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Telekinetic Yeti at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (29 Aug 2022)

Telekinetic Yeti Setlist Ghost Train Abominable Stoned and Feathered Ancient Nug Beast Toke Wizard Stoned Ape Theory Cult of Yeti Read More Telekinetic Yeti Iowa-based two-piece Telekinetic Yeti is headlining the 7th Street Entry this August 29th, in support of their Tee Pee Records debut album, Primordial. ... White Hills Opening up the show was White Hills, a rock band from New York with mostly guitarists Dave W. singing, but occasionally their bassist, Ego Sensation, would take over lead vocals. The two seemed really pleased . … Thunderbolt Pagoda Thunderbolt Pagoda, DJ Lodos Turf Club Tue 07/30/2019 (7pm/$15) Psychedelic Turkish folk rock group Altin Gün are on their first-ever U.S. tour… stopping by the Turf Club on July 30th. . …

Iowa-based two-piece Telekinetic Yeti headlined the 7th Street Entry, in Minneapolis, on August 29th, in support of their Tee Pee Records debut album, Primordial.

Opening the triple-rock show was Minneapolis’ Thunderbolt Pagoda, featuring Erik Wivinus on vocals and guitars, Gérard-Jéan Boissy on bass, Matt Entsminger on drums, and Ralph Karsten on synths. The band was named after the 1968 surreal film Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda.

The group played tracks from their albums, Artefakt III and Second Ascension, while psychedelic visuals were projected over the band, from the back of the stage by Van Glow Light Show. Side note, Van Glow was clearly named after celebrated impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh ... but what does he know about music? Didn’t he cut off his ear?

Van Glow would provide visuals for all the bands on the bill.

White Hills at Varsity (06 Aug 2013)

Next up was New York City fuzz rock outfit White Hills, who we haven’t seen for nearly 10 years, since they opened up for The Cult in Aug 2013.

We were very excited to catch up on the duo (Dave W. and Ego Sensation). They still had that 70s guitar sound, but it would seem that Ego would make use more of percussion, in addition to providing additional or lead vocals whenever a song called for it.

The band expressed gratitude to be part of this tour, and would dedicate their song “In Your Room” to Telekinetic Yeti .

White Hill’s forthcoming album The Revenge Of Heads On Fire (to be released September 16 via Heads On Fire Industries).

The Minneapolis show was the end of a long two-month North American tour, which started in South Carolina on July 2nd, and took them to the south (Texas), west coast (California), and finally winding to an end in Minneapolis. You can tell that after such a long travel that Telekinetic Yeti were both sadden that it would come to and end... but at the same time, they can finally take a break.

The doom/stoner duo (Alex Baumann and Rockwel Heim) was very comfortable on stage, playing the same set night after night.

As you can see from their setlist (with additional notes and settings), almost every song was from their new sophomore album Primordial. The two exceptions, “Abominable” and “Stoned and Feathered”, were taken from their debut album Abominable .

Telekinetic Yeti’s latest album, Primordial is out now on Tee Pee Records.

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Telekinetic Yeti at 7th St Entry, Minneapolis (29 Aug 2022)

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At the Fine Line (June 2022)

06/25 Helmet at Fine Line Read More Helmet If country is not your thing, Helmet will be playing Mill City Nights on March 11th. If you grew up in the 90s, you will recall their ever creepy music videos on MTV. For the 21st Anniversary of Betty, the band will be playing the entire album on this tour....

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06/25/2022 Saturday

Helmet
at Fine Line
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American alternative metal band Helmet is once again touring… the band is working on their 9th studio album.

Tour Dates:

4 Jun Infinity Music Hall Hartford
5 Jun The Warehouse Fairfield
7 Jun Garcia's The Captiol Theater Port Chester
8 Jun XL Live Harrisburg
9 Jun Black Cat Washington, DC
10 Jun The Broadberry Richmond
11 Jun Outer Banks Brewing Station Kill Devil Hills
12 Jun The Norva Norfolk
14 Jun The Loud Huntington
16 Jun Taft Cincinnati
17 Jun The Basement Columbus
18 Jun The Vault Saginaw Saginaw
19 Jun Intersection Grand Rapids
21 Jun HiFi Annex Indianapolis
22 Jun Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon Iowa City
23 Jun Delmar Hall St Louis
24 Jun The Waiting Room Omaha
25 Jun Fine Line Minneapolis
18 Aug Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Maryland Heights
20 Aug Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Tinley Park
21 Aug Pine Knob Music Theater Clarkston
23 Aug Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls
24 Aug Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center Noblesville
23 Sep Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center Louisville

06/24 Billy Howerdel at Fine Line Read More A Perfect Circle Supergroup A Perfect Circle (featuring guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan) is back in 2017 for a rare tour and promotion of a pending forth studio album ...

06/24/2022 Friday

Billy Howerdel of 'A Perfect Circle'
at Fine Line
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A Perfect Circle’s guitarist Billy Howerdel is headlining the Fine Line Music Café this June 24… just weeks shy of Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer show on July 3, 2022.

Howerdel’s debut solo album What Normal Was, is set for release June 10 via Alchemy Recordings, Rise Records, and BMG.

Tour Dates:

Jun 11 Ventura, CA, US Ventura Music Hall
Jun 12 Outdoor Los Angeles (LA), CA, US The Greek Theatre
Jun 14 Solana Beach, CA, US Belly Up Tavern
Jun 15 San Francisco, CA, US The Independent
Jun 16 Roseville, CA, US Goldfield Trading Post - Roseville
Jun 18 Portland, OR, US Wonder Ballroom
Jun 19 Seattle, WA, US Neumos
Jun 22 Englewood, CO, US Gothic Theatre
Jun 24 Minneapolis, MN, US Fine Line
Jun 26 St Louis, MO, US Delmar Hall
Jun 28 Chicago, IL, US Metro
Jun 29 Columbus, OH, US Newport Music Hall
Jul 1 Rochester Hills, MI, US Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
Jul 5 Boston, MA, US Brighton Music Hall Presented By Citizens
Jul 6 New York (NYC), NY, US Gramercy Theatre
Jul 8 Philadelphia, PA, US Theatre of Living Arts (TLA)
Jul 9 Baltimore, MD, US Baltimore Soundstage
Jul 10 Charlotte, NC, US The Underground
Jul 12 Atlanta, GA, US The Masquerade
Jul 14 New Orleans, LA, US House of Blues - New Orleans
Jul 15 Houston, TX, US White Oak Music Hall - Downstairs
Jul 16 Dallas, TX, US The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
Jul 17 Austin, TX, US Emo's Austin
Jul 20 Phoenix, AZ, US Crescent Ballroom
Jul 22 Phoenix, AZ, US Crescent Ballroom

06/22 Municipal Waste with INTEGRITY and Bewitcher at Fine Line Read More Municipal Waste I'd recommend this as highly for people who are into things like Municipal Waste, Septic Death, Man is the Bastard, Nausea, XBRAINIAX, or Hummingbird of Death as I would for people who are just into …

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Municipal Waste
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The Pit on 93X presents Municipal Waste at the Fine Line Music Café, as part of their Summer Atrocity 2022 tour.

