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Where you come from. (Or being a metal fan in Iowa and its disastrous...
I live in Central Iowa. No, it isn’t the suicidal nuclear wasteland of grotesquerie that the members of Slipknot would have you believe (no offense to those guys, but that just isn’t my personal...
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Exhumed @ Vaudeville Mews 07/22/2011
Over the past twelve months, I’ve been thinking a lot about death, due to the untimely passing of several friends and loved ones. You’d think that the last thing I’d want to do is listen to death...
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Metallicus Ex Mortis: Ghoul @ People’s Court, Des Moines, IA 03/27/2012
It was a not-so-dark-and-stormy night when the creepy Creepsylvanians known as Ghoul brought their patented brand of uh, ghoulish splatterthrash to Des Moines, IA, aka the asshole of the Midwest. I...
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For Those About to Rot: Exhumed @ People’s Court 04/16/12
The last time Exhumed played in Des Moines, it was the middle of July. If you’ve never been to Iowa in mid-Summer, imagine being trapped in a giant pair of sweatpants and forced to walk through...
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Grave / Dark Funeral / Morbid Angel @ People’s Court, Des Moines IA, 10/07/12
Morbid Angel, Dark Funeral, Grave; listening to metal in my early teens and twenties, I never imagined such an excellent lineup would roll through my hometown of Des Moines, IA. When this tour was...
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Early Graves @ Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, IA 10/21/12
The last time I wrote about Early Graves, it was with a heavy heart. A planned review of their 2010 album Goner became a lamentation of vocalist Makh Daniels, whose life had been taken in a van...
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Mutilation Rites / Havok @Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, IA 11/11/12
First thing’s first; yes, Skeletonwitch did headline this show. However, I opted not to cover them in this review for a variety of reasons. First and foremost because I’ve been following the band since...
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Katatonia @ Wooly’s, Des Moines, IA 05/15/13
Jonas Renkse is a difficult man to photograph. For the entirety of Katatonia’s set Wednesday night at Wooly’s, the singer kept his face deliberately obscured behind a mass of hair; as if not wanting to...
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Broken Hope @ Vaudeville Mews, 04/03/2014
Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to finally check a few bands off my old school death metal bucket list. The likes of Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Grave (I sadly missed Deicide...
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Destruction / Krisiun / Exmortus @ Wooly’s, Des Moines, IA 04/09/14
When it comes to metal shows in Des Moines, it’s either feast or famine. The month of April is proving to be quite the feast, boasting tour stops from genre luminaries such as Broken Hope, The...
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Hocked my brains, packed my bags and headed west.
As those of you that have the misfortune of following me on social media may know, Mrs. THKD and I have packed up the fortified bunker and are moving halfway across the country from the bowels of the...
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