Carnifex unleashes far more than "Nothing" at Harpo's this Saturday.
When lead singer Scott Lewis of the San Diego based death metal band Carnifex discusses the negative undertones in the band’s music, you have to believe it. With album titles like “The Diseased and The Poisoned” and the latest album, “Until I [...]
Andy and the rest of Combichrist hit Detroit during an off day on their tour with Rammstein.
I hate to throw my own personal bias into something, but rock music is missing a couple things right out. The lack of killer industrial hard rock and metal bands is one of the reasons [...]
The Conspiracy hits Harpo's with Destruction this Saturday.
The first time that brothers Iggor and Max Cavalera took their Cavalera Conspiracy project on the road a few years back, it was for a somewhat small, but feverish crowd at Clutch Cargo’s in July 2008. Along with the classic material from their days [...]
Egypt Central invades Harpo's opening for Cold this Saturday.
Back when we last talked with the guys in the Memphis based band Egypt Central, the band was road testing new material while out on the road on a small club tour. But since then, the band went back into the studio [...]
Darkest Hour brings their solid new release to Harpo's on Friday.
With Darkest Hour, you can’t much more of a consistent band in the metal world to put out a quality album. Long been dubbed “the metal band you’ll miss most when they’re gone” by several magazines, the Washington D.C. based band [...]
Paul and Cradle of Filth heads to Harpo's on February 25th.
It’s pretty easy to say that Cradle of Filth has been extreme metal’s biggest British export since Carcass, and has maintained more presence of the years than the previously mentioned band. Given the band’s howling vocals and stylistically varied sound [...]
Straight outta of the South Pole, GWAR makes their yearly trip to Detroit this Saturday.
It’s not every day when you meet a creature from outer space that has sought refuge in Antarctica and spends his time on Earth touring the always exotic locales of the world, you know like Philadelphia and [...]
"Truth Rising" is out tomorrow- Hed(pe) hits Harpos on Friday.
To say there have been two incarnations of Orange County based “rip-hop” band Hed (pe) is probably a fair assessment. The band’s history can be broken down into two parts: the first years of the band in the height of the nu-metal [...]
Mike Clark brings Suicidal to Harpo's this Friday.
As one of the long standing members of the nearly 30 year old punk/metal band Suicidal Tendencies, guitarist Mike Clark has seen his fair share of crazy times. Towards the end of our conversation, Mike discussed a wild time he had years ago at [...]
TTEOTD open for Suffocation and The Faceless at Harpo's Friday night.
As time goes along, one of the hotbeds of the new deathcore scene is the south. In the land of country music, lyrics about death and insanity aren’t the usual topics- unless it involves whiskey and a pickup truck. But [...]