Tagged Metal

The musical group (Crosses) is rightfully named, because Tuesday night’s show was a religious experience. It felt like the stars aligned perfectly for me to be there—the last time they to...

Last weekend, right on the heels of San Francisco’s multi-day, multi-venue Psyched! Fest, we crossed state lines for a Pacific Northwestern analogue: Freakout Fest in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The ...

Metalheads are no strangers to the concept of giving up sleep in order to see their favorite bands live. However, there is something beautiful about a concert on a Saturday night. Everyone is able to let go of ...

Photo by Lily Ramus With finals season approaching, legions of stressed metalheads graduating sometime between 3 weeks from now and 40 years ago, descended upon the UC Theatre on Friday, April 28th. The cre...

Photo by Lily Ramus A gloomy storm-tossed Tuesday is a miserable time to leave the house, but a perfect time for some occult doom metal. It was immediately apparent that this verdict reverberated across the...

“SASAMI has something for everyone,” the bouncer explained to a pair of tipsy yet inquisitive passers-by. It’s true— whether your home is in the mosh pit of the artist’s signature metal anthem “Skin...

Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...

The metal underground has seen a massive revival in the digital age, and it can be daunting to parse through dozens of terrible one-man basement black metal groups to find a gem. I can attest to this, as the 1...

Horror is paradoxically uncool: the elements of horror are ubiquitous and mainstream, and yet the genre itself remains insular and weird, the torch passionately carried by modern directors like Robert Eggers a...

You find yourself in a cabin in a forgotten wood, and the grizzled wanderer across the fire tells stories about the dense, hushed forest outside your warm sanctuary. Through his bawdy, gruff guise, the strange...

If you’re a young person in the Bay Area, especially in Berkeley, it’s very possible you might be surrounded by people who never outgrew their teenage fascination with psychedelia. A random (and undeniably ...

In just 15 days, on October 21 and 22, Aftershock Festival is returning to Sacramento, CA. This is the sixth year in a row that the hard-rock festival will take place at Discovery Park in downtown Sacramento. T...

Coming back for their sixth installation, Desert Daze is set to rock out Joshua Tree October 12th-15th. To celebrate the start of the new semester, we will be giving away tickets to the event. The “ritual ...

They say you learn something valuable from every mistake you make. Sometimes, a mistake teaches you a life lesson, reveals a solution to a problem, or shows you how to become a better person. Other times, a mi...

This weekend I had the pleasure of going back to Santa Cruz to catch the rockers in Drain playing their hometown date of their west coast run with Momentum (LA Crossover) and No Right (SF Hardcore). This show ...