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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This blog specializes in heavy metal music and how it relates to Washington DC and the surrounding area. Featuring info on upcoming metal concerts in Washington DC, Baltimore and Virginia, as well as info on local bands, area concert venues, reviews of live gigs, and links to free new heavy metal music.-
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Sometimes it seems like I run a shit load of contests on here and not much else. While I’m constantly working on updating the Upcoming Metal Concert Calendar the actual written posts haven’t been coming up as much lately. I have plenty of excuses like car trouble and getting sick and march madness, but I [...]
March 30, 2012
Categories: Black Cat, Black Metal, Concert Reviews, DC9, Doom Metal, Jaxx Nightclub, Local Band Info, Nightclub 9:30, Power Metal, Sludge Metal, St. Stephen's Church, Stoner, Thrash Metal, Washington DC / Maryland / Virginia Metal Scene . Tags: 9:30 Club, A Sound Of Thunder, Alcest, Black Cat, Empire, Hail Hornet, Hail!Hornet, Heavy Metal, Iced Earth, Jucifer, King Giant, Metal, Warbringer, Washington DC, Windhand . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 1 Comment
Alcest ticket give away
Listen up folks, there’s a new ticket contest on DCHeavyMetal.com! This time you can win a free pair of tickets to see the French shoegaze/black metal band Alcest play at DC9 on Thursday 29 March 2012. To enter just leave a comment on this post telling me why you are excited to see this show. [...]
March 20, 2012
Categories: Black Metal, Contests, DC9, Local Band Info, Sludge Metal, Washington DC / Maryland / Virginia Metal Scene . Tags: Alcest, Auroboros, Black Clouds, Black Metal, Concert, Contest, DC9, deafheaven, Free TIckets, Heavy Metal, Metal, Music, Shoegaze, Ticket Contest, Washington DC . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 24 Comments
Review of Windhand at St. Stephen’s
On Saturday the 3rd of March 2012 I headed over to Saint Stephen’s Church in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington DC to catch a great line up of metal bands. And while drinking wasn’t allowed at the venue this wasn’t some sort of Christian rock concert, upside down crosses and other metal standards were [...]
March 6, 2012
Categories: Concert Reviews, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Local Band Info, Sludge Metal, St. Stephen's Church, Thrash Metal, Washington DC / Maryland / Virginia Metal Scene . Tags: Concert, Concert Review, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Ilsa, Music, Natur, Pilgrim, Satan's Satyrs, Sludge Metal, St. Stephen And The Incarnation Episcopal Church, St. Stephen's Church, Thrash Metal, Washington DC, Windhand . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 1 Comment
Meshuggah/Baroness and Opeth/Mastodon ticket give aways!
The new Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland, hasn’t had a metal show since Anthrax and Testament played there in November, but they’ve just announced two killer metal concerts coming there in May. The Heritage Hunter tour with Opeth, Mastodon and Ghost on May 9th and the Ophidian Trek tour with Meshuggah, Baroness and Decapitated on [...]
February 3, 2012
Categories: Contests, Death Metal, Fillmore Silver Spring, Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal, Tech Death . Tags: Baroness, Contest, Contests, Decapitated, Fillmore, Fillmore Silver Spring, Free, Free TIckets, Ghost, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Opeth, Ticket Contest . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 72 Comments
King Giant tickets and album give away
Hey everyone, I’ve got another contest for you this week. Local southern metal act King Giant is playing Jaxx Nightclub in Springfield, Virginia this Saturday the 21st of January and DCHeavyMetal.com is giving away a free pair of tickets to one of you lucky readers of the site. This isn’t just any ordinary King Giant [...]
January 16, 2012
Categories: Contests, Jaxx Nightclub, Local Band Info, Shameless Promotion, Sludge Metal, Stoner, Washington DC / Maryland / Virginia Metal Scene . Tags: Auroboros, Borracho, Concert Tickets, Contest, Free, Free TIckets, Heavy Metal, Jaxx, Jaxx Nightclub, King Giant, Metal, Music, Sludge Metal, Stoner Metal, The Crimson Electric, Weed Warlock . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 23 Comments
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- Hatred
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- Magrudergrind
- Misery Index
- Oak
- Pentagram
- Periphery
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- Short Bus Pile Up
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