As we predicted, each band on the line-up for Saturday show at The Palladium gave the audience one hell of a set, and put their collective performances together and you got nothing less that a night of balls-out rock that hit the spot.  For those of you who were there, relive some of the best moments […]

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You didn’t think FlashWounds would miss out on NAMM 2016, did you?  Of course not ~ it’s our duty to give you at least a taste of what it’s like to attend this annual mind-blowing convergence of all factions of the music community…and thanks to the efforts of our constantly-traveling-to-bring-you-the-biggest-and-best-in-the-world-of-music Sr. Photographer SethM, here is an inside look at […]

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    The one and only Judas Priest at The Paramount two nights in a row ~ need we say more?                                             The metal gods who are Judas Priest: Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, Richie Faulkner, Ian Hill, […]

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What better way to conclude the Sherbrock concert series than with a Saturday night show featuring Blue Djinn, Fadeless and Guérilla and headlined by none other than GrimSkunk? We sure couldn’t think of one, and we’re here to tell you that the result was one giant party. And now we can’t wait for Sherbrock 2016!   GrimSkunkGuérillaFadelessBlue DjinnSherbrockThéâtre Granada, […]

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  As promised, here are lots more pictures from the Marleys’ memorable “Catch A Fire” tour stop in Boston earlier this month. Enjoy!

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Last weekend marked the end of the Sherbrock 2015 concert series in Sherbrooke, QC and we were there to catch Friday’s show at the gorgeous Théatre Granada, with Metallica cover band extraordinaire AlcoholicA headlining. Check out our pictures below! AlcoholicAUnchainedDive Into BlueDrunken FurySherbrockThéatre Granada, Sherbrooke, QC     AlcoholicA Unchained Dive Into Blue Drunken Fury

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  ******   By Shawn Herlihy Photos by Kimberly Marchand     As Mindset X entered the Stone Church Meeting House in Newmarket, NH for their CD release blow-out on August 29, they knew the audience wasn’t in for a run-of-the-mill night of music. Accompanied by My Sister Will and The Gray Davies, they knew […]

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  What can we say other than it was an absolute honor to shoot members of the legendary Marley family during their Catch a Fire Tour as they displayed their multi-faceted musical talents in a performance that was moving, entertaining, full of great vibes, and captured the audience’s attention from first note to last ~ […]

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    After the stellar show on Day 1, we were excited to get to the festival grounds on day 2 which featured all-original music from well-known Canadian bands, with GrimSkunk and Bookakee headlining the bill.  My personal revelation of the day was T-Bone, a band from Repentigny QC whose heavy, in-your-face rock riffs are supported […]

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[Editor’s note: Check out our coverage of Day 2 here!] If the endless corn fields of the Monteregie region (just east of Montreal) seem to you like an unlikely venue for a heavy metal music festival, you’re certainly not alone; we here at FlashWounds initially thought the same. All the more reason to make the […]

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  What can we say about ZZ Top ~ Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and  Frank Beard ~ except that after all these years, they’ve still got the musical chops and the great sense of humor and stage presence that make for one hell of an entertaining show… Here’s tonight’s set-list ~ a combination of many of  ZZ’s […]

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     By Kimberly Dunbar, all photos by Jeff Ruscitti     Today we had the honor of attending a performance by music legend Buddy Guy, who was not only born to play guitar (never has an album been more aptly named than his latest, Born to Play Guitar), he was born to entertain an audience […]

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  And here it is, just the start of our coverage of the [bittersweet] final day of Heavy Montreal 2015, headlined by the one and only Slipknot who put on a stage show the likes of which we’ve never seen from them…Enjoy the photos, and as always, stay tuned for more of our coverage of this […]

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    Early on, when the schedule had been finalized and sent around to media who’d be onsite, the line-up for Day 2 of Heavy Montreal struck us as a very interesting mix in terms of the variety of styles, longevity in the business, our level of familiarity with the bands ~ either firsthand or, just like […]

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  ******   There’s something really cool about arriving at Day 1 of Heavy Montreal each year ~ obviously, the promise of the three days of music that lie ahead is a huge part of the equation, but stepping off the Metro right into the courtyard that serves as the entrance to the festival, heading over […]

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  Talk about pulling double duty, photographer Drew Pion, shooting the whole time, managed to text me his comments throughout night so that we could pass them along to you, so here they are (along with his photos, of course!), just as he sent them to me…unedited and from right next to all the action~ […]