INTEGRITY and Bewitcher to open.

Bewitcher will also be hopping on various other tours, including headlining side shows along their travels, in support of their new album Cursed Be Thy Kingdom: “That old dusty road is calling again. The first leg of the ‘Rebel Angels…Tour’ this spring was just the warm-up, and this summer, we’re turning up the heat! We are extremely stoked to be out there with our friends in Municipal Waste, Cloak, Goatwhore and all these other heavy hitters! We have some killer festival appearances and then end the summer with our first ever show in Mexico City. Total metal overkill! Basically, if you’re in the U.S. and have ever wanted to see Bewitcher live, the year 2022 is probably the best chance you’ve ever had. So don’t f**k up and miss out, we’ll see you out there!”

Summer Atrocity 2022 Tour

June 18 – Syracuse, NY – Sharkey’s w/Exodus
June 19 – Garwood, NJ – Crossroads
June 21 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
June 22 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Café

If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to [email protected] with a good lead time. Thank you.

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Ghost at Palace Theatre, St. Paul (01 June 2018)

Ghost at the Palace Theatre Ghost Setlist     Act I     intro music: Klara stjärnor (Jan Johansson song)     intro music: Miserere Mei, Deus (Gregorio Allegri song) Ashes Rats Absolution Ritual Con Clavi Con Dio Per Aspera ad Inferi Devil Church Cirice Stand by Him Miasma (instrumental) with Papa Nihil sax solo Jigolo Har Megiddo (Acoustic) Pro Memoria Deus in Absentia Act II (The Second Coming) intro music: Masked Ball (Jocelyn Pook song) Spirit From the Pinnacle to the Pit Faith Year Zero Spöksonat > He Is Prime Mover Mummy Dust If You Have Ghosts (Roky Erickson cover) Dance Macabre Square Hammer -- Encore -- Monstrance Clock outro music: The Host of Seraphim (Dead Can Dance song) Tour Dates 06/08/2018 Tampere, Finland "South Park Festival" 06/15/2018 Bretigny Sur Orge, France "Download Festival" 06/21/2018 Dessel, Belgium "Graspop Metal Meeting" 06/23/2018 Copenhagen, Denmark "Copenhell" 07/12/2018 Viveiro, Spain "Resurrection Fest" 07/14/2018 Eindhoven, NL "Dynamo Metalfest" 07/20/2018 Nordfjordeid, Norway "Malakoff Festival" 08/03/2018 Wacken, Germany "Wacken Open Air Festival" 08/05/2018 Colmar, France "Foire Aux Vins Festival" 11/16/2018 Inglewood, CA Forum 12/15/2018 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center Read More Ghost Swedish Grammy® Award-winning rock/metal band Ghost (formerly Ghost BC) is back in the Twin Cities, touring in support of their forthcoming album Prequelle (due for release on June 1st .…

The hours leading up to their sold-out show exemplified both the agony and the ecstasy of being a touring rock and roll band—

Swedish occult hard rock /metal band Ghost played a very crowded Palace Theatre in downtown St. Paul, but the very night before in Milwaukee, a 52-yr old fan near the front collapsed at intermission (never to recover), soon after passing away of natural causes.  The band rightfully suspended the remainder of that show out of respect but the tour resumed, landing in Minnesota on the very day their fourth studio album, Prequelle (Loma Vista Recordings) was released. 

This Rats! On the Road Tour is actually an evening with- meaning two full sets of the band (w/no opener), lasting an impressive one-hundred thirty-five minutes and giving fans the most in-depth and well-rounded-show of the band’s decade-plus career. 

The show actually started some twenty minutes late as the venue struggled to get the long, winding line of ticketholders into the building, also resulting in a floor that was more crowded than we’d seen at any previous point at this venue, before. 

The band emerged for their hour-long opening first set onto a stage that featured a long white staircase in front of a backdrop triptych of three stained glass windows, with the five Nameless Ghoul instrumentalists in matching black outfits and devil masks, joined by two new “Ghoulettes” up top on keyboards and backing vocals, and all led by Cardinal Copia, the newest identity and apprentice to previous papal guises, from bandleader Tobias Forge.

The band’s visual spectacle remains as mesmerizingly eccentric as ever, with Copia (in stark makeup and prosthetics) acknowledging the previous night’s unfortunate happenstance early, though stating “the show must go on” and to “celebrate in his memory” before launching into 2010’s ‘Ritual’. 

Though the band is mostly guitar-driven musically, songs like 2015’s (Grammy award–winning) ‘Cirice’ are actually quite melodic, with its Gilmour-like guitar riffs and keyboard punctuations. A first set highlight was the new instrumental, ‘Miasma’, which featured a brief appearance by Papa Nihil, wheeled out in a chair in full papal garb accompanied by a few followers, to play his sax solo, only to collapse back into the chair to be quickly wheeled off. 

“Are you familiar with the shuffle?”Copia asked before the acoustic ‘Jigolo Har Megiddo’, “Replacements never did a shuffle for you? No Husker Du?” he joked, showing the audience to clap properly in time to the song, then closing the opening set with 2015’s musically complicated ‘Deus in Absentia’. 

After the break, Act II (The Second Coming) began with the opening track from 2015’s Meliora, the hallucinogenic trip of ‘Spirit’. “Did you take time to freshen up a little?” Copia asked, checking in with the crowd after the break, “you should… because you stink”.

‘Mummy Dust’ from 2015, is one of the band’s sonically hardest songs, accentuating the doom and gloom lyrics with slashing guitar riffs and a growling vocal.  Copia took time to introduce the band (albeit naming all members generically as “ghoul”) during their swinging Roky Erickson cover, following that with their new end-of-the-world party song, ‘Dance Macabre’. 

2016’s Freemason leaning ‘Square Hammer’ from their Popestar EP closed the set with a lyrically-shrouded plea for truth and after taking a collective bow, Copia re-emerged to give the roaring crowd what they wanted- one more song, 2012’s ‘Monstrance Clock’ (the title of which refers to a Renaissance-era mirror clock used in church rituals, though Copia lyrically references a completely different meaning).  And, in case you forgot you were at a doom metal show, the closing chanted lyrics of the song- “Come together, together as one, come together, for Lucifer’s Son”- were there to remind you. 

A positive footnote is that one of the band’s US fan clubs, Ghost American Ministries, has launched a GoFundMe page for the fallen Milwaukee fan, and has raised over $7600 to date.

With Rats referring less to the plague-carrying rodents and more to the nefarious forces of society spreading their beliefs like wildfire to eradicate societies, it’s refreshing that Ghost can turn that idea on its end, and make everyone temporarily forget the headlines for a very enjoyable two-hour+ musical escape on the day of their new album’s release, and that their fans can rally to make a positive difference, in the aftermath of a recent tragedy.

