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Excruciating Terror playing all ages Sunday matinee at Silent Barn after Vitus show (updated dates)

LA death-grind vets Excruciating Terror are finally making it over to NYC for their previously-mentioned Saint Vitus show on Saturday, April 11 (tickets), and since we last spoke they also added an all ages Sunday matinee happening at Silent Barn (4/12) the…

Excruciating Terror playing shows, including NYC in April

LA death-grinders Excruciating Terror were around in the ’90s before members went on to play in Bloody Phoenix, Asesino, Endless Demise and others, and they reunited in 2013 for their first time in 15 ye…

Maryland Deathfest announces venue details, tons more bands

Immolation @ Gramercy, 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) The Maryland Deathfest lineup for 2014 grows ever spookier. The fest’s organizers have taken advantage of Samhain to announce a whole string of new bands — no huge names in this round, but there are a bunch of notables, including Castevet (who just played an IO-sponsored record release show), Sweden’s Entrails and the hilarious Birdflesh, Germany’s Necros Christos, Japan’s Coffins, Canada’s Mitochondrion, Austrialia’s Whitehorse, plus local favorites Immolation, Incantation, and Mutilation Ri…