UNHOLY THOUGHTS and DEVIL'S HAND Added to BELGRADO show this Friday!

Richmond's UNHOLY THOUGHTS (featuring Kenny from GOVERNMENT WARNING) and DEVIL'S HAND have just been added to Friday's show, with the already killer lineup of BELGRADO, PERDITION, and ANASAZI. This will be one for the books. All over the punk map on this one. There's something for everybody!

ACHERON ANNIVERSARY in just 2 weeks!!

We've got just 2 weeks until the Acheron's Birthday Party. It's an all night affair with BBQ and a TON of killer bands. HULL and BEER & CABLE had to drop off, but we got brutal doom favorites BATILLUS, just back from tour and with a bowel-rattling new LP out. Not to mention our closest friends in MUTANT SUPREMACY, DEFEATIST, MORTALS, BAD DREAM, TOURNAMENT, and the debut of grind crushers TRENCHGRINDER (members ATAKKE, MUTANT SUPREMACY, PATHOS). Best of all.. the whole thing is FREE!

SATURDAY MAY 14th 5pm BBQ 8pm Bands

KEN Mode and CASTAVET noise assault August 17th

We're Stoked to announce this killer gig brought to us by our friends at 1000 Knives and Brooklyn Vegan. Canadian trio KEN mode bring their neckbreaking combination of AmRep noise and hardcore riffs, along with nor'easter experi-metallers CASTAVET on Tuesday, August 17th, along with one more to-be-named band. There's a full list of KEN mode tour dates, plus some video, over here at Brooklyn Vegan. Good god, the way August is filling out you'll want to pitch a tent out front and live here. (no, not you, dog-on-a-rope face-tattoo guy.)

HARDCORE WEEKEND!! MASAKARI Friday! COLOSSUS Saturday! FAILURES Sunday!! Get Stoked!

Hey Kids! This weekend we've got some great hardcore and metal for you! Start it off Friday with MASAKARI, Cleveland's Heavy D-Beat heroes! and if that wasn't enough, TERROR LEVEL RED is reuniting for this one show! don't miss it! DEATH FIRST and Jersey's ZHENIA GOLOV round out the bill. Promises to be a crust-acular time. Here's some video of MASAKARI rocking out in the Czech Republic:

Then the mayhem don't stop! North Carolina crushers COLOSSUS bring the NWOSHM stylings to the Acheron for the first time to shred your face off alongside Brooklyn skate-heshers TYRHOMBUS REX and DCBR.

And then get ready for serious Hardcore crazyness with the unfuckwitable Failures and Vaccine playing alongside Raw Nerves (from Portland - thats PLURAL not singular), and  Rats In The Walls in their final appearance.

Failures' S/T LP dropped last year on vocalist Mark McCoy's own Youth Attack imprint and currently have LP #2 in the works. The band features members of Das Oath, Orchid, Ampere, Cut the Shit, Charles Bronson, and many other outfits including McCoy's recent undertaking as guitarist, Veins.

I'll see you at the Acheron ALL WEEKEND LONG!!

True Widow / Bad Dream Wednesday! Hot Graves / Occultist Sunday BBQ matinee! Restorations / Bats & Mice Sunday night!

We're really stoked to announce that Texas trio TRUE WIDOW will be playing this Wednesday at The Acheron with local fuzz-rock favorites BAD DREAM.  This promises to be an evening of heavy and gorgeous proportion.

From NoisePop:

With the demise of the pummeling punk band Slowride, songwriter Dan Phillips walked away from music for a brief stint in woodworking before returning to his fist love. He formed True Widow as an attempt to make space between him and his previous incantation, and set out to create melodic and heavy music that slowed the pace and heightened the power. Now a fully formed trio, True Widow is equal parts shoegaze and soaring post rock, but with surprisingly heartfelt lyrics and magnificently beautiful subtleties.

We're closed for a private event on Saturday, but Sunday brings us a double header like we've never done before. Starting at 3pm we're doing a BBQ matinee show for Florida heavy Jammers HOT GRAVES and Richmond pagans OCCULTIST. In true southern fashion, we'll be drinking cold beer and eating barbecue while jamming out to some kick-ass metal.

