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April 25, 2025 UC Theatre Berkeley, CA On Friday night at a completely sold out and packed UC Theatre in Berkeley, California, Bay Area...

What's up metalheads, and welcome to another edition of Bleeding Priest Bay Area Metal Spotlight.  To celebrate the release of the new...

April 18, 2025 DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA Pirate Metal night at the DNA! Honestly, this is a scene I don’t follow too closely and...

April 17, 2025 Thee Parkside San Francisco, CA There were two things that occupied my time in the early 1980s (besides middle school) –...

April 16, 2025 The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA I really wasn’t planning on going to this show but at the very last minute a friend...

From San Francisco’s legendary metal scene emerges Nefarious , a heavy metal powerhouse uniting some of the most seasoned and revered...

April 11, 2025 DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA Ok, second night in a row at the DNA (the night before being Enforcer/Hellhunter/Trencher )...

April 10, 2025 DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA Thursday night upstairs at the DNA Lounge, and this old man was tired from Napalm Death and...

Oakland, CA’s TRENCHER  have been making the rounds in the Bay Area metal scene for the past 3 years. Their aggressive all-out speed...

What's up? Welcome to the latest edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight .With this one, I'm going to be covering two...

April 8, 2025 SF Masonic Auditorium San Francisco, CA Being that I’ve lived in SF my entire “adult” life it’s a pretty rare occurrence...

Welcome to Hectic’s Turntable Top 6, where I review recent releases that have been getting more than their fair share of plays on the...

The first 2 songs of Hellhunter's "Hellbanger" EP are now streaming in this YouTube video (also available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple...

April 7, 2025 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA It’s a rare occasion I go to a show on a Monday night let alone leave the...

April 3, 2025 Eli’s Mile High Club Oakland, CA Thursday night at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland. A meager turnout was at hand for...

March 30, 2025 DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA Here we are again at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. This place has really become the...

What’s up, and welcome to another edition of Bleeding Priest’s Bay Area Metal Spotlight . This one might come as a surprise to some of...

Impaled  was one of the Bay Area’s early death metal / gore metal bands, forming in the late 1990s in Oakland, California. They came out...

March 22, 2025 DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA The DNA lounge was packed early on a Saturday night for a night of classic metal (or “Trad...

Doomsday, a Crossover Thrash band from Oakland, CA, is releasing their newest album, “Never Know Peace” March 28, 2025 on...