Vancouver has been graced with a number of rare and magical performances this year thanks to the Covenant team, but the first-ever Canadian appearance of neofolk…
Clearly the gods of geekdom have blessed Vancouver, as Saturday’s nerdy bacchanal at The Rickshaw was so closely followed by Blind Guardian’s performance at the Commodore Ballroom on Monday…
Chasing September’s blood moon, Chelsea Wolfe and Mamiffer put on a hypnotic show at The Rickshaw last week, enchanting a sizable Wednesday-night audience with their distinctive brands of infernal hymns and apocalyptic lullabyes.
Cattle Decapitation never fails to deliver provocative and progressive music and the current tour to support their latest full-length The Anthropocene Extinction is ample proof of the…
The inaugural Covenant Festival – a celebration of independent, underground acts in extreme music – occupied three nights at two venues last weekend in Vancouver and featured several…
With Covenant Festival – Vancouver’s inaugural three-day celebration of extreme underground music – just a week away, we invited Paulus Kressman, founder of festival headliner…
Ostensibly, it’s not only “Europe [that] is falling apart,” as the song “Eurovision” declares on Laibach‘s latest release, Spectre: mass shootings and riots are increasingly common…
Uniting three exceptional metal bands from disparate regions of continental Europe, the Conquerors of the World tour brought Septicflesh, Moonspell, and Deathstars to Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre…