Extreme metal band Cobalt is in the midst of their autumn 2017 U.S. tour in support of their highly praised 2016 album Slow Forever. They stopped in Lombard, Illinois on October 18th in support of The Obsessed. Continue reading Cobalt live at Brauer House
Pelican returned to Chicago for two nights at the Empty Bottle on October 13 and 14. Check out some photos below from their Friday night show. Continue reading Pelican at Empty Bottle
Grails are back in 2017 with their new record Chalice Hymnal. The band is on the road for a fall tour of the U.S. (and Toronto). The photos below are from their Chicago show on October 13th in support of Pelican. Continue reading Grails at Empty Bottle
Gigan are back in 2017 with their latest album: Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence. It’s another dose of total psychedelic sci-fi death metal mind-fuckery. Gigan is one band whose sound is very accurately described by their album titles. I first heard them in 2011 when they released Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes and have been paying close … Continue reading Gigan live at Cobra Lounge
Weedeater stopped by Chicago’s Bottom Lounge on September 7th for the third to last date of their summer 2017 tour. Always a standout in the doom/stoner metal scene, Weedeater once again unloaded an hour’s worth of madcap, low-end menace. Continue reading Weedeater at Bottom Lounge
After a successful liver transplant, vocalist Mike IX Williams and bandmates in Eyehategod have hit the road for the huge Left to Starve summer 2017 tour. Chicago is often fortunate enough to get two or three EHG shows at a time and we did this year as well. EHG is one of those bands whose … Continue reading Eyehategod at Cobra Lounge
Neurosis have embarked on a summer 2017 tour that takes them through the eastern U.S. and into Canada. Chicago was fortunate enough to get two gigs (both of which quickly sold out): one intimate show at The Empty Bottle and another at the more spacious Thalia Hall. These photographs are from their Thalia Hall show … Continue reading Neurosis: Live in Chicago at Thalia Hall
Chicago, 23 July 2017. Continue reading Unsane live at Beat Kitchen
Power Trip tore it up at Reggies in Chicago, 2017-03-12. Continue reading Power Trip live in Chicago at Reggies
