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.
For those of you who still have a hangover from Maryland Deathfest, maybe the last thing you want to hear about is more metal shows. But the heavy world turns, and the shows keep coming. Catch up on our MDF coverage, and here's a roundup of some upcoming NYC metal shows, new music, festivals, and more...
Also: Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Baroness, Pentagram, Converge, Death, High On Fire, Fu Manchu, Boris, Down, Yob, and still many more.
Metal legends Pentagram recently announced a fall tour that includes NYC's Saint Vitus on October 6. That show has since sold out, but they now added a second date for October 5 at Saint...
Pioneering doom metal legends Pentagram are releasing their new album, Curious Volume, on August 28 via Peaceville Records, and they'll support it on a US tour in September/Octo...
UK doom legends Electric Wizard brought their first North American tour in over a decade to NYC last night (4/2) for a Webster Hall show that unsurprisingly sold out well in adva...
Electric Wizard at MDF 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro)
The last time Electric Wizard played the US was MDF 2012, and that was their first show here since 2002...
Behemoth at Irving Plaza, 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
Behemoth frontman Nergal is kind of a badass -- he's an extremely gifted musician and a live-performance powerhouse who's played an important role in putting the potent Polish metal scene on the international map over the past 20 years...
Stage dives, broken glass, male nudity (and reported, yet unconfirmed, fecal matter), crowd-surfing guitar cabs, and killer times were all in full effect at 285 Kent on Saturday (July 27), in what some are calling the "show of the year...
Midnight at Rites of Darkness 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
The Facebook event page for this show sort of nails it:Tell your wimp friends to listen to some REAL metal...