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CANNIBAL CORPSE
w/ Dark Funeral / Immolation / Black Anvil
@ Danforth Music Hall
Toronto, ON, Canada
November 6, 2022

Presented by Inertia Entertainment

​The end of the year is approaching, and with live music's resurgence continuing this year, Toronto has already seen an array of incredible shows this year, but there's still some more shows to come before the end of the year.  That being said, fans gathered at the Danforth Music Hall on a rather warm Sunday evening on November 6 for a night of brutality that included windmills, gutteral vocals, rampaging riffs, and a whole lot of notes, as one of the most brutal tours of the year was in town, which was Cannibal Corpse with special guests Dark Funeral, Immolation and Black Anvil.  This tour seemed like an interesting mix because it was a 50/50 split between death metal and black metal.  Even though they're two of the most extreme subgenres, it's a bit of an odd mix, because they both have blast beats and gutteral vocals, but death metal has much more going and is more fast-paced, whereas black metal seems more atmospheric with the soaring and dissonant tremolo-picked riffs.  Either way, the tour proved to be a great success because the show was sold out in advance.

Written by Alex Stojanovic

TRIVIUM (DEAD MEN & DRAGONS TOUR 2022)
w/ Between The Buried & Me / Whitechapel / Khemmis
@ Rebel
Toronto, ON, Canada
October 25, 2022

Presented by Inertia Entertainment

​The fall season is back in full force after two years of silence, and Toronto has already seen a bunch of great tours come through so far.  One of the several tours that came through was Trivium's Dead Men & Dragons Tour.  The juggernaut tour hit Rebel on October 25th less than a week before Halloween.  This marks the first Trivium made more than one stop to Toronto in an entire decade, as they were here back in the spring as part of the Metal Tour Of The Year with Megadeth, Lamb Of God and In Flames (see our review here).  Trivium are currently making up for a lot of lost touring opportunities due to the pandemic by touring behind In The Court Of The Dragon and What The Dead Men Say, and having just come off a tour supporting Iron Maiden, they wasted no time and jumped straight into their own headline tour with special guests Between The Buried & Me, Whitechapel and Khemmis.

Written by Alex Stojanovic

@ Meridian Centre
​St. Catherine's ON, Canada
October 22, 2022

I still remember like it was yesterday that we were already one week into 2020 when the news broke about the sudden passing of none other than the Professor, aka: Neil Peart.  Given how much of an influence Neil had on me on my drumming and lyric writing, and how much of a Rush fan I am, it goes without saying that his passing hit me like a freight train, and I speak for all my fellow Rush fans across the globe.  To me, it was like losing a friend I never had.  Now, celebrity deaths don't affect us as much as losing a loved one or someone close to us, but Neil's death was the only celebrity death that affected me.  When he left us, we knew that the rock and drumming worlds would never be the same again.

​​There was also no doubt that his passing would spark the idea of a memorial/tribute show.  Whenever a monumental figure leaves us, it only seems fitting to put on a tribute/memorial show for them.  That being said, the first-ever and probably only-ever tribute show for Neil was announced shortly after his death, and it was only fitting that the event be held in his hometown of St. Catherine's, Ontario.  Originally scheduled for May 2020, the event had to be postponed for a total of "FIVE" times due to a pesky little pandemic before finally taking place on October 22, 2022 at the Meridian Centre in St. Catherine's.  The event drew fans from southern Ontario, other parts of Canada, and even the States and abroad.