Jason Roche

Friday May 1 Inter Arma Complex This Virginia quintet effortlessly shape shifts from caustic black metal to stoner-doom and back on albums such as 2013’s Sky Burial. All of this is done on sprawling, post-metal compositions that display a level of musicianship normally reserved for prog-metal circles. The sweeping riffs......

Friday May 1 Inter Arma Complex This Virginia quintet effortlessly shape shifts from caustic black metal to stoner-doom and back on albums such as 2013’s Sky Burial. All of this is done on sprawling, post-metal compositions that display a level of musicianship normally reserved for prog-metal circles. The sweeping riffs......

Thursday, April 2 Testament, Exodus House of Blues Hollywood Testament and Exodus have remained two of the most enduring acts from the ‘80s Bay Area thrash scene that lured Metallica away from Los Angeles at the start of their career. Testament’s most recent album, 2012’s Dark Roots of Earth, showcases......

Ten years ago at WrestleMania 21, wrestling star John Cena celebrated his first WWE Championship victory at a sold-out Staples Center as the sound of horns blared from his then-brand new entrance theme, “The Time Is Now.” At tonight’s WWE Raw television broadcast from the Staples Center — and this......

Life has been treating Colombian Necktie guitarist and co-founder Juan Hernandez well since the August 2014 release of the L.A. hardcore group’s full-length Twilight Upon Us. He recently got married and has a new job that allows him both day-to-day stability and time for music. The band is gaining momentum......

Sunday, March 1 Black Sheep Wall Los Globos This Los Angeles act changes up the sludgy dirge of stoner-doom metal on their newest album, I’m Going to Kill Myself, by injecting angular chord structures from the post-hardcore template. The paint-stripping vocals of Brandon Gillichbauer live up to the provocativeness of......

Eduardo Ramirez, the mastermind behind local black metal outfit Volahn, rolls into Vacation Vinyl in Silver Lake, exhausted from putting together a large package containing 400 cassettes of his new album, Aq'ab'al. The package is on its way to German record label Iron Bonehead Productions for distribution in Europe. A......

Ozzy Osborne’s post-Sabbath debut, 1980’s Blizzard of Ozz, established him as a solo force to be reckoned with. But receiving almost as many accolades were the blistering guitar histrionics of Los Angeles phenom Randy Rhoads. Osborne had recruited Rhoads from then-burgeoning L.A. rock act Quiet Riot. Rhoads’ writing efforts and......

Monday, February 2 Unpure Five Star Bar From 1995 to 2004, this Swedish black metal act engaged in pursuits of pure musical blasphemy, most notably on their 1995 self-titled debut and 2004’s World Collapse. Intermittent activity in the years since has resulted in no new musical output, and bassist Kolgrim......