Deafheaven and Programm, Toronto ON, Nov 21, 2014
Converse Rubber Tracks Live: Deafheaven with guests Programm Opera House, Toronto ON Friday, November 21st, 2014 Metal as a genre doesn’t have the anti-establishment reputation of punk,…
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ACID WITCH @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON, November 15, 2014
ACID WITCH @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON, November 15th, 2014 With support from IDNS and Chainbreaker, who were a great way to get…
THRASH INVASION TOUR: Onslaught, Artillery and Vx36 at the Mansion, Kingston, ON November 11, 2014
THRASH INVASION TOUR: Onslaught, Artillery and Vx36 at the Mansion, Kingston, ON November 11, 2014 Photo above by Artillery I don’t get out to…
Amon Amarth, Sabaton, and Skeletonwitch in Thunder Bay, October 7, 2014
Photos By Scott Hobbs The crowd for the October 7th Amon Amarth show in Thunder Bay was made up of the usual suspects. Whereas…
Children of Bodom, Tyr, Death Angel in Charlotte NC, March 19, 2014
Children of Bodom/Death Angel/Tyr Halo of Blood Over North America Charlotte, NC (3/19/14) I had my gear packed and ready to head to the…
Charred Walls of the Damned/ Piledriver/ Ash Lee Blade @ The Opera House, Toronto ON July 4, 2010
The awkwardly-named Charred Walls of the Damned delivered a solid headlining performance. While the other bands they shared the stage with has set a decidedly un-serious precedent, CWotD were much more straightforward and earnest in their presentation. Not to say that they were stuffy or stoic. They play unabashedly entertaining power/thrash metal, but choose not to caricature themselves to the point of complete cartoonification.
Blatant Self-Promotion: Gov’t Mule Live Review on Exclaim.ca
While Hellbound.ca is definitely my main focus these days, every now and then I still write for other places when asked. One band that I have covered for Exclaim! on a number of occasions that will appeal to some metal fans despite their non-metalness is the US based heavy blues rock quartet Gov’t Mule. The last time I wrote about them was about seven years ago, but when I got a last minute offer to cover their recent Toronto performance last week for Exclaim!, I rang up Albert Mansour to see if he was interested in checking it out.