Blog: Clean-Cut

Photos by Linda Wildemann The Bouncing Souls played for an hour and half at Generation Records for Record Store Day. Lead singer Greg Attonito is getting close with Type O Negative up there. Check out more of Linda's photos at Late Night Wallflower.

Defeater released a great record last year by the name of Travels and I was excited to finally catch them live at New England Metal Fest. Check out some photos below.

Energy brought a high energy octane performance to the second stage of New England Metal Fest Saturday. They have a sound very reminiscent of Ignite, Misfits or older AFI. Check out some photos below.

Round up of the rest of my Metal Fest 2009 Day 1 photos including Trap Them, Coliseum, Whitechapel, The Acacia Strain and Decrepit Birth. Whitechapel Decrepit Birth Trap Them Coliseum The Acacia Strain ?

Suffocation live on the main stage at New England Metal Fest. More photos after the jump.

Napalm Death gave the younger folk at Metal Fest a lesson in how to rock. (Excuse how lame that sentence was) They guaranteed more songs in a 30 minute set then any other band and delivered. Check out photos below.

August Burns Red got the circle pit going in front of the main stage friday at Metal Fest. Check out the photos below.

The Haunted performed a blistering set on the main stage of New England Metal Fest this year. Check out the photos below.

On Friday night of Metal FestAll That Remains closed the show

Between the Buried and Me were one of the highlights Friday night during New England Metal Fest this year performing right before headliners All That Remains. This band announced they will have a new record out on Oct. 27, but were not prepared to play the new songs live yet. Check out some [...]

New England Metal and Hardcore Festival kicked off early this year with a pre-party the Thursday night before the festival. The festivities of the night included several movie screenings including Crowley, Iron Maiden: Flight 666 and Anvil: The Story of Anvil. There was also a few performances including Anvil and Kobra Kai an [...]

In anticipation of this year's Metal and Hardcore Festival in Worcester here are some photos of day 1 of last year's fest including Megadeth, Childeren of Bodom and more.

Record Store Day will cometh this Saturday April 18th with a lot of new and exclusive vinyl fromSlayer, Mastodon, Jesus Lizard Russian Circles, Bad Religion and more. Check out all of our recommended releases after the jump. Our New York pick for Record Store Day is Generation Records where the Bouncing Souls will be [...]

ANVIL took the stage last night after a premiere of their documentary Anvil: The Story of Anvil. This band has been together longer than I have been alive and they still rock pretty hard. The film is definitely recommended as it walks the fine line whether you should be laughing with or at [...]

Any movie about Vikings with a death metal soundtrack sounds good to me and now we finally have one, Severed Ways - The Norse Discovery of America. This movie is Amon Amarth's wet dream. Complete with soundtrack from Morbid Angel, Judas Priest, Dimmu Borgir, Queens of the Stone Age and more. Brief Synopsis of [...]

Steel Panther unleashed their lesson in (hair) metal to the audience of the Canal Room in New York City last night. The band's set which was a variety show of sorts including original songs, covers (Bon Jovi and Guns and Roses, obviously) and comedic stage banter mostly about sex with groupies. Scott Ian who [...]

Converge slays every time. They played two new currently untitled songs that were unbelievable including the one that is currently floating around in this video clip. Check out the photos below.

One of my favorite sets at SXSW, The Bronx never fail to please live. Unfortunately, I missed them performing as El Mariachi Bronx at Red 7.

Caught Hopewell after Night Horse's set at the Scoot Inn during South by Southwest. Check out the photos below.

Priestess melted the stage after Valient Thorr at the Emo's Annex at SXSW.