When it comes to St. Louis, underground metal shows can be few and far between. When I first found out that French act Alcest was going to be playing at the Ready Room in January, I thought I was dreaming. As the day grew closer and the show was still on the Ready Room website,…
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Top 10 lists of 2016
As 2016 is drawing to an end, we are finally revealing some of our favorite albums of the past year. There were a hell of a lot of albums that came out and we couldn’t listen to all of them, however of the ones we heard, here were some of our favorites. Choosing a…
Photo Gallery: Sunn o))) @ The Ready Room (STL, MO 6/6/16)
Anticipation grew as soon as this show got announced and I was finally going to get to see the lords of Drone music, Sunn o))). I never really listened to them, but just hearing about their shows, the loudness and the cathartic release that comes from their set enthralled me enough to add them to…
Band Interview: War Of Ages
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…
Photo Album/Concert Review: Sumerian Records 10th Anniversary Tour
It’s crazy to think that Sumerian Records tenure in the U.S. metal scene has only lasted 10 years, from 2006 to 2016. The inception of the annual Summer Slaughter Tour in 2007 brought several new metal acts such as The Faceless and Born of Osiris in its inaugural year as Sumerian Records quickly began climbing the ranks…
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: Cannibal Corpse @ The Ready Room (St. Louis)
It’s not too often that a tour package gets announced with two of the heaviest hitting Death Metal acts out there alongside to strong up and coming bands, that isn’t a festival of some sorts. Very early this year the tour featuring Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Cryptopsy and Abysmal Dawn was announced and soon thereafter was…
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…
Photo Album: The Sword & Royal Thunder @ The Ready Room St. Louis
Phew what a winter it has been so far. Ok, so St. Louis has had it pretty easy compared to other places, I can’t imagine getting a foot and a half of snow!! Anyway we’ve been really busy here at Damnation, so busy in fact that I, Nick, am backed up on photos for the…
Band Interview: The Sword
So December is a pretty crazy month for us at Damnation, as it is for most magazines and record labels. Our December is quite different, we don’t get to go to as many metal shows that month. Not because we don’t want to, believe us, if we could go to all the shows we wanted…
