The Shrine
Uninvited Festival happening this month in Brooklyn w/ Weedeater, Orchid, Elder, Mothership, Bl'ast & more
Uninvited Festival will be kicking off on September 18 – 21 at Brooklyn’s Nihil Gallery. The festival promises to bring together skate sessions, art, and a loaded lineup of metal that includes stoner favorites Weedeater, Orchid, Elder, SubRosa, and many, many more…
Earthless and The Shrine have new records (streams), touring, playing East Coast dates together including 2 in NYC
Guitar shredders Earthless and skateboard shredders the Shrine will be heading back out to the East Coast in August. Following dates in Canada (including Sled Island this weekend for Earthless) and Europe, both bands will hook up to hit Washington, D…
A Place to Bury Strangers previewing new LP live in NYC after playing CA's 'Psycho de Mayo' fest (line-up)
APTBS @ MHOW 2012 (more by Chris La Putt)
A Place to Bury Strangers are putting the finishing touches on their fourth album which should be out late summer / early fall 2014…
Sled Island 2014 initial line-up: St. Vincent, Spiritualized, Neko Case, Rocket from the Crypt, Touche Amore, Rhye & more
Though the 2013 Sled Island Festival got flooded out, it returns to Calgary, AB this year from June 18 – 22. The full line-up will be announced on April 29, but artists appearing include St…
metal @ SXSW 2014 -- show previews, lineups & our top picks
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Black Tusk at Saint Vitus in 2013 (more by Caroline Harrison)
SXSW may be all about catching the hippest bands–check out the SXSW schedule for a lowdown on what’s going on (or browse our “SXSW” tag for some highlights) — including three BV day parties and the BV official showcase — but there’s no shortage of metal to bang your head to, either…
Fucked Up, Municipal Waste, The Shrine, Iron Reagan & more on Brainsqueeze II compilation (stream/free download)
Back in January, we mentioned Brainsqueeze II, the Californian punk/metal festival organized and featuring a number of acts that have worked with the label…
Kadavar touring this spring, including SXSW, Austin Psych Fest & two NYC shows (dates & streams)
German psych-rock throwbacks Kadavar succeed in the most important way that such a band can — they nail the aesthetic to a tee, from the instrumental tones to the song structures to the outfits (of course)…
Ghoul, Final Conflict, Negative Approach, Fucked Up & more playing 2014 Tankcrimes Brainsqueeze fest (line-up)
Ghoul at MDF 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro)
Tankcrimes is one of the preeminent punk/metal fusion labels going these days — their Ghoul/Cannabis Corpse and Exhumed/Iron Reagan splits both ranked highly on Invisible Oranges’ weekly Upcoming Metal Releases post this week…
Cancer Bats playing Black Sabbath tribute show at Saint Vitus during Red Fang tour (updated dates & stream)
Cancer Bats are in the midst of the previously discussed tour with Red Fang, Indian Handcrafts and The Shrine (dates below), and the day after that tour hits NYC (12/11 at Bowery Ballroom, tix), they’ll be taking a night off to play a very special Black Sabbath tribute set at Saint Vitus (12/12) with No Way and Blackest…
The Shrine headlining Acheron during tour w/ Red Fang
LA’s The Shrine — not to be confused with King Khan’s backing band — have the whole vintage-costumed proto-metalrockpunk thing down pat, with a little more West Coast punk rock in the mix than many bands in the vein deploy…
