w/Big Coffin Hunters In my mind any gig booked on the Saturday after Thanksgiving will not be big in terms of draw – I assume everyone will still be either out of town or in a turkey coma – but when Big Coffin Hunters asked us to share the bill I had no qualms about it. [ More ]

w/Goatwhore, Random Acts of Violence, The End of Everything Goatwhore is a USBM band from Louisiana signed to Metal Blade and on tour with Celtic Frost. They got all the black metal usuals: double-bass, grinding guitars, grunt-growl vocals. For this off-night from the CF tour the bill was originally them, Boston’s Random Acts of Violence (very [ More ]

It’s not often you hear of a musician relocating to Maine to form a goth band, especially considering John Graveside’s (AKA Rowan Bishop) previous group was the NYC-based roots-rock Trailside Rangers. But it’s really the mildly dark undercurrents of siren-voiced Cruella, coupled with the icy, church-organ keyboards of Jenny Williamson, that earn his new five-piece [ More ]