Iowa rock band Stone Sour fronted by Corey Taylor (Slipknot) will be playing a sold out show at MTelus in Montreal this upcoming Tuesday, and another show at Rebel in Toronto on Wednesday.
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Uriah Heep woos the crowds all over again at The Brass Monkey.
When I was in my early teens, my mother decided she needed to educate me on legendary musicians and bought me Uriah Heep’s Live January 1973 album, and it was eye-opening. Never in my wildest dreams I ever imagined I would ever see them live, but to my amazement the band announced their tour a few months back, which also included two Ottawa dates.
Machine Head brings Catharsis Tour to Canada.
California’s Machine Head is including three Canadian dates on their North American tour in support of their newly released album, Catharsis.
Killthrax II tour kicks off in Montreal.
People from all over Eastern Canada braved the freezing cold Montreal weather to see the metal monsters Anthrax and Killswitch Engage co-headlining show at MTelus on Thursday night. This was the first show of the “Killthrax II” tour that runs until March across North America.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club tour to stop in Montreal and Toronto in February.
San Francisco’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who have just released their latest album ‘Wrong Creatures‘ in January, will be bringing their North American tour to Canada and stopping in Montreal and Toronto next month.
Headstones raises the roof at the sold out show at Barrymore’s.
Hugh Dillon and the Headstones brought their Little Army Tour to Ottawa and rocked a sold out show at Barrymore’s on Friday night.
Heavy metal and food lovers unite at The Koven.
For years now, Ottawa has been missing a bar where the heavy metal lovers can get together and enjoy delicious food while listening to their favourite tunes, but the wait is finally over!
Rebecca Noelle shines at a sold out show at NAC.
Every Friday night the National Arts Center’s revitalized Fourth Stage plays host to emerging artists from across Canada for ‘Friday’s at the Fourth’. The casual atmosphere of this new stage lends itself well to artists of all genres. This past Friday a sold out crowd was beyond entertained by the wildly talented Rebecca Noelle and opener Kayla Diamond.
Amos The Transparent announces holiday show at the Blacksheep Inn.
If you live in Ottawa and haven’t heard of Amos the Transparent I’m guessing you haven’t paid attention to the local band scene at all.
Children of Bodom brings 20 Years Down & Dirty to Bronson Centre.
Finland’s extreme metal superstars Children of Bodom brought their 20 Years Down & Dirty to Ottawa on Wednesday night and things were bound to get crazy!
The progressive death metal band Uncured from New York opened the metal night at the absolutely packed Bronson Centre.
The second to hit the stage was Lost Society from Jyvaskyla, Finland. The young band has an insane amount of positive energy on stage, and their short but solid set was sure to warm up any trash metal fans in the audience with influences from Megadeth and Pantera.
The much anticipated Dutch horror metal band Carach Angren entered the stage surrounded by ghostly holograms was sure to be a memorable performance. The haunting synth combined with the heavy guitar riffs and some extreme drumming combined with singer Dennis Droomer’s guttural vocals left more than a few people collecting their jaws off the floor and wanting to see more of the theatrical band.
It’s hard to believe it has been 20 years since Children of Bodom released their debut album Something Wild. The front man Alexi Laiho seems to be in the best shape ever and making his larger than life guitar solos look absolutely effortless.
The band has been on the road most of the year, touring in Europe in the spring, and bringing in the North American leg of the tour in October, having only two shows left in Canada after the Ottawa show. There was no sign tiredness showing from any of the band members as they put on a show that turned the ecstatic Bronson Centre crowd into a giant mosh pit and a flow of crowd surfers going through the floor for most of the second half of the show.
It has been a while since I’ve seen such a passionate audience, singing almost every song from word to word. Laiho was clearly enjoying his time on stage as well, encouraging the crowd to be louder.
Children of Bodom is one of the biggest bands to come out of the promised land of metal bands, and showed us what it takes to conquer the world, over and over.
Setlist:
- Deadnight Warrior
- In The Shadows
- Needled 24/7
- Hatebreeder
- Lake Bodom
- Warheart
- Hate Me!
- Red Light In My Eyes Part 2
- Downfall
- Everytime I Die
- Children of Bodom
- Hate Crew Deathroll
- Bed of Razors
- Kissing the Shadows
Encore:
- The Nail
- Towards Dead End
By Laura Collins.