Ghost at Palace Theatre, St. Paul (01 June 2018)

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Slayer w/ Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth, Testament at Armory, Minneapolis (24 May 2018)

Slayer at Armory Poster Slayer Setlists     Intro: Delusions of Saviour Repentless Blood Red Disciple Mandatory Suicide Hate Worldwide War Ensemble Jihad When the Stillness Comes Postmortem Black Magic Payback Seasons in the Abyss Dittohead Dead Skin Mask Hell Awaits South of Heaven Raining Blood Chemical Warfare Angel of Death Lamb Of God Setlist Omerta Ruin Walk With Me in Hell Now You've Got Something to Die For 512 Engage the Fear Machine Blacken the Cursed Sun Laid to Rest Redneck Anthrax Setlist Caught in a Mosh Got the Time (Joe Jackson cover) I Am the Law Madhouse Evil Twin Antisocial Indians Behemoth Setlist Ov Fire and the Void Demigod Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer Wolves ov Siberia Chant for Eschaton 2000 O Father O Satan O Sun! Testament Setlist Brotherhood of the Snake Rise Up Practice What You Preach The Pale King Into the Pit The New Order Disciples of the Watch Tour Dates 06/01/2018 Mohegan Sun Uncasville, CT 06/02/2018 PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ 06/04/2018 Santander Arena Reading, PA 06/06/2018 Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH 06/07/2018 Blossom Music Ctr Cuyahoga Falls, OH 06/09/2018 KeyBank Pavilion Burgettstown, PA 06/10/2018 Jiffy Lube Live Bristow, VA 06/12/2018 Veterans United Virginia Beach, VA 06/14/2018 PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte, NC 06/15/2018 Orlando Amphitheater Orlando, FL 06/17/2018 Smart Financial Centre Sugar Land, TX 06/19/2018 The Bomb Factory Dallas, TX 06/20/2018 Austin360 AmphAustin, TX 06/23/2018 "Secret Solstice Festival" 07/26/2018 Bank of NH Pavilion Gilford, NH 07/27/2018 "Impact Music Festival" 07/29/2018 Northwell Health Wantagh, NY 07/31/2018 Pavilion At Montage Mountain Moosic, PA 08/01/2018 Times Union Center Albany, NY 08/03/2018 Darien Lake Arts Center Darien Center, NY 08/04/2018 Lakeview Amphitheater Syracuse, NY 08/06/2018 Budweiser Gardens London, ON 08/07/2018 Van Andel Arena Grand Rapids, MI 08/09/2018 Hollywood Casino Maryland Heights, MO 08/10/2018 Cellairis Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA 08/12/2018 Nashville Municipal Nashville, TN 08/13/2018 Walmart AMP Rogers, AR 08/15/2018 Freeman Coliseum San Antonio, TX 08/16/2018 Oklahoma City Zoo Oklahoma City, OK 08/18/2018 Fiddler's Green Amph Englewood, CO 08/19/2018 Usana Amphitheatre Salt Lake City, UT 08/21/2018 Ford Idaho Center Amph Nampa, ID 08/23/2018 Sunlight Supply Amph Ridgefield, WA 08/24/2018 "KISW Pain In The Grass" 08/26/2018 SAP Center At San Jose San Jose, CA Read More Slayer Metal legends Slayer is headlining the Armory this Thursday, presented by 93x and Live Nation. Slayer are one of the Rushmore of metal, right up there with Metallica, …

If their reign of blood is soon actually to be over… it’s definitely not going out quietly –

Thrash metal kings Slayer have embarked on their Farewell Tour, quickly and easily selling out The Armory in downtown Minneapolis and saying goodbye to the fans, via a festival-like lineup with support acts Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth, and Testament (each headliners in their own right), for a six-hour thrash-a-thon that fittingly sends the band out raging. 

TESTAMENT

It was a little surprising to see these thrash legends (part of the so-called Big Five- along with Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer) open the show at an early 5pm, playing a too-short half-hour set. The band’s last release was 2016’s Brotherhood of the Snake (Nuclear Blast Records) but front man Chuck Billy has promised the band will go straight-ahead into the studio for new material, once this current tour ends. 

The band’s core line-up has remained steadfast, and evidence of that showed, beginning the set with the latest album’s title track (playing in front of a large snake head backdrop) and the ease with which guitarists Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson traded riffs throughout, ending with three tracks from their classic 1988 album, The New Order. “Tell me something, you guys ready for some thrash metal?” Billy said before ‘Into the Pit’, full well knowing the answer from all the metal horns hand gestures already in the air. 

BEHEMOTH

Though the concert was held indoors, you could almost feel the sky blacken and rumble as the Gdansk, Poland black metal band took to the stage, with new album expected this fall (live DVD Messe Noire was released this April).  With each member in black robes and face paint and a stage set to look like a demonic church, the sound took a much darker turn, though at times, was just as fast as the thrash from the other bands. 

“Behold my brethren!” vocalist Nergal Darski commanded before a pounding ‘Demigod’, though the crowd was already mesmerized by the band’s look and sound.  “It was a privilege to be here with you today” Darski said before a propulsive ‘Chant for Eschaton 2000’, “we are Behemoth from Poland and we shall return”, both introducing the band to the unfamiliar, and also letting fans know they would be back. 

ANTHRAX

“Ok, let’s go!” vocalist Joey Belladonna shouted as Anthrax took the stage for their forty-minute set in front of an Alex Ross-painted backdrop from latest album, For All Kings (Megaforce/ Nuclear Blast Records) “Anybody out there got the time? Belladonna then asked, the band jumping straight-ahead into their version of a Joe Jackson classic that frothed the swirling audience pit into a collective mass of jerking and jumping bodies. 

The band noted their love for the local crowd, remembering they were just here in late February (as part of another sold out show), and were happy to be back so soon- “you guys know how to bring it!” Belladonna shouted.  Fans responded to the new ‘Evil Twin’ as much as the older classics, which speaks well for the veteran NYC band of over thirty-five years, and the crowd reveled in singing back “Antisocial’ and ‘Indians’ to the band as they played those late ‘80s classics.

LAMB OF GOD

The Richmond, VA band represented the next generation of the thrash genre, the “newest” band of the evening… having formed in 1994.  The band’s latest release, Legion:XX (Epic/ Nuclear Blast Records) is actually a covers album credited under their original name, Burn the Priest, though for this shortened fifty-minute festival set, they just kept to more familiar LoG songs, beginning with 2004’s ‘Omerta’. 

Vocalist Randy Blythe stalked the stage, often jumping about with his long dreads in motion as guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler kept riffs heavy and bassist John Campbell and drummer Chris Adler kept beats thumping.  Blythe even gave a local shout-out, dedicating ‘Walk With Me in Hell’ to recently reunited local hardcore band, Disembodied as well as fittingly dedicating 2004’s ‘Laid to Rest’ to the headliner of the evening. 

SLAYER

After four previous bands over four-and-a-half hours, the table was finally set for the main event, a no-holds, unapologetic, crushing ninety-minute set from one of the genre’s originators and main influences.  Anchored by vocalist/bassist Tom Araya and the always imposing Kerry King on guitar, it was clear from the opening riffs of 2015’s ‘Repentless’, the band is determined to bow out on only its own terms. 

Changing backdrops, flashing lights, and an abundant use of pyro couldn’t take the attention away from the real focus- some thirty-seven years of genre-defining music that rolls mercilessly like a Tiger tank, blasting anything in its path, and taking no prisoners.  The band has never said much in-between or even moves around much on stage (somewhat the result of Araya’s 2010 back surgery and King’s laser-focus on his own playing), but it’s never mattered as the songs are plenty moving on their own. 

