Lagwagon. Summit Music Hall. Denver, CO 12.11.14 Live Review and Setlist. It’s January 14th, 1995. I am about to see Lagwagon for the first time. It’s a Saturday. I sleep in late because I don’t have anywhere to be. I roll out of bed (a mattress on the ground) sometime in the late afternoon. After …
Sometimes I wish extreme music was more popular. I realize that goes against everything that ‘extreme’ bands and fans stand for, but before you gather the black-clad masses to hunt me down and feed me to the lions, let me explain my thought process here. It really comes down to one simple thing…I can’t attend …
Metal Alliance / Decibel Magazine Tour. 2014. Denver. Read More »
There are those who know Geto Boys as the group who did “that one song from Office Space”, and then there are those of us who know them as the true pioneers of Southern rap music. I won’t claim I was around for Making Trouble, but I was there in 1990 when they released The …
To say Oakland, California’s Neurosis have been influential in the modern metal space would be a gross understatement. In fact, I have learned more about Neurosis’ signature sound by reading comparisons in reviews of albums by other bands than I have by listening to their actual music. Starting out as a hardcore outfit in the …
Work travel has made for a stunted start to a new year of music for ILSUDH2, but Brian H is here with the year’s first metal review! Machine Head is one of those bands that have been through some ups and downs over the years. After obliterating the metal world with their debut album Burn …
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 …
Phil Anselmo might be known as much for being an asshole as he is for bitch-slapping your eardrums with bands like (the legendary) Pantera, Arson Anthem and the super ‘southern sludge’ group, Down. Anselmo will be the first to admit he’s done and said some regrettable things in the past, sometimes he’ll say some new …
Phil Anselmo and friends throw DOWN w/ In Solitude: Summit Music Hall, 09/06/11 Read More »
It was cold in Denver last night, real cold. The temperature might have read in the 20’s, but it felt much colder than that standing in line in front of the Summit Music Hall, anticipating the mighty Immortal. The icy, frigid air provided the appropriate atmosphere for Norway‘s masters of occult to bring their stories …
