In a sweaty, dimly lit room on a Friday evening, the sounds of thrashing guitars and pounding drums fill the air and escape into the cool Fall night. It was an old-school metal kind of night, with legendary Bay Area thrash bands, Testament and Possessed, and German thrash icons KreatorContinue Reading
The friendlier the hardcore frontman looks, the more violent the music, or so the adage goes. At Bayou Music Center on Sunday, October 13th, that adage rang true. Four bands, Militarie Gun, Drain, The Garden, and Knocked Loose, blew the doors off the venue, as fans moshed and windmilled theirContinue Reading
Lamb of God, the Grammy nominated, Billboard charting, band from Virginia, rolled into Houston Sunday night for the Ashes of the Leviathan tour at 713 Music Hall. Playing their 2004 breakout album Ashes of the Wake in its entirety, the bands setlist was a punch in the face of brutalityContinue Reading
Last night, Houston has been blessed with loads and loads of awesome shows. I would have to say it’s been a pretty wicked kick-off to the year of 2024 in that aspect. As we are officially into summertime, it’s becoming more and more smoldering hot outside, so these outside showsContinue Reading
Heavy riffs and gut-wrenching screams filled the intimate space of White Oak Music Hall as Knocked Loose returned to Houston with a vengeance. Whether you were downstairs or on the balcony, every person in the venue was jumping or throwing fists, contributing to a mosh pit that never let up.Continue Reading
Thursday afternoon, Houston metal-heads piled into Warehouse Live Midtown for an epic show full of thrash, mosh pits, and headbanging featuring Crypta and Houston’s very own Exitium and Labyrinth. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve been to a good ol’ metal show, so saying I was excited to beContinue Reading
It’s been seven years since Bullet for My Valentine last visited Houston. A sold out House of Blues welcomed the band back, and a memorable night was made. The band kicked off the show with their latest single “Knives,” which was released in 2021. What a great commodity to fansContinue Reading
Houston may seem like an odd place for the English dark wave rock band, The Sisters of Mercy, to have a cult following, but it’s not. A nightclub in its inner city, Numbers, has played their songs to hoards of adoring fans for decades. Houston’s obsession with new wave, oftenContinue Reading
The self proclaimed “Whale-core” titans Gojira and Mastodon, with special guest Lorna Shore, played to a packed house during Friday night’s thunderstorms. New Jersey’s Lorna Shore kicked things off to a surprisingly nearly packed floor at 7pm. The crowd so far was made up of mainly younger fans, with curiousContinue Reading
Thursday night, Houstonian goth romantics gathered within House Of Blues for the long awaited Ville Valo (Heartagram) show along with special guest openers all the way from Reykjavik, Iceland; Kaelan Mikla. The amount of fans that showed up was unreal, the line to get in before doors opened was massive.Continue Reading