Author: Ethan Pretre
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Overkill & Exhorder At Brooklyn Bowl!
Overkill isn’t one of my favorite thrash metal bands. Not to disparage the headliner but they have the advantage of taking other killer bands on tour with them. So even if I had a negative opinion of them I couldn’t miss these shows. This time they brought with them another important New Orleans band – […]
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ABYSMAL DAWN releases “Hedonistic” !
Abysmal Dawn is a Los Angeles based death metal band that formed in 2003. The band’s only original member guitarist/vocalist Charles Elliot has also played part in the live line-up of one of my favorite MySpace finds from back in the day Dreaming Dead. I quickly fell into the more melodic corners of death metal […]
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Holiday Hellfest In Downtown Las Vegas
Holiday Hellfest December 13th, 2019 Fremont Country Club and Backstage Bar & Billiards Cattle Decapitation – Unearth – Atheist – Darkest Hour – Primitive Man – Author & Punisher – Vitriol – Gods of Hate – Pariah Was One Our coverage of this show is so late due to my wife and I packing and […]
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Slayer ‘The Final Campaign’ at the MGM Grand!
MGM Garden Arena Las Vegas, NV November 27th, 2019Philip Anselmo & The Illegals – Ministry – Primus FUCKING SLAYER! So this is it… this is the end. How in the hell did we get here? Guess I’ll start at the beginning. The Origins: In 1981 Slayer formed in Huntington Park, California by vocalist/bass player Tom […]
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Enforcer & Gwar Headline Downtown!
Two Stages! (Pow!) One Ticket! (Slam!) Fremont Country ClubGwar – Scared Reich – Toxic Holocaust – Against The Grain Backstage Bar & BilliardsEnforcer – Warbringer – Tyrants By Night – Death In Motion Being a Las Vegas resident, I’m interested in what’s coming out of the local scene and thus I was introduced to Tyrants […]