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KING DIAMOND The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts November 8, 2019 Photos & Review by Michael LaFleche The Worcester Palladium ‪Friday night‬ was packed again with metal heads from the area for a special, after Halloween treat from ‪King Diamond‬.  Opening for the ingenious metal legend was Idle Hands and Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats. Press coverage was very deep for this show with almost every photographer I know joining me in the pit for sweaty documentation of the event. The first two bands were just great, with Idles Hands sounding like early raw ‪Alice In Chains‬ on a dimly lit stage. After Idles Hands, the English bandRead More →

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SABATON WITH HAMMERFALL The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts November 1, 2019 Photos & Review by Michael LaFleche Swedish war metal superstars Sabaton with fellow countrymen HammerFall were in Worcester Friday night for a fantastic sold out show at the Palladium. I have been to a ton of shows at the Palladium over the years and this one really felt special. HammerFall opened the show with a set very close to the crowd. Running onto the stage was Oscar Fredrick Dronjak with the flying V guitar and bleach blonde hair, bass instrumentalist Fredrik Larsson, Karl Pontus Norgren also thrashing on the guitars and of course David WallinRead More →

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ALTER BRIDGE | SKILLET WITH DIRTY HONEY The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts October 3, 2019 Photos & Review by Frank Piercy You know when a day is going so right, that something will eventually go wrong? Well that was how my day was going, got out of work on time and hit the road to Worcester. What is normally is a 90 minute drive from work turned into just over 3 hours and unfortunately I missed my window to be in the photo pit for the first three songs of the opening band for the evening, Dirty Honey. Another one of the growing number of RockRead More →

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KAMELOT w/ Battle Beast and Sonata Arctica The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts September 13, 2019 Photos & Review by Michael LaFleche Worcester was thoroughly rocked on a full moon Friday the 13th night at the vaunted Palladium with KAMELOT with special guest Lauren Hart headlining a killer power metal lineup including Battle Beast and Sonata Arctica. First up was Noora Louhimo and Battle Beast of Finland. I am beginning to think all the good music lately comes from Scandinavia… Battle Beast’s brand of viking infused power metal is upbeat and full of good energy. The music is extremely contagious and the live production was great. EveryRead More →

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DEMONS AND WIZARDS | LIZZY BORDEN with Tyr Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts September 4, 2019 Photos & Review by Frank Piercy Now this was a rare night at The Palladium, only three bands on stage this time. But the pedigree is amazing and actually gave all three bands on the bill a chance to do more then just a 20-minute set. How often do you get to see the opening band do more then 20 minutes? Well if you were here this evening, you would’ve been exposed to some very interesting metal. Personally, I had never heard of Tyr, but my normal partner in crime, myRead More →

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Killthrax Tour The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts March 3, 2018 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc For Killswitch Engage it was a bit of a homecoming, as the western Massachusetts based band played to an incredibly electric, sold out crowd at The Palladium in Worcester. Havok and Anthrax started off the night time festivities. The crowed was revved up and ready to go for this hometown band. The crowd was already fired up from the Anthrax performance. Once the stage change happened and the Killswitch Engage backdrop appeared, the crowd erupted into a roar. The band has seven studio albums to their name sinceRead More →

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ANTHRAX Killthrax Tour The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts March 3, 2018 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc Power, Intensity and Longevity are three words that can best describe ANTHRAX. The Killthrax II Tour of 2018 was coming to a close with the second to last show taking place in front of a sold out crowd at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. Anthrax was winding down this twenty-nine date tour out on the road with Killswitch Engage. On this night, Havok, a thrash metal band from Colorado took the stage to start things off. From that point on it was a night of high intensity power metal atRead More →

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY with Corrosion of Conformity and Red Fang Worcester Palladium, Worcester MA February 1, 2018 For a Thursday night show, the Palladium was packed like sardines. I shouldn’t have been surprised, we are talking Black Label Society. I can’t remember a time when I went to one of their shows and it wasn’t sold out or close to it. The lineup for the night was one I was looking forward to. Opening for BLS were two bands, Red Fang and an old favorite, Corrosion of Conformity. RED FANG Red Fang is a band out of Portland Oregon, a stoner metal outfit consisting ofRead More →

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EXTREME The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts September 23, 2017 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc It was a night of high energy and musical excitement with this Bay State based band performing in front of a hometown crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts at the Palladium. EXTREME was in the house and the crowd was fired up. The minute the band took the stage, they could have blown the roof off with the energy in the room. A night of all the EXTREME hits in Worcester. The Palladium was recently updated and cleaned up, with some fresh paint, updates and additional balcony seating. The place looked much cleanerRead More →

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THE CRINGE The Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts June 17, 2017 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc The Cringe was the supporting band for 80’s rock legends, RATT at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. If you have not heard of them, do yourself a favor and check them out and find them if they come to your city. They put on an authentic high energy rock n’ roll show. While they have deemed themselves into the Alternative Rock category, they could be just about anywhere in the rock spectrum. They sounded great. It can sometimes be hard to take in songs that you have never heard before.Read More →