DevilDriver : Brooklyn Bowl, Las Vegas NV, July 15

DevilDriver Brings the Strike and Kill Tour to Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas

DevilDriver brought the Strike and Kill Tour to Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas on August 15 with Cultus Black, Ov Sulfur, and Upon A Burning Body.

Four bands. No slow build. No clean edges. Just a Saturday night metal show inside Brooklyn Bowl with the floor getting worse as the night went on.

Cultus Black opened with a Midwest Slipknot vibe. Masks, heavy guitars, industrial grime, and a frontman who looked like he came out of a factory fire. The sound was ugly and direct, with enough stomp in it to wake up the early crowd.

Ov Sulfur came next and brought the local damage. Las Vegas blackened deathcore, low guitars, blast sections, and Ricky Hoover’s vocals cutting through the room. They did not play like a local opener. They played like a band carrying the darker side of the bill.

Upon A Burning Body followed and turned the floor into a Texas metalcore fight club. Big grooves, gang vocals, breakdowns, and Danny Leal working the crowd like a man who knows exactly when the room is about to move. Their songs have that bar-fight bounce to them. Brooklyn Bowl answered with circle pits, shoulders, elbows, and people pushing toward the middle.

Then DevilDriver came out and took it back to groove.

Dez Fafara still looks healthy and metal AF. Black clothes, hard stare, no wasted motion. The band came in fast and mean, but the groove is still the weapon. DevilDriver has always lived in that space between death metal bite and pit-ready rhythm. Not pretty. Not polished. Not trying to be anything soft.

The new album, Strike and Kill, fits its name. The title alone sounds like a warning label. The songs keep the band in familiar territory: speed, pressure, low-end swing, and Dez barking over the top like he is trying to start a prison riot. Brooklyn Bowl had a packed floor. Sweat on the rail. People moshing.

DevilDriver are not a band for standing still. Their best material makes people react with their whole body. Heads down. Fists up. Boots sliding across the floor. When the band locks into that groove, the crowd moves.

Cultus Black brought masks and industrial dirt. Ov Sulfur brought blackened deathcore from Vegas. Upon A Burning Body brought Texas swing and breakdowns. DevilDriver brought the groove metal blade.

By the end, Brooklyn Bowl looked chewed up. Shirts soaked. Hair stuck to faces. People bleeding. The kind of crowd that leaves with sore knees, ringing ears, and gleeful souls. 

Instagram / Websites / Links

DevilDriver
Instagram: @devildriver
Website: https://devildriver.com/
New album: https://devildriver.bandcamp.com/album/strike-and-kill
Rockabilia merch: https://rockabilia.com/collections/devil-driver

Cultus Black
Instagram: @cultusblack
Website: https://cultusblack.com/
Links: https://linktr.ee/cultusblack

Ov Sulfur
Instagram: @ovsulfur
Website / Links: https://linktr.ee/ovsulfur
Bandcamp: https://ovsulfur.bandcamp.com/music

Upon A Burning Body
Instagram: @uponaburningbodyofficial
Website: https://www.uabbtx.com/

Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
Instagram: @brooklynbowllv
Website: https://www.brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas

Rockabilia
Instagram: @rockabilia
Website: https://rockabilia.com/

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Mayday Parade Downtown Freemont, August 8 2026

Mayday Parade Downtown Freemont, August 8 2026

Mayday Parade Turns Fremont Street Into a Pop-Punk Mess

Mayday Parade played Fremont Street Experience on August 8 as part of the Downtown Rocks free concert series. The show was at the 3rd Street Stage, right in the middle of downtown Las Vegas.

That is not a normal place to watch a band. There are casinos on both sides, bartenders yelling, tourists cutting through the crowd, zipliners overhead, and people holding drinks the size of flower vases. Fremont Street was already loud before Mayday Parade walked out.

The band came out to a packed street and went straight into it. Big choruses. Fast drums. Bright guitars. Derek Sanders had the crowd with him early, and the front of the stage turned into a pop-punk singalong almost immediately.

Mayday Parade songs are built for half heartbreak, half bad decision, all chorus. The sad parts do not stay quiet for long. They turn into people yelling the words back with their friends, strangers, and whoever happened to stop walking through Fremont at the right time.

