Category: Scene Reports

Scene Report: Hacked Up for Barbecue Death Fest & Pig Roast w/ Mortician & more (@ No Class 09/09)

The different putrid permutations that death metal has taken over the years are perhaps not quite as drastic as those of black metal, but the fact is that it’s all…


SCENE REPORT: Chepang | Bandit | Decultivate | Missouri Executive Order 44 (8/04 @ Howdy KCMO)

Bandit Several months prior to this show, our sister podcast, the Butt Metal Blast Cast, interviewed Philly grindcore band Bandit‘s vocalist Gene Meyer. At the time, he told us that…


SCENE REPORT: Cynic | Atheist | Phobophilic | Existem (6/25 @ The Bottleneck)

Kansas City’s own Existem opened up the show with their particular brand of muscular progressive metal. What sets Existem apart from a lot of other modern progressive metal bands is…


Scene Report: Carcass | Municipal Waste | Sacred Reich | Creeping Death (4/20 @ The Granada)

With Bongzilla performing about a month prior and then Carcass playing on 4/20, the Green Gods certainly seem to be smiling down upon us Lawrencians in their hazy splendor! To…


Scene Report: Bongzilla | They Watch Us From The Moon | Stoney Doom (3/15 @ The Bottleneck)

Bongzilla This show brought out all of the local weed wizards…and things get a little hazy from there. Marijuana legalization is certainly in a hazy state of affairs these days….


Scene Report: Wanderer | Thin | The Wind in the Trees | Sarin Reaper (2/24)

I braved freezing rain to travel to Kansas City not to see a wintry black metal band as you might expect but instead to see Wanderer, Thin, The Wind in…


Scene Report: Brutal Assault 2022

The two main stages as seen from the “VIP” section On the first day of Brutal Assault, I was watching a band perform from the “VIP” section that overlooked the…


Scene Report: Beyond the Gates 2022

A overview of Judge Dredd’s experiences at Beyond the Gates, an annual metal festival in Bergen, Norway…


Scene Report: Obscene Extreme 2022

A bucket list item I’ve had since I was a teenager is attending a metal festival in Europe. I remember meeting a fellow teenage metal fan in an AOL chatroom…