Live shots by MetalMattLongo at Nectar’s in Burlington, VT on 2011Nov21.

On the last night of their “An Evening with AMON AMARTH” tour, the mighty Swedes played a killer set at The ‘Dise in Boston. MetalMattLongo snapped some sweet photos and Willow Holden wrote a lovely letter to thank them. They have another round planned for Fall 2011, too!

For those of you keeping score: I fucking love Allegaeon. …But dammit, I’m not into this video.

Burlington brings the hardcore legends to a sold-out crowd at 242 Main—check out the live review and lots of photos!

We were originally just going to spend the night in a few of London’s pubs this December evening; a transit stop before venturing on to the British west coast for the Nightmare Before Christmas festival (curated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor). Suddenly this evening became one of the highlights of the entire trip…

A truly stunning festival full of kitsch, open-hearted people, great music, fat foods and lots of beer. Simply brilliant.

Baroness ruled the Mastodon headlining show at Higher Ground on Saturday April 24th. And although I understand that Mastodon and Between the Buried and Me are bigger selling entities, I felt as if Baroness was the only band that seemed genuine in their performance. This is not to say the show wasn’t fantastic—because it was. However, I think there is something to be said for musicians that are jaded by their fame. Sometimes it shows.

Though hesitant to give away too much, the band says the concept centers around a never ending war no one can win and features, among other things, soldiers and zombies.

Plus check out the sweet live photos at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read more for links to the live photos of this historic event!