NYC Show Obsessive

Bill: Geezer/Volume/Freaky Wilderness/Dead Hits Venue:  Lucky 13 , Brooklyn, NY  Date: 5/24/25 Door: $15 11pm  Geezer Active: 2013 (Kingston, NY) Latest Release: (split with Isaak)  Interstellar Cosmic  Blues & The Riffalicious Stoner Dudes  (Heavy Psych Sounds, 2024),  Stoned Blues Machine  (Heavy Psych Sounds, 2022) Featured Release:  Groovy  (Heavy Psych Sounds, 2020) Bandcamp    Facebook   Instagram  Discogs   Setlist  AllMusic    YouTube  Encyclopaedia Metallum 10pm Volume Active: 1998 (Twentynine Palms, CA) Latest Release:  Joy Of Navigation (A Trip Through The Eternal Unknown)  (Kozmik Artifacts, 2024) Bandcamp  Facebook  Discogs     YouTube  9pm Freaky Wilderness Active: 2019 (New York, NY) Affiliated: The Space Merchants Latest Release: Immeasurable Heaven (Freaky Wilderness, 2024) Bandcamp  Facebook  Instagram     YouTub...

  Bill: Obituary/NAILS/Terror/Spirit World/Pest Control Venue: Knockdown Center , Maspeth, Queens, NY Date: 5/22/25 Door: unsure, had a free ticket from DoNYC 9:15pm Obituary Active: 1985 (Tampa, FL) Latest Release: Dying of Everything (Relapse, 2022) Featured Release: Cause of Death (Roadracer, 1990) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   AllMusic   Setlist   Wik i  YouTube Missed: NAILS , Terror , Spirit World , Pest Control I took a car over to Knockdown Center from Le Poisson Rouge to get to Obituary on time.  Lo and behold they were still setting up.  Since I was splitting shows, I missed the rest of this bill completely.   This year Obituary is celebrating and touring on the 35th anniversary of Cause of Death, their second album from 1990.  Of course, their big 'hit' with me is the title track from the debut "Slowly We Rot" which they did for an encore.  In any event, this is the third time I've seen them ...

  Bill: Paradise Lost/Trouble/Northern Heretic Venue: Le Poisson Rouge , New York, NY Date: 5/22/25 Door: $40 (had free ticket from DoNYC) 7:45 Trouble Active: 1978 (Chicago, IL) Latest Release: The Distortion Field (FRW, 2013) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 7pm Northern Heretic Active: 2022 (New York, NY) Affiliated: Kings Destroy, Eternal Black, Clothesline, End Of Hope, Electric Frankenstein Latest Release: " And One More... " (Northern Heretic, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram   Setlist   YouTube Encyclopedae Metallum Missed: Paradise Lost I won a pair of tickets for two shows in one night, so I did split duty between Le Poisson Rouge and Knockdown Center.  I hadn't seen the current constitution of Trouble that classic era guitarists Rick Wartell and Bruce Franklin have put together, so no time like the present.  I did see vocalist Kyle Thomas on stage around 1999 on a trip to Maryland.  At the time I didn't know Er...

  Bill: Towncryer/Sneaky Monkey Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse , New York, NY Date: 5/20/25 Door: Free 9pm Towncryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Active: 2021 (Brooklyn, NY) 8pm Sneaky Monkey Active: unknown (New York, NY) Towncryer  or Town Cryer as it said on tonight's bill did their 2 set Taco Tuesday performance, much like the other shows I've seen.  You can check out further comentary below.  Sneaky Monkey was a one-man pseudonym with covers like Bruce Springsteen "One Step Closer" and David Bowie "Starman."  The room was a little more packed when he played but unfortunately people talk over the performer.  Town Cryer's audience was a bit more attentive. FOR FURTHER REVIEW:  Towncryer @ Pangea, New York, NY 5/3/25 Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse, New York, NY 4/7/25 Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse, New York, NY 1/20/ 25

  Bill: Art Gray Noizz Quintet/Joseph Keckler/Genre Is Death/Avishag C. Rodrigues plus words from Eugene Hutz/Katherine McGaffigan/Tony O'Neill/Mark C./Grace Bergere Venue: Madame X , New York, NY Date: 5/18/25 Door: $15 12am Art Gray Noizz Quintet Active: 2013 (New York, NY) Affliated:  Stu Spasm:  Crunt ,  Lubricated  Goat ,  Salamander Jim ,  The Art Gray Noizz Quintet ,  The Beasts Of Bourbon ,  James Baker Experience! Ryan Skeleton Boy:  Woman Rich Huchins:  Digitalis (6) ,  Hungry March Band ,  Live Skull ,  Lubricated Goat ,  Missing Foundation ,  Needlenose ,  New Old Skull ,  Of Cabbages And Kings ,  Phideaux ,  Ruin... ,  Sugartime ,  The Art Gray Noizz Quintet ,  Vestments Nikki D'Agostino:  Vestments Grace Bergere Latest Release:  (split with Gravel Samwidge): " Relief " (Sound Pressing, 2024),  The Art Gray Noizz Quintet  (Bang!, 2022) ...

  Bill: Enslaved/Infinity Ring Venue: Gramercy Theatre , New York, NY Date: 5/13/25 Ticket: $48 (had a guest list ticket) 9:30pm Enslaved Active: 1991 (Bergen, Norway) Latest Release: Heimdal  (Nuclear Blast, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube I saw a second "E" band from Norway in a week, Enslaved, as I have every couple years for the better part of a decade.  Enslaved are an overall excellent band with at this point a massive discography.  While they might have had some Black Metal roots, they have evolved into a serious prog and hard rock band.  The band had to stay in Secaucus to fly out early to Milwaukee for a metal fest so there wasn't the after-show meetup at Beauty Bar that happened after a couple years back.  Fortunately, Gramercy Theater has the basement bar (unmanned/womaned, heresy!) that a meet 'n' greet for paying fans was being held. Infinity Ring did their tuvan throat sounding drone thing with a viol...

  Bill: Emperor/Wolves In The Throne Room Venue: Kings Theatre , Brooklyn, NY Date: 5/10/25 Door: got a ticket gifted 9:25pm Emperor Active: 1991 (Notodden, Norway) Latest Release: Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise (Candlelight, 2001), Live Inferno (Candlelight, 2009)   Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 8pm Wolves In The Throne Room Active: 2002 (Olympia, WA) Latest Release: Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge (Relapse, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Norwegian church arson proponents Emperor (guitarist Samoth did 16 months for his part in the burning of Skjold Church ) appeared in Brooklyn's Kings Theatre, in the somewhat remote Flatbush neighborhood.  Somehow their youthful indiscretion became the foundation of a long running career in Black Metal.  Now they are in their 50's and the facepaint and trappings of youthful fervor has been cast aside.  They may have become, in some way, wh...