Ian Cory

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Roadburn 2016 Day 3 review & pics (Neurosis, Converge, Tau Cross, Amenra & more)

…Sometimes you don’t want to answer big questions like that. Sometimes you just want to listen to rock music, loudly and in person. Despite disparaging the concept of a rock show twice in these recaps, it’s important to remember that we’re all here ostensibly because we enjoy guitars being played through amps over drums. Tau Cross reinforce the notion that good metal bands tend to be good rock bands…

Roadburn 2016 Day 2 review & pics (Diamanda Galas, GISM, With the Dead, Ulfsmessa, more)

Its hard to imagine a better locale for people watching than a metal festival. Any single metal show is sure to packed full of weirdos, but festivals have the added benefit of bringing together a wide array of different types of weirdos. Every variety of metalhead that you can imagine is on display on Roadburn’s main avenue: Crust punks covered in patches, retro thrashers with high top Reeboks, old heads with comically long grey beards, goths in intricate lace dresses, recovering hardcore kids who dress like low budget hypebeasts (that’d be me), and short hairs in tight jeans that would fit right in at Chicago’s Empty Bottle if they weren’t speaking fluent Dutch. My personal favorite absurd fashion choice was the guy wearing a Game Of Thrones t-shirt with a leather trench coat draped over his shoulders like a cape…

Roadburn 2016 day 1 review & pics (Cult of Luna, Converge, Paradise Lost & more)

House music, albums in full, and rattling churches in Tilburg
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