Author: Andrew Bansal

Washington D.C. modern prog metal giants Periphery released their fifth full-lengths studio album ‘Periphery III: Select Difficulty’ in July 2016 via Sumerian Records, and have embarked on the ‘Sonic Unrest’ U.S. headline tour with support from U.K. prog rock band SikTh who’re touring the States for the first time ever, San Diego instrumental trio Chon, and New Jersey proggers Toothgrinder. The tour will visit downtown Los Angeles for a gig at the Regent Theater on Saturday August 13th 2016. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Periphery @ The Regent 8/13”

The 2016 edition of the annual Summer Slaughter North American extreme metal touring festival is certainly pulling no punches and leaving no stone unturned in making it the most powerful lineup it’s ever had to offer. Headlined by Cannibal Corpse, the lineup also features heavyweights Nile, After The Burial, Suffocation, Carnifex, Revocation, Krisiun, Slaughter To Prevail, Ingested and Enterprise Earth. Summer Slaughter will be starting out in the home of American death metal i.e. Florida and making its way to Southern California for two gigs, the second of which is slated to take place at the Novo in downtown Los Angeles on Friday August 12th. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Summer Slaughter @ The Novo DTLA 8/12”

Following the July 2016 release of their fourth full-length studio album ‘Welcome To The Graveyard’, San Francisco Bay Area doom metal trio Castle embarked on an extensive North American headline tour to crush stages all over the continent with their heavy riffs and sooth souls with their easy-flowing rock n’ roll. As part of this two-month long tour, Castle will be visiting the Los Angeles area to perform at Complex in Glendale, with Washington DC band Caustic Casanova as main support and local openers Trapped Within Burning Machinery and Taarkus, for an event together by promoters Church Of The 8th Day. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Castle @ Complex 8/20”

Progressive extreme metal masters Meshuggah will embark on a North American fall headline tour with High On Fire as support act, and will visit Los Angeles for a gig at the Novo DTLA on Wednesday October 19th, to scorch the stage with their brand of face-melting modern metal wizardry. The Goldenvoice ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday July 21st, and tickets will be on general sale starting Friday July 22nd. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Meshuggah @ The Novo DTLA 10/19”

The 2016 edition of the annual Summer Slaughter North American extreme metal touring festival is certainly pulling no punches and leaving no stone unturned in making it the most powerful lineup it’s ever had to offer. Headlined by Cannibal Corpse, the lineup also features heavyweights Nile, After The Burial, Suffocation, Carnifex, Revocation, Krisiun, Slaughter To Prevail, Ingested and Enterprise Earth. Summer Slaughter will be starting out in the home of American death metal i.e. Florida and making its way to Southern California for two gigs, the first of which is slated to take place at the Observatory in Santa Ana on Thursday August 11th. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Summer Slaughter @ Observatory OC 8/11”

The 22nd annual Vans Warped Tour is currently doing the rounds through North America and bringing a plethora of summertime live music. This year’s lineup includes Every Time I Die, Veil Of Maya, Volumes, Whitechapel and many others, and as part of the tour, will visit Southern California for a takeover of the Pomona Fairplex on Sunday August 7th. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Warped Tour @ Pomona Fairplex 8/7”