Wednesday the 9th of May 2012 was a rainy day in the Washington, DC area, perfect weather for a mid-week, indoor concert. The Heritage Hunter Tour brought the impressive line up of Opeth, Mastodon and Ghost to the Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland, that night and I finally got a chance to check out this [...]
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Onslaught and M-Pire Of Evil Concert Review
On Easter Sunday, the 8th of April, I headed over to the U Street Music Hall in Washington DC to see Onslaught and M-Pire Of Evil play the final show of their 2012 North American tour. This tour was the first time either band had ever been to the US and this show was the [...]
April 12, 2012
Categories: Concert Reviews, Thrash Metal, U Street Music Hall . Tags: Band, Concert, Concert Review, Gig, Heavy Metal, M-Pire Of Evil, Metal, Music, Onslaught, Thrash Metal, U St Music Hall, U Street Music Hall, Venom, Washington DC . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 1 Comment
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
Mega Sized Metal Concert Recap
Recently I’ve not been able to write as many concert reviews as I’d like to. I’m considering doing some shorter ones in the future. Believe it or not, my average concert review takes me 10-14 hours to put together. I have been going to a hell of a lot of shows and that just makes [...]
November 10, 2011
Categories: Asefu's, Black Metal, Comet Ping Pong, Concert Reviews, Death Metal, Jaxx Nightclub, Power Metal, Rams Head Live, Sonar, Stoner, Talking Head Club, Tech Death, Thrash Metal, Washington DC / Maryland / Virginia Metal Scene . Tags: A Sound Of Thunder, Asefu's, Auroboros, Black Metal, Blackened Death Metal, Bloodbath, Borracho, Comet Ping Pong, Concert Recap, Concert Review, Death Metal, Decapitated, Deceased, Decrepit Birth, Doom Metal, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hate, Impiety, Inter Arma, Jaxx Nightclub, Johnny Brenda's, Keep Of Kalessin, Kvelertak, Landmine Marathon, Mayhem, Melodic Black Metal, Midnight, Midnight Eye, Opeth, Rams Head Live, Sabaton, Sepultura Cover Band, Skeletonwitch, Sludge Metal, Sonar, Stoner, Technical Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Warbringer, Windhand . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 4 Comments
Review of Cavalera Conspiracy gig at the Rock And Roll Hotel
I was excited to see the Cavalera Conspiracy play the Rock & Roll Hotel on H Street in Washington DC on Wednesday the 12th of October 2011. The Cavalera brothers, Max and Igor, were founding members of one of my favorite bands when I was growing up, Sepultura. Sepultura, the Portuguese word for grave, formed [...]
October 14, 2011
Categories: Concert Reviews, Hardcore Metal, Rock And Roll Hotel, Thrash Metal . Tags: Band, Cavalera Conspiracy, Concert Review, Concert Reviews, Heavy Metal, Metal, Music, Rock And Roll Hotel, Sepultura, Washington DC . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 2 Comments
Recap of Clutch and Suplecs gigs
On Sunday the 18th of September I had two shows I was trying to catch live. The first was a special free show that the Frederick, Maryland based band Clutch was holding at the Red Palace. This show was listed as a special five song acoustic set that was part of a promotional “release party” [...]
September 22, 2011
Categories: Concert Reviews, Red Palace, Sludge Metal, Stoner, Velvet Lounge . Tags: Band, Beer, Clutch, Clutch Dark Sour Ale, Concert, Concert Review, Concert Reviews, Concerts, Gig, Heavy Metal, Lo-Pan, Metal, Music, New Belgium Brewing, Nitroseed, Recap, Red Palace, Review, Sludge Metal, Stoner, Suplecs, Velvet Lounge, Washington DC . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: Leave a Comment
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