live reviews

King Diamond’s tour preceding his new album “The Institute” is underway.

We caught the Tool tour in Chicago on Sunday night, an unforgettable stadium-size progressive rock experience.

We caught the first stop of Oranssi Pazuzu’s US tour in Chicago last Thursday. Mother of all that is holy, this band fucking rocks. Full report and show photos inside.

“A golden, horned helm which turns into a Viking longship? Be still my beating heart.”

These two heavyweights combine forces to stir up crowds on their latest (and extensive) tour — we caught the Philly set on Tuesday, and here’s what we found out.

We caught the Lingua Ignota show in Philadelphia on Tuesday — project mastermind Kristin Hayter follows few (if any) conventions in her esoteric and moving performance.

We hit up the Friday the 13th Hi-Dive show featuring Cerebral Rot and Fetid — the night was stunning and perfect for this brand of old-school death metal mastery. Here’s our report.

The Philly doomsters tried to throw a record release party. Cops shut it down. But the musicians and crowd hauled ass and moved elsewhere. Try to stop metal? Hah!

Last Friday ripped us to shreds: the big riffs of Sonja, the sawing rawness of Dumal, and the outright savagery of False whose latest album made waves.

The Tusk in Philly was alive last Friday with a slew of emotive, proggy goodness before one-man black metal act Eneferens took the stage — photos and album streams inside.