This Sunday, June 6, heavy metal fans from around the world will unite to celebrate the fourth International Day of Slayer (IDoS), and demand the official recognition of June 6 as a public holiday. Those who observe the holiday are encouraged to stage “Slay-outs:” ”Listen to Slayer at full blast in your car, in your [...]
Jun 03, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Heavy Metal, Slayer | Leave A Comment »
Friday night the House of Blues played host to another big metal show, this time one being headlined by Arch Enemy, hailing all the way from Sweden! Last week was the week of overseas death metal first with Behemoth and now Arch Enemy, quite an exciting week for metal fans indeed! Mutiny Within Mutiny Within [...]
Feb 02, 2010 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: arch enemy, arsis, chicago, Concert Photography, Concert Reviews, death metal, exodus, Heavy Metal, House Of Blues, metal, mutiny within, Show Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Arch Enemy is gearing up for their first North American tour in over a year, with a headlining run on the “Tyrants of Evil” tour, kicking off Wednesday, January 20. Exodus, Arsis, and Mutiny Within will play in support. “We’ve spent the last week rehearsing for the upcoming ‘Tyrants of Evil’ North American tour, and [...]
Jan 20, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: arch enemy, death metal, exodus, Heavy Metal, metal, music news, tyrants of evil | Leave A Comment »
The new decade in the windy city started off with the return of a band that is into their third decade together as a band, three decades where they really didn’t get a whole lot of recognition in the big scheme of things until someone made a movie about them which finally got people to [...]
Jan 12, 2010 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: Anvil, chicago, Concert Photography, Concert Reviews, earthen grave, Heavy Metal, House Of Blues, metal, rev luv | 3 Comments »
Unfortunately for metal fans everywhere, Slayer has had to cancel their planned tours this winter. Lead singer/bass player Tom Araya has to undergo back surgery. As someone who just went through this myself right before Xmas, I can certainly sympathize, though what Tom is about to go through is a lot more serious than the [...]
Jan 12, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Heavy Metal, metal, Slayer | Leave A Comment »
Two long running heavyweights of heavy metal, Slayer and Megadeth, have announced they will be touring together at the start of 2010. “American Carnage” is the first time that Slayer and Megadeth will have toured the U.S. together since 1991′s epic “Clash of the Titans” tour. To celebrate that, and in recognition of the tough [...]
Nov 18, 2009 | Categories: Music News | Tags: american carnage tour, Heavy Metal, megadeth, metal, Slayer, Testament | Leave A Comment »
Thursday night I hopped on the L all excited to finally see Mastodon play over at Metro. I had been looking forward to this show ever since I saw they were going on tour because not only would I get to see Mastodon, but Kylesa was also playing with them and that’s another band I’ve [...]
May 04, 2009 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: beards, chicago, Concert Photography, Concert Reviews, Heavy Metal, Intronaut, Kylesa, live music, Mastodon, metal, metro, Show Reviews | 1 Comment »
A few days ago I went to see Down once again play at the House of Blues. They were just here about a year ago and put on a really good show, so i was excited at the chance to see them again. I also was a Pantera fan and since Down features Phil Anselmo [...]
Nov 17, 2008 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: Black Sabbath, Canon EOS-5D, chicago, Concert Photography, Concert Reviews, Danava, Down, Heavy Metal, House Of Blues, live music, metal, Pantera, Phil Anselmo, Show Reviews, Stoner Rock | 1 Comment »
