The Details: According to my records, it’s been five years since the last time that I held a contest for a Nile show and when you consider how often they come around that is far too long for my liking. I once noted that the band Nile had been on a destructive Metal path since their inception in 1993 and over the last few years their impact and influence has visibly grown more than tenfold. The…
Win A Ticket For Flotsam & Jetsam @ Gramercy Theatre On 5/22/2019
The Details:It’s been a little while since we’ve done a concert ticket giveaway contest here on the PiercingMetal website and with the legendary thrashers of Flotsam and Jetsam paying our Metal Metropolis a visit, I figured it was high time to throw one together. Over the years I’ve caught the band a couple of times and while having enjoyed a number of tunes would not consider myself the most…
The Details: I’ve been a fan of The Sweet for as long as I can remember and yet despite this few decades of appreciation have never seen the band in concert. Unless I’ve misplaced an album, there are about a dozen in my music library and while this is the US version of the group (yes there are TWO “The Sweets” in 2018), this one features original bassist Steve Priest and our old friend from ZO2…
Win A Ticket To See Geoff Tate’s Operation Mindcrime @ Gramercy Theatre On 3/1/2016
The Details: You know his voice full well from decades behind the microphone of the mighty Queensryche but now the great Geoff Tate is commanding a whole new band and bringing you classics along with the newness under the moniker of “Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime”; He’ll be bringing you a rock solid show at the Gramercy Theatre to start our March Metal Madness off properly and thanks to the…
Win A Ticket To Combichrist @ Irving Plaza On 4/6/2014
The Details:For the fans of Industrial Metal the band Combichrist are juiced at the fact that they are hitting the road on a headlining tour in support of their latest album entitled “We Love You” and with this being the case the tour itself is being called the “We Love” tour. It’s going to bring along William Control and New Year’s Day and will be making a stop at Irving Plaza and since that is…
