WTFEST

WTFEST melds the barbecue pit and the mosh pit in a show so good, it’ll make you wanna slap everyone. The new metal music festival features 11 bands alternating between two stages. The smoking show kicks off upstairs with sets by Real Pain, 30 Minute Nap, Thalidomide, Sniper, and Krode, while the downstairs stage features […]

Achieving maximum heaviness and then some

A metal band in that they definitely sound “heavy” across a large swath of their six album, full-length catalog (big riffs, distorted guitars, emphatic and aggressive vocals), it’s helpful to think of Baroness in terms of pre- and post-bus accident. After the tragic descent of a bus near Bath, England, in August 2012, things changed […]