Metal Allegiance Concert Review HOB Anaheim 1-16-20 Written: Roc Boyum Edited: Allie Jorgensen Metal Allegiance, are an alliance of many of today’s top metal musicians that come together to play some of the best metal music ever recorded and assault each audience with a super charged metal performance; but don’t call them a “Super Group.” The Metal Allegiance line-up for […]
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Weapons of Anew Concert Review HOB Anaheim 1/16/20 Weapons of Anew are a relatively new melodic metal band from New Jersey featuring guitarist/songwriter, Freddy Ordine (Havoc Hate), singer songwriter, Ray West (Spread Eagle), bass man, Stefan “Reno” Cutrupi and drummer, Chris Manfre. With the House of Blues in Anaheim packed beyond capacity and the crowd already amped up to see […]
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Exmortus Concert Review HOB Anaheim 1/16/20 Los Angeles based metal masters, Exmortus completely tore up the House of Blues (HOB) Anaheim stage with a heavy dose of their neo-classical extreme thrash metal. Exmortus has had some major line-up changes over the years but with the addition of Chase Becker on guitar and Adrian Aguilar on drums, they’ve never sounded better. Becker blends perfectly with […]
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Mark Jansen from Epica Talks to Allie Jorgensen and LA Metal Media Magazine about the special “Design Your Universe” tour and the re-release of the “Design Your Universe -Gold Edition ” LP. Mark also talks about the 10 year evolution of Epica, his Masters Degree in Psychology and his songwriting, the exciting news of the New Epica CD […]
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RUSH SAYS FAREWELL WITH A SOLD OUT SHOW AT THE LOS ANGELES FORUM By Roc Boyum RUSH, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, ignite the City of Los Angeles with the final stop of their R40 tour at The Los Angeles Forum on August 1, 2015. The City of Angels came out in full force to celebrate their musical […]
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Epica Concert Review Regent Theater January 5, 2020 Epica kicked off 2020 with an insanely explosive show at the Regent Theater on 1-5-20. The bands’ show leaned primarily on their brilliantly heavy, Design Your Universe LP; of which they played eight of the thirteen tracks from that LP-including the two recorded tracks; Samadhi (Prelude) and the Prince of Freedom. Epica are […]
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According to Blabbermouth.net – HALESTORM guitarist Joe Hottinger has revealed in an interview with Guitar Bonedo that the band has recorded a new EP with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who previously worked on last year’s “Vicious” album. Joe said (see video below): “There’ll be more information on that coming up. It’s just getting mixed now, and it sounds awesome. It’s something we’ve never really done before. Everyone’s expecting a cover EP, […]
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Metal Allience,MiOnline press kit for Weapons Of Anew can be found here: https://www.opk.solutions/woa2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEAPONS OF ANEW ANNOUNCE NEW EP, METAL ALLEGIANCE SHOW New Jersey-based melodic metallists Weapons of Anew will be releasing a new mini-album in time for the holiday season, when the ‘2019 Tour Special EP’ drops on December 13th. Recorded live on July 30th, 2019 from […]
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Arch Enemy Concert Review Hollywood Palladium 10/26/19 Arch Enemy Dominated The Hollywood Palladium With Their Shredding, “Will To Power” Arch Enemy returned to Southern California in support of their highly acclaimed LP “Will To Power” to unleash their special brand of melodic death metal. For this show, the band was in direct support of Amon Amarth, so their show was […]
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Godsmack Concert Review Rabobank Arena 10/12/19 Godsmack are an ALT/Hard Rock band that has released a total of seven LPs to date, three of which are certified Platinum (1,000,000 sales each) and another two LPs that have been certified Gold, (500,000 sales each). The band is fronted by the master and multi-talented musician, Sully Erna. Erna is not only the band’s frontman/singer but […]
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