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April \m/etal show photos + reviews: Arch Enemy, Mayhem, Meshuggah, and more!

Photo Galleries and Show Reviews by: Alan Ralph @ConcertGoingPro

Beginning the last weekend of March and into April, San Francisco (and Spinning Platters!) has gotten very \m/etal!  Just look at the list of 60+ band names on the left column (on mobile, look near the bottom of the page), this does not happen too often around here anymore…

Spinning Platters is going to attempt to attend, photograph, and review as many of these as possible, and throughout the month will report back here with our findings (photos and possibly a review) shortly after each show! \m/

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Show Review: Cavalera Conspiracy w/Exhumed, Incite, Thrown Into Exile, and SANGRE at The Wiltern, 10/18/2023

Cavalera: The REAL Sepultura

Show Review and Los Angeles Photos by: Oliver Brink
San Francisco Photos by: Alan Ralph @AlanHasPicks

This one was a bit special for me. Sepultura is a band that I fell deeply in love with in high school, and their music and the continued projects of Max Cavalera have been with me constantly as I navigate my way through life. I always find moments where I just need a song like “Refuse/Resist” or “Troops of Doom” to help me get through a moment of angry energy. So, of course, I had to jump at a chance to see Max and Iggor Cavalera, finally, and when that opportunity arrived, I jumped right the hell on it, even if it meant going to one of my least favorite venues to photograph. More on that later; bands first!

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Show Review: Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem, Shoreline Amphitheater, June 30, 2013

Photos and review by: Alan Ralph @ConcertGoingPro

Mountain View. California. Sunny. 82°.

With every meteorologist proclaiming the apocalypse across the West Coast, it was not as miserably hot as was expected. Yet with the arrival of the first band of the annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, the heat (and volume) was definitely turning up, and for the duration of the day, more than a baker’s dozen worth of bands played across four stages, culminating with the sun setting just in time for Rob Zombie to heat it up again with plenty of fire and pyro!

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