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All the heavy stuff you’ll need at SXSW.

As always, the metal and hardcore universe continues to exist unabated. Here’s a roundup of some stuff coming up… There’s a bunch of heavy festivals here in the states…

UK doomers Conan are touring the US this year behind the release of their new album Reveangance, which is being released this week (1/29) on Napalm Records, and can now be streamed in full…

The 2016 Treefort Music Fest goes on March 23-27 in Boise, Idaho in venues all over the city. (It’s kinda like Boise’s SXSW.) This year’s lineup includes Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Thee Oh Sees, Youth Lagoon, Aesop Rock, Chelsea Wolfe, White Denim, Oddisee, Hinds, French Horn Rebellion, Quilt, Alex G, Wax Idols, Built To Spill, La Luz, All Dogs, Porches, Oddisee (who plays a BV show in NYC on Tuesday)…

Killer UK doom metal band Conan went on their first ever U.S. tour in 2015, and they’ll be back in 2016 for a run of dates with Seattle doomers Serial Hawk…

enter to win tickets to see Pixies & TV on the Radio in NJ, at the end of this post… Memorial Day Weekend is this weekend and, as usual, there’s no lack of things for music fans to…

Maryland Deathfest is less than a month away (May 21-24), and the lineup was already stacked with Neurosis, Napalm Death, Yob, Triptykon, Primordial, Inter Arma, Tombs, D…

Australian death metallers Portal are coming over to the US for Maryland Deathfest in May, and not long after that they’ll play an MDF-presented NYC show on May 27 at Saint Vitus with MDF-mates and related band Impetuous Ritual, plus Negative…

Al Cisnero (Sleep) and Emil Amos’ (Grails, Holy Sons) band OM have a few dates coming up this year. They were part of today’s initial NXNE lineup announcement, and also playing Santa Ana’s Psycho California Festival (May 15-17) with Sleep, Pentagram (performing First Daze Here), Cult of Luna, Earth, Kylesa, Russian Circles, Eyehategod, Indian, Pallbearer, Old Man Gloom, Cave In, Tombs an…