DNA Lounge San Francisco CA April 29, 2026 I’ve never been in the DNA Lounge when the doors were locked and all the lights were up. Boy are those rafters dusty. On this Wednesday night it was the final dress rehearsal for the second leg of Death Angel’s ACT III 40th anniversary tour, and a few of us got to witness the culmination of weeks of practice before the band departed on tour. Death Angel dress rehearsal, DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA, April 29, 2026 Courtesy of the D

Rainbow Bar and Grill Los Angeles, CA April 19, 2026 I know our site covers Bay Area shows but this event I went to in LA was just too over the top to not cover here. The event I speak of is Rainbow Bar and Grill’s Anniversary Party. I believe they were celebrating its 54th year of business. The Bay Area Thrash scene in the 80’s was a fertile ground for LA hate. It was the norm for East Bay Thrashers to dub bands from LA as “fags” or “posers”. I never subscribed to that trai

Will Carroll here, coming at you from Hectic Records / Bleeding Priest Records headquarters. I want to talk about an upcoming release, and that is Deth Provider. This is a death metal record where I drummed on every track, and it also features members of Exhumed, Necrot, Molten, Insanity, Deathgrave, and Ripped to Shreds. It’s a great collective of musicians, and the stuff turned out great. All songs were written by this dude named Kenneth Dutton. He’s kind of the mastermind