Windhand
Stoner metal at its best.
Sunday (September 14) at CODA
Nik Turner’s Hawkwind
Prime-era vocalist/woodwind player of the vintage space rock band.
Monday (September 15) at the Garrison
Unlocking the Truth
Funk-metal pioneers Living Colour headline, but the metalcore trio of NYC 13-year-olds is where it’s at.
September 18 at Opera House
Deafheaven
Epic black metal for the normcore crowd.
September 19 at the Opera House
Overkill
Classic thrash, with openers Prong.
September 23 at the Opera House
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
Cambridge psychedelic doom that’s been described as Alice Cooper meets Sabbath.
September 28 at Lee’s Palace
Doro
Joyous German hard rock.
October 16 at Hard Luck Bar
Satan
Dizzying NWOBHM cult faves play an intimate show with Castle and Midnight Malice.
October 17 at the Garrison
King Diamond
Bucket list concert for fans of the face-painted, occultist Mercyful Fate singer.
October 18 at Sound Academy
Pallbearer
Few things are heavier than the Arkansas band’s transcendental doom.
October 24 at Lee’s Palace
Gwar
See what life without Oderus Urungus sounds – and looks – like.
December 9 at the Opera House
Opeth
Prog down with the Uriah Heepish band whose death metal tendencies have retreated.
December 21 at the Kool Haus