Texas Hippie Coalition at Montage Music Hall | September 24, 2026
Texas Hippie Coalition brings their Big Sexy Rock to Montage Music Hall in Rochester on September 24. If you like your metal southern-fried and loud, this one’s for you.
Dokken and Lynch Mob at Penn’s Peak | October 9, 2026
Dokken and Lynch Mob are co-headlining Penn’s Peak on October 9 — two bands, one guitar legend, and a setlist that covers three decades of hard rock that refused to go away. Tickets on sale now.
Snapcase
Before Buffalo was known for indie rock breakouts and jam bands, the city’s underground was seething with hardcore punk energy. Few bands channeled that fury more effectively than Snapcase, whose fusion of heavy rhythms, intricate guitar work, and politically charged lyrics made them cornerstones of the 1990s hardcore scene. West Seneca Beginnings The band originated […]
Every Time I Die
Every Time I Die was Buffalo, New York’s most ferocious musical export of the 21st century — a metalcore band that spent 24 years pushing the boundaries of heavy music with wit, fury, and relentless creative ambition. From their formation in 1998 to their acrimonious split in early 2022, the band released nine studio albums […]
Joey Belladonna
Joey Belladonna — born Joseph Bellardini on October 14, 1960, in Oswego, New York — grew up along the shores of Lake Ontario in a family of Italian American and Iroquois heritage. That small-city upbringing in Central New York produced one of the most recognizable voices in thrash metal history. Joining Anthrax In 1984, Belladonna […]
Earth Crisis
Earth Crisis formed in Syracuse, New York, in 1989, when bassist Karl Buechner and friend DJ Rose bonded over skateboarding and hardcore punk. By 1991, Buechner had moved to lead vocals and assembled a stable lineup including guitarist Scott Crouse, bassist Ian “Bulldog” Edwards, and drummer Dennis Merrick (who joined by 1993) — a core […]
Maria Brink
Maria Brink grew up in Schenectady, New York, under circumstances that would have broken most people. Her father abandoned the family when she was young. Her mother struggled with addiction. Brink became a mother herself at 15. But from that crucible of hardship, she forged one of the most powerful voices in modern heavy metal, […]
Brann Dailor
Brann Timothy Dailor was born on March 19, 1975, in Rochester, New York. Growing up surrounded by music — his parents introduced him to Frank Zappa, King Crimson, and Yes at a young age — Dailor was drawn to progressive, boundary-pushing sounds from the start. Rochester’s underground music scene gave him his first stages, and […]
Ronnie James Dio
Ronnie James Dio is the most powerful voice ever to emerge from Upstate New York, and his journey from Cortland teenager to heavy metal deity is one of the great origin stories in rock. Born Ronald James Padavona on July 10, 1942, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Dio moved to Cortland, New York, as a child […]
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is one of the best-selling death metal bands of all time, and they were born in Buffalo, New York. Formed in December 1988 when members of two recently disbanded Buffalo-area death metal bands — Beyond Death and Tirant Sin — began rehearsing together, the group became the genre’s most commercially successful and culturally […]