July 31, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Altar of Plagues
Altar of Plagues
From Ireland. First American trip! Profound Lore/Candlelight.
Castevet
Brooklyn superheros. Also on Profound Lore.
Velnias
Slow, heavy, and sad.
The Green Evening Requiem
Heavy, challenging, chaotic stuff from members of Woe and Woods of Ypres.
at Kungfu Necktie
1248 N Front St. Philadelphia
$??? / 21+ with ID
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July 31, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Black Cobra/Howl/Stuck By Lightning/Surgeon
Black Cobra
Smashing up from the Bay Area underground, Black Cobra is ready to take the heavy music world by storm! Formed in 2002 by Rafa Martinez (Acid King, -16-) and Jason Landrian (ex-Cavity) this duo has been laying waste to audiences, taking on all comers, and leaving the remains to rot in their wake. Their sound is a crushing mix of High On Fire-tinged stoner metal and Buzzov*en's Southern-fried sludge, with a heaping dash of Melvins-style drone to wash it all down.rnrn
Howl
Providence, Rhode Island’s HOWL ushers in a new age of iron and steel with their Relapse debut Full of Hell. Wave after wave of the quartet’s devastating riffs pound hard as tracks “Horns of Steel”, “Jezebel”, “The Scorpion's Last Sting”, and the insidious crawl of “Heavenless” make clear. Full of Hell rocks hard and heavy, and is as unrelenting as the title implies.rn
Struck By Lightning
Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, STRUCK BY LIGHTNING features Gregory Lahm (previously of Mouth Of The Architect) on vocals and guitars, accompanying by Travis Kline, Mike Leach and John Peters. Encompassing the aggression and punk slathering of His Hero Is Gone and Disfear with the progressive rock acrobatics of Mastodon and Big Business, STRUCK BY LIGHTNING create ferocious and hairsplitting aggression that will undoubtedly take the world by storm. rn
Surgeon
Visceral, nihilistic beautifully-executed prog metal that's all about intensity and attitude.
at North Star Bar
2639 Poplar Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
$$12 / 21+ with ID
August 02, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Alabaster Tongue presents Metal Mondays at the M-Room
Clamfight
Wally
The Fetals
at M-Room
15 w. girard ave, philly
Want to play a metal monday?
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$5 / 21+ with ID
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August 06, 2010 @ 08:00pm - GARGANTUAN GRINDCORE... GROUPS... G-WORDS! ALLITERATION IS FUN
Fuck the Facts
FAST LOUD INTENSE WITH BLAST BEATS AND SCREAMING AND NOISES AND THE F-WORD IN THEIR NAME I CANT USE PUNCTUATION WITHOUT INSULTING THE SHOW AND HOLY SHIT THERE ARE GUITAR SOLOS THIS BAND RULES
Doomsday Machine Schematic
YOUR MATH BOOK AND A GIANT BAG OF COKE (ANGRY COKE) GOT INTO A FIGHT AND THEN MADE SWEET LOVE THIS IS THEIR BABY
Unrest
MEMBERS OF WOE AND GRASS AND THE GREEN EVENING REQUIEM AND KRIEG (3 GUYS ARE IN THE BAND YOU FIGURE IT OUT) UNABASHED NASUM WORSHIP FIRST SHOW IN TWO YEARS
Cadaveric Spasm
GOREGRIND
at The M Room
Corner of Frankford and Girard, 19125
$10 / 21+ with ID
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August 07, 2010 @ 07:30pm
Cynic
Progressive Metal
Intronaut
Progressive Metal
Dysrhythmia
Hard Rock
at The Trocadero
1003 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
$$16.50 adv. / $18 dos / All Ages
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August 08, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Vulcan, B.S.O.M, Earthling and The Trowels@ Jrs Bar
Vulcan
Thrash Metal from West Philly playing their first show at Jrs Bar.
