Posts by Corey Deiterman

Coming just in time at the end of 2017, Whitechapel hopped on the bandwagon and embarked on their very own 10 year anniversary tour to celebrate their debut album, The Somatic Defilement. Though such anniversary tours have been en vogue for a few years now, 2017 seems to have had an abundance of them, especially […]

Long Beach, California’s Cold War Kids have had an interesting path to stardom. Their debut album Robbers and Cowards propelled them to indie rock stardom and the hit single “Hang Me Up to Dry” ended up in all sorts of places, including television advertisements. Then, for a while, it was rough. The addition of new […]

Mayhem’s long and storied history requires no introduction for anyone even vaguely familiar with the black metal scene of Norway in the ‘80s and ‘90s. “Infamous” is a word that could easily be applied to the band, which has hosted membership like Varg Vikernes, notorious murderer (of the band’s guitarist, Euronymous, no less) and white […]

Cattle Decapitation has always existed as an outlier in the extreme metal scene of the last twenty years. Defining exactly what they are is a challenge. From their earlier grindcore releases to their newest albums, which made up the majority of their setlist at Come and Take It Live on November 15th in Austin, they’ve […]

It would be wrong to call any place but Brooklyn “home” for Jay-Z, but the ties to Houston, Texas, run deep for the hip-hop legend. From inviting Houston rap kings UGK to be on one of his biggest hits, “Big Pimpin’,” to hopping on the remix of Mike Jones’ classic “Back Then,” to his wife […]

Chris Stapleton couldn’t get through so many years of cutting his teeth writing hit songs for others and performing with his old bluegrass band the Steeldrivers without learning a thing or two about showmanship. That was on full display at Austin360 Amphitheatre Thursday, October 26th, where Stapleton played his second Austin date of the week. […]

Austin Post aka Post Malone burst onto the pop music scene with a little Soundcloud single titled “White Iverson” that shook up the music world. Here’s a kid from the Dallas-Fort Worth with braids, a grill, bars, and a background in country guitar that blew up out of nowhere via the universal mixtape haven that […]

Monday night marked the return of…something; that x-factor; that undefinable it. On a base, factual level, mewithoutYou played their first show in Austin since 2015, when they opened for pop punk rockers the Menzingers, Monday night at the Mohawk. But Monday’s show was much more of a return than simply mewithoutYou’s first Austin, Texas performance […]

Hailing from Paris, France, Perturbator is a true anomaly in the current world of metal and its related sub-genres. Where exactly does Perturbator fit in? The one man electronic project of James Kent makes a combination of post-Nine Inch Nails industrial synth metal and the kind of ‘80s horror soundtracks aficionados will instantly associate with […]

There is nothing more satisfying for those us in this “biz” than watching a band grow. After ten years of being a band, Touche Amore have grown immensely. They emerged from the late 2000’s class of emo, screamo, hardcore, and post-hardcore that included La Dispute, Title Fight, The World is a Beautiful Place and I […]

[rating=7.00] In a recent interview, Ted Leo spoke at length about the trials and tribulations of even recording a new album after seven years largely removed from the music business. Aside from an Aimee Mann collaboration which received fairly solid reviews at the time of its release, Leo has kept a low profile while struggling […]

Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley took the stage at Come and Take It Live in Austin on Thursday, August 31st to a small, beer soaked, leather and denim clad crowd, but he might as well have been rocking a stadium of thousands. Though Bayley’s tenure with the almighty metal gods was short, he clearly […]

The wave of bands on the metalcore wagon back in 2004 was staggering, and most of them failed to make much of an impact outside of diehard scenesters. For every band with an impeccable fan base and legacy like Underoath or Alexisonfire, there were a million imitators that find themselves in bargain bins collecting dust […]

It’s sometimes astounding the things that come out of people’s idle hands. Since Mike Patton’s Faith No More has largely been on hiatus since their last world tour and Dave Lombardo left Slayer over contract disputes, Dead Cross was born. This is what happens when two guys like that, plus members of the Locust and […]

Five years and some months ago, At the Drive-In reignited their career at Red 7, a beloved Austin venue which sadly no longer exists. The secret show, their first in eleven years, was announced literally the moment tickets went on sale, sold out within moments, and became a local legend for those who attended. Every […]

Last Saturday night at the Mohawk in Austin, the Dillinger Escape Plan appeared to close out their career the way it began: on the floor, surrounded by a horde of screaming maniacs grabbing at clothes, skin, guitars, and microphones. The raucous math rockers announced this run of shows would be their last around the time […]

[rating=8.00] Chris Stapleton emerged to national prominence exactly two years ago with the release of his solo debut album, Traveller. To many, his success with a back to basics style of country music marked a sea change in how the mainstream world would perceive the genre. After years of being dominated by pop acts masquerading […]

If you asked anyone in the sold out crowd that filled Sidewinder in downtown Austin last Thursday night, March 30th, when the last time they saw HORSE the Band was, answers ranged anywhere from South by Southwest 2012 to even ten whole years ago. Such is the nature of the elusive California metalcore band who […]

It can’t be said enough how much Come and Take It Productions has done with Austin’s new metal hub. Grizzly Hall, now renamed Come and Take It Live, has been booking one truly fantastic metal act after another. Last Friday night, March 31st, it played host to synthcore heroes Enter Shikari, performing the entire album […]

Touring in support of their newest record, Polar Similar, metalcore veterans Norma Jean rocked Grizzly Hall Friday night with a set that embraced the power of change and the transition into modernity. Norma Jean have been a band now for 20 years, but front man Cory Brandan Putman is the longest standing member at this point, […]