The band is still in its Sweet / Sad / Sugar era, with Sugar closing out the trilogy this summer. The newer material sits next to the older songs without changing what Mayday Parade does best. They write songs that sound clean on record, then get louder, sweatier, and messier when a crowd takes them over.

The older songs pulled the biggest reactions. “Jamie All Over” is almost unfair in Las Vegas. A song with Las Vegas already baked into it, played under the Fremont canopy, surrounded by neon and people screaming the words back. “Oh Well, Oh Well” and “Three Cheers for Five Years” brought out the same kind of reaction: hands up, voices cracking, no one pretending to be cool.

This was not a theater show. It was a street show. That matters here. Fremont Street added noise, heat, movement, and the usual downtown weirdness. Mayday Parade did not have to fight it. They just played through it.

By the end, the 3rd Street Stage looked like someone dropped a pop-punk festival into the middle of a casino district. Fans up front knew every word. People in the back caught pieces of the choruses. Tourists stopped and stayed. Downtown got louder.

Mayday Parade has been doing this long enough for the songs to belong to different parts of people’s lives. Some people found them in high school. Some found them later. Some probably heard them for the first time on Fremont Street with a drink in their hand.

For one night, downtown Las Vegas was loud, crowded, sweaty, and a little ridiculous. Mayday Parade sounded right at home under the lights.

Websites / Instagram / Links

Mayday Parade
Instagram: @maydayparadeband
Website: https://maydayparade.com/

Fremont Street Experience
Instagram: @fremontstreet
Website: https://vegasexperience.com/
Downtown Rocks: https://vegasexperience.com/dtr/

Rockabilia
Instagram: @rockabilia
Website: https://rockabilia.com/
Mayday Parade merch: https://rockabilia.com/collections/mayday-parade

Rockabilia has a Mayday Parade merch collection page.

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@maydayparadeband @fremontstreet @rockabilia

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#DowntownRocks
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Death Cab for Cutie: Las Vegas ,The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas August 6

 

Death Cab for Cutie: Las Vegas ,The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas August 6

Death Cab for Cutie Builds Through Grief at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas

Death Cab for Cutie came to The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on August 6 with Lala Lala opening the night. The tour is built around I Built You A Tower, the band’s 2026 album about loss, grief, and the places people try to hide both.

Lala Lala started the night with darker indie rock, electronics, and Lillie West’s voice out front. The songs moved slow and shoegazy. There was a nervous current in the set, with guitars and electronics holding the space before Death Cab walked out.

Death Cab opened with “Riptides,” then moved into “Roman Candles” and “The New Year.” That first run put the new record beside older songs right away.

The I Built You A Tower songs sat at the center of the night. “Punching the Flowers,” “I Built You a Tower,” “Pep Talk,” “Stone Over Water,” “How Heavenly a State,” and “Trap Door” all came through the set. These songs deal with grief like something put away in a room that keeps leaking under the door. Death Cab has always written well about distance and absence. It sounded like the same wound years later.

The older songs came in clean. “The Ghosts of Beverly Drive” and “Black Sun” brought in the darker side of the band. “Photobooth” reached back to the early years. “Summer Skin” pulled from Plans. “I Will Possess Your Heart” and  “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” became the obvious singalong, with the crowd singing every word.

“Cath...” and “Crooked Teeth” brought the pace back up. “You Are a Tourist,” “Here to Forever,” and “Soul Meets Body” closed the main set with the band moving between eras without turning the night into a greatest-hits handout.

The encore started with “Title Track,” then “A Movie Script Ending” and “Marching Bands of Manhattan” followed. “Transatlanticism” closed the night.  “Transatlanticism” is still one of the band’s best songs about distance. It starts small, repeats, builds, and keeps stretching until the ending opens up. That night showed you can build a tower, a room, a wall, or a clean little place to put grief, but it still finds air.

I Built You A Tower brought the grief to the surface, and the catalog showed how long that subject has been sitting inside this band.

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Death Cab for Cutie
Instagram: @deathcabforcutie
Website: https://www.deathcabforcutie.com/

Lala Lala
Instagram: @lillielala_music
Website: https://www.lalabandlala.com/

The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
Instagram: @virginhotelslv
Website: https://virginhotelslv.com/venue/the-theater/

Rockabilia
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Website: https://rockabilia.com/

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Rockabilia Death Cab for Cutie Merch

Death Cab for Cutie merch is available through Rockabilia:
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