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Lamb of God ticket give away

Lamb of God at Fillmore Silver Spring

This coming Monday, July 30th, Richmond based Lamb of God will be headlining the Fillmore Silver Spring! This show has an all star line up of metal bands including Anthrax, Testament and Napalm Death. We’re so damn excited about this show that we’re giving away a free pair of tickets to this concert to one lucky reader! To enter: just leave a comment on this post telling me which of the four bands playing you are most excited to see! Then on Wednesday, July 25th at 12pm EST the contest will close and a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries. The winner will get two free tickets the show! Be sure to enter using an email address you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that, I hate spam too. If I haven’t heard back from the winner in 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Live Nation for $45 here.

Lamb of God is coming hot off their tour as direct support on Slayer’s farewell tour. Anthrax, one of the big four of thrash metal, will be direct support for this show with Bay Area thrashers Testament performing as well. The opening band is none other than the still reigning kings of grindcore, Napalm Death. Top to bottom that’s a pretty stacked line up! Now check out these videos by the bands performing and leave a comment telling me which band you are most excited to see at this show!

Lamb of God – 512

Anthrax – Only

Testament – The Pale King

Napalm Death – Standardization

July 23, 2018
Categories: Contests, Fillmore Silver Spring, Grind, Thrash Metal . Tags: Anthrax, Fillmore Silver Spring, Lamb Of God, Napalm Death, Testament . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 58 Comments

Whitechapel ticket give away

Whitechapel at Fillmore Silver Spring

We promised more ticket give aways soon and we’re starting off by giving one of you lucky DCHM readers a pair of tickets to see Whitechapel perform at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Friday, February 24th of 2017. To enter just leave a comment on this post telling me what is your favorite metal song to play on Valentine’s Day. At 5pm EST this Friday, February 17th, a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the pair of tickets. Be sure to use a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If I haven’t heard back from the winner in 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Live Nation for $22 here.

Despite being named after the London district that Jack The Ripper committed his murders, Whitechapel is actually from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band’s catchy style of deathcore and intense live shows have made them on of the biggest names of the subgenre. Direct support for the headliner on this tour comes from the vegetarian death metal band Cattle Decapitation. Goatwhore brings their dirty, blackened metal from New Orleans on this tour, and Allegaeon playing a proggy style of melo death. The opener is Necromancing The Stone, a newer melo death/thrash band from Ohio. What do all these bands have in common? They’re all signed to Metal Blade Records and they’re making this Metal Blade 35th Anniversary Tour something you don’t want to miss! Now check out these videos by the bands on the bill and let me know what is your favorite metal song to listen to on Valentine’s Day!

Whitechapel – Elitist Ones

Cattle Decapitation – Forced Gender Reassignment

Goatwhore – Apocalyptic Havoc

Allegaeon – Of Mind And Matrix

Necromancing The Stone – The Siren’s Call

February 13, 2017
Categories: Contests, Death Metal, Fillmore Silver Spring . Tags: Allegaeon, Cattle Decapitation, Goatwhore, Metal Blade Records 35th Anniversary, Necromancing The Stone, Whitechapel . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 20 Comments

Review of Meshuggah at the Fillmore Silver Spring

Many of you that go to concerts regularly in our area may know Metal Nick for some of the awesome photos and videos he shoots of metal bands. Well last Sunday he was at the Fillmore to photograph the Meshuggah and High On Fire tour for DCHM and he wrote up this review to go with them. Enjoy!

On Sunday, November 6th, 2016, Meshuggah and High On Fire rolled through Silver Spring, Maryland, at the Fillmore Silver Spring. This was the final show of the tour to support Meshuggah’s latest album, The Violent Reason of Sleep. High on Fire opened the show. The building had filled in quickly so they performed in front of a large crowd. Their live shows have always been full of large, crushing, sludgy guitars and drums which set the mood with the crowd almost immediately. After they finished their first song vocalist Matt Pike yelled out “Hello Baltimore!” I am not sure if that was a joke or he really thought he was in Baltimore. Once the drums started rolling in the beginning of “Turk” a huge roar of joy came from the crowd, it seems that was the most anticipated song of the night. They played for 35 minutes and surprisingly the Meshuggah fan base was really welcoming to their sound.

Meshuggah went on next and came out to a really creepy sounding intro that fit the vibe of their live show. They opened with the first track off The Violent Reason of Sleep titled “Clockworks” which made the audience at the Fillmore go crazy. It wasn’t long before the crowd surfers started coming over the rails, even Ant Scot, the famous wheelchair crowd surfer, made an appearance. Their progressive metal sound was complimented well with their flashy strobe light that very rarely contained any color lights. All in all their set was very enjoyable consisting mostly of songs off their last three albums with a few older tracks sprinkled throughout the set. One tune I was surprised to hear was the 9 minute song “Dancers To A Discordant System” off the Obzen album. Throughout the night there were a lot of chants for “Bleed” and when Meshuggah finally played it the pit became more aggressive. They closed their set with their classic song “Future Breed Machine,” off of the 1994 album Destroy Erase Improve, which is always a huge crowd pleaser. I would say that if you haven’t seen this tour go check it out, but this was the final date of this particular tour, hopefully both bands will hit the road and come through again in 2017.

