Tix for the Megadeth-Slayer show in Louisville are on sale now

Tickets for the Feb. 2 “American Carnage” show in Louisville, featuring Megadeth, Slayer and Testament went on sale today. I’d previously reported the tix would go on sale Dec. 4. Sorry about the mistake. The show is at Broadbent Arena. The “recession proof” $10 tickets are in the arena’s upper levels, while seats in the lower [...]

Varg Vikerness denounces black metal and minorities, thus demonstrating he’s an idiot

Apparently, I can’t follow my own advice. Several months back when it was announced Norwegian black metal boogeyman Varg Vikernes was being released from prison, I suggested the best thing the metal community could do was ignore him. The hope was Vikernes would fade quietly into obscurity so the metal community wouldn’t be tainted by his [...]

Cynic and Devin Townsend! Cynic and Devin Townsend! Cynic and Devin Freaking Townsend!

Oh yeah, Between the Buried and Me is also on the bill. Take a look. Holy crap. I thought Cynic would never come this close to the region. But lo and behold, Terry Harper is bring them to Headliners in Louisville with The Devin Townsend Project. Again I say: Holy crap. If you don’t know [...]

Interview: Nile guitarist Dallas Toler-Wade discusses “Those Whom The Gods Detest”

When drummer George Kollias joined the Egyptian-themed death metal band Nile in 2004, the band moved away from the intricate compositions that had categorized earlier albums and embraced a more traditional death metal style. The move was intentional, and made because Kollias was such a monumental death metal drummer. Mixing Middle Eastern instrumentation, chanting and sound effects into songs ”is something that [...]

Review: Pelican “What We All Come To Need”

The music of Chicago’s Pelican is a bit of an acquired taste. While there’s something musically there for every metal fan, the songs are, if anything, so varied that they likely turn off those fundamentalist metal fans who judge all music solely on whether it is “brutal” or not. Which is too bad, because Pelican [...]