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And now for something completely different. With ACL Fest behind us and Fun Fun Fun Fest up ahead, Austin finally unearths a metal festival. The genre’s bastard godfather, film frights screen all weekend during the Housecore Horror Film Festival & Heavy Metal Festival, while its soundtrack – both literal (Goblin!) and figurative – loads into a trio of local venues for the heaviest local massacre since Slayer razed Auditorium Shores in 2011.
This article appears in October 25 • 2013.
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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993. More by Raoul Hernandez
