Notes From SHoD XI Pt. 2: Saturday
Woke up this morning with not the worst headache ever, but certainly enough of one to get the job done. If you made me guess, I’d say I’d probably done some drinking. It was early, and I posted the...
View ArticleTotal Coverage: Stoner Hands of Doom XII (Day Three)
It’s a gorgeous Saturday morning in East Lyme, Connecticut. Why wouldn’t there be traffic on I-95? Seven hundred gajillion TARP funbucks later, I sat in a miles long line of cars weaving into and out...
View ArticleStoner Hands of Doom XIII Beginning to Take Shape; Dates, Venue and Bands...
Unparalleled in its support for underground heavy, the Stoner Hands of Doom fest has begun to unveil the lineup and other info for the 2013 edition, SHoD XIII. The traveling fest, which in 2012 took...
View ArticleAdmiral Browning Streaming New Album Give No Quarter; Tour Dates Announced
There’s nothing not to like about this latest update from Maryland-based progressive mostly-instrumentalists Admiral Browning. Between the fact that they’re hitting the road and the stream they’ve put...
View ArticleAdmiral Browning, Give No Quarter: Command Voyage
Now more than a decade on since getting together in the formidable Maryland heavy underground that now regards them as stalwarts, mostly-instrumental trio Admiral Browning arrive at their most...
View ArticleMaryland Doom Fest 2016 Announces Complete Lineup
The 2016 edition of the Maryland Doom Fest will take place June 24, 25 and 26 at Cafe 611 in Frederick, MD. You might recall late in 2014, when the initial word surfaced about the festival’s inaugural...
View ArticleAdmiral Browning, Corvette Summer: Devil’s Dilemma
Not familiar with the 1978 film from which Admiral Browning‘s Corvette Summer takes its name? Don’t sweat it. I don’t think the band could hold it against you. Corvette Summer stars a post-Star Wars,...
View ArticleLive Review: Maryland Doom Fest 2016 Night One
It was a hell of a ride, and by that I mean I sat in traffic from about 8:30 in the morning until I walked into Cafe 611 in Frederick, Maryland, just in time for the start of the first band at 5:15PM....
View ArticleMaryland Doom Fest 2020 Announces Full Lineup
In the immortal words of one Peter Steele: Happy Halloween, baby. Those playing along at home know that today means one thing to the realms of doom, and it’s that it’s time for Maryland Doom Fest to...
View ArticleMaryland Doom Fest 2021 Announces Lineup
Maryland Doom Fest 2021 is set for Halloween Weekend, Oct. 28-31, in Frederick, Maryland. Some of the acts on the newly announced bill are carryovers from the first-delayed-then-canceled 2020 edition —...
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