Added on 10/22/2014
Mark Uricheck
Old Forge , Wilkes-Barre
NEPA’s own steel-belted boot to the head, Prosody, will open the show for Black Crown Initiate at The Factory: Underground in Wilkes-Barre on Friday, Oct. 24. Guitarist Chris Stroud and vocalist Ken Ebersole couldn’t be happier to give the boys from Reading a proper metallic welcome. “I’m not a fan of seven-string guitar players unless […]
Added on 10/22/2014
Mark Uricheck
Reading , Wilkes-Barre
Reading rockers play The Factory: Underground on Friday, Oct. 24
Black Crown Initiate’s bio is as heavy as their sound. The Reading, Pennsylvania-based progressive death metal band, which recently signed to eOne Music for the release of their album “The Wreckage of Stars,” describes their sound as “a sentient being at war with itself and everything else; an entity holding on for dear life as […]
Added on 10/21/2014
Mark Uricheck
review , Scranton
For their fourth studio album (fifth overall, if you count their live unplugged “A Night in the Woods” release), NEPA’s own Graces Downfall come out of the gate like a pack of wild horses, virtually daring the listener to bear the threshold of volume and metal-tinged intensity with which they threaten. In other words, it’d […]
Added on 10/10/2014
Mark Uricheck
Wilkes-Barre
West Virginia band's Rock Avengers Tour stops at The Factory: Underground in Wilkes-Barre
Life on the road inevitably requires musicians to take the lemons they’re dealt – grueling travel, broken sleep, flat tires, and uncertain business dealings, among many. If you’re Shaun McCoy, however, you’re pretty adept at making some pretty tasty lemonade out of the sour situations. “I got out of the old bus, picked up our […]
Added on 09/30/2014
Mark Uricheck
New York , Pittston
Megaforce Records metalheads befriend NEPA band, open CD release show Friday
ere’s the scenario. NEPA’s own groove metal mavens Threatpoint play a couple of out-of-town gigs opening for an international touring act, the New York City-based IKILLYA. The two like-minded heavies bond like brothers on the road, leading to IKILLYA – a band currently in a potentially career-making distribution deal with the legendary Megaforce Records and […]