Concert Reviews

What better way to kick the shit out of your Monday than a night of metal. The 20 Monroe Live venue in Grand Rapids hosted a fearsome night of metal with Lamb of God and Behemoth. Each band left a wake of devastation and exalted metal fans. The men of [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve been to an Alt-rock performance, with many of the alt-rock royalty of the early 2000’s not making it down this way since Soundwave Festival’s collapse. But on Saturday night I headed out to see Alt-Rock legends [...]

Braving a bitterly cold Melbourne midwinter evening I arrive at the Northcote social club and am greeted by a stage laden with vintage musical equipment, no high tech modern equipment in sight. Suddenly the house music dims and the Cascades takes to the [...]

Alter Bridge is pretty much one of the tightest acts to catch live today. They can be just as easily be considered as one of the few great bands that came out of the early 2000s Hard/Alternative rock scene. Their fan following has pretty much increased [...]

Sunday night shows are always hit and miss. On one hand certain bands can pull any night of the week, but on the other hand there is a large contingent of people that won’t head out due to their earlier start the following morning. Luckily, faithful fans [...]

It has been truly said that “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. What is that one artist or a band that you would consider an embodiment of this fact? Who would have created something as thought-provoking in ways that no one [...]

The alternative/psychedelic rock band Sólstafir from Iceland released their newest album, ‘Berdreyminn’ in May this year. With respect to the release, they toured in Europe and made a stop over in Hannover on Sunday the 18th of June 2017 at the [...]

During a brief span of clear weather, a collection of progressive metal fans gathered at Buffalo Iron Works in Buffalo NY to see the long awaited return of prog metal icons, Fates Warning. A special occasion for this audience member because 16 years ago, [...]