early support Los Angeles electro-rockers Julien-K led the early performance. The Revolution began with The Cult and shaking shaded medicine men, Ian Astbury bringing hits from the ‘80s to present day. Bush brought the big hard rock radio tunes they’re k...[Read More]
Queensrÿche Rage in Versailles
Saturday June 23, the BMI Indoor Speedway crowd gathered for a night of Mindcrime, Empires, Rage for Order and a few tunes from the beginning to modern day. Queensrÿche came to Versailles with a career spanning show with a new record looming on the horizon. While the screen flashed concept images during certain songs, vocalist Todd La Torre tore into the catalog belting out vintage tunes, crowd pl...[Read More]
Showing No Mercy
The four-piece extreme metal outfit Merciless Reign have stamped and pounded their turf, making a name and following in the Akron/Cleveland area building a following among headbanging devotees with customized noise, volume and wreckage. Their Reign began in 2011, releasing a three-song demo and digital release of their first full-length 2014’s, Catharsis Through Chaos. They’ve shared stages ...[Read More]
Prometheus Reigns in Fairfield
(Due to severe weather conditions, original headliners Raven Black were unable to perform) Friday December 15 DF Productions and Events at The Venue Event Center in Fairfield hosted three bands that played on, despite Mother Nature tampering with the lineup. Dayton’s Secret Circle Society presented a smooth, calming middle ground, sandwiched between aggressive metal and black and death met...[Read More]
Curse of Cassandra Release Nekonomicon at Blind Bobs
Ohio’s feline fatale Curse of Cassandra played Blind Bob’s Friday, November 17 releasing their spell casting Nekonomicon album. Surrounded by a diverse crowd of cosplay, costumes, cat and kitten fans and those who were electro-friendly. Despite past tour issues, Cassandra has made a reputation of proven persistence and resilience in the face of devastating roadblocks. Cincinnati trio, Playfully Y...[Read More]
Nightwish Bring Endless Forms to Columbus
Thursday, Feb. 25th was a night of Euro symphonic powerhouse metal for the LC Pavilion’s newly dubbed moniker Express Live. The Endless Forms Most Beautiful came to Columbus and delivered with fellow female fronted Delain and power metal veterans Sonata Arctica. The Kitee, Finland natives may have proven third times the charm as former After Forever, ReVamp vocalist Floor Jansen took the helm as t...[Read More]