Friday’s NYC-area shows include Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Coheed and Cambria, Tears for Fears, Failure, With Honor, and more.
Italian black metal vets Mortuary Drape have been around for decades, and they broke a long period of silence with 2014's Spiritual Independence. They recently wrapped up a North American tour...
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...
French post-metal greats Year of No Light have been at it for years but they had never played the US until this month. They just wrapped up their first-ever US tour which culminated in a two-night stand at Brooklyn's Saint Vitus, both shows with excellent and different local openers...
When we first mentioned the absolutely loaded (Geryon, Oneirogen, Psalm Zero, Sannhet, Gnaw, Vilkacis...wow) shows for French experimental/atmospheric doom-metal mainstays Year Of No Light at Saint Vitus, they were billed as YONL's first U...
France's Year of No Light have been around for over a decade now and, jeeze, how they've grown. Starting off as a sludgy post-metal thumper, the band has matured considerably, culminating in last year's Tocsin, a weighty slab of atmospheric experimentalism...
Ash Borer at the Acheron in 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro)
We've mentioned that the black metal band Ash Borer and the doom band Hell are on a tour that comes to NYC this weekend to play Saint Vitus on 7/12 with Vorde and Yellow Eyes (tix), and now the two bands from the Northwest have added a second NYC show (an all-ages one) happening at Acheron on Sunday (7/13)...