Review and photos by Mike Bax Performing to an utterly sold out venue this evening, instrumental three piece prog wizards Animals As Leaders dominated the stage performing a dozen songs from their four studio albums. Tosin Abasi, Javier Reyes and Matt Garstka released The Madness of Many a few weeks prior to this show, and…
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Video interview with Epica – Toronto – November 6th, 2016
Epica Simone Simons The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto – November 6th, 2016 Interview by Mike Bax http://www.epica.nl twitter.com/Epica http://www.facebook.com/epica
Epica – The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto – November 6th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Epica returned to Toronto last night to perform a majority of material from their fantastic new album The Holographic Principle, performing 15 songs over the course of an hour and fourty minutes at The Phoenix Concert Theatre. This tour brought Fleshgod Apocalypse, The Agonist and Atmora along for the…
Symphony X – Mod Club Theatre, Toronto – October 3rd, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax “It’s Monday night, right?” Russell Allen – in disbelief to the screaming crowd before their encore. There was lots of live music to choose from this evening in Toronto. Sigur Ros was playing a sold out Massey Hall, Adele was playing a sold out Air Canada Center show and…
Melvins, Napalm Death & Melt Banana – The Opera House, Toronto – April 19th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax The Savage Imperial Death March Tour!! Delivered at a volume loud enough that I might have been able to stay at home in Kitchener, an hour away, and STILL heard this trifecta of heavy. My ears are still recovering from the aural pummeling they took last night. It’s not…
Avantasia – Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto – April 13th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Described by curator / mastermind Tobias Sammet as the mean, dirty little black sheep brother of Trans Siberian Orchestra, Avantasia’s only Canadian live show touched down last night in Toronto, filling the Queen Elizabeth Theatre stage to the brim with a literal who’s who of heavy music. Boasting one…
August Burns Red, Between & The Buried and Me – Guelph Concert Theatre, April 10th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax I hadn’t planned on attending this show until the day before when it was made known to me that the evening was a co-headliner show with Between & The Buried and Me (BTBAM) and August Burns Red (ABR). I’d assumed it was an ABR show with a 45-minute set…
Stella Vander – Magma Interview – March 25th, 2016
Interview by Mike Bax Stella Vander begins our interview by apologizing for delaying it. Hoping to score some Wuhan Cymbals while in Chicago, Christian Vander (Stella’s husband) wound up in a Chicago music store a bit later than he wanted to on Good Friday, and had to juggle a bit of press interviews around. Stella…
Interview with Tobias Sammet of Avantasia, March 6th, 2016
By Mike Bax Coming for ONE CANADIAN DATE ONLY (one of only THREE North American live shows in April), Tobias Sammet’s collective tour de force, Avantasia, promises a three-hour long spectacle of metal unlike anything you’ve seen before. Tobias Sammet (Edguy), along with eleven other musicians, featuring members of Jorn, Masterplan, Mr. Big, Pretty Maids,…
Kamelot w Dragonforce – London Music Hall, Canada – November 26th, 2015
Review and photos by Mike Bax Here’s due warning Kamelot fans – I went into this show with zero knowledge of the Mighty Kamelot. Hard to believe really, as I am pretty immersed in all genres of metal, and some have managed to make my way to 2015 without allowing Kamelot into my life. That…
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