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 who Cynic [...]

Giveaway! Win two tickets to the Owensboro Maylene & The Sons of Disaster show

Yes, kids. I have two free tickets to this Sunday’s (May 17) Maylene concert at the Brothers venue in Owensboro. And they can be yours, all yours.
Just send an e-mail with “Maylene” in the subject line to: jmayse@messenger-inquirer.com. I’ll pick a winner at random.
Be quick. The show is this Sunday, so I’ll be picking a [...]

Obligatory notice about the upcoming “Music As A Weapon” tour

Part of the fun of running a site like this is that I can essentially pick and choose what I want to cover. If I don’t like a particular band rolling through St. Louis or Cincinnati, why, I don’t interview them. I simply add the date to the Upcoming Regional Concerts  page and move on.
But, [...]

A Life Once Lost to Play free Owensboro show Saturday

Did I wake up in an alternative universe Owensboro, where everything is suddenly much cooler?
This Saturday (May 9), another nationally known metal band will grace the city, when A Life Once Lost will play a free show at the International Bar-B-Q Festival.
A Life Once Lost will play the Old-School Stage School-Age/United Youth Stage beginning at [...]

Win Tickets to the Relapse Contamination Tour’s Owensboro show!

Wanna go to the May 1 show at The Brothers for free? Well, I have two free passes to give away. Here’s how it works.
Just send an e-mail to jmayse@messenger-inquirer.com. Be sure to put “ticket giveaway” in the subject line and include your name and phone number in the body on the message. Each e-mail [...]

“Relapse Contamination Tour” coming to Owensboro next week! Wanna win free tickets to the show?

Did ya know that three real, live nationally known metal bands are gonna be here in Owensboro next week? It’s true.
On Friday, May 1 The Brothers venue will present the “Relapse Contamination Tour,” featuring Obscura, Abysmal Dawn and Graves of Valor.
Tickets are just $8 in advance, and $10 at the door. You’re not going to find [...]

The Brothers brings metal to Owensboro! Whoa!

I had no freakin’ idea.
Here I’ve been, sitting in Owensboro, doing this metal blog for months … and I was completely oblivious to the fact that The Brothers venue at 624 Emory Drive is bringing national metal acts practically to my front door.
Check out the list of concerts below. In the next two months, The Brothers is [...]

Carcass coming to Louisville on March 17

I posted this on the Upcoming Shows page a couple weeks ago, but just in case you missed the big news … Carcass – yes, those medical-book-reading, ultra-technical-death metal masters – will be playing Headliner’s in Louisville on March 17
I don’t know how this happened, either, but it’s pretty amazing. It’s another Terry Harper show, [...]

Opeth & Enslaved to tour U.S. in May

I got this e-mail Wednesday. At first, I screamed, “whoo hoo!” But after slightly closer inspection of the tour dates, I muttered, “aw, crap.”
Yes, Opeth and Enslaved – the two best bands of Northern Europe – are teaming up for a U.S. tour in May. That’s awesome … but the sad news is dates aren’t [...]