Review and photos by Mike Bax https://www.facebook.com/IAMXOFFICIAL https://twitter.com/IAMX Not always, but most often, I can tell if I’m destined to see something interesting within the first few minutes of walking into a concert venue. Upon entering the Mod Club Theatre on this evening, I quickly saw people with mohawks, heavy black eyeliner, Doc Martins shoes…
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Korn Rob Zombie Return of the Dreads tour – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto – August 23rd, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax It was so nice to see the Molson Amphitheatre full of fans of heavy rock last night. In an era that seems to be showing diminishing returns on heavy rock arena tours, both Rob Zombie and Korn managed to pull an ample number of fans out of the Toronto…
Metal Allegiance – Saint Vitus, Brooklyn NY – August 11th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Metal Allegiance is set to perform at UK’s massive Bloodstock festival on August 13th. As a warm-up for this UK gig, they teamed up with Loudwire for a very special performance in Brooklyn, N.Y. as they wanted to do something special in the city that inducted Deep Purple into…
Black Label Society – Théâtre Corona, Montréal – August 5th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Zakk Wylde, a man who apparently can’t sit still, performed three days in a row in Montréal over the weekend. Zakk was booked in to play Heavy Montréal on Saturday as Black Label Society and then again on Sunday performing material off his more sombre release Book of Shadows…
Heavy Montréal – August 6th and 7th, 2016 – Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal
Review by Mike Bax The best European Metal Festival that is not in Europe. There was no other place in North America offering such a diversified mix of European and North American metal this year than at Heavy Montréal. Put on by Evenko and presented by Molson Canadian, Heavy Montréal attracted more than 30,000 festivalgoers to…
Rammstein w Gojira – Festival D’été de Québec, July 17th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Rammstein kehrt in Quebec in glorreiche Art und Weise!! It’s been 6 years since Rammstein performed the Québec Festival D’été. They returned this year in a much similar fashion to their 2010 appearance, performing the final night of the 2016 festival with Gojira opening the evening this time around….
Duran Duran w Nile Rodgers and Chic – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto – July 13th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax For anyone that arrived late and missed Nile Rodgers and CHIC perform an hour long set of some truly amazing live music, they might not have understood Simon Le Bon’s introduction when Rodgers joined the band on stage to perform ‘Notorious’ and ‘Pressure Off’ mid-way through Duran Duran’s set….
Steel Panther w Diemonds – Maxwells, Waterloo July 12th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax “G-O-L-D D-I-G-G-I-N-G W-H-O-R (awkward pause) E” Sung by EVERYONE in the room at Maxwell’s Michael Starr, Satchel, Lexxi Foxx and Stix Zadinia brought their signature brand of Los Angeles glam metal to Waterloo last night for a sold-out performance of epic sing-along proportions. Waterloo was the first show to…
Hollywood Vampires – Casino Rama, Orillia – July 8th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax “This is why we don’t own nice things.” Alice Cooper to the crowd after Joe Perry shattered his guitar over one of the speakers at the front of the stage to end off ‘My Generation’. Named after Cooper’s 1970s musicians drinking club The Hollywood Vampires, Frontman Alice Cooper along…
The Balconies – Mod Club Theatre, Toronto – July 5th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax One of my favourite things about living close to Toronto is the easy exposure to a plethora of brilliant musicianship that seems to bleed out of the city’s every nook and cranny. Take The Balconies for instance – a totally energetic and lightning-charged local band that deliver the goods…
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