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Austin Meade, The Azures @ The Mercury Lounge
As the dividing line between the hip and artistic Greenwich Village and the styling shops of SoHo and Nolita, Houston Street is a New...

The Metal Mayan
Apr 6, 2023
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Woe Unto Me - Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony (M-Theory Audio)
One of the most radical branches in the world of extreme music, few sub-genres push the limits quite like funeral doom metal. Often times...

The Metal Mayan
Mar 25, 2023
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Sermon - Of Golden Verse (Prosthetic Records)
There is something pure about anonymous art and music, an intimacy of sorts where listeners can focus on the material rather than the...

The Metal Mayan
Mar 20, 2023
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Rotting Christ, Carach Angren, Uada, Gaerea @ The Gramercy Theater
Between nightfall and storm clouds covering the island of Manhattan, the black clad concert goers seemed to melt into one long stream of...

The Metal Mayan
Mar 14, 2023
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Ov Sulfur - The Burden Ov Faith (Century Media)
Though far from any frozen fjords or deep forests, Las Vegas, Nevada, is not without its ample sphere of influence in the world of...

The Metal Mayan
Mar 10, 2023
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Fleshgod Apocalypse, Obscura, Wolfheart, Thulcandra @ The Gramercy Theater
"Look at you guys, all dressed up," he said, his voice rich in a Brooklyn accent, "ain't this a metal show?" The couple in line smiled,...

The Metal Mayan
Mar 7, 2023
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Hulder, Blackbraid @ Le Poisson Rouge
The year is 1524 and fleet of canoes maneuver softly across the bay towards a mighty ship off the coast of an island called Manahatta. On...

The Metal Mayan
Feb 27, 2023
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Visions of Atlantis, The Spider Accomplice @ The Meadows
For many years, the Newtown Creek, located on the far side of Williamsburg just north of Flushing Avenue, was traversed by countless...

The Metal Mayan
Feb 24, 2023
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Enslaved - Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)
As the old adage goes, with age comes wisdom and with experience comes new possibilities. Few bands have demonstrated this quite like...

The Metal Mayan
Feb 21, 2023
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Distant - Heritage (Century Media Records)
Deathcore: an extreme subgenre of hardcore and death metal that carried a nearly two decade long history of adoring fans and resentful...

The Metal Mayan
Feb 12, 2023
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Imha Tarikat - Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World (Lupus Lounge)
Since its inception, black metal has long been a style meant to take the listener to a different plain of existence. Sometimes it's to...

The Metal Mayan
Nov 25, 2022
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Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun (Napalm Records)
With temperatures dropping below freezing in the northeastern United States but the full force of Mother North still to come, the season...

The Metal Mayan
Nov 20, 2022
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Napalm Death, Brujeria, Frozen Soul, MDC @ Bowery Ballroom
While easily recognizable on any given day, Halloween weekend is a time when even the most outrageously dressed metalhead can fly under...

The Metal Mayan
Nov 3, 2022
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Fallujah - Empyrean (Nuclear Blast)
Founded 15 years ago, influenced by the likes of Death and Decrepit Birth, and coming to prominence along side bands such as The Faceless...

The Metal Mayan
Aug 25, 2022
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My Sleeping Karma - Atma (Napalm Records)
As far as history can tell, music has long been a bridge between the human world and a realm far beyond our comprehension. Perhaps...

The Metal Mayan
Aug 8, 2022
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God Is An Astronaut - The Beginning Of The End (Napalm Records)
2002 was a curious year in the world of music. The sun was setting on the era of the boy/girl bands, with their place on the charts being...

The Metal Mayan
Jul 23, 2022
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Cradle of Filth, Frayle @ Toad's Place
June 10, 2022 When you are the face and voice for one of most respected extreme metal bands in the history of the genre, what does it...

The Metal Mayan
Jun 12, 2022
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Besvärjelsen - Atlas (Magnetic Eye Records)
The uniqueness of any heavy metal band can be argued as one part nature, one part nurture. To be specific, the nature is in reference to...

The Metal Mayan
May 22, 2022
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Rivers of Nihil, Fallujah, Alluvial, Warforged @ The Brooklyn Monarch
May 06, 2022 Between a day of heavy rain and the closure of the nearby L train station after 10:30pm for construction, this particular...

The Metal Mayan
May 10, 2022
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Hypocrisy, Carach Angren, The Agonist @ Warsaw
April 29, 2022 As one of several venues in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint, the appropriately named Warsaw is special in how it...

The Metal Mayan
Apr 30, 2022
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