Tag Archives: Like a Storm

SLAYER resurrected: Legends to headline 2024 Louder Than Life & Riot Fest

Posted by on February 21, 2024

  This is not a drill; Slayer are back! After wrapping up their final world tour in November 2019, these legends featuring Tom Araya (bass/vocals), Kerry King (guitar), Gary Holt (guitar), and Paul Bostaph (drums) have announced their first return to the stage. At least for two festival appearances, for now: Riot Fest in Chicago, […]

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Like a Storm’s Kent Brooks – “We knew we had to get overseas and try to make a name for ourselves”

Posted by on March 25, 2019

Like a storm have spent quite some time on the road supporting their latest effort, 2018’s Catacombs, via RED Music (order here). Before these hard rockers embarked on their European trek with Godsmack, we saw them headline this year’s Sirius XM Octane Accelerator tour. We caught up with Kent Brooks to discuss their high-energy performances, […]

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Photos/Review Like A Storm struck “Pure Evil” at NYC’s Gramercy Theatre w/ Royal Tusk & Afterlife

Posted by on February 18, 2019

New Zealand’s Like a Storm were invited to headline this year’s Sirius XM Octane Accelerator tour with support coming from Royal Tusk and Afterlife. The trek has been going strong since it started on January 23rd in Anaheim, CA. While schools closed in preparation for a snowstorm that turned into cold rain, we were lucky […]

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Godsmack announces rescheduled European tour dates

Posted by on November 1, 2018

Godsmack has announced the rescheduled dates for their European tour. Last month, the group had to postpone their overseas run due to the unexpected death of guitarist Tony Rombola’s son. The tour was originally scheduled to kick off on October 29th and has been pushed to February 27th, 2019. Like A Storm will be joining in […]

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Metal By Numbers 8/22: Dave Grohl plays up the charts

Posted by on August 22, 2018

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you’ve no doubt read by now, Jill Janus of Huntress died by suicide last week. I’m only a casual Huntress fan, but reading that headline was enough to elicit a shocked “What?! No […]

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Metal By Numbers 8/15: The charts are showing Integrity

Posted by on August 15, 2018

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s admittedly not a very busy week here at MBN. It’s a small list of debuts without any big names. More will be coming during the month, though the big kahuna for the month, […]

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Metal By Numbers 8/8: Halestorm get vicious on the charts

Posted by on August 8, 2018

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s only been three years since Halestorm’s last album, but for whatever reason it feels like it’s been a lot longer. They’re one of those bands that were blowing up right around the time […]

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Metal By Numbers 8/1: Skeletonwitch devour sales

Posted by on August 1, 2018

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Welcome back, missed you all last week. I was on my favorite kind of vacation: sitting in a cabin in the woods doing absolutely nothing while listening to Agalloch. But now I’m back just […]

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Metal By Numbers 7/18: DevilDriver are outlaws on the charts

Posted by on July 18, 2018

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I know that country is usually regarded with disdain, and in the case of modern country there’s good reason for that. Bo Burnham pretty much hit the nail on the head regarding why it’s […]

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Metal By Numbers 7/11: The gravity of album sales

Posted by on July 11, 2018

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The list of debuts this week isn’t as lengthy compared to previous editions, but the coming weeks will see big names like Immortal, Between the Buried and Me (for the second time this year!), […]

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