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It’s year-end list season already, and one of the first major publications out of the gate is metal mag Decibel.

Friday’s NYC-area shows include The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane’s Addiction, The B-52’s, The House of Love, Yard Act, Channel Tres, and more.

We caught night one, where Blood Incantation played both of their full-length albums in full and Artificial Brain and Dysrhythmia opened.

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: Earth, Wind & Fire, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Beast Coast, Dylan LeBlanc, and more tour-related news.

Here’s all the metal (and other heavy stuff) we posted this week, including Inter Arma, Spotlights, Kings Destroy, Napalm Death offshoot Tronos, and more.

Wear Your Wounds (also ft. members of The Red Chord, Trap Them, and Cave In) will make their live debut at Roadburn, which also just added My Dying Bride, Wolves in the Throne Room, Ash Borer, Emma Ruth Rundle, Sumac, and more.