Metal Music NEWS and interviews

Pain performing at Wire in Berwyn, IL. September 15 2017. Part of their US Tour with Orphaned Land, Voodoo Kunfu and local support from Terranaut and Darfall. The video footage you are about to see contains two songs. A few pictures are provided here, if you want to see the entire album visit this link Pain photos Video here  

Live performance by The Convalescence at Reggies as part of Venom Inc. and Goatwhore Tour 2017. Photos and video footage provided in the links below. Also, check out my earlier post featuring opening band Discarnate . Visit here for the full photo album. footage

Live performance photos and footage of Discarnate at Reggies in Chicago, part of Empire Productions, Reggies 10th Anniversary show! Venom Inc., GOATWHORE, Toxic Holocaust  and The Convalescence. Opening this rager of a show with a brutal performance and devastating sound. Full photo album can be view at Flickr .

Matianak live concert photos and footage from their most recent performance at The Red Line tap. Matianak is a black metal band based in the midwest. You can visit them at  facebook-MatianakOfficial . Check out the songs "A Touch of Silence" and "Hypnotic Torture". The link to the entire photo album can also be found here Matianak album at Flickr . 

Welcome, Miguel Goregrinder of Chicago Domination Fest. Give us a short summary of where CDF began?   It began just a  couple of short years ago but, its origins go  back to another festival I use to run called Chicago Metal Devastation  that ran from 2005 to 2007. It was more of a local, smaller festival that had bigger  plans and just never really got traction. I stepped away for a couple years  from the fest scene to think things over and  figure out what you really wanted to do with this whole thing. Then, I was  sitting around working out a festival flyer that was meant to be a complete joke, I put  on all these ridiculous bands, kind of a dream line up if you will  and from there I put it up on Facebook and it got ridiculous reaction to the whole thing which blew me away.  I seriously considered giving fest thing another try, so the first year, I wanted to put  together something small, but still going to m...

Chicago Domination Fest 4 Exclusive interview with Miguel Goregrinder Medina. A first look into what it takes to put on a brutal death metal festival for the fourth time. We get a detail explanation as to where the idea of the festival began. Some highlights from Chicago Domination Fest 1, 2 and 3. Hear how CDF-1 took shape. The challenge of planning and bringing together bands from all over the globe. Miguel provides some details about the sponsors and colleagues involved helping put together this event. For the people traveling from far away, there is information in the interview as to hotels around the area. Information on this years event, tickets, location, bands and more can be view by visiting the links below. Official site chicagodominationfest.bigcartel FB site facebook-chicagodominationfest Event page facebook-events CDF4 Eternal Eclipse Productions in association with Two Brothers Brewing Co. and Cruelty Cabinets PRESENTS: CHICAGO DOMINATION FEST #4  Nad...

Road's End metal band featuring former members of Behemoth, Vader, Disinter, Gorgasm and Eyes On Fire. Making their first mid-west appearance at Wire lounge in Berwyn IL. Supporting acts for this event were, Blacklist Regulars and Genotype. Below are photos as well as some live footage. Be sure to visit the band at  facebook-roadsendofficial                                           view the full album here                                               see the full set here See the full set here see the full set here