Gentlemen of the Road featuring Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hey Rosetta!, the Walkmen Norfolk County Fairgrounds, Simcoe ON, August 24

Published Aug 25, 2013

The second day of the Gentlemen of the Road stopover in Simcoe, Ontario clearly demonstrated that this quiet rural town was ready for a part...

Gentlemen of the Road featuring Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Dan Mangan, Phosphorescent Norfolk County Fairgrounds, Simcoe ON, August 23

Published Aug 24, 2013

It's a wonder what a week's hard work can accomplish. Take Simcoe, ON's Norfolk County Fairgrounds for instance. Over the past six days th...

Barge to Hell featuring Enslaved, Behemoth, Sodom, Mayhem Miami to Nassau, December 3-7

Published Dec 11, 2012

After the successful curation of two 70,000 Tons of Metal cruises over the past few years, a new floating festival was launched in early Dec...

Marillion Live From Cadogan Hall

Published Apr 05, 2011

In 2009, veteran UK prog rockers Marillion made a huge left turn, choosing to do an acoustic album and tour. Instead of the typical unplugge...

70,000 Tons of Metal featuring Amon Amarth, Saxon, Testament, Blind Guardian Miami to Mexico, January 24 - 28

Published Feb 02, 2011

It was a concept so bizarre that you had to go: a floating heavy metal festival of 42 (mostly) extreme metal bands sailing around the Caribb...

Gov't Mule Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, ON October 27

Published Oct 29, 2009

American blues rock veterans Gov't Mule celebrated the release of their brand new studio album By a Thread with a special "Evening With..."...

Porcupine Tree / King's X Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, ON September 30

Published Oct 05, 2009

As it was the final night of their North American tour, you can forgive Porcupine Tree if things didn't work out just quite right. Upon ente...

Obituary / Goatwhore / Krisiun / The Berzerker / Warbringer The Opera House, Toronto, ON September 25

Published Sep 30, 2009

Whatever happened to the days of two- or three-act shows? It seems like every underground metal tour is a festival these days, and that's so...

Marillion Weekend Theatre L'Olympia, Montreal QC April 3 to 5

Published Apr 08, 2009

After finding success doing European conventions bi-annually since 2001, UK rockers Marillion finally attempted to pull off a North American...

Marillion

Published Mar 30, 2009

Few groups deserve the moniker of cult band in quite the same fashion Marillion do. Formed originally in 1979 in Aylesbury, England, the ban...

Tyr / Alestorm / Suidakra Opera House, Toronto ON March 23

Published Mar 24, 2009

One of the more interesting metal tours currently making the rounds is the Pagan Knights package. Featuring three quite different musically,...

The Magic Christian / Gord Lewis & Dave Rave Club Absinthe, Hamilton ON January 20

Published Jan 24, 2009

It might have been the coldest night of the winter so far outside, but the frigid temps did nothing to keep people away from witnessing Hami...

AC/DC / The Answer Rogers Centre, Toronto ON January 9

Published Jan 12, 2009

Canada has been good to AC/DC: their latest release was the biggest selling album of the year, and the venerable Aussie rockers returned the...

Opeth / High On Fire Centennial Hall, London ON September 21

Published Sep 23, 2008

No fanfare. Zero theatrics. A barren stage except for the musicians, their instruments, amplification and a simple backdrop sporting their l...

Blood Ceremony Blood Ceremony

Published Sep 22, 2008

Together now for a little over two years, Toronto’s Blood Ceremony have managed to find themselves a cosy home with few peers in the current...

Judas Priest Metal Gods

Published Jul 28, 2008

Judas Priest is quintessential British heavy metal. One of the first groups to truly embrace the heavy metal tag, over the past 35 years the...

Heavy MTL Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC June 21 to 22

Published Jul 07, 2008

Kicking off with local favourites Unexpect (pictured) as openers is a smart move by festival organisers, ensuring a large crowd from the sta...

Opeth Watershed

Published May 20, 2008

With 2008 proving to be a stellar year for great releases from veteran bands, no one album stands out so clearly from the pack as this, the...

Howlin Rain Magnificent Fiend

Published Apr 27, 2008

Originally conceived as a side-project by Comets On Fire main man Ethan Miller and Sunburned Hand Of the Man drummer John Moloney in 2005, t...

Gillan The Glory Years

Published Apr 24, 2008

This neat retrospective release revisits Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan’s early ’80s solo band at the height of their success. Captured liv...