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View Comments MANITOWOC - Manitowoc's free-admission Metro Jam will return for the 42nd year Aug. 20-21 with headliners Son Volt. The concert series includes nine diverse acts over two days and is held in Washington Park, 1115 Washington St., downtown Manitowoc. Son Volt takes the stage at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 21. According to a news release: "2020 was not quite what Jay Farrar was expecting for the 25th anniversary of the band he started in 1995 after leaving the seminal group Uncle Tupelo, whose 'No Depression' album helped define the alt-country and Americana genre. Still based in St. Louis, 'It...

OUTBURN ONLINE 8/10 CROSSOVER THRASH: These riffs are so addicting! Richmond, Virginia crossover thrash metal band Enforced has released its second full-length album Kill Grid. The brutal quintet—featuring bassist Ethan Gensurowsky, drummer Alex Bishop, vocalist Knox Colby, and guitarists Will Wagstaff and Zach Monahan—has created nine pummeling thrash attacks that explode like a heatseeking missile upon imminent impact. With an extreme amalgam of thrash, punk, death metal, and hardcore, Enforced walks a similar path as Power Trip, Plague Years, Iron Age, and the like. Formed in 2016...

OUTBURN ONLINE Anabel’s teenage love for music manifested in her desire to photograph musicians and their various escapades. Having shot her very first musician portraits at the age of 16 and her first concert the same year, her music photography career began rolling very quickly. Despite the industry’s hardships and tumultuous statistics, Anabel persevered in her desire to be a part of the music industry, albeit in a photographic sense. Since then, she has worked tirelessly with hundreds of bands—from Grammy Award winners to local talent—creating visual content for their projects,...

OUTBURN ONLINE January 26, 2021 8/10 CLASSIC HEAVY METAL: Teutonic heavy metal titans, Accept, have achieved a long and illustrious career. From its 1976 formation with iconic frontman Udo Dirkschneider, to the not so prolific 1990s—including several hiatuses—to the introduction of another new singer in former TT Quick frontman Mark Tornillo and the band’s newfound success with 2010’s Blood of the Nations, Accept has seen it all. On its 16th full-length album, Too Mean To Die, the now sextet—featuring original guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, drummer Christopher Williams, guitarist Uw...

OUTBURN ONLINE 5/10 THRASH METAL XEROX MACHINE: All genres of music are active participants in the pursuit of paying homage and salutation to that which came before them. However, there’s hardly a genre that takes as much pride in looking backwards as some purveyors of heavy metal. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing because everything comes from somewhere and if it weren’t pimply faced teenagers reconstituting the hard rock, NWOBHM, hardcore punk, and progressive rock sections of their record collections, the world would have never had thrash metal bestowed upon it and we’d all...