The past week has already tested Vancouver’s heavy music scene on two counts: promoter Wendy13’s Thrashers staged its last show at Funky Winkerbeans and Apocalypse…
We’re past deadline so we’ll very briefly sum up by saying that last Thursday Castle put on one of the best live heavy music performances we’ve ever seen, anywhere…
Now that summer has officially come to an end it’s time to mark the autumn equinox with a new playlist, comprised of some of our…
Right: Canada Day – we’d better get caught up with our June shows, then. See below for photos from a great capital “M” metal show. Headlined by Iron Kingdom, with…
Finnish grindcore legend Rotten Sound brought its gutting buzzsaw sound to Vancouver on Friday, decimating an emphatic crowd and leaving a wet red smear of bloody, beer-drenched chunks in their wake. [UPDATE:…
The vernal equinox marks the first day of spring, when day and night are of equal duration, and our memories of the long, cold winter…
What better way to spend the evening before Bloody-Hearts-and-Chocolates Day than to witness a live, vomit-spewing performance by Vancouver’s Star Wars-obsessed pornogrind berserkers, Zuckuss? (The question is rhetorical, padawans –…
When Venom, Inc.’s Vancouver show was cancelled last Saturday due to the weather conditions en route from Colorado, it seemed that all was lost for…
2016 was already off to an incredible start after the Astrakhan/Bison/Yob show on Dec. 31/Jan. 1, but we were surprised to find the same high calibre of performance unhindered…
As the holiday season rears its ugly head once again, Mission’s Slaughterhauser know how to go out with a bang. Planning a subsequent hiatus until February, the band put…