The lineup also includes Call of the Void, Cult Leader, Forn, King Woman, Lycus, Pilgrim, Samothrace, Take Over and Destroy, Wolves in the Throne Room, Young in the Way, and more.
Openers include Yellow Eyes, Kings Destroy, Statiqbloom, Hosianna Mantra (Joseph from Pallbearer), and more.
Portland doom masters Yob recently announced some tour dates, including a NYC show at Saint Vitus. It already sold out, so they added a second...
Portland doom metal heavyweights Yob have a handful of tour dates coming up for the end of this year and the beginning of next...
...the sound quality is absolutely top-level, and I have never been to a festival that offers comfortable balcony seating with waiters attending to you should you require a rest for your weary feet and a $15 Goose Island. And ultimately seeing a crowd full of stoned, dirty, good-natured metalheads overrun a casino was a sight I'll probably never see again...
The stacked festival has Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, Truth & Janey, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Pentagram, Candlemass, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Boris, Baroness, Drive Like Jehu, Converge, and much more.
The Hopscotch Music Festival returns in 2016 to various Raleigh, NC venues from September 8-10. The lineup is impressive as always, with Television, Wolf Parade, Converge, Baroness, Yob, Tribulation, Erykah Badu, Young Thug, Sylvan Esso, Vince Staples, Anderson Paak, Beach House, Beach Slang, Andrew Bird, Cobalt, Downtown Boys, Julien Baker, Quilt, Lambchop, Lavender Country, Big Freedia, Wiki, Kelela, The Snails (members of Future Islands), Car Seat Headrest, Eric Bachmann, Japanese Breakfast and more...
Also: Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Baroness, Pentagram, Converge, Death, High On Fire, Fu Manchu, Boris, Down, Yob, and still many more.
San Francisco doom 2-piece Black Cobra have been on tour with fellow doom greats Yob for much of the fall. After playing two shows in NYC at Bell House and Webster Hall earlier in November (and hanging with famed vegan cookbook author Terry Hope Romero), the band ran into what sounds like a pretty harrowing van accident in Texas (everyone is thankfully OK)...