Presenting what you haven't heard but should.
Baltimore’s Putrisect brings together elements of old school death metal, hardcore and crust. They open the stage tonight, May 23, at Rams Head at Maryland Deathfest. I have only seen Putrisect on smaller stages, so it will be exciting to see them on the big Rams Head stage, I am sure they will blow everyone …
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Cemetery Piss are a raw, blackened heavy metal outfit out of Baltimore. They play tonight at 11:30 p.m, May 22, in a free show at the Sidebar as part of the Maryland Deathfest VII festivities. Here's the event link. The first time I saw Cemetery Piss, I went in not knowing what to expect, as …
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This time on the Metallomusikum podcast, we chatted with members of the group Sixty Watt Shaman just prior to their performance at the second Moving the Earth Fest II held in Baltimore. Sixty Watt Shaman plays a unique blend of bluesy, metal-y, hardcore-infused Maryland rock. They been around a while, since the mid-1990s in fact, …
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UPDATE: VISA ISSUES KEPT NEGURA BUNGET AND GRIMEGOD AT HOME. IRON MAN WILL PLAY! On May 7, 2014 I turn 50. That's an age that not too long ago I would have considered old. Now I don't really know what to think of it because I don't really feel old. Â One thing I know …
UPDATE: VISA ISSUES KEPT NEGURA BUNGET AND GRIMEGOD AT HOME. IRON MAN WILL PLAY! On May 7, 2014 I turn 50. That's an age that not too long ago I would have considered old. Now I don't really know what to think of it because I don't really feel old. Â One thing I know …
What I witnessed last night at the Theatre of the Living Arts among some members of the Behemoth audience was nothing short of spiritual ecstasy. I have seen this extreme euphoria exhibited by people of all religions. I guess you could also say it was simply like Beatle-mania, but really it was far more intense …
The Oracle from Maryland brings the collective musical influence and experience of four well-established performers to create something unique that they hope will challenge the elitist attitudes of all the metal subgenres they meld together. It's a little bit sludge, a little bit doom, a little bit black metal and maybe even a little bit …
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Brasil's Krisiun, one of the hardest working bands in death metal, is on the road again, if they ever even left. (They didn't.) Krisiun will start a tour  with the almighty German thrashers Destruction on March 14 and will be appearing at two venues within a reasonable driving distance from Baltimore: at Empire in Springfield, Virginia …
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