Hey, now! Since we’re a month away from another summer concert season, I’m going to put on my strutting-down the East Village shades and say that we’re making it to the hottest show season of the year! I hope to see you sipping on mojitos and attending gigs well into early September!

In the meantime, I listed lots of new shows for you this week like I always do. I got ya’ll, always. I know you’re going to l-u-v-e checking out some of those best shows below, but we know the biggest takeaway from this week’s concert calendar is that Blind Guardian’s return to New York (holy fuck! YEEEEEEES!) is gonna be gnarly as they’re about to take over Gotham City in a mere matter of days. Thanks for your on-going support of Metal Insider. Please do me and the other writers a huge favor and make this summer a dismember.

Mojitos,
-Ian

May 5th – May 12th:
Mon, May 6th, 2024: 1981 – Motley Crue event at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC
Wed, May 8th, 2024: Bad Religion, Social Distortion at Peir 17 in NYC
Thurs. May 9th, 2024: Amon Amarth, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Frozen Soul at the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, NJ
Thurs. May 9th, 2024: Battle Beast at the Palladium in Worcester MA
Thurs. May 9th, 2024: Insomnium, Wilderun at the Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore, MD
Fri. May 10th, 2024: Cattle Decapitation, Carnifex, Rivers of Nihil, Humanity’s Last Breath, The Zenith Passage, Vitriol, DJ Alex Kayne at the Brooklyn Monarch in Brooklyn, NY
Fri. May 10th, 2024: Amon Amarth, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Frozen Soul the Dome at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, CT
Fri. May 10th, 2024: Insomnium, Wilderun at the Underground Arts in Philadelphia, PA
Fri. May 10th, 2024: Thy Art Is Murder Angelmaker, Signs of the Swarm at the Palladium in Worcester, MA
Sat. May 11th, 2024: Fugitive, High Command, Savage Pleasure at Tv Eye in Brooklyn, NY
Sat. May 11, 2024: Soen at (le) poisson rouge in NYC
Sat. May 11th, 2024: Insomnium, Wilderun at the Gramercy Theatre in NYC
Sat. May 11th, 2024: Thy Art is Murder Angelmaker, Signs of the Swarm, Snuffed on Sight at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ
Sat. May 11th, 2024: Cattle Decapitation, Carnifex, Rivers of Nihil, Humanity’s Last Breath, The Zenith Passage, Vitriol at Reverb in Reading, PA
Sun. May 12th, 2024: Avatar, Oxymorrons, Conquer Divide at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ
Sun. May 12th, 2024: Blind Guardian, Night Demon at Palladium Times Square in NYC
|Sun. May 12th, 2024: Cattle Decapitation, Carnifex, Rivers of Nihil, Humanity’s Last Breath, The Zenith Passage, Vitriol at the Palladium in Worcester, MA