Go to shows!: April 2018

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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

Saturday, April 21, 2018

4-20 Russian Circles, King Woman, Pittsburgh @Spirit Hall

The pizza at Spirit really hit the spot. So much in face that we ate pizza through all of King Woman. I'm not entirely upset about that. I didn't listen to them at all beforehand so I don't even know anything about them. Oh well, we were there for Russian Circles anyway.

Russian Circles - Really good set. Pretty much every song is really good. They have the pace down pat. Their first half of the set was pretty drum heavy and it was really good. The second half of the set was really guitar heavy, and that was good also. All in all great set. I like that they don't have any lyrics. The one thing about this band is it's a really stationary show. No crowd movement or sing alongs and such.

Highs - Spirit, pizza, Russian Circles
Low's - The just too cold to be nice weather

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

4-8 Integrity, Ringworm, Midnight, In Cold Blood, Lakewood OH @The Foundry

I figured this show was going to be pretty awesome. It was. We'd never been to the Foundry before. The show was sold out, 300 people, so you can imagine the size of the venue is a bit small. That's pretty ok by me. The venue was long and narrow. That's a good thing for tall people, bad for short people or those who don't push to the front. I didn't have a problem.

We especially liked the police officer at the door telling everyone to smoke weed in between bands and not to bring it in. Thanks.

In Cold Blood - Very good band. Reminds me of Steel Nation a bit. Heavy dual singer metal hardcore. Good shit. I'll see this band again I hope.

Midnight - Honestly if Midnight wasn't on the show, I'm not sure I'd have gone. They were awesome. Motorhead sounding metal in the especially fun and evil variety. Sick band, I love them. The hardcore crowd wasn't especially into it, but I was.

Ringworm - A completely underappreciated band all around. This was probably the best I've ever heard them or seen them. Somehow songs other than Justice Replaced by Revenge got the biggest mosh. Great set, Human Furnace is great.

Integrity - They played a ripper of a set. Played pretty much everything you wanted to hear, and only two new songs. Heavy as fuck and super good. Good venue to choose for this hometown back to back.

Highs - All the bands, the matinee with a 3 hour drive.

Lows - Nothing at all.