CONCERT REVIEWS
Just over a year since the release of their acclaimed album “Pitfalls,” and not quite a full year since the music industry came grinding to…
Fortune may favor the bold, but in this day and age where live concerts are indefinitely on hold and live streaming is the rule, the…
For the better part of 30 years, many of us in the metal community have been wondering if maybe Jon Oliva had missed his calling…
A question came up on my Facebook feed a few weeks ago: “which opening band blew the headliner away when you saw them?” Immediately, the…
In this day and age of social distancing, lockdowns and governors with god complexes, it seems like an act of pure rebellion to simply invite…
One could say that the best concert experiences are those that draw the audience into another world, but some artists tend to go about accomplishing…
Though perhaps best known as one of the heavy hitters of the American metalcore explosion of the mid-2000s, August Burns Red is a band that…
There is swimming against the tide, there are David vs. Goliath scenarios, and then there is the task of mounting an independent campaign against the…
One lesson that can be taken as 2020 draws to a close is that there is impermanence in what we see as normality. To be…
Dark Tranquillity, one of Gothenburg’s signature melodeath bands, jumped on the live-stream wagon by offering a video stream of the live world premiere of their…
There are many labels that could be slapped onto the phenomenon that is Chris Jericho, but for this trustee of latter-day Gen X and metal…
The legendary gothic metal masters Paradise Lost performed their very first live stream this past Thursday, November 5th. The social media advertisement for this event…
Since the pandemic started, Steel Panther has done an amazing job at connecting with their fanbase. Not only they put together their daily public announcement…
The world has forgone live concerts for upwards of seven months at a conservative count, but live streams have seen a growing embrace as bands…
Mr. Bungle pulled no punches on their live stream last Saturday, October 31st. Coming out of a twenty-year dormancy with a re-recording of their first…
In a time when a few artists are booking shows for the second half of 2021, while others are simply scrapping next year altogether and…
