Downswing
with Tombstone and Trees With Eyes From the vibrant streets of Albany, New York, emerges DOWNSWING, a fierce four-piece metalcore outfit that refuses to be confined by convention. Since their inception in 2018, DOWNSWING has established themselves as a relentless force in the underground music scene, captivating audiences with their explosive blend of aggression and melody. Fronted by the enigmatic vocalist, Harrison Seanor, DOWNSWING delivers a visceral onslaught of impassioned screams and gut-wrenching lyrics that resonate with audiences on a deeply personal level. Guitarist Anthony Salvaggio unleashes a torrent of razor-sharp riffs, while bassist Chris Arnold and drummer Nick Manzella lay down a foundation of thunderous rhythms that drive the band’s ferocious energy.
Escuela Grind
with for your health and Wisdom & War Through punishingly short, and dynamic songs, ESCUELA GRIND delivers politically charged lyrics inspired by modern anxieties, unrest, and the roots of Hardcore Punk, Grindcore, and Power Violence. While members Katerina Economou, Jesse Fuentes (Kill the Client, Creator|Destroyer), Jason Balthazar Eldridge (Hearse), and Kris Morash (Your Brain on Drugs) span from different parts of the United States; the band has been based in Upstate New York and Western Massachusetts since its first shows in 2016.
Swallow The Sun
with special guests Harakiri For The Sky, Ghost Bath and Snakes of Russia More than two decades of despair, beauty, and heartache have not only shaped but fueled Finnish melancholy torchbearers, the chart-topping and two-time Finnish Grammy nominated SWALLOW THE SUN. Formed in Jyväskylä in 2000, the quintet has enjoyed numerous fan-lauded music videos (10+ million YouTube views) and streaming dominance (50+ million Spotify plays), while also embarking on a four-continent, 900-show run throughout their 23-year career. The new album, Shining, however, is the group’s first step on the new path to the unknown. —- Mӕre – a malicious folk entity that creeps up on sleeping people’s chests during the night and instils breathlessness and anxiety. It is this state of diffused terror and paralysis that has been enshrined in HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’s music ever since their 2012 debut album. With M.S.‘s captivating guitar melodies and J.J.‘s lyrics, ridden with trauma, delirium and loss, their unique mixture of black metal and post rock creates an inescapable maelstrom of shattering screams and sudden acoustic guitar interludes. —- GHOSTBATH writes and creates under the assumption that music is an extension of one’s own soul. They journey through the sorrow and sadness that all lives experience, but leave a glimmer of hope. They portray both deep anguish and angelic soundscapes that are sure to leave an impression on the listener. —- Los Angeles’s Joseph Holiday makes dark, moody, end-of-the-world modular music as SNAKES OF RUSSIA. He masterfully weaves together his modular rig with samples and real world instrumentation.
Stronghold
ALL AGES
The Zenith Passage
with TeHÔM Doors 7pm / Music 7:30pm / All Ages While far too many progressive and technical death metal bands are happy to walk the same path and stick to a tried-and-true sound, on their second full-length The Zenith Passage forge new and exhilarating territory. From start to finish, Datalysium is driven by imagination, and played by artists who have full command of their instruments, creating something that stands out of any pack while maintaining what made them such a riveting proposition in the first place. When asked to describe the record, the band do so vividly: “Imagine if Necrophagist and Meshuggah were married, and Cynic and Extol got married, then years later they went to a swingers party to spice up their relationships, which then became a regular thing. From this, they all had a kid together, no one knows who the biological father is, but that’s cool because they’re co-parenting. That kid then grows up, idolizing David Lynch, Ridley Scott and film noir. He then goes to film school for a couple of years, but drops out because he’d rather play synth music, but ends up broke and homeless. Then Datalysium would be that kid.”
Moose’s Monster Bash
with Leatherface, Graveyard Smash, Komatose & Surreal the MC VIP PACKAGE: $100 VIP includes: admission to the show, pre-show in costume photo-op with Leatherface, signed event exclusive print, VIP lanyard, and entry to the VIP afterparty with Andrew Bryniarski. _________________________________________________________________________________ Midwest Elite Concerts and Moose’s Monster Mash invite you to come celebrate 5 years of Moose’s Monster Mash with a night of music, and horror! Meet Andrew Bryniarski, known from films like; Batman Returns, Street Fighter, Rollerball, Necessary Roughness, and of course his role as Leather face in the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Take part in a live q&a podcast recording, then stick around for a night of music and celebration. Surreal the MC will be spinning your favorite horror hits, Horrocore Legend Komatose will bring his brand of horror to the Reverb stage and Horror Punk band, Graveyard Smash end the night and bring down the house on this 5 year celebration.
The Plot In You
ADVANCE GA: $29.50DAY OF SHOW: $34.50BALCONY: $66 with Currents, Zero 9:36, and Wind Walkers
BLOOD INCANTATION
with Midwife. All ages. 7pm Doors/8pm Show Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Yes, that’s an audacious, possibly hyperbolic claim, but few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as this Denver, Colorado quartet. Hovering at nearly 45 minutes, their longest recording thus far, the two sprawling-yetexacting compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they are engaging. It’s an architecture of music at odds with itself: an acceleration through a Kubrickian stargate into a realm of aural ideas in harmonious opposition, uniting unlikely binaries of aural heavens and hells. For inspiration, the group looked to the mid-70’s progressive rock collective, Absolute Elsewhere (best known as a celestial stopover for King Crimson drummer, Bill Bruford) as the album’s namesake. For the uninitiated, Absolute Elsewhere’s landmark 1976 album, In Search of Ancient Gods, was constructed as a musical accompaniment to the works of Chariots of the Gods author, Erich Von Daniken, and his theories of non-terrestrial humanoid prompts towards mankind’s evolution. The subject matter of which should serve as no surprise to anyone familiar with Blood Incantation’s prior LPs and cosmically philosophical leanings. But make no mistake, the our musicians working under the BI banner for the past decade – guitarist and vocalist Paul Riedl, drummer Isaac Faulk, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky and bassist Jeff Barrett – have successfully left the microgravity of genre behind and are re-writing the Rosetta Stone of extreme music with a new language entirely.
Viscerous
Viscerous: Eviscerate CD Release Show with Inkognita, Ungoliant, and Molten
High Vis
Though the band were all alumni of some of the UK hardcore scene’s most celebrated groups, High Vis’s 2019 debut, No Sense No Feeling, was a record that opened its viewfinder beyond the parameters of any genre or scene. Sure, the intensity and passion of hardcore were stoking the fires, but in its intense post-punk […]