All Tour Diary Posts
Tombs Tour Diary Part 4: The Long Road Home
Brooklyn-based experimental metal band Tombs just wrapped up a month-long North American tour in support of their latest record, Path of Totality (Relapse). Guitarist/vocalist Mike Hill kept a journal chronicling all of the action, and we’ll be rolling it out in a few installments. In his fourth and final entry [read 1, 2 & 3], [...]
KYLESA Europe Tour Diary, Part 3: Sonisphere UK, Switzerland, Italy, Eastern Europe And More Festivals
+++When Savannah, GA’s psych-metallers KYLESA announced they were hitting the road in Europe with Converge this summer, we asked guitarist Laura Pleasants to keep track of what’s sure to be a summer to remember. In this third installment, Pleasants checks out some of her favorite bands at the UK’s Sonisphere festival, visits new places in [...]
KYLESA Europe Tour Diary, Part 2: Sweden, France, Spain And Return To Germany And England
Laura in Paris, photo by Emilie Tavaearii +++When Savannah, GA’s psych-metallers KYLESA announced they were hitting the road in Europe with Converge this summer, we asked guitarist Laura Pleasants to keep track of what’s sure to be a summer to remember. In this second installment, Pleasants reflects on spending her birthday in Germany, stagediving in [...]
KYLESA Europe Tour Diary, Part 1: England, Holland and Germany
Laura Pleasants feeling epic in Europe +++When Savannah, GA’s psych-metallers KYLESA announced they were hitting the road in Europe with Converge this summer, we asked guitarist Laura Pleasants to keep track of what’s sure to be a summer to remember. In this inaugural installment, Pleasants sums up the start of the tour in the form [...]
WARBRINGER's Asia Tour Diary, Part 2 of 2: Southeast Asia
+++When MetalKult got the news that SoCal’s WARBRINGER were scheduled to embark on their first ever tour of Asia, we asked guitarist John Laux to document what we knew would be a good time. Laux accepted our challenge, and delivered the goods. In this final installment, the ‘Bringer advance into the heat of Southeast Asia. [...]
WARBRINGER's Asia Tour Diary, Part 1 of 2: Japan
+++When MetalKult got the news that SoCal’s WARBRINGER were scheduled to embark on their first ever tour of Asia, we asked guitarist John Laux to document what we knew would be a good time. Laux accepted our challenge, and delivered the goods. In this first installment, Laux and his crew of thrashers connect with Municipal [...]
MASTODON – Tour Diary: London, England
For ten days this past summer, MetalKult editor Jimmy Hubbard hit the road with progressive thrash metallers Mastodon to document the band’s summer 2007 European tour in support of its latest record, Blood Mountain. Hubbard’s journey with Mastodon began in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 28, 2007, and ended on July 8 at London’s Wembley Stadium. [...]
OXBOW: Tour Diary
When MetalKult heard avant-garde noise/metal act Oxbow was tapped as an opening act on several dates of Isis’ 10th Anniversary tour, we had an idea: send Oxbow singer/fighter/author Eugene Robinson a handheld camera and get him to document the events. After a few disclaimers (namely, “I might just get drunk, fall down, break the camera…and [...]
