Jason Roche

Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums:......

When it comes to discussion of the top metal scenes, Los Angeles never gets its due. Maybe it's because we're not known for being pioneers of a single subgenre (Bay Area thrash and Florida death metal for example), but there's still no doubt that the city has been vital in......

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See also: Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: 10 - 1 When it comes to discussion of the top metal scenes, Los Angeles never gets its due. Maybe it's because we're not known for being pioneers of a single subgenre (Bay Area thrash and Florida death metal for example), but there's......

When their 1986 album Born Too Late was released, it's fair to say not many had picked up on the genius of Saint Vitus. Check this YouTube clip of a performance at the Palm Springs Community Center that year, for example. It appears to have been attended by fewer than......

Fri, Oct 5 Gypsyhawk The Viper Room Pasadena's Gypsyhawk deftly blend metallic guitars and fantasy/science-obsessed lyrics with a rock and roll boogie swagger. On the group's new album Revelry & Resilience, the raspy shouts of bassist/vocalist Eric Harris and the blistering yet warm solos of guitarists Andrew Packer and Erik......

Sat. Sept 8 Devin Townsend, Katatonia, and Paradise Lost El Rey Theatre Talk about a stacked lineup. Devin Townsend has calmed down since his days fronting angry industrial thrash titans Strapping Young Lad, but he still fucking rocks in the live solo setting. Swedish melodic doomsters Katatonia were the first......

August 15th, 2008 was a tumultuous day for Eric Harris, who was then bassist for Ohio-based death-thrashers Skeletonwitch. Rising tensions with the rest of the band came to a head. Having just played a raucous show at the Troubadour, the group kicked Harris out and left him in Los Angeles......

Graf Orlock's Los Angeles Is All About the Movie Heat Top Ten Los Angeles Metal Albums of 2011 Since L.A. hardcore warrior Justin Smith is in three bands (Graf Orlock, Ghostlimb, and Dangers) and runs local hardcore-metal label Vitriol Records -- and works as a history professor at Cal State......

Deftones Troubadour 7/28/12 Better Than...flying across the country to see Deftones in sports arenas on the East Coast next month. For a band whose lyrics are ridden with angst, Saturday night's Deftones show was filled with smiling faces, from the stage to the crowd. The Troubadour is a far cry......