Authors: Megan Kennedy
Fear Factory @ In The Venue with Soilwork, Omnikage, Crisis...
Tuesday night, old-school industrial metalers Fear Factory descended on In The Venue to give a wild crowd a once-in-a-lifetime performance: the entirety of their Demanufacture album, celebrating its 20th anniversary. The band was joined by the astounding Swedes in Soilwork, and a few young gun acts, including OmniKage from Italy, and Spades and Blades from California. Opening for the tour was local thrash/metalcore outfit Crisis in Consciousness. … read more
Salt Lake Comic Con: Saturday
Salt Lake Comic Con continued to shatter records and expectations on Saturday September 7. Its final day also held its biggest draws: the panels of William Shatner and Stan Lee. Photos by Megan Kennedy. … read more
Photos from Salt Lake Comic Con 2015
Salt Lake Comic Con is in its third year, and it’s only getting better and better. Thousands of fans descended on the Salt Palace this weekend to meet their favorite celebrities, show off their A+ cosplay, play in gaming tournaments, attend industry panels, check out loads of fan art and paraphernalia, and generally geek the
Behemoth, Myrkur @ The Complex 05.04
Darkness! Evil! Mayhem! Fire! Goddamn, I love a good, live, black metal show, and the Behemoth/Myrkur tour did not disappoint. With no opening acts and the sonic and lighting goodness that is The Complex, these European ambassadors of chaos gave fans a night to remember. … read more
Summer Slaughter Tour at The Complex
The Summer Slaughter Tour swung by The Complex on Saturday, Aug. 17 to melt the faces of city’s extreme metal fans. … read more
Explosions in the Sky, Disappears @ The Depot 05.09
Explosions in the Sky came out to a screaming, eager crowd, and their own special light setup included a string of moving bar lights on the front of the stage, creating, at times, an ethereal wall of light and smoke. I’ve listened to this band for a long damn time, but I have never seen them live, and I was not disappointed. … read more
Reviews: Norma Jean – Wrongdoers
I didn’t know what to expect out of this album—the band having dropped off my radar after O God: The Aftermath—but imagine my delight at listening to what would turn out to be a highly emotional and engaging post-hardcore record that has since become as addictive as Nutella-flavored crack. … read more
Reviews: DevilDriver – Winter Kills
This is definitely DevilDriver’s strongest record in years—a complete maelstrom of throat-ripping screams over thick, thumping double-bass and heavy guitar licks that can’t help but demand your attention. … read more
Review: TesseracT – Altered State
After going through the heinous task of finding a new lead singer, the djent-prog outfit have returned with a massively infectious new record that is a definite achievement. … read more
Review: Starkill – Fires of Life
The debut album promises a big and bright future for this Chicago-based band. Blending elements from several different subgenres, including power and melodic death metal, this is an album full of blood and fire and battle (which I now dub “warrior metal”), free of clean singing, arranged with occasional symphonic and piano elements that really bring out cinematic properties in the sound. … read more
Review: Seventrain – Self-Titled
Seventrain = Alter Bridge + early Daughtry + a dash of classic rock … read more
Review: Pyrithion – The Burden of Sorrow
Apparently, Tim Lambesis doesn’t have enough hobbies between As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, his charity work, and all his iron-pumping; now he’s joined up with ex-The Famine guitarist Andy Godwin and Ryan Glisan of Allegaeon to create this surprisingly ferocious modern death metal EP under the name Pyrithion. … read more
