Concert Reviews

FLOTSAM & JETSAM

Legendary Phoenix-based metallers Flotsam & Jetsam are featured at Vancouver’s iconic Rickshaw Theatre to support their latest crushing album “The End of Chaos”, just released in 2019. I am a renewed fan of this band based on this new Read More…

Concert Reviews

PIG DESTROYER

I am excited to be part of history when legendary Relapse Records recording artists Pig Destroyer finally do their FIRST SHOW EVER in Vancouver Canada! Formed in 1997, The Virginians took a full 22 years to Read More…

Concert Reviews

DARK FUNERAL

When I think of Black Metal, I think of high pitched vocals, guitars typically in standard tuning, black leather, upside down crosses, and lots of corpse paint. Well Sweden’s Dark Funeral ticked off all those boxes during Read More…

Concert Reviews

BELPHEGOR

Loud Flash was  summoned back to Vancouver’s Rickshaw theatre to witness blackened death metal artist’s Belphegor. They had arisen Austria in 1993,   and are currently supporting their latest opus “Totenritual” which was released in 2017.  Read More…

Concert Reviews

FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE

Orchestral death metallers Fleshgod Apocalypse are back to Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre brought to us by our friends from Invisible Orange Productions. Hailing from Italy, they are set to release their fifth opus with Nuclearblast on May 24 Read More…

Concert Reviews

JOHN 5

Nowadays it just seems to me that the art of shredding on a guitar has been lost within the last 30 or so years.   Just not a lot of bands do a lot of killer Read More…

Concert Reviews

RIVERS OF NIHIL

Metal Blade recording artists Rivers of Nihil make a stop at Vancouver’s iconic Rickshaw Theatre and provide a taste of Progressive Death Metal. This tour is in support of their critically acclaimed album from 2018 “Where the Owls Read More…

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CROWBAR

Louisiana’s Crowbar – one of the best heavy rock bands out of New Orleans area, made their way to Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre in support of their latest album “The Serpent Only Lies”. I have a hard time Read More…

Concert Reviews

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY

Legendary rock icons Corrosion of Conformity made their way to Vancouver’s Rickshaw theatre for a SOLD OUT show.    They are bringing their brand of a quasi blues-rock-metal jam in support of their latest album “No Cross No Read More…

Concert Reviews

ZIMMERS HOLE

And from the very furthest outer extremities of metal music comes Canadian cult shock rockers — Zimmers Hole! Should you ever be involved in music trivia and the question is to identify a band out there Read More…