B.S.O.M
Baltimore School Of Massage
Earthling
Sweet fucking Stoner/Death Metal From Harrisonburg Va. For fans of Sleep, Death and Entombed
The Trowels
FRANKLIN DELANO MOTHER FUCKING ROOSEVELT SKATE PARK PUNX.
at Jrs Bar
22nd and Passyunk
$5 bucks / All Ages
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August 09, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Alabaster Tongue presents Metal Mondays at the M-Room
Samsara
Blizzard of Flies
Thee Nosebleeds
at M-Room
15 w. girard ave, philly
want to play a metal monday
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$5 / 21+ with ID
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August 12, 2010 @ 08:00pm
Wormrider
Epic Dune metal!
Chakra Khan
avant garde jazz rock
With Eyes Abstract
From Portland Oregon
at Millcreek Tavern
4200 Chester Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19143
$$8 ? / 21+ with ID
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August 13, 2010 @ 06:30pm - Doomed to Suffer Presents: *note: THIS IS AN EARLY SHOW! 7-9PM!
COFFINWORM
This band is fucking AMAZING. Vicious nihilistic sludge with a blackened bent and syrupy Southern discomfort. Death, doom, destruction, and an insane live show. On tour from Indiana, new record out on Profound Lore. One of my favorite bands!
VASTE BURAI
Brutally down-tuned two-piece on tour from Texas!
WIZARD EYE
Philly's best psychedelic doom warriors.
at The M Room
15 W. Girard Ave
$8 / 21+ with ID
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August 13, 2010 @ 09:30pm - Mose Giganticus CD Release Show
Mose Giganticus
Philly heavy synth rockers usher in their Relapse Records debut CD "Gift Horse"
Constants
Expansive epic rock from Boston
City of Ships
Heav-veeeeey dudes from Brooklyn
Monolith
Philly hometown heavy hitters
at The Fire
412 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia, PA
$$8 / 21+ with ID
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August 14, 2010 @ 07:00pm - Vindensång / Musk Ox / Sequences
Vindensång
Atmospheric Rock / Metal
Musk Ox
Neo-Folk
Sequences
Drone / Dark Ambient
at The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
19104
$12 / All Ages
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August 18, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Summer fuck off
Coughing Fit
Fastest hardcore on the eastcoast. They used to be straight edge!!!!!!!!!!!
Infernal Stronghold
First and last show of the summer.
Lighten Up!
Hardcore as fuck. Lighten up, ya dick!
maybe one more
at JR's
22nd & Passyunk
$5 dead washingtons / All Ages
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August 19, 2010 @ 07:15pm
Bubonic Bear
tour kick-off/record release show.
Doomsday Machine Schematic
face-melting, soul-destroying, neck-snapping grind from new jersey
Slouch Frawg
dirty, fuzzed-out, narcotic punk from Atlantic City.
at The Randy Savage
7 S. Black Horse Pike
Blackwood, NJ 08012
$donations to keep the venue open / All Ages
August 20, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Hey this isn't necessarily METAL but its FREE and thats all that matters!
Dangerbird
This band hates fun. New split with Ugh, God out now.
Ugh, God
Crazy, experimental, and possibly weirdo and definitely dual-drummered something something.
Gholas
If you superimposed the past (ancient Rome) over the present (New Jersey in the twenty first century) and superimposed the far future world of The Android Cried Me a River over that, you got the Empire, as the supra- or trans-temporal constant. Everyone who had ever lived was literally surrounded by the iron walls of the prison; they were all inside it and none of them knew it.
Circle The City
I'm sorry I don't know anything about this band. But I can only assume they are amazing and you should come watch them play songs.
at The Mill Creek Tavern
42nd and Chester Sts
$FREEEEEE / 21+ with ID
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August 22, 2010 @ 03:00pm - Unmen on tour from NJ Philly Date ******EARLY SHOW*****
Hessian
Unmen
Abserdo
TBA
at Jr's Bar
22nd & Passyunk Ave. (Across from Goodwill)
Dirty South Philly
$$3 / All Ages
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August 22, 2010 @ 06:30pm - METAL SUNDAYS AT MOJO 13
OMINOUS BLACK
Philly ambient psychedelic drone veterans (epic)
BEFORE THE EYEWALL
Crushing noise-ridden progressive landscapes from Ohio (on tour!!!)
