Posted by Alix Vallecillo on September 30, 2016
In its second year, the latest Shadow Woods Metal Fest took place a few weeks back deep in the wilderness of Maryland. A 3-day open-air camping festival that brings together some of the best American metal acts in the current scene, it proves once again to be an excellent newcomer to the festival world. Metal Insider […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on April 6, 2016
We usually talk about more mainstream festivals across the US with big headliners like Megadeth, Five Finger Death Punch or Disturbed; we also talk a bit about more underground fests like the well-known Maryland Deathfest or Hells Headbash but if we wanna go deep in the true underground, we need to talk about Shadow Woods Metal Fest. […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on August 13, 2015
In a two-part series we break down all the bands playing this weekend’s Metal Insider sponsored Death To False Metal Festival in Hamden, CT, so you know ahead of time what awesomeness you are getting yourself into. Let’s take a look at Saturday night’s line-up (please note there are some NSFW videos linked below): Grizzlor […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on July 31, 2015
What do you get when you take two Molotov cocktails built out of cheap beer and whiskey bottles, thrown out of an unmarked van barreling down a dusty old highway at about 100 miles per hour? You get the split release from two doom metal/stoner rock/sludge acts about to make some serious noise (literally and […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 22, 2015
We’re not even five months into 2015, but if we were to look at trends for the year in metal, it seems like the metal festival is spreading to the United States. With Roadburn, Wacken, and Download the European standard-bearers, America’s only major multi-day festivals are the Maryland Deathfest, and of course the New England […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 3, 2014
Right now, downtown Austin is bracing itself for the calm before the storm. In just four days (7), annual music, interactive and film mega-convention South by SouthWest (SXSW) will begin, and won’t let up until the following Sunday (16). Spring break for the music industry, place where bands go to get signed, or place where […]
