Author: Andrew Bansal

Ventura, California old-school metal trio Night Demon have successfully completed their ‘ExtermiNation America’ tour as main support to British legends Raven, a tour that spanned nine weeks and traveled a distance of 18,500 road miles through 30 states in the USA and 2 in Canada. Yours truly had the pleasure of being a part of this seemingly endless journey and wrote a ten-part ‘On The Road With Night Demon’ tour blog to chronicle the experiences and adventures from the tour via a combination of images and words. For your convenience, this post should serve as the home of this blog, and you can dig into it in this order (to link to each part, click on its respective thumbnail): Continue reading “Night Demon Travels 18,500 Miles To ‘Exterminate’ America With Raven”

* This contest has ended. Winner is Alfredo Serrato. You can still purchase tickets for the show here. *

New Orleans sludgelords Down are on tour again in the States with killer support acts Orange Goblin, B’last and King Parrot, and are set to invade Los Angeles with a gig at the Wiltern on Saturday December 6th. Metal Assault in association with Live Nation is bringing you a package giveaway which consists of the following items:

1. A pair of tickets for Down’s 12/06 LA show
2. One copy of ‘Down IV – Part 1’ EP (CD)
3. One copy of ‘Down IV – Part 1’ EP (Vinyl)
4. One copy of ‘Down IV – Part 2’ EP (Vinyl)
5. One copy of Down’s ‘Diary Of A Mad Band’ CD/DVD Continue reading “DOWN Giveaway: LA Show Tickets + Other Goodies”

Night Demon from Ventura County (just north of Los Angeles) have recently signed with Century Media for the world outside of Europe for an early 2015 release. The three-piece heavy metal act is currently on tour with legendary NWOBHM band, Raven with a long string of dates that go into the holiday season. See dates below. The band had this to say about joining Century Media: Continue reading “Night Demon Sign To Century Media Records”

Featuring in its ranks Eric Matranga (Ex- Excretion, Grotesque) on vocals and guitar, Scott Fuller (Abysmal Dawn) on drums and Eric Cohen (Ex-Arkaik) on bass, Los Angeles-based extreme metal band Annihilated have signed to Unique Leader Records and are set to release their debut full-length ‘XIII Steps To Ruination’ on October 28th, 2014 in North America, October 31st,2014 in Europe and November 3rd, 2014 in the UK. Continue reading “Exclusive Premiere: LA Death Metal Band Annihilated Unveils ‘Eradication Profits’”

Swiss folk metal group Eluveitie are currently on a North American headline tour with support acts Tyr from the Faroe Islands and Estonia’s Metsatöll to make it an exotic all-European lineup bringing good times to North American fans of the genre. The tour will make a Los Angeles stop at the House Of Blues Sunset Strip on Thursday October 2nd. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Eluveitie, Tyr & Metsatöll @ House Of Blues Sunset Strip 10/02”

Celebrating their 15th anniversary this year and touring in support of their eighth studio album Pariah’s Child, Finnish power metal group and Nuclear Blast recording artists Sonata Arctica are returning to North America for a headline run with support acts Delain and Xandria, and will play at the House Of Blues Sunset Strip in West Hollywood next Monday September 29th. Continue reading “Ticket Giveaway: Sonata Arctica, Delain & Xandria @ HOB Sunset 9/29”