Deicide

Tonight's NYC-area shows include Glen Hansard, Governors Ball 2019, Bikini Kill, Bjork, L7, Soccer Mommy, Kaytranada, Sunflower Bean, Teen Daze, and more.

Maryland Deathfest 2019 happens Memorial Day Weekend in Baltimore with Voivod, Anaal Nathrakh, Primitive Man, Spectral Voice, Borknagar, Unleashed and more.

Finnish funeral/death doom vets Shape of Despair are playing some rare US shows this year, and they're also playing the stacked Czech festival Brutal Assault.

Plus: Buddy Guy, Gun Outfit, Budos Band, Mike Donovan, Langhorn Slim, Ohtis, Phil Collins, and more upcoming tour and show news.

Our metal sister site Invisible Oranges ran down the best albums of the year. Plus, see new lists from Thou, Outer Heaven, Evoken, The Obsessed, Khemmis, CHRCH, and other metal bands.

Tormentor, the Hungarian black metal band that Attila Csihar fronted before going on to become the vocalist on Mayhem's classic De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and make albums with Sunn O))) and tons of other projects, are back and just announced their first US reunion show...

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…

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...