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Trencher "Skullcrusher": Bleeding Priest's Bay Area Metal Spotlight 19

Trencher "Skullcrusher": Bleeding Priest's Bay Area Metal Spotlight 19 on YouTube What's up people and welcome back to another edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight . Today I will be covering Hectic Records / Bleeding Priest Records ’ latest release, Trencher Skullcrusher . This album is actually two EPs on one vinyl LP. It has the Skullcrusher EP from this year and it also has last year's Trench Metal EP. This is great stuff from Oakland. I have known the

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Krisiun, Abysmal Dawn, Pyrexia, Gorgatron

DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA November 15, 2025 It was a rainy Saturday night in San Francisco and it showed with the dreadful turnout at the DNA. I felt bad for all the bands on the bill. Bands on the road rely on Saturday nights to be a big success with attendance, crowd enthusiasm and income. Despite the small size of the crowd they gave it their all and made the bands feel appreciated. There was great energy in the room. Openers Gorgatron had it the worst. When they star

Bleeding Priest

Nov 204 min read

Trencher, Unpassing, Mortal, Beheader

Toot’s Tavern Crockett, CA November 7, 2025 Toot’s Tavern in Crockett is a spot I’ve been to only a couple of times. Crockett is a neat little semi-secluded pocket of the East Bay. I was told Toot’s is the oldest bar in Contra Costa County, but then someone else told me a place called The Warehouse in Port Costa is the oldest. In any case Toots is fucking old. It definitely has a local vibe with its own built in crowd. I had Death Angel rehearsal earlier so I got a bit of a

Bleeding Priest

Nov 124 min read

Acid King, Earth Tongue

Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA October 30, 2025 Oh Tenderloin, you are such a guilty pleasure. Making my way to the Great American Music Hall I witnessed a guy having a full on argument with his (or somebody’s) dog. Now I don’t mean he was scolding or reprimanding the mutt but a full on argument. The dog would bark and he would shout back “Well what the fuck do you want me to do about it?” I watched this go on for about 3 minutes. It continued on while I walked a

Bleeding Priest

Oct 313 min read

The Horde of Torment "Product of a Sick Mind": Bleeding Priest's Bay Area Metal Spotlight 18

What’s up everybody, and welcome to another edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight. Today, I’m going to be talking about a band that was quite popular in the Bay Area thrash scene from around 1990 to 1992 — right up until they broke up. They were playing all the big shows, often sharing the stage with local bands like Epidemic and Wrecking Machine , and getting plenty of gigs with Epidemic in particular. But they also opened for heavyweights like Vio-Lence a

Bleeding Priest

Oct 294 min read

Exhumed, Impaled, Cretin, Mæntra

DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA October 24, 2025 This four band bill turned out to be one of the DNA Lounge’s early shows, there was some club night happening afterwards going late. When I showed up around 7:30 I had missed the opener Mæntra without realizing their bass player was Paul Ryan of Origin (and DNA Lounge bartending) fame. Bummer. Early bird gets all the death metal. Cretin, DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA, October 24, 2025. Photo by r31nh4rd I managed to just catch t

Hectic

Oct 263 min read

Slough Feg, Blind Illusion, Hands of Goro

The Knockout San Francisco, CA October 17, 2025 The final show in a week full of shows brought me to a place in SF I don’t frequent very often, The Knockout. Why do I not frequent this place? Bad experiences and worse sound. In the past it almost seemed like The Knockout prided itself on having the biggest asshole bartenders in The Mission. The last time I DJ’d there (which was a Blind Illusion show oddly enough) I almost came to blows with the dickhead behind the bar. Add

Bleeding Priest

Oct 254 min read

Dark Angel, Vio-Lence, Sacred Reich

UC Theatre Berkeley, CA October 15, 2025 Mega Metal show at The UC Theatre with 6 fucking bands. I’m sorry but that’s 3 bands too many for this old Metalhead. The three bands I missed were Interceptor , Midnight and Hirax . I actually really wanted to catch Interceptor . I’ve never seen them but checked out their music online and liked what I heard. But they went on at 5 pm and there’s no way in hell I’m spending 7 hours at The UC Theatre. So let’s talk about the bands I did

Bleeding Priest

Oct 224 min read

Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Corrosion of Conformity

Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA October 14, 2025 I can’t believe I saw The Priest and The Coop together at The Shoreline Amphitheatre for the second time in 34 years. The first time was in ‘91 for the Operation Rock And Roll tour. A tour that was promoting the support of our troops in Iraq during The Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm specifically. The full lineup was phenomenal from start to finish. Opening was Metal Church touring in support of their seriously unde

Bleeding Priest

Oct 205 min read

Vader, Kataklysm, Malevolent Creation, Skeletal Remains @ DNA

DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA October 12, 2025 Death Metal blowout at The DNA Lounge on a Sunday night. The following day was a holiday (for some) being Indigenous Peoples Day or Columbus Day (for some) so that certainly helped with the turnout. And the turnout was pretty good. They kept the upstairs open which is always a good sign. First up was Skeletal Remains . This was the second time in a row seeing them (both times at the DNA) without a live bassist. Instead they had a

Bleeding Priest

Oct 184 min read