{"id":310268,"date":"2026-07-30T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:10:14","slug":"the-melvins-and-tomahawk-return-to-new-york-the-aquarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310268\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melvins and Tomahawk Return to New York \u2013 The Aquarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two legends in the rock community recently toured together. The Melvins and Tomahawk brought the\u00a0A Great Waste of Your Time &amp; Money Tour\u00a0to New York City at Brooklyn Steel. The venue itself was a perfect setting for this display of sludge metal and rough rock. The venue is an abandoned manufacturing mill that was transformed into a music hall in 2016. Seeing both bands in such a raw environment with a stellar sound-system was a perfect combination.<\/p>\n<p>The Melvins recently dropped a new full length split with Napalm Death.\u00a0Savage Imperial Death March\u00a0hones the best of both bands to amplify their sound. It enhances the charisma from every player while still being incredibly heavy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last Tomahawk record was five years ago in 2021. Despite the album being half-a-decade old it\u2019s musicianship and themes still ring through to audiences today. The band played eight tracks off\u00a0Tonic Immobility, four off of\u00a0Mit Gas, four songs from self-titled, and many other assorted covers and deep cuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We had our staff photographer Ehud Lazin on-site to capture the madness. Please enjoy our gallery below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Melvins <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Tomahawk<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">All Photos by Ehud Lazin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two legends in the rock community recently toured together. The Melvins and Tomahawk brought the\u00a0A Great Waste of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-310268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}