Cormorant flew onto my radar late last year, after reading the articulate writings of lead singer and bassist Arthur...
Month: January 2010
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Miscellaneous Metal: Between the Buried and Me, Cynic, The Devin Townsend Project @ Slim's, 1/18/10
I was ‘on call’ for this show. I have read so many love letters from my fellow bloggers about...
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Heavy Enlightenment: Behemoth, Septic Flesh, Lightning Swords of Death @ Slim's, 1/17/10
I’m driving back to SF from LA on about 5 hours of sleep, which is actually pretty normal for...
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House of Growls: Behemoth, Septic Flesh, Lightning Swords of Death @ House of Blues LA, 1/16/10
I’m flying down the 5 at 90 mph, alternating between listening to the bands I would later see that...
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Dive Punk: Agnostic Front, Death By Stereo, Hightower @ Thee Parkside, 1/15/10
I live approximately 8 blocks from Thee Parkside, towards the top of Potrero Hill. It’s a weird neighborhood, man…I...
Dez Fafara, formerly of Coal Chamber and currently of DevilDriver, is one cool guy. Before the second date of...
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The Devil's Company: DevilDriver, Suffocation, Goatwhore, Thy Will Be Done @ Slim's, 1/8/10
It would be my first show of the year, and if this set the tone for the rest of...
It’s challenging to write about what happened to a genre of music in 2009 when it’s as loosely defined...
2009: the last year of the first decade of the new millennium. It proved to be a year rife...