Abysmal Dawn

What's that? You needed another stupidly stacked metal show to see in 2016? Well, you're in luck, especially if you prefer your shows with a single-minded death metal focus...

While you may not think a festival curated is a thing you wanted to attend, the lineup is actually pretty awesome for their annual Knotfest this y...

The half black metal, half death metal tour of 1349 & Wolvhammer and Origin & Abysmal Dawn, respectively, rolled into NYC on Monday (2/23) at Gramerc...

As always, there are tons of good metal and metal-related tours swinging through NYC and other one-off heavy shows happening here. We don't get around to posting all of them, so here's a roundup of some of the local heavy shows coming up that we're excited about:

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Norwegian black metal vets 1349 are returning to North America for a tour in February, and they've got an excellent lineup of openers on board...

Deicide, Septicflesh, Abysmal Dawn, Carach Angren, and Inquisition brought their ongoing tour to NYC last week, playing Santos Party House on October 9 (the show had originally been set for Gramercy Theatre but moved to Santos)...

Long-running metal band Prong released their fourth album since their 2002 reunion and ninth overall, Ruining Lives, earlier this year and they've been on tour with another veteran metal band Overkill...

Deicide at Gramercy Theatre, 2012 (more by Jonathan McPhail)

Deicide, the grand-daddies of death metal controversy, are heading back out on the road with Septicflesh, Abysmal Dawn, Carach Angren, and no strangers to backlash themselves, Inquisition...