The pit could hardly catch its collective breath as one banger followed another, 1988’s ‘Mandatory Suicide’ with exemplary King riffs, speeding the swirling of the pit even further, followed immediately by the even faster tempo of 2009’s ‘Hate Worldwide’.    

The back-to-back of ‘War Ensemble’ and ‘Jihad’ seemed to echo themes in modern times and their song about karma, ‘Payback’ led into the dark forest that is 1990’s spanning ‘Seasons in the Abyss’.  The crowd (mostly male, in black t-shirts) easily found additional energy for the closing fourth of the band’s set, with 1985’s ‘Hell Awaits’ beginning their final swing through.  ‘South of Heaven’ and ‘Raining Blood’ were direct body blows with 1983’s ‘Chemical Warfare’ and 1986’s ‘Angel of Death’ landing the final knockout punches.

“Four words and they mean so much- Thank You Very Much” Araya said, against the loud audience chants of “Slayer”, “Hope you guys had fun tonight” he humbly said, waving as they left a Minneapolis stage for likely the final time. 

There may be mere months left in this thirty-seven year season of the abyss, but what a season it has turned out to have been – Slayer has helped define a musical genre, became a main influence to countless bands, crossed generations, and is leaving a legacy sure to be long withstanding.  Long live thrash.

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Iron Maiden & Ghost at Xcel Energy Center, St Paul (16 June 2017)

Iron Maiden Setlist     Intro: UFO‚Äôs ‚ÄòDoctor Doctor‚Äô If Eternity Should Fail Speed of Light Wrathchild Children of the Damned Death or Glory The Red and the Black The Trooper Powerslave The Great Unknown The Book of Souls Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden -- Encore -- The Number of the Beast Blood Brothers Wasted Years Ghost Setlist     Intro: Gregorio Allegri‚Äôs ‚ÄòMasked Ball‚Äô Square Hammer From the Pinnacle to the Pit Ritual Cirice Year Zero Absolution Mummy Dust Monstrance Clock Tour Dates 6/19 - Oklahoma City, OK - Chesapeake Energy 6/21 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center 6/23 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center 6/24 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center 6/27 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater 6/28 - Scottsdale, AZ - Talking Stick Resort 7/1 - San Bernardino, CA - Glen Helen Amph 7/3 - Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena 7/5 - Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena 7/7 - West Valley City, UT - USANA Amph 7/9 - Lincoln, NE - Pinnacle Bank Arena 7/11 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center 7/12 - Maryland Heights, MO - Hollywood Casino 7/15 - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage 7/16 - Ville De Quebec, QC - Centre Videotron 7/19 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center 7/21 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center 7/22 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center Read More Iron Maiden Legendary metal band Iron Maiden is headlining the Xcel Energy Center this Friday, June 16th. Their first MN show in 17 years! The English band‚Äôs latest album The Book of Souls is available now .‚Ķ Ghost Sweden‚Äôs Ghost (also known as Ghost BC) will be headlining the Myth in Maplewood (St Paul area), this July 28th, touring in support of their new album Meliora (which came .‚Ķ

Legendary British metal band Iron Maiden just played a sold-out Xcel Energy Center show last Friday, June 16th.... their first Minnesota show in 17 years! The anticipation was strong, as the massive crowd loudly ascended to the stadium in St Paul. You’ve never seen anything quite like it, they were all dressed in old Iron Maiden T-shirts, all in black. This was a dedicated crowd.

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Swedish metal band Ghost started the event with a generous 47-min set. Ghost was formerly known as Ghost B.C. in the United States, because of legal reasons, but eventually got the legal right to use the name Ghost. Like Daft Punk and early Slipknot, early in their career, the band members in Ghost were unknown. After a lawsuit filed by four former members, the true identity of “Papa Emeritus III” is Tobias Forge. Forge’s band consists of Fire (lead guitar), Water (bassist), Wind (keyboardist), Earth (drummer), and Ether (rhythm guitar).

It’s all part of the show, Forge in a Satanic version of a Roman Catholic Priest clothing, his “Ghouls” wearing metal Devil masks. If you look past the gimmicky costumes and just listen to their music, they actually sounded very, very good. It’s not just heavy metal, you can hear other influences in their sound... and it’s a bit unfair to dismiss them based on the outfits they wear. In fact, if you take a look at the band’s latest EP Popestar, the band covered Echo & the Bunnymen’s ‘Nocturnal Me’ (alternative rock), Simian Mobile Disco’s ‘I Believe’ (electronic DJs), Eurythmics’ ‘Missionary Man’ (synth) and Imperiet’s ‘Bible’ (rock)... all very diverse genres.

Their set ended with a “really heavy, heavy metal song”, as described by Forge, called ‘Mummy Dust’, followed by a “slow one” called ‘Monstrance Clock’.

After setting up the stage, Iron Maiden (bassist Steve Harris, guitarist Dave Murray, guitarist Adrian Smith, singer Bruce Dickinson, drummer Nicko McBrain, and guitarist Janick Gers) took the stage to 14,000 fans screamed and stomped loudly at their idols on stage.

Singer Bruce Dickinson had to addressed the crowd, “You know, the media still wondered how Iron Maiden can still sell out arenas... I’ll give you a reason, 14,000 reasons!” as he pointed to the audience. He went on to talk about the younger fans born after 1982, “Your mother was probably getting it on to this next song.” With that said, the band launched into their big hit song ‘Children of the Damned’.

The theme of this “The Book of Souls Tour” was inspired by Maya culture, as seen by a war painted Eddie and the Mayan temple stage design. Of course, being an arena tour, there were occasional fireballs... whenever they went off, it was very impressive.

The setlist was also The Book of Souls-heavy, but, by now, the fans have all had a chance to listen to the new record, so they were familiar with the songs. That is because the 16th Iron Maiden studio album was released in 2015, as a double album, the band’s longest record to date, but there was no tour promotion for it. Instead, the band had to postponed their tour until vocalist Dickinson could recover from a cancerous tumor that year.

It was well worth the wait, as Dickinson was in tip-top form, running, jumping, dancing, and singing at the top of his lungs. He’s still got a great voice, even at some of the high notes. For the first few songs, Dickinson seemed overdressed (in a sweat jacket cover) for all the energy he was exerting, but you quickly realize that it was to cover for a British uniform costume he was wearing underneath.

Sometime we got bass solo from the great Steve Harris or a long guitar intro by Dave Murray, it was deliberate to give time for Dickinson to change costumes. It was almost theatrical, the planning it went to put together this show. For those who never saw Iron Maiden before, they can attest that this was one of the most memorable shows they’ve ever attended.

Iron Maiden’s The Book of Souls is out now.

NOTE: With these big stadium shows we’ve opted out of photo passes due to the venue’s heavy camera restrictions.