Later that night, the indie kids will have their say! BATS & MICE have a resumé a mile long, with the likes of SLEEPYTIME TRIO, ENGINE DOWN, 400 YEARS and myriad others establishing a solid pedigree, these guys bring their own brand of melodic pop/rock to our stage Sunday night, alongside mellow fellows RESTORATIONS and brooklyn punk-poppers LITTLE LUNGS, who are recently back from an Australian tour.

HOLY CRAP WHAT A WEEK!! ACID TIGER! CEREMONY! ASSRASH! TRUE WIDOW! WHITE LUNG!

This week promises to be our biggest yet! Starting with Thursday's ACID TIGER show (featuring TOURNAMENT, GATORS, and CHAMBERS), we don't let up at all!

Thursday Night is Brooklyn's own ACID TIGER, a crazed rock & roll juggernaut with members of CONVERGE and THURSDAY. Also on the bill is local workhorses TOURNAMENT, having just recorded yet again, as well as GATORS and CHAMBERS. This is going to be crowded so get here early!

Friday night Vancouver rockers WHITE LUNG swings back around to bushwick, with local weird-core hardcore yankees POLLUTION and PASSIVE AGGRESSOR. This will be Meredith's last gig with the PA, so send her off in appropriate style. Also on the bill is LONGPIGS.

Saturday keeps trucking on with an after show for the EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING show at Death By Audio. The Acheron and Hardcore Gig Volume proudly present CEREMONY and SKIN LIKE IRON in a late show Saturday June 19th. Doors will be at 11:30, and will be $6. As always, this show is ALL AGES.

Sunday is no time to call it a weekend, as New York metal mayhem kicks in with Relapse Records artists FLOURISHING, MALKUTH,  and HUMANITY FALLS. This promises to be some face-ripping brutality, not to be missed!

and if that's not enough for you, Monday brings us Minneapolis punk legends ASSRASH with local punkers STATE OF DECLINE, PERDITION, and THE MISANTHROPES. Classic smelly hardcore the way it's meant to be done.

after a day of rest, we're back on Wednesday the 23rd with a psychedelic evening of rock n' roll experimentation. TRUE WIDOW from Texas are a trio of stoned out psych purveyors in the classiest sense. drawing heavily from shoegaze and the early 90s northwest scene. fuzzy swirling soundscapes giveway just long enough to draw you back in. Sharing the stage are Williamsburg favorites BAD DREAM, who rock their own swirling 60s style. This show is going to be a surefire winner!

Friday Double Header! Fast Death Early! Austin Lucas late!

Boston's FAST DEATH will be kicking off this weekend's punk double header with raw thrash and speedfreakery. Killing it with them on the Early show will be Albany's NEUTRON RATS and local noise shredders NOMAD and crash-stenchers CERVIX. Get there early. Remember punx, no BYOB at the Acheron. $7 7pm get it on.

And stick around for the late show with punk balladeer AUSTIN LUCAS. You may know Austin from his killer D-beat band GUIDED CRADLE, but this guy makes some of the most hearbreaking and inspring country and folk around right now. He's on tour with fellow punk folkster DAMION SUOMI and we may have a very special local guest on stage with them, so be sure to enjoy a whiskey-soaked night of amazing music!

finally, we just got the flyer up for June 17th's ACID TIGER show. here it is. Kill, buddy.

Get Ready for MASSGRAVE next Friday! Post MDF grind mayhem!

Next Friday Vancouver crust/grind masters MASSGRAVE will unleash the terror upon Bushwick. If you're down in Bal'mer checking them out this weekend for Maryland Deathfest, or especially if you're missing them, be sure to get over here and shred your face, buddy. Filling out the lineup will be Brooklyn's own ATAKKE, North Carolina stone-doomers HOG, and Philly tech shredders THE CLAW

Friday, June 4th 8pm $10 ALL AGES!