by Chris Loomis | Feb 4, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
If you are a thrash-metal fan, this is the show for you . . . Metal Allegiance is the all-star team of heavy metal musicians, spawned from the Metal Masters clinics by former Marketing Director at Samson Technologies Mark Menghi. Metal Allegiance started as a live...
by Chris Loomis | Jan 28, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
Mid to late January is always an exciting time in Southern California as the annual NAMM convention takes over Anaheim at the Convention Center drawing the who’s who of the music industry from artists to equipment manufacturers and also spawns dozens of music industry...
by Chris Loomis | Jan 22, 2025 | Interviews
Interview with Alex Skolnick from Metal Allegiance: “It’s nice to not have this show be predictable . . . you never know who is going to show up.” METAL ALLEGIANCE is a supergroup of sorts, beginning as a celebration of heavy metal, the “core 4” of the band –...
by Chris Loomis | Nov 6, 2024 | Photos, Reviews
It was an exciting night in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 30, as not only were the Dodgers trying to win the World Series (which they did), but the Swedish progressive metal kings Opeth were in town at The YouTube Theater as part of their brief North American Fall...
by Chris Loomis | Oct 21, 2024 | Photos, Reviews
Fifty years is a long time in any respect of life, but being one of the world’s greatest Heavy Metal bands for fifty years and still releasing quality Heavy Metal records is a monumental accomplishment. Judas Priest, half a century in, continue to sell out...