Iron Maiden at Xcel Energy Center, St Paul (16 June 2017)

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R.I.P. Jeff White (Atrocity)

Read More Atrocity Infected / Art of Death Atrocity First off you're getting 2 full lengths on 1 disc with this "Best Of" compilation (Infected + The Art Of Death). That in itself is a helluva deal. Next you're getting grade A, high quality death metal/grindcore. …

Thanks to reader G who told us that Atrocity’s drummer Jeff White (not to be confused with alt-country folk singer) has died on 27 Nov 2016. Like you, I was confusing this US-based band with Germany’s Atrocity. Doing a quick check, I can tell you that this Torrington, CT, band started a full three years before the German band with a demo tape in 1985. Subsequently releasing Infected in 1990 and The Art of Death! in 1992. The US band broke up in 1993, but reformed in 2006 and released Let War Rage in 2009 via Mad Lion Records.

G also mentioned that founding band member Jeff White died at his home and was only 54.

The band’s Facebook page made it official:

Yesterday (11.27.16) we lost an all around great. First and foremost a caring father and husband. Secondly a great friend and lastly a passionate member of the underground metal scene of the early 1980's forward. Jeff was a founding member of Atrocity (US) and played on every release. Another great gone too soon. RIP Jeff White and we will meet again

Below are more deaths for the month of November - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2016.

November (47)

[29 Nov 2016] Allan Zavod, 71, brain cancer

[29 Nov 2016] Ray Columbus (Ray Columbus & the Invaders), 74

[28 Nov 2016] Mark Taimanov, 90, concert pianist and USSR chess champion

[28 Nov 2016] Carlton Kitto, 74, jazz guitarist

[27 Nov 2016] Jeff White (Atrocity (US)), 54, unknown

[27 Nov 2016] Johnny P (Do Or Die), 44, coma

[27 Nov 2016] Tony Martell, 90, music industry senior executive

[25 Nov 2016] Colonel Abrams, 67

[24 Nov 2016] Shirley Bunnie Foy (Jazz), 80

[24 Nov 2016] Pauline Oliveros ( San Francisco Tape Music Center), 84

[23 Nov 2016] Fred Stobaugh, 99

[22 Nov 2016] Tayssir Akla, 77

[22 Nov 2016] M. Balamuralikrishna, 86

[22 Nov 2016] Craig Gill (Inspiral Carpets), 44

[21 Nov 2016] Jean-Claude Risset, 78

[20 Nov 2016] Hod O'Brien, 80

[19 Nov 2016] Ida Levin, 53, leukemia

[18 Nov 2016] Sharon Jones (Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings), 60, pancreatic cancer

[18 Nov 2016] Hugh McDonald (Redgum), 62, prostate cancer

[17 Nov 2016] Joanna Reyes, 36, car accident

[16 Nov 2016] Mentor Williams, 70

[15 Nov 2016] Mose Allison, 89

[15 Nov 2016] Cliff Barrows (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association), 93

[15 Nov 2016] Holly Dunn, 59, ovarian cancer

[15 Nov 2016] Jules Eskin (Boston Symphony Orchestra), 85

[15 Nov 2016] Milt Okun, 92

[14 Nov 2016] David Mancuso (The Loft), 72

[14 Nov 2016] Colin Demge, 33, murdered

[13 Nov 2016] Leon Russell, 74

[13 Nov 2016] Mohammad Ebrahim Sharifzadeh, 100

[12 Nov 2016] Jacques Werup, 71, cancer

[12 Nov 2016] Will Sims, 28, murdered in hate crime

[12 Nov 2016] Peter Nthwane, 64, murdered

[11 Nov 2016] Victor Bailey (Lady Gaga), 56

[11 Nov 2016] Lily, 64, lung cancer

[11 Nov 2016] A. Nayyar, 66

[09 Nov 2016] Al Caiola, 96

[07 Nov 2016] Leonard Cohen, 82, falling

[07 Nov 2016] Biser Kirov, 74

[06 Nov 2016] Zoltán Kocsis, 64

[05 Nov 2016] Laurent Pardo, 55

[04 Nov 2016] Eddie Harsch (The Black Crowes), 59

[03 Nov 2016] Kay Starr, 94, Alzheimer's disease

[02 Nov 2016] Bob Cranshaw (Blue Note Records), 83, cancer

[01 Nov 2016] Jean-Michel Damian, 69

[01 Nov 2016] Bap Kennedy, 54, pancreatic and bowel cancer

[01 Nov 2016] Pocho La Pantera, 65, kidney cancer

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Straight Outta Hell tour, feat Suicide Silence and Whitechapel, at the Cabooze, Minneapolis (06 Oct 2016)

Tour Dates 10/08/2016 St. Andrew's Hall - Detroit, MI 10/09/2016 House of Blues - Chicago, IL 10/11/2016 Agora Theatre - Cleveland, OH* 10/12/2016 Harmony House - Webster, NY* 10/13/2016 Gramercy Theater - New York, NY* 10/14/2016 Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA* 10/15/2016 Rock & Shock - Worcester, MA 10/16/2016 GameChanger World - Freehold, NJ 10/17/2016 Arizona Pete's - Greensboro, NC 10/19/2016 Warehouse Live - Houston, TX 10/20/2016 The Door - Dallas, TX 10/21/2016 Top Deck - Farmington, NM 10/22/2016 Vinyl @ Hard Rock - Las Vegas, NV All dates with Suicide Silence, Carnifex, Oceano * w/ Despised Icon Read More Suicide Silence California’s Suicide Silence is co-headlining this 2016 with Knoxville’s Whitechapel. The so-named “Straight Outta Hell” tour is sponsored by BlackCraft Cult Clothing. ... Whitechapel American deathcore band Whitechapel, obviously inspired by Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel district in London, will be hitting the road this Fall, in support of Our Endless War, out now on Metal Blade. ... Carnifex While I have heard of Carnifex, I never had a chance to check out their music before. I saw that this cd was coming out and I caught the ad for it on an episode of HBB and I liked what I heard. ...

The "Straight Outta Hell" tour, sponsored by BlackCraft Cult Clothing, came to The Cabooze in Minneapolis on Thursday night and was greeted by hundreds of hungry metal fans.

Oceano

The show started off with a bang and the band that pretty much stole the whole show. Oceano may have only had a twenty minute set but they definitely had me stuck where I was with my eyes glued to the stage. These guys are very much a deathcore band but the way they mix elements of grindcore, metalcore, and even black metal to create something extremely unique and amazing and had the crowd wanting more.

Adam Warren, the singer, is one of the most powerful and consistent singers I've seen in a long while. This guy was up on that stage doing his thing regardless of what the crowd was doing. It didn't matter that the crowd seemed to be conserving their energy for the other three acts, Adam was going crazy on stage and I'm pretty sure there wasn't a single point during their set that he was standing still. His vocals, even with all of the movement, never faltered. They were powerful throughout the set and really made these guys stand out.

Carnifex

Oceano was followed by the heavy hitting deathcore band, Carnifex, from San Diego, CA. These guys seem to be a favorite among the Minnesota metal scene and last night was proof as to why. These guys have an unrelenting live show. They get the crowd moving through out their set of blast beats and intense vocals.

Carnifex seemed to focus on songs from their newest album Slow Death which was released in August of this year but they didn't forget that there were fans in the crowd that have been with the band since their inception in 2005. They played songs off of old albums and the crowd seemed to enjoy them just as much as the new material.

