Goatwhore, 3 Inches of Blood, Revocation & Ramming Speed played Saint Vitus (pics); Ramming Speed ready new LP
Check out pictures from the circle-pitting mayhem at InvisibleOranges.
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Check out pictures from the circle-pitting mayhem at InvisibleOranges.
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I started my marathon at Show No Mercy's showcase and closed it at Invisible Oranges'.
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Be sure to read my coverage of the SXSW madness on Wednesday, March 13 and Thursday's, March 14.
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Since Wednesday's SXSW shenanigans suffered from a complete lack of tacos — and since Thursday afternoon's scheduled didn't include any notable metal shows — we decided to start things right on Thursday by venturing a little off the beaten track for some breakfast tacos.
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For the third year in a row, MetalSucks will be at SXSW in Austin, TX presenting our annual South by South Death showcase, and we couldn't be more excited about the lineup!
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The Casualties will liven up Acheron on Feb 15 when the band joins Perdition , Agitator and Sad Boys for a show at the space.
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'Twas December 22nd and all through the house, no one was sleeping cuz I was blasting High On Fire to get ready for the concert that night.
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High On Fire, Goatwhore, Primate, Lo-Pan at The Middle East, Cambridge on Saturday, November 24, 2012.
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On Friday November 30th , BV's intrepid master of metal content BBG caught the High on Fire / Goatwhore / Primate / Lo-Pan show at Bowery Ballroom.
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High on Fire are on tour and played two NYC shows this weekend, the first of which was at Bowery Ballroom on 11/30 with tourmates Goatwhore , Primate and Lo-Pan. The shows marked not only a triumphant return for guitar god Matt Pike following his stint with rehab , but also a chance to document his return for all posterity: both Bowery Ballroom and the following night's show at Music Hall of Williamsburg were recorded for a live album.
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Tr00 metalheads are probably gonna want my nuts on a stick for this claim, but here it is: a large chunk of the new Cradle of Filth song reminds me a lot of Goatwhore.
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Congrats to reader Jack Peterson, who correctly identified last week's logo as belonging to the band Basarabian Hills.
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Madina Lake have spoken out after Justin Pivec, the man who viciously beat bassist Matthew Leone while Leone played the Good Samaritan and intervened in a fight between Pivec and his wife, was found not guilty of attempted murder of his wife.
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One of the most visited posts on the site is something I posted almost two years ago titled " It Seems Bands Don't Make Money Off Touring Either " highlighting how even a band who is successfully touring is still losing out on money.
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The bigger that sites like Kickstarter grow and the more commonplace direct fundraiser campaigns through them become, it's interesting to watch the different ways in which the services are utilized and the moral gray area that results.
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This week, Metal Blade has bestowed upon us CD copies of brand new albums from Goatwhore, Cattle Decapitation (out next week) and Exumer.
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I'm gonna put about as much effort into this introduction as Matt Pike puts into shirt selection.
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What follows, gentle reader, is my experience of their newest LP, Blood for the Master, wherein it may be safely assumed that your narrator is most thoroughly on said New Orleans-based black/death/thrash 'n' roll band's proverbial dick.
Read MoreWell, we've spent all week calculating the data, and this weekend is looking to add up to be killer.
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New releases from Goatwhore, Orange Goblin, Earth and Beneath the Massacre all placed in the Top 100 of the "Current Hard Music Albums" chart on Soundscan last week, while recent records from Van Halen, Lamb of God, Foo Fighters, Lacuna Coil and more just keep on truckin'.
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If you take the time to read the script of Blood for the Master , the fifth album by New Orleans death metal quartet Goatwhore , you might be intimidated.
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Continuing the trend of announcing Metal Blade bands produced by Erik Rutan, Sumerian bands that are on Sumerian, and bands that everyone already knew were on the tour , Goatwhore and Veil of Maya have both been added to Summer Slaughter.
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Last week when Rob announced that Exhumed would be playing this year's upcoming Summer Slaughter Tour, he mentioned that Ben from Goatwhore jumped the gun to Musik Universe , and said that his band would also be performing.
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Summer Slaughter has been officially announcing one new band that will be on the bill every Sunday for the past three Sundays. 'cause the identities of six of the ten bands on the tour already leaked several weeks ago, and so far, all the billing announcements (namely Cannibal Corpse, Between the Buried and Me , and The Faceless ) and have just confirmed that the leaks were accurate.
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At a casual glance, band members and audience members tended to look like metal fans tend to look-- i.e., homeless and probably suffering from at least several personality disorders: old black clothes, dreads, very long hair and beards, et cetera.
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Goatwhore 's Erik Rutan-produced fifth album, Blood for the Master , their first since 2009's Carving out the Eyes of God , will be released on February 14 via Metal Blade.
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What with their (as of this writing) upcoming album Blood For the Master, I revisited Goatwhore's previous LP, Carving Out the Eyes of God, playing it on tank-like, if outdated, speakers at jet-engine volume.
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Goatwhore's Blood for the Master has quickly become one of the favorite jams to play around the MetalSucks Mansion these days; I love it, Vince loves it, Sammy O'Hagar just turned in his review and hey, guess what?, he fucking loved it.
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MetalSucks and Dead End Threads are proud to present what has to be not one, but really two of the sickest, most brutal tours of the new year.
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This new Goatwhore track, "Collapse in Eternal Worth" has been playing on loop for the last half hour for me.
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Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel.
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Although their respective sounds are quite different, Goatwhore and Hate Eternal have three important things in common: they're both on Metal Blade, they're both produced by HE's Erik Rutan, and they're both so endlessly awesome that they put most other bands to shame.
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Lock Up — the supergroup (for lack of a better term) featuring Tomas Lindberg of At the Gates/Disfear fame, Napalm Death's Shane Embury, super-famous-drummer-dude Nicolas Barker, and Pentagram's Anton Reisenegger — have never tour the U.S. before… but that's gonna change in February, when the band will cross the ocean to do a headlining run here in the States.
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Exhumed teamed with Goatwhore , Havok , and Brohammer at Europa on Wednesday night (11/9), as part of the latter three's tour together.
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This is a repost about a great tour that kicks off tonight, so you better get your ass to one of these shows!
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We are proudly co-presenting death metal masters Exhumed's North American headlining tour, which, just to make extra-extra-sure you attend, features the unfuckwithable support line-up of Goatwhore (seriously fuck you if you don't worship Goatwhore), Cephalic Carnage (best Entire Catalog to Get Stoned To ever?), and Havok (one of the only modern thrash band that actually matters).
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