Dying Fetus – Galatos: December 5, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
American heavy hitters Dying Fetus and 200 Stab Wounds tore Auckland’s Galatos a new one last night with support from Christchurch’s Organectomy.
American heavy hitters Dying Fetus and 200 Stab Wounds tore Auckland’s Galatos a new one last night with support from Christchurch’s Organectomy.
It’s been 17 long years since Pig Destroyer last graced the shores of Aotearoa. That was the Phantom Limb tour where they played the windowless bunker that we used to call the Transmission Room. I’ve long been haunted by the fact that I missed this gig. My regret compounded further with each Pig Destroyer release that saw the […]
Toe are wha/four Japanese musicians, who formed, or at least started producing mathy post-rock around 2000, releasing since 2002. The line up of Yamazaki Hirokazu (acoustic guitar), Mino Takaaki (electric guitar), Kashikura Takashi (Drums) and Yamane Satoshi (Bass) has stayed unchanged since inception.
A little piece of America rolled into Tamaki Makaurau last night, Maryland’s grindcore gods Full of Hell buddied up with Louisiana’s doom greats Thou to deliver a barrage of maelstrom beats on a darkening Sunday evening.
Bird’s Robe and Valhalla Touring are thrilled to announce the debut Australia and New Zealand tour of acclaimed Japanese post-rock/math band, toe, this coming October.
Twice (a sort of) Big Country came to Aotearoa, but never Skids, until now. Finally, 13th Floor Concert Reviewer Simon Coffey got to see (a sort of) the Skids and hear some of his favourite classic punk/post-punk tunes in the flesh.
Legendary Scottish punk band Skids land in New Zealand next week to play two shows as part of their 45th Anniversary Greatest Hits Tour.
Carcass, A name synonymous with uncompromising sonic brutality, these UK grindcore pioneers, were joined by US melodic death metallers The Black Dahlia Murder and Melbourne’s groovy death metal supergroup Flesh Merchant in a night of unrelenting metal crescendos that rattled the bones of Tamaki Makaurau’s Galatos.
Bands and punters alike lived up to potential in celebration of a thriving local hardcore scene and the NYC institution that is Sick Of It All.
Having survived the silly season, Simon Coffey got back in the saddle and checked out groundbreaking death-metal icons Obituary on their Barely Alive tour in Aotearoa, four years on from the last visit.