Matt Albers, Nick Licata Music has always had a historical connotation to faith, spirituality, and religion in certain cases. Rock, metal, and hardcore are no exceptions. To the outside perspective, it has become stereotypically cliché to immediately associate forms of loud rock with Satanism. But in 2016, just about any subgenre of aggressive music can…
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Band Interview: Cryptopsy
Matt Albers No matter what kind of music fan you are, it’s pretty interesting how a long-running band can have a roller coaster career. Especially one that has gone through several lineup changes. And even more especially when those lineup changes include a cornerstone member. Montreal, Quebec technical death metal outfit Cryptopsy is one such…
Photo Gallery: Children Of Bodom, Havok, Final Drive at The Ready Room (St. Louis, MO)
Matt Albers Damnation followers are well aware of our passion expressing the importance of various metal and other loud rock tours playing a date in our home market in St. Louis, MO. Local fans often voice their concern that few national or North American tours stop in our city, especially those featuring international artists. This…
Band Interview: Epica
Matt Albers One of Europe’s strongest contributing scenes to metal in the past two decades has been all of the female-fronted symphonic metal acts. Bands that formed in the mid 1990s like Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Lacuna Coil started a movement of strong, beautiful, operatic female vocals and neo-classical symphonic elements juxtaposed over driving heavy metal guitar…
Photo Album – Epica @ The Ready Room (St. Louis, Mo)
This has been a year of firsts for St. Louis. It is the first time in a LONG time we have had so many shows to choose from. The first time I can remember in a long time, that I went to a show on a Monday night and it was just as crowded as…
