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SLAYER/MEGADETH/TESTAMENT @ Roy Wilkins Auditorium 08/21/2010
My wife is a fucking trooper. A day before we were set to leave for Minnesota to take in the American Carnage Tour, she threw her back out while doing housework. I was ready to cancel our excursion...
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The Lurking Corpses @ Bombay Bicycle Club, 10/21/2011
I’ve often remarked that when the Halloween season rolls around, all I want to listen to is Misfits and Type O Negative. It seems I’ve been a bit remiss with that statement, because there is another...
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Grave / Dark Funeral / Morbid Angel @ People’s Court, Des Moines IA, 10/07/12
Morbid Angel, Dark Funeral, Grave; listening to metal in my early teens and twenties, I never imagined such an excellent lineup would roll through my hometown of Des Moines, IA. When this tour was...
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Mutilation Rites / Havok @Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, IA 11/11/12
First thing’s first; yes, Skeletonwitch did headline this show. However, I opted not to cover them in this review for a variety of reasons. First and foremost because I’ve been following the band since...
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Ghost @ Mill City Nights, Minneapolis, MN 5/4/13
To say that I was highly anticipating seeing Ghost in the flesh would probably be the understatement of the year. Their 2010 debut full length Opus Eponymous has been in near constant rotation since...
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Katatonia @ Wooly’s, Des Moines, IA 05/15/13
Jonas Renkse is a difficult man to photograph. For the entirety of Katatonia’s set Wednesday night at Wooly’s, the singer kept his face deliberately obscured behind a mass of hair; as if not wanting to...
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Finally… Danzig.
At this point, my status as a Glenn Danzig maniac is far beyond well-documented. Between the Misfits, Samhain and Danzig, I’ve devoted more digital ink to the man’s music than to any other artist...
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Broken Hope @ Vaudeville Mews, 04/03/2014
Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to finally check a few bands off my old school death metal bucket list. The likes of Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Grave (I sadly missed Deicide...
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My first show in Sacramento.
When my wife and I first started talking seriously about moving to Sacramento, one of the main draws for me was the opportunity to take in a lot of live music. Sure, metal shows do happen back home...
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Dropdead / Full of Hell / Noisem / Plague Widow / RAD @ Midtown Barfly,...
My second show in Sacramento was in some ways a throwback to my younger years in Des Moines; I used to walk down to Hairy Mary’s by myself to see shows because my sorry ass didn’t have a car and to...
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Dispirit and the art of total immersion.
As a heavy metal fan, I’ve seen dozens of amazing shows. But I can probably count on one hand the number of shows that fully immersed me, the ones that made real life and all the horrific mundanity...
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Samhain @ The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 09/20/14
Longtime THKD readers will recall that late last year I finally got to see Danzig live after being a fan of the man and his music for twenty years. Considering the fact that the set included a slew...
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Mrs. THKD’s Metal Show Bingo!
While Josh is away on a boring business trip, I have decided to hack into his account and give his readers something from his better half, me. A few weeks ago, we attended the King Diamond concert in...
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Incantation / Funerus / Mortuous / Plague Widow @ Starlite Lounge,...
There’s no shortage of great shows happening in Sacramento every month, but the dregs of being a responsible adult often keep me from going to them. When you’re a corporate lackey that gets up for...
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-(16)- / Brainoil / Kowloon Walled City / Church @ Starlite Lounge,...
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Sacramento in the ten months I’ve lived here, it’s that this city loves its doom and sludge. I’m sure as hell not complaining, especially when we get shows of...
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Church @ The Press Club, Sacramento, CA 06/04/2015
At this point it’s well documented that shows during the week are typically a no-go for me; I’m a corporate lackey that’s typically in bed by 9:00 pm. That said, there was no way in hell I was going...
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Melt-Banana’s joyful noise.
It’s been a few weeks since I saw Melt-Banana at Harlow’s, and for some reason I just can’t get their set out of my mind. Part of this is no doubt due to the fact that I actually got to see...
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Nocturnal Blood @ Starlite Lounge, Sacramento, CA 08/08/2015
Sacramento gets a ton of great shows, but we’ve been more than a bit lacking in the black metal department of late. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed the shit out of seeing the likes of Melt Banana,...
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Goat Torment – Sermons to Death (Amor Fati, 2015)
Like any good metalhead, I try to keep track of all the shows happening in my neck of the woods, even though I can only make it to a fraction of them. This is how Belgium’s Goat Torment popped up on...
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