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Take This: Win a Pair of Tickets to Morbid Saint at 1720
Rob Shepyer
June 16, 2025
If you live in Los Angeles and consider yourself a thrash-zone regular, chances are you’ve been to a few Charged Noise shows. The promoter, who promised a huge pit at every show, is known to throw thrash metal bangers a level above all his contemporaries in the scene. That’s the driving force behind his next big show, Morbid Saint at 1720 and focus of our ticket giveaway (details below). For those who’ve been too sheltered all their lives to have never discovered the serrated metal of Morbid Saint, their album Spectrum of Death is an absolute classic, inspiring blackened thrash and death metal to no end. It wasn’t that long ago that Morbid Saint were on hiatus, so whenever they tour through Los Angeles, you should consider yourself blessed to see them. Fast forward to 2025: these Wisconsin metal icons released their third album, Swallowed by Hell, and the band sound like they were frozen in ice for three decades so they could play the same ripping thrash to tear up today’s watered-down metal scene. Morbid Saint isn’t the only band playing though, Fueled by Fire and Velosity are opening the show with absolute rage start to finish. If you haven’t
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Los Angeles Strikefest at the Regent: By Die-hards, For Die-hards
Dillon Vaughn
July 6, 2018
Festival season is here and California has no shortage of options for niche entertainment seekers; from Arroyo Seco Weekend and Smokin’ Grooves to Burger Boogaloo and Summertime in LB, whatever musical religion you subscribe to has it’s fair share of representation. Delving into the true deep-cut side of things, there’s one fest that stands out as the real assembly for die-hards: Los Angeles Strikefest. Created and lovingly curated by the heavy hitting Church of the 8th Day and Nightforce Productions (a new face in the LA metal scene) version 1.0 of Strike Fest didn’t pull any punches and delivered three nights of bucket-list worthy acts. related content: The De-Evolution of Burger Boogaloo The first evening was the shortest of the three but remained far from being a pre-show. Fans were treated to sets from Los Angeles’ own media darlings Dread and Blade Killer, Matt Harvey (of Exhumed) performing in both Pounder and the reunion of Dekapitator, and a very hyped and rare performance by Detroit’s Demon Bitch. Closing out the night was Nasty Savage, the band serving one of the most direct examples of bleeding for the art. Warned by security to watch for “flying glass and metal and shit”
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