NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: Cosmic Sonic Rendezvous Updated Sunday, May 24 Rain Schedule [ 1 ] Cosmic Stage (The Brooklyn Monarch) 4:00 PM : Beer Garden Rain Slots (including Dave Hill moving to the main stage at 4:30 PM) 5:40 PM : Sacri Monti 7:00 PM : The Obsessed 8:20 PM : Legions of Doom 9:45 PM : Eyehategod 11:15 PM : Pentagram Sonic Stage (The Woodshop) 4:30 PM: Spit Shine 5:30 PM : Sabbath Warlock 6:30 PM : Cat's Eye  7:30 PM : Black Moon Cult 8:40 PM : Ike's Wasted World 9:40 PM : Sphaèros Possession 10:15 PM : Carousel (Reunion Set) 11:10 PM : Magick Potion 12:10 AM : Mick's Jaguar Venue: Brooklyn Monarch  , 23 Meadows St. , Brooklyn, NY & The Wood Shop , 21a Meadows St , Brooklyn, NY Date: Sunday 5/24/26 Ticket: $63.50 (was doing merch and had a 2-day free wristband) 4:30  Dave Hill Active: 1995 (NYC via Cleveland) Affiliated: Valley Lodge, Painted Doll, Witch Taint, Sons of Elvis Latest Release: The Pride of Cleveland (Dave Hill, 2020) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setl...

  Bill: Uli Jon Roth Venue: Iridium , 1650 Broadway, New York, NY Date: Sunday 4/26/26 Door: $75 preferred seating  8:15pm Uli Jon Roth Active: 1968 (Duseldorf, Germany) Latest Release: Tokyo Tapes Revisited Live In Japan (UDO, 2016) Affiliated: Scorpions, Electric Sun Featured: Scorpions Virgin Killer (RCA, 1976) Facebook Instagram Discog s Setlist Wiki AllMusic YouTube Spotify NYC has a double dose of Uli Jon Roth last night and tonight.  Originally I won tickets at Sony Hall but that got canceled and replaced at Les Paul's retirement club.  Uli gets a Monday night just like Les did, although I doubt Paul's backup band with make a cameo for Uli.  Not a joke--they used to! Uli is touring on a book, In Search of the Alpha Law , which is a heavy tomb.  The screen backdrop at Iridium wasn't as sharp as venues Uli was used to so he couldn't read an example.  The other big event was the 50th anniversary of the Scorpions Virgin Killer.  The se...

  Bill: Raven/Slackjaw/Snow White Venue: The Wood Shop , 21a Meadow St. , Brooklyn, NY Date: Wednesday 4/15/26 Ticket: $25.40 (got in free from +1) 10pm Raven Active: 1974 (Newcastle, UK) Latest Release: All Hell's Breaking Loose (Silver Lining, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 9pm Slackjaw Active: 2017 (South Carolina) Latest Release: Official Bootleg (Slackjaw, 2026), " Ascend Me " (Slackjaw, 2025) Bandcamp   Instagram Discog s Setlist   Metal Wiki YouTube Spotify Missed: Snow White Raven have been one of those 80's NWOBHM curios for me to check out since the beginning of time or at least since I got a reissue copy in the early 90's of their second album Wiped Out from 1982 that came a couple years after their debut single.  For whatever reason I knew so little about the band that I thought they were from Canada and categorized them as "early thrash" in my head.  Sometimes I can be oblivious.  H...

  Bill: Acid Bath/Baroness/The Skull/Blood Vulture Venue: Starland Ballroom , 570 Jernee Mill Road , Sayreville, NJ Date: Saturday 3/7/26 Door: $95 (had a comp) 10pm Acid Bath Active: 1991 (Hourna, LA) Latest Release:  Paegan Terrorism Tactics  (Rotten Records, 1996) Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   Setlist     AllMusic   Wiki   YouTube   Spotify 9pm: Baroness Active: 2003 (Savannah, GA) Latest Release: Stone (Abraxin Hymns, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic WIki YouTube Spotify 8pm The Skull Active: 2012 (Chicago, IL) Affiliated: Legions Of Doom , Trouble Latest Release: The Endless Road Turns Dark (Tee Pee, 2018) Bandcamp Facebook   Discogs Setlist AllMusic WIki YouTube Spotify Did a Tee Pee road trip with Kenny yesterday to the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ about 40 away from NYC but still considered "New York Market."  I hadn't been there since Motorhead about 20 years ago...

  Bill: Acid Bath/Pentagram/King Parrot Venue: Brooklyn Paramount , Brooklyn, NY Date: 7/25/25 Ticket: $77  10:15 Acid Bath Active: 1991 (Hourna, LA) Latest Release:  Paegan Terrorism Tactics  (Rotten Records, 1996) Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   Setlist     AllMusic   Wiki   YouTube 9pm Pentagram Active: 1971 (Alexandria, VA) Latest Release: I'll Certainly See You In Hell: Rehearsal Sessions 1972-1975 (Pentagram, 2025), Lightening In A Bottle (Heavy Psych Records, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube   Encyclopaedia Metallum Missed: King Parrot The 2nd Acid Bath reunion show in Brooklyn came 2 weeks after the first, hastily added when the first one sold out in advance.  This time the opener was Pentagram, Bobby Liebling's long running heavy hard rock band.  This current lineup joined Bobby just last year.  Henry Vasquez has been touring drummer for Saint Vitus, Sp...

  Bill: Ghost Venue: Madison Square Garden , New York, NY Date: 7/22/25 Tickets $102.50 + 28.45 fee bought resale gifted 8:15 pm Ghost Active: 2006 ( Linköping ,   Östergötland , Sweden) Latest Release:  Skeletá (Loma Vista, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube The last time I saw Ghost they were opening for Iron Maiden in 2016.  Singer Tobias Forge noted the bands' NYC debut was 2011 in the short lived (at least for Rock bands) Basement at Webster Hall (actually The Studio).  They've come a long way to headlining.  I had a friend in town and picked this show to see and got some good seats in section 108.  Unfortunately, there are no photos or clips from this vantage point because they band was doing the sporadic Yondr bags.  In the past decade I've only had the Yondr experience twice for the Misfits in Jersey and Bob Dylan at the Beacon. As for the show, there was no opener, so Ghost went on pretty fast ...

  Bill:  Annihilation Time ,  Crux ,  Claimed Choice ,  Bog People ,  No Time ,  Fuerza Bruta ,  Concrete Elite , No Guard ,  XL Bully (On The Streets Again 3, Day 2) Venue:  Brooklyn Monarch , Brooklyn, NY Date: 7/19/25 Door: $90 (was on Tee Pee's +1) 9pm Annihilation Time Active: 2001 (Oxnard, CA) Latest Release: Down In The Street 7" (It's Alive, 2021), III-Tales of the Ancient Age (Tee Pee, 2008) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Missed: everybody else Guitarist Graham Clise's long running band Annihilation Time came to town for the first time in God knows how long.  Last time was rumored to be the Charleston on Bedford when they were having shows in the basement.  Graham was in town recently for Stepmother so it seems like he was just around town.  That's the way it goes! I had a late meetup and got there standing outside waiting for Kenny coming from the other direction while...