SADGIQACEA
(sad-juh-kay-sha): two piece dooming sludge grooves from NJ
at MOJO 13
1706 Philadelphia Pike, Wilmington, DE 19809
$$5 / 21+ with ID
August 26, 2010 @ 08:30pm - Ominous Black Tour Kick off/Record release show
Ominous Black
Cosmic Drone Psychedelic Outer Space
Samsara
Metal as hell (Ex members of The Dark Lords of Stonehurst)
Yorba Linda
Psychedelic Post Metal from Brooklyn
The Spades
Riff Heavey Stoner Metal
at Jr's Bar
22 & Passyunk
$5 / All Ages
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August 27, 2010 @ 03:00pm - Hostile City Death Fest II - Day 1
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Presented by DFP Promotions & Hostile City, USA. Along with: Decicel Magazine, Vader Cabinets, MMXII Records & Pure Death Productions
Protogenoi
Call the Paramedics
Her Virgin Womb
Nightfire
Her Virgin Womb
Mortal Decay
Waking the Cadaver
Black Anvil
Origin
Incantation
at Club Polaris
460 N 9th Street
Philadelphia PA 19123
$23 / All Ages
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August 28, 2010 @ 12:00pm - Hostile City Death Fest II - Day 2
Esquilax
Manias
Strychnia
Abolishment
Dysentery
Abdicate
Abnormality
Rottenness
Putrid Pile
Mortician
Diabolic
Order of Ennead
Hate Eternal
at Club Polaris
460 N 9th Street
Philadelphia PA 19123
$32 / All Ages
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August 29, 2010 @ 12:00pm - Hostile City Death Fest II - Day 3
Pale Existence
Created to Kill
Visions of the Night
Sapremia
Atrocious Abnormality
Pathology
Holy Grail
Destroyer 666
Polterchrist
Bonded by Blood
Enthroned
Malevolent Creation
Exodus
at Club Polaris
460 N 9th Street
Philadelphia PA 19123
$32 / All Ages
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September 02, 2010 @ 08:00pm
TODAY IS THE DAY
I'm not even gonna waste my time with this one.
Deathbeds
Heavy and fun like a Tonka Truck.
Towers
Philadelphia noise legeneds.
Bubonic Bear
Philly sludge kings. Come welcome them home from a 2 week tour.
at The North Star Bar
2639 Poplar St
$$12 / 21+ with ID
September 07, 2010 @ 08:00pm - SLEEP
at Polaris
Off Spring Garden
$$25 / All Ages
September 09, 2010 @ 07:00pm - Melodic, Doom, Folk-HAVA NAGILA?!?!?!?
Katatonia
Dan Swano was in this band once, enough said.
Swallow the Sun
Closest thing you'll ever get to seeing Wintersun.
Orphaned Land
Hava nag-WHAT?! And your singer looks like Jesus! GYPSYS!!! RUNN!!! RUNNN!!!
at Trocadero
1003 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
$$16, $39 VIP / All Ages
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September 14, 2010 @ 07:30pm - Entering the magical land of KAMELOT!
Kamelot
Prog! Fantasy! BELLY DANCERS!!! YES!
