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21 Spins: Shotgun Facelift – Red River Flood (LP)
Review by ÆRæder After purchasing and listening to this album over 21 times, here is my take: Sound/Mix Shotgun’s style allows for the feel of the tunes to come through on a range of speaker qualities. The heavy metal aspect of their sound carries it on basic earphones or portables (which I appreciate so I…
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Rage Therapy – Torment – The Pain – EP
Review by Iron Mike Setup Hailing from the icy shores of Lake Superior, Torment brings a fiery intensity you might expect with the self-descriptors of death metal and beatdown. The Pain is their latest release having dropped just after New Years Day 2025. From beginning to end, this EP weaves deftly back and forth between…
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Show Recap – 04/25/2025 – Tom Croxton Benefit Recovery Show @ Club Underground
Review by ÆRæder Venue Club Underground is an awesome, low key venue. A dark and edgy atmosphere nestled in the basement beneath the full service bar/restaurant of Spring Street Tavern. Excellent wings! Decent parking; big enough lot and neighborhood street parking. Nice patio to smoke between sets that we definitely underutilized. Sound We think this…
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21 Spins: Plague of Stars – Extinction (LP)
Review by ÆRæder After purchasing and listening to this album over 21 times, here is my take: Sound/Mix This sound/mix is spectacular! on quality speakers. I have to admit I sample-listened a few times prior to the release show this winter on some basic speakers (phone – lol, SmartTV, Wonderboom portable) and I was not…
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Show Recap – 04/16/2025 – Begravement / Hanging Wound / Pursuit / Nekrotisk @ Pillar Forum
Review by ÆRæder Venue Pillar is a nice little spot that hosts metal shows fairly frequently. Small parking lot, mostly neighborhood street parking, so that helps to keep the cost down for the showgoer. A variety of cans of beer, THC, and non-alcoholic drinks available at an ok price. Stage was a half pipe when…
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Show Recap – 04/18/2025 – Shotgun Facelift / MVRROW / Malachite @ Underground Music Cafe
Review by ÆRæder Venue Second show in two days here, and always trying to presume positive and build to positive. Went in with a more solid gameplan on how to hit this venue. Being accompanied by my beautiful partner of 22+ years made it easier, as did the Friday night context. Parking options are plenty…
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Rage Therapy – Begravement – Horrific Illusions Beckon
Review by Iron Mike Retro Reviews take a look at older releases from local bands. MNBleedsMetal is primarily focused on the present of the living local scene. Retro Reviews provide a window into the past to hear how we got here. Sound/Mix A lot of people may not realize just how important sound engineers are…
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Show Recap – 04/17/2025 – Phase Meridian / Onlytime / Thunder Goat / As Bullets Baptize @ Underground Music Cafe
Review by ÆRæder Venue Because I am a dumbass, I found out day of show that this is not at the other Underground. So, while still at work I had to jam in a bunch of searches to figure out where this was. Fairly familiar territory around the North Loop area, but a new venue…
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Rage Therapy – Thundergoat – Labyrinthian Scales – EP
Review by Iron Mike Setup In an era where a lot of bands are try-harding their way to sound like everyone else, this Wisconsin based 3-piece blur the lines between a multitude of subgenres and create a sound all their own. They dropped their debut single, Black Hole Coven, in early 2023, heralding the release…
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Show Recap – 04/09/2025 – Maul, Windchime, Wanderer, Spinal Fluid @ Flying V – MPLS
Review by Æræder Wednesday April 9th – Maul, Windchimes, Wanderer, Bound By Unity, Spinal Fluid Doors 5pm, Music 6pm. $12 cover Venue Flying V is a fairly new venue. A 501(c)3 non profit focused on getting kids into music. Interesting concept; check the website out! It’s not far off 35W, and has a fairly interesting…
