Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. Red Rocks. 07.05.15 The Mayhem Festival began its inaugural march through the United States around the same time I made the decision to move to Colorado. I wasn’t listening to a lot of metal back in 2008, and even if I was, I wouldn’t have made the trek to see …
Where was everyone last night? When I walked into The Marquis Theater just before 9:30pm, I was met by an empty bar and a few dudes in black leather jackets. The guys from Midnight were on stage setting up gear before a brief soundcheck. The place was dark and dead. I had expected a crowd …
Toxic Holocaust. Midnight. Marquis Theater. 05.28.12 Read More »
Vektor became the thrash metal darlings of 2011 when they dropped Outer Isolation on an unsuspecting audience late last year, so when they came to town Sunday night I thought it would be a great opportunity to catch them because I wasn’t quite sure how I felt about them or really got what all the …
10 years ago last weekend, the Bay Area lost it’s most beloved metal ambassador, the immortal Paul Baloff. Paul lived, breathed and bled metal. He was the godfather of the Bay Area thrash scene and he truly represented heavy metal and all it stood for. For me, legendary album Bonded By Blood is one of …
notes from the coast: Bonded by Baloff. 02.04.12 Read More »
Happy New Year metalheads! 2011 was a good year for the underground, with lots of solid and promising releases by newer and unknown bands, but for the old guard it wasn’t such a hot year. Lots of disappointments for me personally (Morbid Angel, Anthrax, Mastodon, Opeth etc….) but one of the sadder announcements last year …
notes from the coast: Sanctuary. Club Nokia 01.07.12 Read More »
Not only did the city of Austin approve a 3rd day of Fun this year, but the people over at FFF6 tacked on an extra 30 or so Nite shows…for free. As if a couple days of ear, liver and brain abuse wasn’t enough, this year is going take a whole new level of stamina. …
The classic Anthrax line-up was Scott Ian, Joey Belladonna, Frank Bello, Charlie Benante and Dan Spitz, and with the exception of Sptiz (replaced by Rob Caggiano), this is the line-up that performed at Summit Music Hall last night. The Anthrax we grew up with, performing the songs we grew up on. They might have kicked …