Whitechapel

Up next was Whitechapel. Personally, I love these guys and was super happy to have them back in the Twin Cities after going a while without a visit from them. Thursday night was the first time they had been in town since releasing their newest album, Mark of the Blade, in June of this year. This album was met with a lot of criticism because it was the first album from this band where singer Phil Bozeman, who is known for his extreme vocal style, had clean vocals. On all of the previous releases, Bozeman's intense and dark vocals were what drew many fans into the band.

The softer songs on the new album didn't stop Whitechapel from playing through old songs that got the crowd pushed and shoved their way through. It was interesting to see how the crowd reacted when the band played through one of the new songs with a much calmer feeling to it. It was obvious that the crowd was being respectful and watching the band but they stood still and the energy in the venue instantly dropped. As fast as the energy dropped, it came right back when the band played their signature, fast and heavy metalcore anthems.

Suicide Silence proved just why they are the co-headliners this time around. They came out on the stage full of power and energy and blew the crowd away.

It seems like just yesterday that the future of Suicide Silence seemed a bit blurry as the world was mourning the untimely death of Mitch Lucker, the singer. They proved on Thursday night that they aren't going anywhere and, as big of a blow as it was to lose Lucker, they got the best replacement they could and they are still turning heads and making waves in the scene.

Vocal duties are now done by Hernan "Eddie" Hermida, formally of All Shall Perish. Hermida does an amazing job of keeping the live show high energy. The way his voice can switch from pig squeals to guttural growls is more than jaw dropping and when you figure out that he's doing that while running from side to side of the stage, it's quite amazing.

The band hasn't released a full length since their most recent release You Can't Stop Me which came out in 2014 but that didn't stop their set from feeling fresh. Everything about the set was clean and you could tell that they are up to something because, compared to the last couple of times they have been in the Twin Cities, everything just seemed much more polished.

Suicide Silence has a new album due out early next year.

Suicide Silence at Cabooze, Minneapolis (06 Oct 2016)

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Metallica at US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis (20 Aug 2016) (Updated)

Metallica Setlist     intro music: The Ecstasy of Gold (by Ennio Morricone) Creeping Death For Whom the Bell Tolls Fuel King Nothing The Memory Remains The Unforgiven Leper Messiah > Kirk Hammett guitar solo Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Sad But True > Rob Trujillo bass solo Wherever I May Roam One Master of Puppets Battery > Kirk Hammett guitar solo Fade to Black Seek & Destroy -- Encore -- Hardwired (first time played live) Whiskey in the Jar (traditional cover) Nothing Else Matters Enter Sandman > The Frayed Ends of Sanity jam outro Avenged Sevenfold Setlist  Nightmare Critical Acclaim Beast and the Harlot Hail to the King Buried Alive Almost Easy Afterlife God Hates Us Bat Country Unholy Confessions Volbeat Setlist The Devil's Bleeding Crown The Mirror and the Ripper Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash cover) > Sad Man's Tongue Hallelujah Goat Dead But Rising The Gates of Babylon Doc Holliday Seal the Deal Radio Girl Still Counting Read More Metallica Legendary rock band Metallica is teaming up with Vans to produce four unique shoes, designed by each band members. The shoes hits store this month (February). You can buy direct at vans.com. .… Avenged Sevenfold As a special thank you to their fans, Avenged Sevenfold will be playing a free show for their fans at the Hollywood Palladium on August 26th. It's also in celebration .…

So, what kind of concert venue does $1.1 billion dollars buy? –

Turns out one with very mixed results, though the jury is still out and to be fair, it’s a football stadium first and foremost.  But we did learn one thing- louder is definitely better.

Metallica headlined the very first rock show at the new US Bank Stadium, in front of over 50,000 (most in black t-shirts)  and brought along openers Volbeat and Avenged Sevenfold.  

 

Sonically, the stadium is boomy and echoes, like all large stadiums, but is a vast improvement over the Metrodome, especially closest to the floor and on the non-glass side of the ceiling, which has acoustic dampeners along the top trestles.

The sound mix of all three bands didn’t have a lot of subtlety, so all seemed to just turn things up and let it fly, to better results than the previous night’s Luke Bryan concert.  Metallica, especially was loud and up front with their mix, leading residents over a mile away to post on social media that they could hear the show in their homes, over a mile away.

Danish hard rockers Volbeat got things started two hours after doors opening, with a 45min set of their unique mix of rock, metal and rockabilly, in support of sixth studio album, Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie (on Republic/Universal), sealing the deal in the process, to be the first rock band to play in the mammoth structure.

While the swelling crowd on the floor had no problem seeing the band, the combination of early evening sunbeams shining in, and pumped-in dry ice fog, made the band hard to see from elsewhere in the stadium, for the majority of their set.

“Thank you for showing up early”, singer Michael Poulsen said before playing a verse from Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’, which quickly morphed into the similar sounding ‘Sad Man’s Tongue’. “It’s been a honor- please, please stay, there’s gonna be two other bands”, Poulsen joked before their finale of “Still Counting’, a 2012 song that topped Billboard’s Rock Chart when released.

Avenged Sevenfold was already familiar to the 1,500 or so that managed to get into their free show at First Avenue two nights prior, properly warming up ex-Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman, for the stadium-sized madness to come. 

 

All the pyro they couldn’t use at that club gig, was on display for their hour-long set, with the landscape behind Wackerman ablaze and fireballs launching into the air, for much of their show.

The California band seemed returned to form, with singer M. Shadows stalking the stage from end to end, twin guitarists Zacky Vengeance and Synyster Gates (probably not their real names) playing effectively off each other, and Wackerman and bassist Johnny Christ holding down the bottom end. 

 

Shadows wanted to re-title ‘Hail to the King’ to ‘Hail to the Vikings’ for the night, but didn’t realize there were probably more out-of-towners than locals in the crowd, who booed the notion down.

‘God Hates Us’ was played for the first time in four years, ‘Bat Country’ got even the most casual fan interested, and the set-closing ‘Unholy Confessions’ was preluded by Shadows screaming, “we got a little bit left for you!”.

In the most timelessly cool fashion, Metallica took to the stage after the intro music of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’ (which the Vikings use constantly) and clip from The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, scored by the great Ennio Morricone.

Opening with the 1984 classic ‘Creeping Death’, the foursome went immediately for the throat, with the towering backdrop becoming a large multi-panel digital screen, often showing each of the four members, teeth grit, scowling, and hard at work.

With such a large stage, singer James Hetfield had multiple vocal mics positioned in the middle, on each side, and a few more in front of the extended catwalk area that went partially into the crowd (or Snakepit as they call it).

The 140 min. set was mostly hit-filled, which was more than all right with the now-rabid audience and ideal for a one-off show such as this one.  ‘For Whom the Bells Toll’ kept momentum at breakneck, then ‘Fuel’ threw the throttle even higher.  “We are here to break this place in properly, with some volume not only up here, but out there", Hetfield said—truer words were never spoken.

