Metal and Hardcore

Unsilent Night - Fair Park - 12/1/12

Unsilent Night Fair Park's Centennial Hall Saturday, December 1 Against my better judgment, I decided to review this year's Unsilent Night Festival at Fair Park. It's not that I had anything against the bands. I'd spent the previous night watching Machine Head ignite the crowd at the House of Blues ... More >>

Bruce Corbitt of Rigor Mortis: "One Day We're Getting Signed To Capitol Records And The Next I Am Getting Stabbed In The Back Five Times At A Show."

Hugely influential on the local metal scene, Rigor Mortis' violent live performances throughout the mid-to-late-'80s are the stuff of legend. Vocalist Bruce Corbitt was fired in 1989 and the band was never the same. Luckily, after a 20-year cooling off period, the original line-up has been playing r ... More >>

Jonny McBee of The Browning Believes In Aliens, Zombies and The Dallas Metal Scene

Although the band's name suggests cooking instructions, The Browning is actually a talented progressive metal outfit hailing (at least half the time) from Dallas. Led by one Jonny McBee, the band is just about to release its full-length debut. Due out in October on Earache Records, Burn This World ... More >>

Slayer Is The Latest Act To Join The Increasingly Impressive Lineup For Fun Fun Fun Fest '11

The above video, released today, confirms the latest addition to the ever-impressive 2011 bill for Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest, which, by moving out of Waterloo Park and into Auditorium Shores, stands to be the fest's biggest offering yet. Who's the latest add? Why, the mighty Slayer, of course. Or " ... More >>

Last Night: Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Le Butcherettes at Verizon Theatre

Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Le ButcherettesVerizon TheatreJune 6, 2011Better than: watching a Triunfo del Amor marathon. Rachel ParkerDeftones: more in the slide show​As strong a set as the Deftones performed to a packed Verizon Theatre last night, it was difficult to overlook an un ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne, Slash

Thursday, January 20, at the American Airlines Center

Q&A: Eyehategod's Mike Williams Talks Playing Around Christmas, Going Through Bass Players and Liking The Carpenters

For over 22 years, Mike Williams has led the New Orleans metal band Eyehategod. And, in that time, the singer has endured numerous protestors at shows, a constantly revolving situation with bass players and even some time in jail in 2005 on a narcotics charge. Through it all, Williams has remained c ... More >>

Q&A: Dimmu Borgir's Silonez On English Being Metal's Official Language and Listening to Lady Gaga When Drunk

Dimmu Borgir​Norway's Dimmu Borgir is named after a volcano in Iceland and specializes in a symphonic form of black metal that is as fun as it is pretentious. Hugely popular in Eastern Europe, the band has been around for nearly two decades but has yet to make major inroads in the American metal m ... More >>

Danzig, Marduk, Toxic Holocaust, Possessed, Withered

Sunday, October 31, at the Southside Music Hall

Helmet, Intronaut, Descender

Sunday, October 31, at The Loft

Deftones

Monday, October 18, at the Palladium Ballroom

Early Man Play Metal The Old-Fashioned Way.

The colliding past and presents of local music.

Over the Weekend: Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax at Superpages.com Center

Slayer, Megadeth, AnthraxSuperpages.com CenterSeptember 24, 2010Better than: getting sick from fried Oreos at the State Fair. Dylan HollingsworthSlayer's Kerry King was beaming on Friday night.​Usually, it's a proving ground when a band plays before Slayer. And, if you're worthy of sharing the s ... More >>

Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax

Friday, September 24, at Superpages.com Center

A Quick Word From Dave Mustaine on Friday's Return of The Clash of The Titans Tour to Superpages.com Center

Way back in May of 1991, a year after a European leg of the Clash of the Titans Tour that featured Megadeth, Slayer, testament and Suicidal Tendencies, the U.S. leg of the tour kicked off right here in Dallas, featuring Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Alice in Chains, at the Superpgaes.com Center, or ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival at Superpages.com Center

Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Music Festival with Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Hellyeah, more... Superpages.com Center September 10, 2010 Better than: expected, but not as good as watching the Rangers sweep the Yankees ​Hot, humid air filled seemingly every crevice of Superpages.com Center ... More >>

Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Music Festival with Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Hellyeah, more

Friday, September 10, at Superpages.com Center

'Ryche Is a Cabaret, Old Chum

Number of the Beast

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax Coming to Dallas on June 22. Sort Of.

