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CONCERT REVIEW: Kowloon Walled City – Great Falls – Live at Saint Vitus Bar Brooklyn

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The new Saint Vitus Bar is still in its debutante era. After the abrupt demise of the Greenpoint location in 2024, metalheads across the NYC area were left without a home. Only slightly mollified by the “Vitus Presents” series at other local venues, the local scene was consistently abuzz with rumors of an imminent reopening. These rumors were finally realized when the team announced the new home of Vitus in the former Brooklyn Made space in Bushwick, with an incredible opening weekend featuring titans Anthrax and Converge. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Witchsorrow – The Devil and All His Works

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Witchsorrow’s last album saw the band taking the throb of Electric Wizard and giving it the grit of High on Fire. They changed up the strain of weed they were smoking when working on their newest album The Devil And All His Works (Church Road Records), as they take a turn down a darker path that is haunted by subtle bits of psychedelia. The opening track sprawls out into eleven minutes of hypnotic rumbling and pulses punctuated by a more deliberate stomp. It sounds great, though it leans more into the sounds summoned here rather than offering anything hooky. They saved the longest for first, since the rest of the album is more compact for Doom Metal hovering around the eight-minute mark per song. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Warning – Rituals Of Shame

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Innovative to the core, you have to admit that Warning not releasing an album for twenty years is certainly one way of avoiding the dreaded Tricky Third Album Syndrome. As it turns out, though, there was no need to worry anyway, as Rituals Of Shame (Relapse Records), the first studio appearance from the Essex doomsters since 2006, just so happens to be another remarkable masterclass in misery. Continue reading →