Sat beneath a shifting sun and a canopy teeming with chittering cicadas, Madison Turner and I ran the gamut. I first heard of her while I was covering the local music scene for a VCU student publication, and her angsty, self-critical, maniacally upbeat tunes spoke to...
Break out your left handed scissors and your green sweaters, Okilly Dokilly, the nation's only Ned Flanders tribute band (or heavy Nedal) is coming to the Broadberry this Thursday, 3/30. The Phoenix-based band's members include Head Ned, Red Ned, Thread Ned, Stead Ned and Bled Ned, and in an interview with RVAMag, Head Ned broke down how the...
RVA's Iron Reagan are back with a messy new video shot and produced here in Central VA, and if you look close enough you might see you or your friends face getting smashed. Shot, directed and edited by local filmmaker Dennis Williford, "A Dying World" includes shots from the president head graveyard as well as footage from recent shows at The...
RVA's Iron Reagan just released a video for their song "Fuck the Neighbors" off their latest album and it is spectacular and everything that is metal, well as metal as clay people can be. The claymation video shows a clay Iron Reagan attempting to throw a house party while dealing with a dorky, annoyed neighbor. Spoiler: Iron Reagan doesn't give...
Shortly after the release of 2014’s False Light, people’s ears finally started perking up to Unsacred’s sound. Perhaps it was an article in another popular publication that awoke some, maybe a savage live performance for others. The point is, one of the many gems of Richmond’s contemporary music scene emerged anew two years ago, a lean, taut...
People really love The Simpsons - whether its vapor-wave Bart or, in the case of this metal band, Ned Flanders. People really love The Simpsons - whether its vapor-wave Bart or, in the case of this metal band, Ned Flanders. Coming out of Phoenix, Arizona, Okilly Dokilly is an interesting mix of novelty and actual metal. They appear to have...
We're still a few weeks away from Christmas, but considering the radio has been going ham on holiday music since before we ate all the turkey leftovers, I suspect we could all use a change of musical scenery. If this is literally you, you should seriously consider heading to Strange Matter Sunday to catch Sad13, Vagabon, Emily Reo and Told Slant....
Since the winter of 2014, Left Cross have not so quietly been making a name for themselves in Richmond's metal scene, resurrecting the sounds of old-school death metal and putting their own vicious spin on that particular brand of brutality. Since the winter of 2014, Left Cross have not so quietly been making a name for themselves in Richmond's...
It’s Thursday night around 10:30 and we hit the bar just in time to catch Goblin Cock open their set. It’s Thursday night around 10:30 and we hit the bar just in time to catch Goblin Cock open their set. Guitars are crunching into Richmond’s own version of Satan's maw, Strange Matter. There’s a black robe-clad five piece on the stage possibly...
GWAR wasn’t the only band at this year’s GWAR B-Q leaving a blood-soaked audience after their show. Eat The Turnbuckle, a Philly-based metal band who call their genre “ultra-violent,” gave those who attended their show an experience like they had never seen before. GWAR wasn’t the only band at this year’s GWAR B-Q leaving a blood-soaked audience...
