Mayhem Festival is coming around again this summer to Jiffy Lube Live (formerly known as Nissan Pavilion) on Sunday July 29th and they’ve got a killer line up this year. Slipknot, Slayer and Motörhead will headlining the main stage while the second stage will be manned by Anthrax, The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay [...]
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Lamb Of God ticket give away
Richmond natives Lamb Of God are headlining a show at the 9:30 Club this Saturday the 28th of January 2012 and DCHeavyMetal.com is giving away a pair of tickets to one of you lucky readers of the site. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post below telling me [...]
January 23, 2012
Categories: Contests, Metalcore, Nightclub 9:30 . Tags: 9:30 Club, Contest, Contests, Lamb Of God, Make Like Murder, Nightclub 9:30, The Acacia Strain, Too Late The Hero . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 50 Comments
Mastodon and Puscifer ticket give aways
That’s right, DCHeavyMetal.com is giving away tickets to not one, but TWO kick ass shows coming up this weekend. Puscifer (featuring Maynard James Keenan of Tool fame) and Carina Round are playing at the Lisner Auditorium on Saturday the 26th of November 2011, and Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang are playing at [...]
November 21, 2011
Categories: Contests, Lisner Auditorium, Metalcore, Nightclub 9:30, Stoner . Tags: 9:30 Club, Carina Round, Contests, Free, Free TIckets, George Washington University, GWU, Heavy Metal, Lisner Auditorium, Mastodon, Metal, MJK, Music, Nightclub 9:30, Puscifer, Red Fang, TDEP, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Washington DC . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 81 Comments
Summer Slaughter Ticket Give Away
The Summer Slaughter Tour is coming to Washington DC this year and this wouldn’t be DCHeavyMetal.com if I wasn’t giving away tickets to this heavy concert! They’re coming to the 9:30 Club on Monday, August 15th, 2011. All you have to do to enter to win is post a comment below telling me which of [...]
August 8, 2011
Categories: Contests, Death Metal, Local Band Info, Metalcore, Nightclub 9:30, Washington DC / Maryland / Virginia Metal Scene . Tags: 9:30 Club, As Blood Runs Black, Concert, Contest, Contests, Darkest Hour, Dying Fetus, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Heavy Metal, Metal, Music, Nightclub 9:30, Oceano, Powerglove, Six Feet Under, Summer Slaughter, Summer Slaughter Tour, The Black Dahlia Murder, White Chapel, Within Ruins . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 27 Comments
Bullet For My Valentine ticket give away
Here’s another ticket give away for readers of DCHeavyMetal.com! This time you can win a pair of tickets to see the Welsh metalcore band Bullet For My Valentine play the 9:30 Club on Tuesday 24 May 2011 with opening act Halestorm. To enter just tell me what your favorite metal band from the United Kingdom [...]
May 18, 2011
Categories: Contests, Metalcore, Nightclub 9:30 . Tags: Band, Bullet For My Valentine, Contest, Halestorm, Heavy Metal, Metal, Music . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 14 Comments
Metal Marathon – The First 3 Days
Well it’s Tuesday the 8th as I write this, and I’ve been to four metal shows in the last three days. I saw two metal fests in Richmond on Saturday, the Virginia Extreme Metal Festival at the Canal Club and A Rockin Massacre at Alley Katz, both are just blocks away and I walked back [...]
March 8, 2011
Categories: Bourbon Street, Classic Metal, Concert Reviews, Death Metal, Local Band Info, Metal Marathon, Metalcore, Power Metal, So Addictive Lounge, Thrash Metal, Washington DC / Maryland / Virginia Metal Scene . Tags: A Rockin Massacre, A Sound Of Thunder, Band, Blood Tribe, Chopper Trike Rebels, Concert, Concert Review, Concert Reviews, Cradle Of Filth, Death Penalty, Division, Gig, Hatred, Heavy Metal, Loculus, Metal, Metal Marathon, Music, Palkoski, Virginia Extreme Metal Festival, Wolfnuke, Xuekatre . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 2 Comments
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