On June 22nd, a concert billed as The Big Four and featuring a quartet of legendary metal acts can be seen in Dallas. Not at any concert venue, mind you, but at several area movie theaters.The actual concert featuring Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax will take place in, of all places, Bulgari ... More >>

Vinnie Paul and HELLYEAH! Find Their Rhythm

Warbeast

Krush The Enemy (Housecore Records)

High on Fire Preps For Metal Success

Maleveller

Astronomer's Fyre (EP Self-released)

Agnostic Front

Friday, January 22, at Trees

The Anvil Experience, Mitra

Tuesday, January 26, at House of Blues

Metal Gig Alert: Between the Buried and Me, Cynic, Devin Townsend and Scale the Summit Tonight at The Prophet Bar.

Between the Buried and Me... and You.​Quite the progressive metal conglomeration tonight down in Deep Ellum at the Prophet Bar. Headlining the deal? North Carolina's Between the Buried and Me. And even though any metal band that takes its name from a Counting Crows song is deducted satanic style p ... More >>

Year in Review: Heavy Metal's Best Albums of 2009 Take It Over the Top

This year was such a good one for heavy music, I wound up having to cheat when putting this list together. I just couldn't settle on ten albums that kicked my ass the hardest in 2009; there were dozens of candidates. The best I could do was fourteen, so each of my top four slots are ties. ​Mastod ... More >>

Megadeth, Machine Head, Suicide Silence, Arcanium

Wednesday, December 2, at the Palladium Ballroom

Giveaway: Two Tickets To See The Mountain Goats Tomorrow Night at the Granada Theater

I don't know the story behind The Mountain Goats' song "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" (hear it in the above clip). I wish I did--for fairly obvious, curious reasons. But, far as I can tell, we've never covered it. And a cursory Google search isn't turning up any other reasonings, so... ... More >>

Dethklok, Mastodon, High on Fire

Wednesday, November 11,at House of Blues

Metallica Returns To Relevance

After All These Years, Slayer Keeps Bringing The Metal Goods

Giveaway: One Pair of Tickets To The Fray PLUS HOT DOGS AND DRINKS

As part of Live Nation's continuing No Service Fee Wednesday (now going by the initials NSFW, which caused me to open the press release quite a bit quicker than I might have otherwise, I'll have to admit), Live Nation is once again offering tickets for select shows at an "all-in" ticket price of $29 ... More >>

Live Nation Drops Lawn Prices For Select Shows

They're doing it again. Live Nation is offering $24.99 (and, in a couple cases, $19.99) lawn tickets for select Starplex (I still refuse to call it Superpages.com Center) shows today only during this week's installment of No Service Charge Wednesday. Until 11:59:59 tonight, lawn tickets purchased at ... More >>

Live Nation Pulls Back Service Charges, Offers DC9 Readers A Giveaway

Last week, Live Nation, the national concert booking and promoting conglomerate that books to Superpages.com Center and other large venues throughout the region, offered up the concert-going public what it thought would be a nice little respite to the recession: One day (Wednesday) in which service ... More >>

Screams

The metal scene remembers Abboud Greig, Joe's Garage

The Ozz-Man Cometh

After years of touring the nation, Ozzfest 2008 finds a home in Dallas' suburbs

Oh, Donnas

Summer Sanitarium Tour

August 3

Electric funeral

Black Sabbath has reunited, but has it cost its members their souls?

Metal's crimson King

The mellow Satanism of King Diamond

Mister Corn Mo rising

Jon Cunningham and his post-modern vaudeville

Hope you die before we get old

Reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

Out Here

Letters

Roadshows

Beavis' older brother

A portrait of Megadeth's Dave Mustaine as a lonely young man