Hey boys and girls and undecided. This is Will Carroll and welcome to another edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight. Today I am covering one of my favorite bands to emerge from our wretched scene in the last few years, Vorlust  with their debut full-length album, Lick the Flesh . Great stuff. Killer, nasty, dirty death metal. The guitarist is Sonny, who is also in Necrot . These bands do not sound anything alike, which is really impressive. The fact that he ca

February 14, 2026 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA Hey, if Will can write about Weird Al Yankovic on this heavy metal website, I can write about weird psychedelic punk rock – NYC’s Alice Donut . At least Alice Donut  wrote a song about Metallica . And weird is definitely the vibe with this band, kinda Frank Zappa  meets the Butthole Surfers  or the Melvins . I was a big fan in the early 90s, and saw them a few times over the years, but it had been quite a while. I’

February 13, 2026 Local Tap San Francisco, CA What else are you gonna do at happy hour on a Friday? See a KISS  tribute band at a tiny watering hole near the ballpark of course. Destroyer  are SF’s longest running and currently only KISS  tribute band. There’s been three others in The Bay that I can remember, Detroit Rock City  who predate Destroyer . Heroes , who if memory serves only played one gig. And Kisser , an all female tribute that I never got the chance to see. And