‘Leper Messiah’, a fan-selected song for the setlist sounded fresh, despite being thirty years old, and led into the first of two short solos (amusingly called “doodles” on the setlist) from guitarist Kirk Hammett.  Hetfield would forget some of the song’s lyrics, but eventually catch himself seven songs later (“it’s never too late”), and sang the missing words to make up for it.

‘One’ remains an eight-minute epic, taken to a different level when stadium-sized, with lasers firing in all directions amid an animated wartime intro for the song.  After asking how many in attendance had seen them at First Avenue in 1985, a blistering ‘Seek and Destroy’ closed the main set, with Hetfield ad-libbing the opening line as “We're scanning the scene in Minneapolis tonight”.

The faithful were rewarded with a four-song encore that began with the first live performance of new thrashy single, ‘Hardwired’, from their tenth studio album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, due out Nov. 18 on the band’s own Blackened Recordings, as screens flashed macabre facial expressions overlaid on each of the band members.

‘Whiskey in the Jar’ reminded Hetfield of late bassist Cliff Burton, saying “I know he’d be bouncing out there, if he was with you” and finale ‘Enter Sandman’ brought hundreds of black, logo-emblazoned beach balls raining down on the crowd, followed by an impressive array of indoor fireworks to end the show.

A fitting end to a very loud evening, but loud is what Metallica does best, being perhaps the best there is at it.

Volbeat	Volbeat	Avenged Sevenfold	Avenged Sevenfold	Avenged Sevenfold
Setlist	Metallica	Metallica: James Hetfield	Metallica: Kirk Hammett	Metallica: Robert Trujillo and James Hetfield
Metallica: Kirk Hammett	Metallica: James Hetfield	Metallica: James Hetfield	Metallica: James Hetfield	Metallica: Robert Trujillo w/ James Hetfield

Metallica at US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis (20 Aug 2016)

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Minneapolis: August 22 to August 24, 2016

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from August 22 to August 24, 2016 (the Metal Edition!)

Read more Minneapolis Music Guide.

Read More Periphery American progressive metal band Periphery are back with a new record called Juggernaut... the record is so big that it was split into two albums, Juggernaut: Alpha …

PERIPHERY
at Varsity Theater
Monday, 08/22/16, 5:30pm ($20/$25)
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The D.C. based prog rock outfit Periphery will be making a stop Monday, August 22nd at The Varsity Theater during their Sonic Unrest Tour. Periphery is currently on tour in support of their newest release Periphery III: Select Difficulty. Known for their "prog-metal opera" sound, this band has truly changed the face of modern progressive metal music and keep on releasing truly innovative music.

Periphery will be joined on stage by SikTh, Chon, and Toothgrinder.

Tickets are on sale now!

Tour dates:

08/17 Seattle, WA The Showbox
08/19 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
08/20 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
08/22 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
08/24 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
08/25 Grand Rapids, MI Intersection
08/26 Detroit, MI St. Andrew’s Hall
08/27 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre
08/28 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts
08/30 Boston, MA Paradise
08/31 New York, NY Irving Plaza
09/01 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Sound Stage

Read More Purple Purple is the fourth album from Baroness, produced by Dave Fridmann. Track Listings Disc: 1 1. Morningstar 2. Shock …

BARONESS
at Cabooze
Tuesday, 08/23/16, 7pm ($22/$25)
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Fans had been excited for Baroness’ new album Purple when it came out in December of last year. Finally, those fans will get a chance to see the band perform the tracks live. Baroness will be performing at The Cabooze on Tuesday, August 23rd. Many people have referred to this newest release as Baroness’ best and a masterpiece.

Originally, Baroness was to play the Varsity Theater, but ultimately decided to move to a different venue, due to concerns over child sex abuse lawsuits filed against the venue’s owner:

"All Minneapolis/Minnesotan Baroness fans and ticket-holders:

Due to some very disturbing allegations surrounding the club where we had originally booked our upcoming show, we have decided to side with our conscience and change the venue for our August 23 show.

All tickets bought prior to this announcement will be honored in-full at the new venue, The Cabooze (917 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404.) We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but the it was a necessary decision and we hope you understand. See you soon!"

The upcoming show will be supported by Pallbearer from Arkansas. Pallbearer is known for their deeply melodic tracks and are truly captivating to see live.

Tour dates:

08/19/16 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
08/20/16 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
08/21/16 Chicago, IL Metro / Smart Bar
08/23/16 Minneapolis, MN Cabooze
08/24/16 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre
08/26/16 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
08/27/16 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
08/28/16 Psycho Las Vegas
08/30/16 San Diego, CA Observatory North Park
08/31/16 Tucson, AZ The Rock
09/02/16 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
09/03/16 Memphis, TN New Daisy Theatre
09/04/16 Baton Rouge, LA Varsity Theatre
09/06/16 Orlando, FL The Beacham
09/07/16 Saint Petersburg, FL State Theatre
09/09/16 Charleston, SC Music Farm Charleston
09/10/16 Hopscotch Music Festival
09/17/16 Rock Allegiance Festival
09/23/16 Corpus Christi, TX The Pavilion
09/24/16 San Antonio, TX The Paper Tiger
09/25/16 Houston Open Air
10/22/16 Monster Energy Aftershock Festival
11/06/16 Sound On Sound Festival

Read More Belphegor Conjuring the Dead Belphegor Conjuring the Dead arrived in my mailbox back on July 25. I had pre-ordered it from Nuclear Blast with the t-shirt bundle, which also came with a …

BELPHEGOR
at Triple Rock Social Club
Wednesday, 08/24/16, 5:30pm ($23/$26)
triplerocksocialclub.com

Austria’s black death metal band Belphegor (originally Betrayer) will be headlining the Triple Rock Social Club next Wednesday, August 24th.

Opening will be Kansas’ Origin, Phoenix’s Abigail Williams, Shining, Diagoro, and We Are Legion.

Abigail Williams’ name came from the initial accuser in Salem Witch Trials of 1692, which resulted in the imprisonment, death, and torture of more than 150 accused witches.

Abigail Williams’ tour dates:

8/17/2016 Brick by Brick - San Diego, CA
8/18/2016 The Whisky - W. Hollywood, CA
8/19/2016 Oakland Metro - Oakland, CA
8/20/2016 Star Theater - Portland, OR
8/21/2016 Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC
8/23/2016 Pub Station - Billings, MT #
8/22/2016 Studio Seven - Seattle, WA
8/24/2016 Triple Rock - Minneapolis, MN
8/25/2016 The Riot Room - Kansas City, MO
8/26/2016 Full Metal Assault - Cave-in-Rock, IL
8/27/2016 Oddbody's - Dayton, OH
8/28/2016 Reggie's - Chicago, IL
8/29/2016 The Outpost- Kent, OH ^
8/30/2016 Salle Multi - Quebec City, QC
8/31/2016 Gramercy Theatre - New York, NY
9/01/2016 Ottobar - Baltimore, MD *
9/02/2016 Exit/Inn - Nashville, TN *
9/03/2016 Georgia Theatre - Athens, GA *
9/04/2016 Culture Room - Ft Lauderdale, FL *
9/06/2016 TBA ^
9/07/2016 Headquarters - Indianapolis, IN ^
9/08/2016 Lookout Lounge - Omaha, NE ^
9/09/2016 Roxy Theater - Denver, CO ^
9/10/2016 Metro Bar - Salt Lake City, UT ^

