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Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2017
There’s a pile of sacrificial severed heads on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was designed by Swedish artist and musician Axel Widén.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, Arts, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Axel Widén, Scorched Tundra, Empty Bottle, heavy metal, craft beer, Acid King, Minsk, Wolvhammer, Bottomed, Atomic Bitchwax, Fistula, Electric Hawk, Oxbow, Behold! The Monolith, RLYR

Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2017
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Alexi Front’s Scorched Tundra metal festival covers even more ground in its second Chicago year

This year's Chicago installment of the Swedish-born Scorched Tundra fest features the likes of Oxbow, Fistula, Acid King, and Wolvhammer—plus a beer from Pipeworks and a burger from Kuma's.
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Do This, Music, Scorched Tundra, metal, festival, Alexi Front, Empty Bottle, Pivotal Rockordings, Acid King, Oxbow, Atomic Bitchwax, Fistula, Wolvhammer, Electric Hawk, Sweden, Gothenburg, Pipeworks Brewing, Pipeworks, Kuma's Corner, Kuma's, RLYR, Minsk, Bottomed, Behold! the Monolith, Video

Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2016
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The best live metal of 2016

Metal shows remain a great way to drive hostile occupiers out of your head—whether you prefer the bitter catharsis of False or the galloping rush of Tengger Cavalry.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Music Feature, Ghost, Inquisition, Rotting Christ, Vektor, Obituary, Tribulation, Melvins, Behemoth, Babymetal, Grave Miasma, Pallbearer, Cloud Rat, Gorguts, Tengger Cavalry, Subterranean, Yellow Eyes, False, Scorched Tundra, Empty Bottle, Meshuggah, House of Blues, Dragged Into Sunlight, Reggie’s Rock Club, Sick With Bloom, Saturnalia, The Violent Sleep of Reason, Mongolian, folk metal, live metal, black metal, Tomas Haake, Oozing Wound, Casey Marnocha, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 27, 2016
Sweden's Scorched Tundra metal festival debuts in Chicago in September—and tickets go on sale today

The first local installment of Scorched Tundra will host heaviness by the likes of Bongripper, Monolord, and False.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music, Slayer, Scorched Tundra, Alexi Front, Empty Bottle, Local Option, heavy metal, death metal, doom metal, thrash metal, Bongripper, False, Oozing Wound, Monolord, The Atlas Moth, Beastmaker, Sweat Lodge

Blogs, Bleader Apr 22, 2013
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Norway's Kvelertak and Local Option's Voku Hila: Metal makes beer taste better

Local Option tapped its Voku Hila maibock at Sunday's Kvelertak show, and the combination was one of few things that could've improved either.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Voku Hila, helles bock, maibock, mullet, Local Option, Kvelertak, Bottom Lounge, Alexi Front, Scorched Tundra, Scandinavia, Sweden, Gothenburg, Pivotal Rockordings, Dampf Loc, Bierwerker, Kvelerbrau, Meir, Tony Russomanno, Erlend Hjelvik, Vidar Landa, Zombie Krig, Video

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