at Trocadero
1003 Arch Street
Philadelphia,PA 19107
$$24 / All Ages
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October 01, 2010 @ 08:00pm - HEAVY AND FREE
Monolith
Ominous Black
Gholas
3 more tba
at M-Room
15 w. Girard ave Philly
contact alabastertongue@gmail.com for more info
$Free / 21+ with ID
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October 13, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Unearthly Trance/Jonathan Canady/Suma/Batillus
Unearthly Trance
Formed in 2000, NYC’s Unearthly Trance quickly rose to become one of the forefront acts in the doom metal scene releasing material on leading labels like Southern Lord, Rise Above Records and Relapse Records as well as touring with heavy yet diverse bands such as Morbid Angel, Pelican, Electric Wizard, Sunn O)), Grief, Om, Floor, Earth, Eyehategod and various power electronic/noise acts. Although categorized as doom metal, Unearthly Trance’s music draws inspiration from other forms of extreme music like black metal, death metal, crust punk, ambient and drone.rn
Jonathan Canady
Canady is a prominent artist in the realm of experimental/ambient/noise and power electronics. The many projects on his music resume include Dead World (1991-1999),The Urge Within ( with David E Williams), the legendary Deathpile (1995-2004), Angel of Decay (2002-2008) and Nightmares (2009 to present, with Bloodyminded's Mark Solotroff and Luasa Raelon's David Reed). Canady's dark experimental music career culminated in the recording of the soundtrack for the independent horror movie "The Mind." Canady and Uneartly Trance will have an onstage collaboration for this set.
Suma
Hailing from Sweden, Suma is a stoner/doom metal band that has a dark heavy, slowly menacing drone and bombastic psych tied together with howling vocals and bludgeoning percussion. With two current albums both engineered by the renowned Billy Anderson (The Melvins, Neurosis) and extensive tours of Europe with bands like Boris, Cave In, Nadja, Disfear, Ramesses and Unearthly Trance, these masters of the hypnotic riff are poised to break ground (and melt speakers) on their first US tour.rn
Batillus
With songs that move from bristling blast beats to subterranean crawls, Batillus (buh-TILL-us) cohere the extremes of heavy music into a surge of massive riffing, rolling over and descending on the listener with the force and intensity of a sudden storm. The New Yorker describes Batillus as "a sludgy four-piece that slows monstrous Black Sabbath riffs to a crawl to produce highly textured compositions of droning doom-metal," and Revolver calls their music "beyond-atmospheric blackened doom."rnrn
at Kung Fu Necktie
1250 North Front Street, Philadelphia,PA
$$10 / 21+ with ID
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October 17, 2010 @ 08:00pm - The Warrel Dane Experience
Nevermore
Took those bastards long enough to VOYAGEEEERRRR over here.
Warbringer
Bringing their war-high tops and all. Neo-thrash, UNITE!
Mutiny Within
....mu-must not...crash........*dives off Comcast Building WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
Hatesphere
They hate you.
at Trocadero
1003 Arch Street
Philadelphia,PA 19107
$? / All Ages
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October 23, 2010 @ 08:00pm - Halloween HAVOC (Even though its the week b4)
BLIND MANS FATE
Brutal Philly death/thrash band...so heavy your eyes explode during our set
more bands TBA soon!
Were just getting this show situated, be back with more details soon!
at not sure yet
somewhere
$$8 / 21+ with ID
October 28, 2010 @ 08:00pm - FREE Woe/Krieg CD Release
Woe
Philadelphia's somewhat melodic (in an Eastern European kinda way, these days) black metal, performing in support of their new album, "Quietly, Undramatically" released October 12 on Candlelight Records!
Krieg
NJ/Philadelphia/California black metal royalty, performing in support of their new album, "The Isolationist," also released in October on Candlelight Records!
The Devil
Black/thrashing death for SATAN featuring members of ????? (Pretend like you don't know.)
This show is free.
Free. Zero dollars. It must end by 11 so get there early!
at Kung Fu Necktie
Corner of Front and Thompson, Philadelphia
$FREE / 21+ with ID
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October 30, 2010 @ 08:00pm - The Devil
Decieverion
creating nihilistic black metal in Pennsylvania since 2002!In support for the upcoming "Igniting Crimson Vengeance" 7" coming in 2011 on Diabolist Services Cult!
The Beyond
new black metal band from Harrisburg featuring a former member of Algol.
Blasphemous
Blackened thrashing death! Guaranteed to cause the nearest church to be engulfed in flames!
Pale Existence
Delco old school death metal. Invert the crosses!
1341
Terrorizer influenced grindcore/death with that southern sludgy edge.
at Mojo 13
1706 Philadelphia Pike
Wilmington, DE
$$5.00 / 21+ with ID