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This year’s line-up of bands at Heavy Montreal (including Grimposium, the string of parties/shows/events leading up to the main festival weekend) included some of the most recognizable names in everything from heavy metal to punk to hard rock (I don’t think I’m alone when I say that with each passing year, the concept of a band […]

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There’s no arguing that the word “icon” is pretty objective ~ to each his own, beauty, it’s in the eye of the beholder, etc….kind of like how it’s a little hard for me personally to agree with the reality of some of the world’s legitimately great talents, the breakers of barriers, the trailblazers, the fearless creative spirits who […]

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  ******    So back in July, when excitement over the upcoming Heavy Montreal was already pretty much off the charts, we told you about Grimposium, which we’ve started calling the foreplay to HM ~ you can read all about it here.  Grimposium offered a very cool schedule of all different sorts of events and […]

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  By Drew Pion   Sometimes the universe comes through for us and lets us enjoy a weekend evening instead of having to spend it ~ at least in my case last night ~ on a project that’s about as much fun as what follows the words “OK, now I’m going to need you to cough…” I’d given up all hope of […]

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    By SethM   These two weeks might just be the greatest two weeks music-wise of my entire life.   As in EVER.  I like a really wide variety of music and get to a lot of shows but rarely ~ if ever ~  do my favorite bands tour in the same year ~ and […]

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  Photos and editorial by Kimberly Marchand, Sr. Photography Contributor, FW     ******   “I sit here tonight, writing this article from the “we” and not “I” perspective. “We” are the excitable ones and “we” have all been changed in the deepest ways by 311’s music. We all remember exactly where we were when […]

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  By Seth M   For those of you who have followed my writing and photography on FlashWounds over the past few years, first, thank you, and second, you may recall a review I did entitled “Foo Fighters Take Over NYC!”   Well, guess what ~ THEY DID IT AGAIN!!! And this time it wasn’t […]

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    Every time the Bellator promotion visits Connecticut (not often enough as far as East Coast fans, ourselves included, are concerned!) it more than lives up to its promise of world-class MMA entertainment, and last night was certainly no exception. Excited fans filled the Mohegan Sun Arena for Bellator 140 and got more than their money’s worth […]

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  By Seth M   The stage was set with about a dozen guitars forming a semi-circle around the center stage microphone and a grand piano behind them occupying stage left. At 8:15, the multi-faceted, multi-talented musician casually walked on stage to a nearly sold out crowd and kicked things off with “All American Girl,” which […]

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  As most of you know, Rob Zombie and his three partners in crime ~ John 5, Ginger Fish, and Piggy D ~ are favorites of ours here at FW and frequently grace the pages of our site in one way or another…and whenever we review an RZ event (like his Rob Zombie’s All American […]

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Here is some eye candy from the the annual Block Party at the Claddagh Pub in Lawrence, MA (a venue that definitely doesn’t get enough credit or attention and is really a terrific place to take in some live music or just hang with friends ~ inside or out ~ for the night) ~ not even the rainy weather […]

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  Once again, ROTR set the bar incredibly high for the rest of the summer festivals, and here, thanks to our photographer SethM ~ who is never satisfied with capturing just a few bands but rather races like a maniac from stage to stage to bring you as many performances as possible ~ are some of […]

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    As we promised with our signature FB teaser shots, here are some more photos from Ministry’s From Beer To EternaTour stop in Worcester ~ Come on, Ministry, their final tour, and The SixxiS? There was no way FlashWounds was going to miss a second of the show and not share the entire evening with you. […]

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        By Kimberly Marchand   Opus Underground in Salem, MA was rocked and electrified this past Thursday night (May 7th) when Reggae/rock/yardcore heavy hitters Fear Nuttin’ Band ~ riding high on two albums that debuted at #2 on the iTunes Reggae Charts and tours that took them through the East and West Coasts…and aren’t over yet…stopped in to deliver an intimate […]

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Just as we promised you way back in February, nothing was going to stop us from bringing you photo coverage of the  sold-out (yup, our guess was right) Welcome  to Rockville festival in Jacksonville, FL on April 25 and 26…and the weather sure as hell did try to stop us with downpours and wind like […]

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Alright, here they are ~ pics from the final day of the 2015 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. Unfortunately, we were only able to catch the last 4 bands of the evening, but we’re still glad we made it as those four shows were totally worth it!   See you all next year at […]

