There’s metal, and then there’s the metal I like … which tends to be the original 70′s bands I grew up listening to or more melodic styles, definitely not death or black metal. So when I heard Swedish death metal band Opeth were coming to Beijing, initially I didn’t pay much attention to it. But [...]
Tags: Kaiser Kuo, Metal, Opeth, sweden, tango
one hell of a hectic week means i almost forgot my quickslants… so this week, it’s shortslants just to keep up. I can’t recall seeing this much Rock / Metal on offer ever in Beijing. Friday April 1: Motley Crue tribute @ 2 Kolegas with Rikki Sixx, Jacky Danny and more. One hell of a [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, dongzi, Metal, motley crue tribute, Nanwu
Hair did fly, heads banged, and the Cloven-Hooved Prince of Darkness had his due on Friday night at Yugong Yishan with Bad Mamasan and ChunQiu bringing their respective brands of sonic goodness! A scheduled dinner with some friends dragged a bit longer than expected and rain made it even more difficult to get there by [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Chunqiu, Jaime Welton, Kaiser Kuo, Metal, Spring Autumn, yugong yishan
It was inevitable! This landed today in my mailbox: http://news.guitarchina.com/article/6823.html Poor GAMMARAY just didn’t get a chance on this one! First Mao Live is closed down then the Gov’t decided on a celebration day for earthquake victims with a cancellation of all events… The band and the venue tried moving the show to Midnight but [...]
We might complain every so often (ok we do it a lot) about the lack of great musical names coming to Beijing but on sunday night, about 500 people at The Starlive would have disagreed. They were busy jumping up and down, headbanging, screaming and generally having the time of their life as Lamb of [...]
Tags: FourFive, Lamb of God, Metal, starlive, The Falling
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