Author Archives: Alix Vallecillo

Black Metal enthusiast from Los Angeles who thought was a good idea to grab a camera and shoot underground shows for the hell of it. Pseudo-writer with little to no expectations of ever winning a Pulitzer but totally down to write about your unknown band if it's good to my ears. I enjoy long walks on the beach, deep conversation, holding hands and attending Satanic music shows every now and then.

Album Review: Lychgate will teach you to spread The Contagion in Nine Steps

Posted by on April 6, 2018

If you’re an avid fan of the bizarre and unorthodox approach of music as a form of creative expression, you may have noticed a growth in its presence within the metal community over the past few years. There’s simply an escalating demand for originality that doesn’t seem to be met the more bands start realizing […]

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Find out how much Babymetal, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses and more made on the road

Posted by on May 4, 2017

  ​If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, and we’ve summarized them here for you.  This week, there’s a lot of big names including the Red Hot Chili Peppers with their recent […]

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Woe and Ultha removed from festival for performing with Inquisition

Posted by on April 17, 2017

The political atmosphere has been very tense in America and Europe alike for quite some time already. That torrid sentiment has been transferred into the music world, including metal, which has been targeted by certain groups and organizations for some of the controversial views some bands have, or the illusion they’ve created about metal bands […]

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Batushka cancels Maryland Deathfest appearance, claims festival is at fault for visa issues

Posted by on April 3, 2017

Organizing a festival as big as Maryland Deathfest is not an easy task, and many issues will come up when dealing with booking the amount of bands they usually list. The latest one to drop off the festival roster is Polish black metal band Batushka. The festival announced this past Friday 31st that Batushka would not […]

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Photos & Review: The Decibel Magazine Tour takes the pleasure to kill in Santa Ana, CA

Posted by on March 28, 2017

One of the most exciting annual tours we have in the states is the Decibel Magazine tour. Each year they do a fantastic job at pairing some of the best metal acts from the domestic and international scene, and this year was no different. The tour consisting of thrash giants Kreator, death metal legends Obituary, Ohio’s […]

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Find out how much Black Sabbath, Bad Religion, A Day to Remember and more made on the road

Posted by on March 16, 2017

​If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, and we’ve summarized them here for you. This time, we got a fairly short list of shows to report on but the numbers and bands […]

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Find out how much Red Hot Chili Peppers, Limp Bizkit, Black Sabbath and more made on the road

Posted by on March 9, 2017

If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, and we’ve summarized them here for you. This week, we will take a look at Manchester in the UK and see how much they like going […]

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Photos: Marduk leads the frontline at The Regent in Los Angeles

Posted by on March 1, 2017

In the past few months, the metal community and basically everyone else in America, has been talking about politics and taking sides on where they stand in their political views. A recurring topic has been the actions taken by the anti-fascist organization known as Antifa against the metal community, which included the show cancellation of […]

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Find out how much Meshuggah, Taking Back Sunday, Born of Osiris and more made on the road

Posted by on February 24, 2017

If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, and we’ve summarized them here for you. This week, the batch of artists reported contains various big acts you know by name but probably aren’t on your […]

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Photos and footage from ‘Lords of Chaos’ film set surface

Posted by on November 21, 2016

Last week, we shortly turned our website into Metallica Insider due to the massive media coverage we did for the release of every music video made for their new album Hardwire… To Self Destruct. Among the several music videos released, the one that made it to almost every media outlet was “ManUnkind” which featured a live performance of a […]

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