David Castillo (Saint Vitus Bar, Confines) lists his favorite albums of 2022
The Saint Vitus Bar co-owner and booker, who also makes music as Confines and in Other Faith, lists his 2022 favorites.
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30 Best Metal Albums of 2022
From Wormrot to Artificial Brain to Immolation to Undeath to Temple of Void to Kreator to Phobophilic, here are 30 favorite metal albums of 2022...
Phobophilic discuss their favorite albums of 2022
Featuring Dream Unending, Mortuous, Bladee, and more...
Decibel’s Top 40 Albums of 2022
It's year-end list season already, and one of the first major publications out of the gate is metal mag Decibel.
What’s Going on Saturday?
Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Interpol, Deftones, Baroness, Sick Of It All, Midlake, 070 Shake, and more.
Metal tours announced: Rivers of Nihil, Cannibal Corpse, Neurosis, Life Of Agony, more
Plus: Maryland Deathfest 2020 additions, Migration Fest 2020, Negative Plane, In Cold Blood, Om, and more heavy tour announcements.
Portal, Impetuous Ritual & Negative Plane @ Saint Vitus (pics)
Following sets at Maryland Deathfest this past weekend, Australian death metallers Portal and related band Impetuous Ritual hit NYC's Saint Vitus on Wednesday (5/27) for a characteristically dark, twisted and awesom...
Portal playing NYC w/ Impetuous Ritual after Maryland Death Fest, which added Gnaw Their Tongues & Blood Red Throne
Australian death metallers Portal are coming over to the US for Maryland Deathfest in May, and not long after that they'll play an MDF-presented NYC show on May 27 at Saint Vitus with MDF-mates and related band Impetuous Ritual, plus Negative...
Heavy low-down: Metal Cats, Slayer’s business years, new Behemoth, weekend shows & more
Kerry King of Slayer (more by Caroline Harrison)
Now that we're in December's not-terribly-icy-so-far clutches, things have finally begun to slow significantly on the heavy music front, but the newswire never goes cold...
NYC Labor Day Weekend events (Fool’s Gold Day Off, CT5, Electric Zoo, Thurston Moore, IPR anniversary & more)
Danny Brown at 2013 Afro Punk Fest (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Even though the season doesn't official end until September 21, Labor Day (9/2) is generally seen as the end of summer and the last chance for NYers to get out of town and relax...