Justina Villanueva
Finntroll Bring the ‘Mosh Pitting’
"Have you enjoyed all the Finnish bands tonight? Are you ready for some mosh pitting?" Finntroll frontman Vreth asked the people of Gramercy Theater on April 8. The band's New York City stop was the third of a full U.S. tour the band has embarked on...
Child Abuse Frontman Says Modeling Is Boring, but Suffocation Is Not
New York City's Child Abuse make some really weird free-jazz-inspired grindcore. Luke Calzonetti is responsible for one third of the sounds his band makes. Lately the keyboardist and vocalist finds himself working out to death metal titans Suffocation and addicted to Twitter...
Opeth Play ‘Blackwater Park’ at Terminal 5
Just like Immortal did the week before, Swedish death metallers Opeth only booked two shows in the U.S. -- one in New York and the other in Los Angeles. Usually frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt asks the crowd if they were at the band's last show. "Who...
Child Abuse Bassist Gets to Make Music With People He Likes Often
Child Abuse bassist Tim Dahl is a very busy musician. He just completed a live recording with the improv group tagged Barr, Shea, Dahl -- with Mick Barr of Ocrilim and Krallice and Kevin Shea of Talibam! Child Abuse drummer Oran Canfield recorded the live session...
Total F—ing Destruction Have a Song for You, Playing MDF This Year
"I don't know what you people did with all that free beer, but I got f---ing drunk, man!" Those were the first words Rich Hoak said on April 1 when Total F---ing Destruction played Fontanas in New York City. The event was put together by Tones of Death and Revolver Magazine, who gather metalheads once a month with free beer and no entry fee...
Immortal Make It Back to the U.S., Play Mostly New Songs
I can't recall the first couple seconds of what happened when members of Immortal finally walked onto the Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Masonic Temple stage on March 30. With the struggle to get close to the stage -- and with the struggle to keep three feet away from the stage as security guards tried to keep a gap between expensive monitors and Immortal-fiendng humans --, it was a rough couple first minutes.
Coheed and Cambria Thankful for Hyper New York City Crowd
If you've ever loved Rush, Queensrÿche, Iron Maiden, Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd, then you can understand the extreme admiration people have for Coheed and Cambria. For me the band -- with their hearty, retro guitar solos and progressive song structure -- has always been a tribute to the great bands who kicked off heavy music in the first place.
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Witch Hunt Aren’t Straight Edge, but They Still Oppose Self-Destruction
"This is our first day of playing with Jello Biafra and the Gauntanamo School of Medicine. Whooo!" Witch Hunt's justifiably excited bassist Janine Enriquez said.
For three days following their set at New York City's Europa on March 25, Witch Hunt played just before the former Dead Kennedys frontman...
Austerity Program Guitarist Quit Drinking for a Year to Write and Record
"The thing I will say about the Web site is, when two years ago, no one was doing anything but counting on MySpace, I was like, 'I don't know, is it worth it to put that sort of energy towards a Web site?' Now, no one pays any attention to MySpace...
Rosetta Give New York a Taste of Their New Album ‘A Determinism Of Morality’
Rosetta's show at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Public Assembly on March 28 was never advertised as a new album listening party. Yet, just before the band began their set guitarist J. Matthew Weed told the crowd, "Our next album is coming out May 25."
"Whoa...