Results tagged “metal”

Austin's The Sword have been busy. In 2008, after the release of Gods of the Earth (Kemado) the band toured extensively with bands like Machine Head, Lamb of God and Clutch. They also did dozens of dates with Metallica, supported them on the 2008 European Vacation Tour.

If it's too loud, you're from out of town.

And here they come, one of the very few modern rock bands capable of opening for death metal bands while still receiving perfectly legitimate Foo Fighters comparisons.

Vegetarians all, the San Diego quartet have managed to build a broad following among the more general metal faithful through the combined virtues of virtuosic musicianship, steady touring and a consistently high-quality output of albums.

We caught up with Dead Earth Politics (also a part of the evening’s line-up), and quizzed singer Ven Scott on the current state of metal music in Austin, among other things.

Steve Austin founded Today Is the Day back in 1992 in Nashville, quickly getting a good reputation in the metal/hardcore underground for their debut, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Hip hop isn’t the only genre to get excited about this week -- metal is holding its own as well. There’s the highly anticipated Torche show at Red 7 tomorrow, and tonight, head to Stubb’s and take in screeching guitars, vocals that break the silence like only Queensrÿche once could, lyrics that hark back to the glory days of Manowar, Iron Maiden-esque “woh-oh-oh” chants, and general metal mayhem. This ain’t your father’s Twisted Sister or the RATT in your cellar. This is DragonForce and you too can bow to their heaviness tonight. Stubb’s opens its doors at 5:30 p.m. this evening; Turisas and Powerglove precede DragonForce on stage.

Monday night found a horde of the long-haired, black-shirted, beer-bellied metal faithful packing the Emo’s courtyard to fire-hazard capacity for the Austin edition of he winkingly named Exhumed To Consume tour.

The brothers Kadane raised a lot of indie-rock capital in the '90s with the slow-core powerhouse Bedhead, and the talents that drove them into the hearts and minds of thousands of dewy-eyed college kids show no signs of waning with the Kadanes’ post-Bedhead venture, The New Year.

Metal bands from several parts of Tejas will take centre stage at Room 710 this Saturday with Dallas’ Rigor Mortis being the featured act at 11:30 p.m. Formed in the early '80s, they were one of the few standard-bearers of Texas thrash metal back in the day when Megadeth and Anthrax, among others, ruled the roost in that genre. Rigor Mortis released a few records of mega-heaviness through the early '90s and their debut full-length from 1988 was re-released in 2003.

Ukh, sorry--couldn't resist that headline. Unfortunately, San Francisco's late city supervisor (the first openly gay politician elected to office) is gone for good, but his namesake, the Southern-metal three-piece from Athens, GA, are currently enjoying the greatest popularity of their careers.

There's a reason they call it Killadelphia. Although technically the tech-metal three-piece Dysrythmia currently reside in Brooklyn, Philly is both the band's original hometown and the home of its label (the indie powerhouse Relapse), and no matter how sophisticated the playing, Dysrhythmia keep both feet planted firmly in the street.

Debuting as a post-Metallica thrash outfit with 1991’s Contradictions Collapse, Sweden’s Meshuggah have been refining their intractable sound to a serene balance of pummeling death metal and intricate technical sophistication. Fittingly, their latest record is called obZen, and for much of its hour-plus running time, the album does in fact bring a sense of zen-like calm to its brutally complex compositions.