I’ve missed out on posting about some shows, but rather than let the weight of my unfinished drafts keep me from posting, I’m just going to start now. I’m also trying to re-learn to post longer thoughts than 140 characters. On Thursday, the Pirate Pagan Knights Fest came through Austin. We skipped out of the [...]
Too many shows to make full length single show reviews: Thursday: Opeth at Monarch event center. Monarch Event Center used to be a movie theater, it’s not anywhere near Red River and 6th, it’s in a strip mall off Airport Blvd. Not only that, they hung plastic butterflies (get it? monarch?) on shiny strings from [...]
This has been the week for sludgy post-metal. Plenty of bands have jumped into the build-explode-repeat, wall-of-sound, and crushing riffs of the genre this year, but the two best albums of the scene came out this week. Burst has been moving slowly deeper into the genre, from what were crust/hardcore roots. In Coveting Ways was [...]
It’s a funny name for a show, presumably playing on the testosterone orientation of the audience. Ironic, then, that the gender ratio of the audience was the closest to even of any metal show I’ve been to. Perhaps that owed to the outdoor show, with most of the bands being local and having female members [...]
NWOAHM The New Wave of American Heavy Metal is a broken term. It’s anachronistic, refering back to the NWOBHM, introduced by an author, who willfully ignored genre divisions, including punk-based bands, and diminishing his own term by including bands from the late 80′s/early 90′s metal heyday. Wikipedia’s article follows straight into the same failures, by [...]
