EXHUMED @ THE MARQUIS THEATER 7/20/11 DENVER-CO

Exhumed are a brutal and gory affair, they play a mix of death metal/grindcore with over the top album covers and lyrics, fast neckbreaking “goregrind”. Formed in San Jose in the early 90’s, they have released several gore masterpieces like “Slaughtercult” “Gore Metal” and their latest “All Guts, No Glory” full of blast beats, down-tuned guitars, thumping bass lines and extreme pounding screaming assault. 

Also playing: Cephalic Carnage – Colorado’s hydro-grind masters, Zombie Hate Brigade – death/grinders from Littleton and Circle Of  Defeat – grindcore from Denver.

GHOSTS OF GLACIERS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL 7/15/11 DENVER-CO

Ghosts Of Glaciers are a local post-metal band from Littleton, their music is full of sweeping melodies, lumbering guitar tones, textural atmospheric guitars and drums that pulsate into a dream state.

Also playing: Colorado’s stoner/psychedelic/doom/ambient/metal/rock bands – Skully Mammoth, The Daggermouth Spectacular and Royal Talons.

STELLAR CORPSES @ MOE’S ORIGINAL BBQ 7/15/11 ENGLEWOOD-CO

“Never thought that you could kill, A human life but soon you will, You’ll take your life and live it for all it’s worth, And if we never die, we’ll never be alive, They say when HELL is full the dead will walk the earth! Live fast, Die young, leave a Stellar Corpse!

Stellar Corpses are a band from Santa Cruz, CA. that mix psychobilly, horror punk and death rock and have released a good album “Welcome To The Nightmare” and a better ep “Respect The Dead.”

Also playing: Two of Colorado’s psychobilly bands – Captain Blood and Phantom 88.

BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY RITE BOYS @ THE SOILED DOVE 7/15/11 DENVER-CO

Slick back your hair or style your pompadours and put on your swing clothes because Big Sandy And His Fly Rite Boys are back in town. Formed in the late 80’s in California, they play rockabilly/western swing/country boogie, they have released many good albums like “On The Go” “Jumping From 6 To 6” and “Feelin’ Kinda Lucky.” 

Also playing: Chuck Mead – hillbilly-pub rock from BR549’s singer and guitar player.

VALE OF PNATH @ THE MARQUIS THEATER 7/14/11 DENVER-CO

Vale Of Pnath are a crushing, devastating, technical blackened death metal band from the Mile Hi City, with distorted guitars, technical melodic drum patterns, lower pitched growls and high pitched screams, they produce a wall of pure fury and sound.

Also playing: Three local extreme metal bands, Suns Of Sorath – blackened death metal, Barnacle – experimental metal and Cryogen – death metal.

LITURGY @ THE HI-DIVE 7/12/11 DENVER-CO

Low fidelity production, blastbeats, grief-stricken guitar harmonies and inhuman tortured vocal shrieks are what Brooklyn based Liturgy play, pure american black metal. They have released two very good albums, 2009’s “Renihilation” and 2011’s “Aesthethica” two shimmering walls of dark noise.

Also playing: Collapse – technical death metal from Denver and Barnacle – experimental metal from Denver.

R.I.P. MICHAEL “WURZEL” BURSTON 10/23/1949 – 7/09/2011

BLACKGUARD BBQ @ THE LARIMER LOUNGE 7/10/11 DENVER-CO

Blackguard are a melodic death metal band from Canada, come and join them for some grillin’ and get there early, they have a 6pm set time. Also playing several of Colorado’s finest metal bands, here’s the lineup – Statis Of Seasons, Killzone, Forged In Steel, One Shot One Kill, Barnacle, Mouthful Of Buckshot, and Frozen Eternity. “The right background music is an essential part of a good BBQ.”

THREE BAD JACKS @ BENDER’S TAVERN 7/09/11 DENVER-CO

“I hear the train a rollin, It’s comin’ straight from hell! I heard a whistle scream, and I heard somebody yell! Have you heard about that train? What’s that train? That train that came from hell! Hell bound train!

L.A. based psychobilly trio Three Bad Jacks will be back rockin’ the Mile Hi City, expect plenty of fireworks and showmanship in their fiery performances. Also playing: The Atomic Drifters – cowpunk’s from Littleton and Captain Blood – psychobilly from Broomfield.

YOB @ THE LARIMER LOUNGE 7/05/11 DENVER-CO

YOB are a doom metal band from Oregon that formed in the mid 90’s. Their first full release “Elaborations Of Carbon” is an ominous, oppressive doom masterpiece, full of black metal growls, grinding screams, relentless pummeling slow drums, heavy slow riffs, distorted bass lines and atmospheric sounds.

Also playing: Dark Castle – a 2 piece sludge/death/doom metal band from the land of death and oranges, Florida. Aggressive growls, massive crushing black riffs, brutal, violent and dark drone is what their music is. Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire – one of Colorado’s finest grindcore band’s.