High on Fire

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After over a year closed due to COVID, Greenwich Village mainstay Le Poisson Rouge is returning in late August for its 13th operating year.

”Matt Pike’s lyrics are just as important and powerful as his riffs, and his words deserve to be celebrated alongside the fantastic imagery that the artists have put together in this book,” the book's publisher says.

To make up for the two lost years, Hellfest returns for two weeks in 2022, and it would be easier to list which heavy bands *aren't* playing...

The Barcelona festival has two different weekends (one that the organizers say ”we owe you” and one that ”we owe ourselves”), and there are also weekday shows and a Sunday brunch on the beach...

New 2021 additions include Cannibal Corpse, Exodus, Thievery Corporation, High on Fire, and The Sword, plus Ty Segall & Freedom Band are back on the bill.

From legends like At The Gates and Carcass and Eyehategod and King Diamond and Iron Maiden to newer bands we're excited about like Enforced and Gravesend and Suffering Hour and Sepulcros...

Featuring Mastodon, Obituary, Death, Nothing, Torche, Baroness, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer, Neurosis, High On Fire, YOB, Windhand, Full of Hell, Integrity, and so much more...

The 'Two Minutes to Late Night' quarantine covers series continues...

The 'Two Minutes to Late Night' quarantine covers series continued with a Father's Day gift to Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg's dad, Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg.