On Wednesday March 29, The Rise of the Machine Tour stormed through Cincinnati, packing Bogarts wall to wall. The 40+ date trek started late February in San Francisco stretched through the country finishing April 16 in Los Angeles. The tour will play a string of dates in Australia next month. Headlined by Static-X, the re-scheduled […]
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 […]
The dark, ambient artist known as Julius Mitė has spent years creating some of the most unique and unsettling sounds accompanied by nature’s visual anatomy making sounds that might seem wrong in nature’s natural setting and audio pictorials that would make Bob Ross back away from the canvas. Vėlių Namai is the name of Mitės creation. […]
From humble South American beginnings in Chile to the great white north of Calgary Alberta Laura Vargas, AKA The Inferno Doll has repackaged and remade herself from her late teen early hardcore punk days and singing early Nightwish tunes to performing in crumbling ruins and creating a later alter-ego. After punk came symphonic metal, singing […]
Sin Quirin brings a multi-band, 20+ year resume to the table of any project he works on or stage he stands on. With names like Ministry, KMFDM, Revolting Cocks and Lords of Acid to name a few, he’s got more than a metal pedigree, it’s a dark, demented carnival ride of perpetual, heavy movement. From […]
The lunatics will once again run the Asylum, symbolically on Saturday, November 26 with just enough time for the turkey tryptophan to wear off and chaos from the blackest of Friday’s to be in the retail rearview and on YouTube. Downtown Dayton was once a multi-venue metropolis for the black clad /leathered outsider, metalhead, rebel, […]
Friday October 28th J.D Legends celebrated the most hallowed and cherished weekend of horror fans, metalheads, witches, cave dwellers, sewer rats and coven followers with a tribute to the originator and Godfather of shock rock Alice Cooper. Like Rob Zombie’s said, Cooper did everything first and we’ve been respectfully copying him ever since. Coop’s Nightmare: […]
Due to unforeseen extended traffic issues coverage of opening band Radkey did not occur. Thursday, October 13 marked the appearance of multi-decade female group L7 at Newport Music Hall in Columbus. Newport was a stop on the Brick Are Heavy Anniversary tour. A celebration trek, playing their widely regarded third record start to finish.1992’s Bricks […]
The chill-ridden, windy evening of October 7th marked the return of Scottish indie rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks to Columbus. It was the groups return to town and second stop in the state this year after a large response at the Columbus Arts Festival in the summer. Several fans, that stood in the large pavilion […]
Italy’s Lacuna Coil spent part of the late summer touring the U.S., celebrating the 20th anniversary of third record Comalies. Among the trek the King of Clubs in Columbus, Ohio got them on September 21st packing a house of loud, devoted fans and asylum seekers, wanting to see the gothic masquerade in person. The 13 […]
Wednesday, September 14 the ghoulishly loud ungodly horde that is Wednesday 13 brought their 20 Years of Fear Tour to Riverfront Live in front of a crowd of rabid, dedicated fans ready for the dug up decibels and delivery only they could unearth. It was a long, steady, sweaty set of old-school favorites, classics, newer […]
The following interview was conducted backstage at Riverfront Live, Cincinnati, Ohio on 9-14 with assistance from guest contributor Jacqueline Perrin. Wednesday 13 is known for their ghoulish and grandiose songs, stage performances and overall, extreme zest for the dead, afterlife. Front man Wednesday has led the graveyard charge forward for two decades leaving a crypt […]
You could call them hells guitar chord choir, an unholy evolution evoking incantations and lyrical hymns or a five-way unholy resurrection with Denmark’s death metal necro-newcomers Defacing God at the helm. Led by the wicked hand of vocalist/lyricist and creative director Sandie Gjørtz, Her defiant desires and macabre mantras paint a burning portrait of Lilith […]
On Sunday August 7th two acts from SoCal came to Columbus, Ohio to invade Natalie’s Musical Hall and Kitchen bringing along the desert heat with mirages, illusions, psychedelic sounds and noisy cool garage rock. L.A. Witch and Death Valley Girls spent the summer burning up the road, clocking the miles, leaving crowds in their wake […]
Friday, July 29 the outside stage area of J.D. Legends was packed for ‘90s rockers and ballad kings Firehouse as the reigning queen of metal Lita Ford took over the stage later in the evening. The place was filled with everyone from teens to classic generations ready to experience the veteran Runaway play everything from […]