All dates with Belphegor, with exceptions:
* No Shining
^ Abigail only
# No Belphegor

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Ill Niño, w/ Bobaflex at the Cabooze, Minneapolis (05 June 2016)

Ill Nino Setlist Intro / God Save Us If You Still Hate Me Unreal Nothing's Clear What Comes Around Liar Rumba Predisposed I Am Loco No Murder Rip Out Your Eyes Revolution/Revolución With You -- Encore -- Te Amo...I Hate You This Is War How Can I Live Bobaflex Setlist Start A War Chemical Valley Mama (Don't Take My Drugs Away) I'm Glad You're Dead Never Coming Back Dry Your Eyes A Spider in the Dark Bury Me With My Guns On Tour Dates 06/10/16 Merriam, KS Aftershock Bar & Grill 06/11/16 Denver, CO Herman's Hideaway 06/12/16 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge 06/14/16 Spokane, WA The Palomino Club 06/15/16 Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw Theatre 06/16/16 Seattle, WA Studio Seven 06/17/16 Boise, ID Knitting Factory 06/18/16 SEIRAM Fest 06/20/16 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre 06/21/16 Reno, NV Jub Jub's Thirst Parlor 06/22/16 San Francisco, CA DNA Lounge 06/23/16 Petaluma, CA Phoenix Theater 06/24/16 San Diego, CA Brick By Brick 06/25/16 Santa Ana, CA Malone's Read More Ill Nino Missouri (by the way of Los Angeles) Ill Nino will be headlining the Cabooze show next Sunday, June 5th. The band will be performing Revolution Revolucion in its entirety .... Bobaflex Bobaflex is a brothers Shaun and Marty McCoy and is generally known as one of the hardest working bands in the country for their high energy, live shows and relentless touring. ....

New Jersey’s Ill Niño recently headlined an all-ages mini-metal festival at the Cabooze in Minneapolis. The eight-band lineup (many of them were seemingly added at the last minute) had a lot to offer, as far as value for the price of admission.

It’s got to be tough to be the first band on the bill, and even worst when the venue didn’t list the correct show time. The venue showed 5:30pm as start time, but in actuality Auridus played at 5pm. All the bands had 25-min sets, with the exceptions of Bobaflex (30 min) and headliner Ill Niño (hour).

Note: Although the poster lists Terror Universal, the band did not show up for the Cabooze show.

Trigger Armada

Trigger Armada was next, playing songs from a “coming out soon” album. The band features bass/singer Peder Schuller, drummer Jeremy Dobratz, guitarist Bryce Dahlke, rhythm guitarist Jose Chinas, and technician Mikey McDonald. Since they haven’t recorded any songs, I can only guess at some of their song titles, which included ‘Legacy Lies the Lord’ and ‘Here I Stand’.

Strange Forest

Strange Forest came on stage at 6:20pm. The band (singer/keys Jayson Hughes, drummer Michael Portner, guitarist Dylan Smith, and bassist Nathan Vorwerk) came about when their regular band Civil Definition went on “indefinite hiatus”.

In addition to demos and new songs like ‘Onesy’ (which is what they are calling it), the band played a couple of tracks from their EP Ecosystem, including ‘Breathing Disaster’ and ‘The Weight’. The latter song had missed a whole chorus section, which no one in the audience would missed if it wasn’t for the fact that singer Hughes mentioned it on stage.

Names to Faces

Names to Faces was the poppiest band on the bill, as evident by their Roxette cover ‘Listen to Your Heart’ during their soundcheck. The local band (singer Jeanine Volk, guitars Jeremy Davin, bassist Spencer Short, and drummer Nathan Lillo) drew in a good crowd, showing that they have good local fanbase.

Despite the soundcheck prior to their set, they hit with the dreaded technical difficulty during their first song.

Voodoo Terror Tribe

The first non-Minneapolis band to take the stage was “Dirty” Jersey’s Voodoo Terror Tribe. I thought the band looked and sounded great, even though singer Gil Pz was coughing and clearly sick. Drummer T-Bone was spot on keeping the rhythm, while bassist Primer was looking very scary with his Slipknottish outfit, and guitarist Emir Erkal looking too cool for school.

Highlight of their set was a hard rock version of Billy Idol’s ‘Rebel Yell’, which got the audience dancing and singing along.

Shattered Sun

Texas six-piece Shattered Sun (vocalist Marcos Leal, guitars Daniel Trejo, guitars Jessie Santos, bass Joseph Guajardo, drums Robert Garza, and keys Henry Garza) was a lot of fun. During their title track for Hope Within Hatred (Victory Records), their tour manager showed up on stage holding a sign that read “Needs Weeds” (“or Dabs” in small print).

They ended their set with ‘Return to Serenity’ and ‘No Sympathy’, with singer Leal doing his best Cookie Monster impression.

Bobaflex’s Marty and Shaun

Point Pleasant’s Bobaflex (singer/guitarist Shaun McCoy, guitarist/singer Martin McCoy, guitarist Dave Tipple, drummer, Tommy Johnson, and bassist Jymmy Tolland) took the stage at 9pm.

Bobaflex’s set was divided with the first four songs being song by Shaun McCoy, while his brother Marty would take over the remaining set, starting with ‘Never Coming Back’ (from Charlatan's Web). The band had brought on tour two fog blowers, which looks like two explosive volcanoes. They look fantastic, especially when paired with bright, colorful lights.

Bobaflex

Excited with their new record, Anything That Moves, the band’s 30-min set featured a few songs from the new album, including ‘Start a War’, ‘Mama (Don't Take My Drugs Away)’, ‘Dry Your Eyes’ (this one featured plenty of hand-clapping) and ‘A Spider in the Dark’.

Celebrating the 15 year anniversary of Revolution Revolucion, Ill Niño (singer Cristian Machado, drummer Dave Chavarri, bassist Laz Pina, guitarist Ahrue Luster, rhythm guitarist Diego Verduzco, and percussionist Oscar Santiago) decided to play the album in its entirety.

Since some songs required chord changes or just quick transition, the “Latin Metal” band solved this having a guitar tech working in the background and a dedicated standing pre-tuned guitar that is easily accessed from their lead guitarist Ahrue Luster.

Setlist

Fans familiar with the record eagerly anticipate the faster songs and a small mosh pit would break out often... forcing singer Cristian Machado to comment, “Your numbers are small but, man, you guys have heart.”

The band, including Frankie their sound guy, must be having fun on this tour, because of the trivia on their setlist. I have to confess, of the over thousands of shows I’ve seen, their setlist my favorite. The setlist reads, “Frankie, fun fact for the day: Did you know that the American Buffalo, despite weighing nearly a ton, the mighty buffalo can run 40 MPH and jump 6 feet vertically! PS Day off tomorrow... f*** yeah!”

Ill Niño’s Revolution Revolucion Tour continues tonight at the Aftershock Bar & Grill in Merriam, Kansas.

Ill Nino at Cabooze, Minneapolis (05 June 2016)

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