Matt Pike of High On Fire

Jeff Matz of High On Fire

Des Kensel of High On Fire

Ant Scot riding high

Jens Kidman of Meshuggah

Dick Lövgren of Meshuggah

Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah

November 11, 2016
Categories: Concert Reviews, Fillmore Silver Spring, Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal . Tags: Fillmore Silver Spring, High On Fire, Meshuggah, Metal Nick . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 2 Comments

In Flames ticket give away

In Flames at the Fillmore Silver Spring

Regardless of how you feel about the election results this week I think we can all agree it’s been a long and stressful election and we all could stand to blow off some steam. On Monday, November 14th, we’ll get the chance to do just that when the Swedish melo death masters In Flames perform at the Fillmore Silver Spring! We’re going to be giving away a pair of tickets to this very show to one of you lucky DCHM readers, whether you have an “I Voted” sticker or not! To enter: just leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite metal band from Sweden is. It can be a Gothenburg band like In Flames or anyone else from Ghost to Entombed to Amon Amarth. At 5pm EST this Friday, November 11th, a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the tickets. Be sure to use a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If I haven’t heard back from the winner in 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Live Nation for $29.50 here.

In Flames is probably the most famous of the melodic death metal bands that rose out of the Gothenburg, Sweden, area in the 90s. They’re have a new album out this Friday, titled Battles, and this show will be a great chance to hear some of those brand new songs live! Also on the Forged In Fire Tour is Hellyeah! from Dallas, Texas. Formed by Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul and former Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray, the band has made a name for themselves in their own right. The opener of the show is a new band from Pennsylvania called From Ashes To New. Their debut album came out in February this year and charted at #53 on Billboard. Now check out these videos by the bands playing as you leave a comment below telling me what your favorite metal band from Sweden is!

In Flames – The End

Hellyeah! – I Don’t Care Anymore

From Ashes To New – Through It All

November 9, 2016
Categories: Contests, Fillmore Silver Spring, Gothenburg Sweden, Melodic Death Metal . Tags: Fillmore Silver Spring, Forged In Fire Tour, From Ashes To New, Hellyeah, In Flames . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 12 Comments

Opeth and The Sword ticket give away

Opeth and The Sword at the Fillmore Silver Spring

The legendary Swedish prog metal band Opeth is touring with Texas based doom metal masters The Sword which comes to the Fillmore Silver Spring on Friday, September 30th, 2016! We’re so psyched to see these two great bands together that we’re giving away a pair of tickets to this very show to one of you lucky DCHM readers! These bands are from two very different subgenres of heavy metal so to enter: just leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite heavy metal subgenre is. From traditional to funeral doom metal to crabcore to brutal slam sci-fi tech death metal, any metal subgenre is valid as long as it is your favorite! On Tuesday, Sept 27th at 5pm EST the contest will close and I’ll pick a winner at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the tickets. Be sure to use a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Live Nation for $35 here.

Opeth have been one of the leading bands in the progressive metal world since they released their debut album, Orchid, back in 1995. The band’s 12th studio album, Sorceress, is being released on the very same day as this show. That means we’ll be some of the first to hear these new songs live, as well as some of the band’s older classics from throughout the years as well. But let’s not forget the opening act on this tour, The Sword. Normally a headliner in their own right, The Sword will be opening shows on this tour with their catchy brand of doom metal. It’s not every day you get to see two great bands from such different subgenres on the same bill so this is not a show to be missed. Check out these videos from the bands below and tell me what your favorite heavy metal subgenre is!

Opeth – The Wilde Flowers

The Sword – Lawless Lands

Opeth – The Grand Conjuration

September 22, 2016
Categories: Contests, Doom Metal, Fillmore Silver Spring, Progressive Metal . Tags: Contest, Fillmore Silver Spring, Opeth, The Sword . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 22 Comments

Devin Townsend ticket give away

The Devin Townsend Project at the Fillmore Silver Spring

In case you didn’t know, DCHeavyMetal.com turns 7 years old this weekend. To celebrate we’ll be doing a bunch of give aways throughout September. It just so happens that the Devin Townsend Project is playing the Fillmore Silver Spring on Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 and we are giving a pair of tickets away to the show! To enter: just leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite Devin Townsend song is. It can be from any of his eponymous projects, Strapping Young Lad, even Casualties Of Cool is fair game. Then on Monday, Sept 12th at 12pm EST the contest will close and I’ll pick a winner at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the tickets. Be sure to use a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. Please don’t enter if you can’t go, this contest ends so close to the show time that I might not have time to pick another winner if you can’t go. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Live Nation for $25 here.

I suppose guitar virtuoso Devin Townsend can be called a legend of progressive metal, though really his music is more “out there” than what is typically considered prog. The brand new DTP album, Transcendence came out today (Fri, Sept 9th) and this tour will be our first chance to hear Heavy Devy play some of those songs live. Also on the bill is the North Carolina based progressive Between The Buried And Me. BTBAM seems like a perfect support band for Devin Townsend, I’m surprised I haven’t seen them tour together before. The opening act is Fallujah, a proggy deathcore band that is actually from San Francisco, not Afghanistan. Check out these videos of the bands below and let me know your favorite Devin Townsend song!

Devin Townsend Project – Failure