Dayton
Asylum Reunion 2022 Brings 2000 Era Dance Back to Bar Granada
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, loner and Goth kid looking for a place to dance, hangout, party ...[Read More]
A Welcomed Coop’s Nightmare Haunted at J.D. Legends
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: The Alice Cooper Experience bro...[Read More]
Aces High – Maiden the Seventh Son’s Image at J.D. Legends
Saturday February, 26th Dayton’s premiere Iron Maiden tribute Aces High stormed the J.D. Legends stage taking over shoving a two hour setlist straight down the throat and up the irons of a packed house. The evening’s special attraction came as soon as the show began with the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album played start to finish followed by a healthy stash of Maiden classics and one newbie. Day...[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]
Inaugural Sacrifest honors musicians and their art
Dayton scene veteran John Jacobs is the brains behind John Jacobs Jingles Promotions first Sacrifest event honoring sacrifices musicians make for their art. With a diverse lineup from acoustic to death metal, the weekend fest plans to make a memorable first impression. “This is an event for all local bands,” Jacobs says. The event takes place from September 21 till the early morning of the 23 with...[Read More]
Turn it to Eleven Tour Gives Dayton Loud Therapy
Minneapolis pop rock band City of the Weak brought their show to Dayton with Echo Black and In Loving Memory. The Therapy Café hosted the DF Productions and Events Sunday evening event. The 25-date tour spanned early April to early May. Self-labeled as pop metal and everything in between In Loving Memory hailed from Queens New York via elsewhere including YouTube. Transplant and vocalist Naveed St...[Read More]
Modern Day Maharaja’s
Dayton based three-piece Maharaja have infected audiences with their doom, sludge, desert rock brand of noise. Slowly dehydrating the crowds through heavy delivery and heat leaving them thirsting for more. Vocalist, bassist Eric Bluebaum, guitarist Angus Burkhart and drummer Zack Mangold play their hometown heavy habitat Blind Bob’s Friday, March 9 with Black Mass, Led to the Grave, and Crewneck. ...[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]
Dayton Celebrates Mick Montgomery at Memorial Hootenanny
Saturday January 20, The Brightside Event and Music Venue was filled with people from all over the area paying tribute to the memory of Wright State Graduate, artist and Canal Street Tavern owner Mick Montgomery. A pillar of the community since the early ‘80s, Montgomery opened the Tavern doors in 1981 giving anyone and everyone a chance to play the stage. From veterans to beginners. Many locals h...[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]
The Show Must Go On: I Died Trying Returns
Saturday, July 8, I Died Trying returned after a four year hiatus with a one man show performed by multi-instrumentalist Tony Goff who played two 45-minute sets at the Actors Theatre in Fairborn. It was a rare sit down affair but the experience everyone shared that night was one for the ages. The performance in scope and delivery went far beyond a rock show as Goff sweated out multiple built up em...[Read More]