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As promised, here are pictures from Day 2 of NEMHF, featuring the last New England appearance of Nuclear Assault and some killer performances by Exodus and Testament. Feast your eyes, and stay tuned for Day 3! (Missed Day 1? Catch it here!)(Update: Day 3 pix are here) NEMHF Official SiteThe Palladium Testament Exodus Nuclear Assault Nails […]

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Talk about a spectacle!  With the audience already torn and frayed (in the good way) by The Nearly Deads and Upon a Burning Body, In This Moment, headliners of The Black Widow Tour, with a stage show that could rival the most extravagant Broadway production (only much harder and more provocative), thrilled the full house with […]

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  Fans came out in droves to the The Palladium in Worcester, MA this past weekend to be part of the most significant metal/hardcore festival of its kind on the East Coast (and beyond) ~ the annual NEMHF, now in its 17th year. FlashWounds was there to cover the mighty musical mayhem, and we’re here to tell you that […]

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  By Kimberly Marchand   If a most excellent party courtesy of an outstanding line-up of Rock, Reggae, Hip Hop, Funk, Riffs, Roots, and Dub bands sounds like the right way to kick off springtime (we didn’t even notice the snow!), then the 27th Annual Bud Light Reggae Festival @ Sugarloaf was nothing less than […]

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Delain, Sabaton, and headliners Nightwish…it was the perfect tour line-up that resulted in that rarest of feelings, that you’d just experienced a perfect night of music, a perfect show.  If you’ve had a chance to catch this trio of exceptional bands on the same bill already, then you know exactly what I mean.  If you […]

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  CES Boxing was back in Rhode Island last Friday to present another packed fight card, headlined by a double-championship fight between Shelly Vincent and Christina Ruiz. Both the Universal Boxing Federation and the (vacant) International Boxing Association titles were at stake, and Vincent (now 14-0) earned the unanimous decision to bring both belts back home with […]

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Saturday night, Coal Chamber and a particularly long list of special guests headed up by Filter and including Combichrist (a band we knew little about and hadn’t yet seen live but inspired the text “Combichrist is fucking killing it!” from FW photog and writer Craig Lindberg), American Head Charge, Saint Ridley, Devlyn Sydus, Mongrel (a longtime part of the FW […]

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  By Drew Pion   Once again, CES MMA put together an exciting event chock full of great match-ups at Twin River Casino (with the main event broadcast on AXS- TV), and, media credentials around my neck, I was there to capture all the action for our FlashWounds readers…and even take some notes while shooting! […]

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    Manchester, NH in early March  ~ not exactly the typical setting for monsters to be out and about, but then again, John 5 and The Creatures aren’t your typical monsters,  so they recently added a tour stop at Jewel Nightclub to their itinerary and emerged from the wintery shadows to give us and […]

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  Friday the 13th an unlucky day?  Oh, we hardly think so…not when the evening’s entertainment is the one and only Foreigner.  Once again (you’ll remember that we were lucky enough to cover the Foreigner/Styx/Don Felder “Soundtrack to Summer” tour when it hit Chicago back in June and were blown away by one of the few arena rock […]

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  CES MMA XXVII, held on January 30 at Twin River Casino, was yet another night of twists, turns, and non-stop action, the only kind we’d expect from CES ~ and thanks to Drew Pion, our lead MMA photographer, we get to share with you what some of that action looked like!     CES […]

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  January 24, smack dab in the middle of this ugly season, headliner John Brown’s Body ~ a band introduced to us by contributing photographer Kim Marchand as “…one of my absolute favorites, I don’t care if there’s a blizzard, I will NOT miss this show!” (and now having become familiar with the band thanks […]

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  January 18 in Chicago…not exactly what we on the East Coast think of as ideal concert-going weather ~ snow, wind, below freezing temperatures ~ but for our intrepid photographer Julie Williams (who also happens to be a huge Upon a Burning Body and Veil Of Maya fan, not to mention the consummate professional), there […]

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  The aptly named Juggernaut Tour took over House of Blues in Dallas and our Jacob Welch was there to capture this night of great music!   Periphery Nothing More Wovenwar Thank You Scientist  

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    New Jersey’s Mexicali Live was rockin’ to this great line-up (featuring our friends Killcode!) and Jeff Crespi was there to bring you awesome pics of the whole night!   Ascending From Ashes Killcode New Day Dawn Long Gone Day Empire Fallen   To see more of Jeff’s work, please visit jeffcrespirocks.com.

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