Acid Bath – The Cosmic Clash

Live music review: Acid Bath headlined killer extreme metal bill in Houston

April 2, 2026 Case Cockrell 1035 Views Acid Bath, concert, concert review, Dax Riggs, extreme metal, Goatwhore, hardcore metal, High On Fire, live music, metal music, Necrofier, obituary, Review, Sammy Duet, Stabbing, White Oak Music Hall

The 2025 reunion of Louisiana hardcore metal legends Acid Bath has been triumphant, as it heads into its second year of gigs featuring stacked lineups and fans showing up by the thousands to experience it. At White Oak Music Hall near the Houston Heights area, a diehard crowd showed up ready to experience the short-lived yet massively influential out-of-the-swamp sludge kings. Acid Bath’s reunion tour is going on a year strong. Each show features extreme metal legacy acts and rising underground metal hardliners. For the March 28 stop, Acid Bath brought Houston brutal death metal outfit Stabbing, H-Town black metal institutions Necrofier, legendary Oakland power trio High on Fire, and Tampa death metal legends Obituary. A bone-crushing lineup of all proportions, this gig didn’t lose its hell-raising spark until the last note.

Live Music Review Robert Dean

Live music review: Acid Bath, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol led Levitation 2025 metal day

October 1, 2025 Robert Dean 1750 Views Acid Bath, heavy metal, Levitation, live music, metal, music festival, Palmer Events Center, psych-rock, Review, Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol, rock n roll, stoner metal, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Sword

Hats off to the folks behind the scenes at Levitation Festival. They pulled off a diverse event at a little-used location to great effect. The Palmer Events Center sounded great and showed a lot of promise for what the festival can be in the future. Keeping parking at $10 a day was a smart move that kept fans happy. The food and drink options were crazy expensive, but I understand that goes with the territory of putting a festival on – but on the real? $19 for a brisket sandwich is banana town. Just walk down the street to Whataburger next year.

Live Music Preview Robert Dean

Live music preview: Levitation Can’t Miss with Acid Bath

September 10, 2025 Robert Dean 3101 Views Acid Bath, concert, cult band, Levitation, live music, metal, metal fusion, preview, reunion shows, Slipknot, underground metal

One of the biggest draws to this year’s Levitation Festival in Austin this month is New Orleans’ swamp weirdos, Acid Bath. If you’re reading this and underground metal with a Louisiana flair ain’t in your wheelhouse, lemme get you right: this is the band everyone at the festival can’t miss.