Black Crown Initiate

SXSW already announced two rounds of 2016 artists, and today a third round was announced, including L7, Bloc Party, The Cult, Loretta Lynn, Waxahatchee, Frankie Cosmos, D∆WN, Polica, Dilly Dally, Eleanor Friedberger, Protomartyr, Holy Fuck, Ra Ra Riot, Fat White Family, Domo Genesis, Hodgy Be…

Plenty of great metal, hardcore, and other heavy NYC shows are getting announced all the time. We don't get a chance to write about all of them, so here's a roundup of some of the recently-announced stuff coming up:

Black metal project Volahn (aka Eduardo Ramírez, of the Black Twilight…

Monday's (2/2) cruddy winter weather in NYC didn't stop the totally stacked Napalm Death, Voivod, Exhumed, Iron Reagan, Ringworm and Black Crown Initiate tour from rolling through Gramercy Theatre and packing the venue to the gi...

Napalm Death at Knockdown Center (more by Greg Cristman)

There's yet another absolutely loaded, must-catch, all-star metal tour on the horizon, giving metalheads still more reason to get excited about 2015...

Crowbar at Gramercy Theatre in September (more by Mathieu Bredeau)

New Orleans sludge mainstays Crowbar have spent much of 2014 touring behind their excellent new LP Symmetry in Black...

Aside from perplexing openers Black Crown Initiate, whom I missed, every band on this bill was both ungodly tight and steeped in lovably familiar theatricality...

Goatwhore at Bowery Ballroom (more by Fred Pessaro)

The ongoing Metal Alliance tour -- which features Behemoth, Goatwhore, 1349, Inquisition, & Black Crown Initiate -- is one of the bigger package metal roadshows of the year...

Welcome to another HLD. Lotsa cool live riffment options this weekend! Let's take care of that stuff first:

Tonight (2/21): OM & Zomes will play MHoW (tix), while Rivers of Nihill, So Hideous, Black Crown Initiate, and Torrential Downpour will hit Saint Vitus (tix). If...

Goatwhore at Bowery Ballroom, 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro)

Rumors about the lineup of the 2014 edition of the Metal Alliance package tour have been floating around for a while, but now they're much more substantial announced: the lineup will feature Behemoth in the headlining slot, with 1349, Goa…

Inquisition at Saint Vitus, 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)

We've already mentioned that the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival will return in 2014 from April 17-19 at the Worcester Palladium...