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Manilla Road at Chaos in Tejas 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro) Classic Kansas power-metal outfit Manilla Road were initially around from the late '70s to the early '90s before going on hiatus, but they picked back up again in 2001 and have been going strong ever since with frontman Mark "The Shark" Shelton as the only constant member...

Blackened thrashers Ketzer are coming to the States for the first time. The Germans have 12 dates set for August that cover the eastern half of the US, including stops in Chicago, Baltimore, and Philadelphia...

Godflesh @ Irving Plaza 4/10/2014 (more by Greg Cristman) Angry about Metallica at Glastonbury? Or angry at people angry about Metallica at Glastonbury...

Sannhet at SXSW 2014 (via Invisible Oranges Instagram) Back in 2011, NYC-based metal blog MetalSucks released a pair of free "NYC Sucks" compilations that featured music by small-to-midsized area bands...

You may recall that the influential British proto-thrash metal band Satan achieved a rare feat for bands of their sort last year: they released a comeback album, Life Sentence, that received nearly universal critical acclaim...

LA's The Shrine -- not to be confused with King Khan's backing band -- have the whole vintage-costumed proto-metalrockpunk thing down pat, with a little more West Coast punk rock in the mix than many bands in the vein deploy...

About five months ago, Invisible Oranges debuted a song by the Swedish thrash band Antichrist. It's a jam; wiry, high-speed rippage that barely holds itself together...

Stage dives, broken glass, male nudity (and reported, yet unconfirmed, fecal matter), crowd-surfing guitar cabs, and killer times were all in full effect at 285 Kent on Saturday (July 27), in what some are calling the "show of the year...

Midnight at Rites of Darkness 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) The Facebook event page for this show sort of nails it:Tell your wimp friends to listen to some REAL metal...

Aun, Thisquietarmy, and Planning For Burial will embark on a trio of dates on the East Coast in early June, including stops in Boston (on 6/6), Philly (6/8 at Eris Temple Arts) and a NYC show at Acheron on June 7th with special guest Mario Diaz de Leon...