One Tail One Head

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 Circle collective) is playing the awesome Berserktown II festival in LA this summer, but before that he’ll play NYC on July 23 at the Acheron with Hand…

Lord Mantis at Saint Vitus in 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) Lord Mantis just debuted a new song on Stereogum called “Negative Birth” from their forthcoming album, Death Mask, which comes out on April 29 on Profound Lore…

Mournful Congregation at Rites of Darkness 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro) The lineup for Signature Riff’s third annual Martyrdoom festival was just announced, and it’s a doozy–Australian funeral doom masters Mournful Congregation are headlining along with international black metal-heavy top billings of Sargeist, Behexen, Cult of Fire and more…

BBG is back in Oslo, this time for Inferno. Here’s what he’s catching at the Norwegian metal festival… There’s no way to put it nicely…