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Welcome, come to a show! Below is a list of shows going on in and around Southwest PA.

10-15 The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
10-16 The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, night 2, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
10-17 Days N Daze, Bridge City Sinners, Apes of State, Crazy and the Brains, Pittsburgh @Spirit
10-23 Slapshot, Sheer Terror, Next Step Up, Iron Price, Skullcrack, Frederick MD @Cafe 611
10-23 Punktober Fest, Hagard Wulf, Rutabaga Suicide, Defiant Blood, All the Damn Vampires, The Homisides, Cumberland MD @Dig Deep Brewing Co
10-27 Mephiskapheles, Children of October, Boiled Denim, Pittsburgh @Ormsby Ave Cafe
10-31 GAG, Heavy Discipline, Necroheads, Pittsburgh @Collision
10-31 Sheer Terror, Submachine, Pittsburgh @Rock Room
11-9 The Slackers, Fubar, Inco Fido, Pittsburgh @the Crafthouse
11-9 Bad Religion, Alkaline Trio, Pittsburgh @Stage AE
11-11Dying Fetus, Terror, Pittsburgh@Spirit
11-13 Fubar, Inco Fido, Sneaky Heat Missiles, The Biscuits, Greensburg @Green Beacon Gallery
11-14 Enforced, Steel Nation, Settle for Nothing, Vulgar Royalty, Morgantown WV @123 Pleasant Street
11-19, Municipal Waste, Crowbar, Skeletal Remains, Dead Heat, Pittsburgh @Spirit
11-20 Anti-Flag, Suicide Machines, Punchline, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Doll Skin, Swiss Army, Pittsburgh @Roxian Theater
11-20 VCTMS, Born A New, Gravebirth, Ire, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground
11-21 Protomartyr, The Gotobeds, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
11-26 Koffin Kats, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
11-28 Exhorder, Take Offense, Extinction AD, Plague Years, Pittsburgh @Crafthouse
12-8 Blood Incantation, Primitive Man, Sissy Spacek, Jarhead Fertilizer, Pittsburgh @Funhouse Mr. Smalls
12-19 Bushido Code, Steel Nation, Age of Ruin, Fire in the Blood, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground
1-5 Spotlights, Eternal Sleep, Pittsburgh @Preserving Hardcore
1-25 Fucked Up, David Comes to Life, Empath, Pittsburgh @Mr. Smalls
2-28 Meshuggah, Converge, Torche, Pittsburgh @Stage AE
3-13 Sepultura, Sacred Reich, Crowbar, Art of Shock, Pittsburgh @Thunderbird Cafe
3-13 Blitzkid, more, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground
3-29 Circle Jerks, 7 Seconds, Negative Approach, Pittsburgh @Mr. Smalls
4-14 DRI, Truckstop, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground

Sunday, September 8, 2013

9-7 Valient Thor, Ramming Speed, German Shepherd, Rogue Signals, Pittsburgh @31st Street Pub

I'd been itching for a good metal show. Even though the 31st Street Pub isn't my favorite destination for beer and music, for some shows it does just fine. This show is a good example of that. Enough people there to make it well attended, but few enough so that the bar wasn't jam packed.

Rogue Signals - I really like the name. That is about it. They're a rock and roll metal style band with a female singer. She's an ok singer. The musicianship was OK. Overall none of the songs were very good.

German Shepherd - Another local band. They were OK. Heavy rock music by four dudes. They were way better than Rogue Signals, but still I don't think I'll be going out of my way to see them.

Ramming Speed - Now I'm pissed that we missed them a month or so ago at Belvederes. They were super good. Pretty much a straight forward thrash metal band with some groovy hardcore inspired quasi-breakdowns at times. Good for the metal heads, good for the metal punks, good for the hardcore people. Some of their songs have serious sing along potential. I enjoyed pretty much every song very well. The singer was very entertaining. He looked like he was enjoying the shit out of himself. Fist pumps everywhere.

Valient Thor - I had only listened to this band before, but never seen them. The set was killer. Rock and roll metal done as good as it can be done. They're like a less heavy more party Doomriders. Very riffy, driving rock and roll with plenty of singalongs. I'll for sure go see them again.

Hi's - $2 beers, Ramming Speed, Valient Thor.
Low's - The Pub can get really fucking hot.