It’s a humungous week for old-school hardcore. Terror, who’ve been around for nearly a quarter of a century and still boast two original members, headline a Webster Underground show that features four other bands. Deadguy, a true innovator of the hardcore style, has reunited and is coming to the sort of fancy concert hall the band never played when it was first around in the mid-1990s, with three other bands.
Hardcore shows have always been a crowded affair. Multi-band bills are standard. Shows that can last eight hours or more, with maybe a dozen bands playing aren’t uncommon. Considering the extreme energy and ultrafast tempo the music requires, hardcore shows can be exhausting for all involved — and transformative.
Hardcore is such an all-consuming live experience that it’s rare that bands in the genre become known for their recordings. Terror and Deadguy are among the exceptions. Terror, a West Coast mainstay that tours incessantly, is poised to release its first album in four years, “Still Suffer.” It will be the band’s ninth studio album, the most popular releases being “Live by the Code” in 2013 and “The 25th Hour” in 2015. There have also been five live albums, six EPs and a few compilations or split EPs. Terror has played The Webster seven times, but that’s in a 22-year span with the most recent Hartford show being nearly five years ago.
Deadguy were East Coast heroes, hailing from New Jersey. Before this recent reunion, the band was only together for three years, from 1994 to 1997, and that’s with a couple of major lineup changes that divided its fan base. In that brief period they may have visited Connecticut a dozen times or more. In a fascinating 2021 documentary about the band, “Deadguy: Killing Music,” the members recall a New Haven area show when a naked man joined them onstage before stage diving away. At least as memorable was a New Year’s Eve show at the Tune Inn in downtown New Haven where the band blazed brightly. Guitarist Chris “Crispy” Corvino had the ability to swing his guitar around his neck by its strap as if it was a hula hoop rather than a heavy jagged musical instrument.
Musically, Deadguy was in a hardcore league all their own. They messed with rhythms and lyrical tempos and abrupt chord changes that not only suited the pell-mell world of hardcore but inspired key bands in the mathcore scene, a persnickety subgenre whose guitar heroes were known for the complexity of their crushingly loud playing. Deadguy’s 1994 three-song vinyl EP “White Meat” (and its six-song CD variant “Work Ethic”), then its debut album “Fixation on a Co-Worker”in 1995 were staggeringly influential in the hardcore community and a later lineup kept up the high standards with 1996’s “Screamin’ with the Deadguy Quintet.”
In 2021 Deadguy reunited its unmatched original lineup of Corvino, lead guitarist Keith Huckins (who defined the band’s original sound), vocalist Tim Singer and drummer Dave Rosenberg. Tim Naumann, the band’s founding bassist and later its vocalist, is not part of the reunion, but the band’s bassist from 1996-97, Jim Baglino, is. The current lineup released a new album, “Near-Death Travel Services,” just last year, featuring songs such as “Kill Fee,” “War With Strangers,” “The Long Search for Perfect Timing” and “All Stick and No Carrot.” The album stands with their classic output of over 20 years ago.
Connecticut has been known for its tightknit and long-lasting hardcore scene, which began in the 1980s and had developed a solid core community by the early ‘90s. The circular “CTHC” graffiti symbol from those days still persists. Edict, a younger hardcore band that appears as an opening act on both the Deadguy and Terror bills this week, happens to hail from Rhode Island but recorded their debut album in Connecticut and own a sonic debt to the legendary New Haven band Hatebreed.
The touring theatrical concert piece “The Simon & Garfunkel Story” has two stops in Connecticut this week, March 10 at the Warner Theatre and March 11 at the Stamford Palace. (Timothy Norris)
Reik
Foxwoods Resort Casino, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket
The California-based Latin pop trio Reik, who is coming to Foxwoods’ Premier Theatre, has had a string of hit records over the past two decades and released its latest album “TQ+” at the end of 2025. March 8 at 7 p.m. $48-$113.60. foxwoods.com.
Zachariah Porter
Foxwoods Resort Casino, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket
Zachariah Porter, the TikTok comedian who likes to joke about food, is on a live tour coming to Foxwoods’ Great Cedar Showroom on March 8 at 7 p.m. $48-$113.60. foxwoods.com.
Jonathan Richman
Space Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden
Living legend Jonathan Richman, whose first album with his band The Modern Lovers gave us “Roadrunner” and “Pablo Picasso” and who was the singing narrator of the hit movie “There’s Something About Mary,” has a troubadour lifestyle now where he travels by himself and does solo shows for generations of fans. Richman is at Space Ballroom for two nights, March 10 and 11, at 8 p.m. $43.14, $37.99 in advance. collegestreetmusichall.com.
‘The Simon and Garfunkel Story’
Warner Theatre, 68 Main St., Torrington
Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford
The long-touring theater show/tribute concert “The Simon and Garfunkel Story,” about the popular 1960s duo that brought us “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Mrs. Robinson” and “The Sound of Silence,” has two shows in Connecticut this week: March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Warner Theatre in Torrington ($46.50-$200.50; warnertheatre.org) and March 11 at 7 p.m. at the Stamford Palace ($61.85-$213.60; palacestamford.org).
Be Like Blippi
Shubert Theatre, 247 College St., New Haven
The national tour based on the popular YouTube kids channel comes to New Haven with songs and fun. March 12 at 6 p.m. $44.70-$116.10. shubert.com.
Metal Fest
Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven
Nearly a dozen bands take the stage for an all-ages metal fest that begins at 6 p.m. on March 12 . Acts include 6five6, Ironrift, Seventh Hour, Syfon, Toxic Paralysis and Trench CT on the mainstage plus Added Color, Corvus, Pablo X and Splatterhead on a second stage in the club’s Lilly’s Pad area. $15, $12 in advance. toadsplace.com.
Legendary two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted singer-songwriter Rod Stewart is bringing his “One Last Time” tour back to Mohegan Sun Arena on March 13. (Photo: Mark Maglio)
Terror
The Webster Underground, 31 Webster St., Hartford
Another great hardcore bill is coming to Hartford featuring the L.A.-based Terror, which has been active since 2002 and still retains founding vocalist Scott Vogel and founding drummer Nick Jett, plus opening acts Combust, Soulless and Edict. A new Terror album is due in April. March 12 at 7 p.m. $33.25. thewebsterct.com.
Orbit Culture
Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven
The Swedish death metal band Orbit Culture is at Toad’s Place on its “Death Above Life” world tour. March 13 at 7:30 p.m. OV Sulfur and Atlas are the opening acts. $48.25, $35.50 in advance. toadsplace.com.
Rod Stewart
Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville
Rod Stewart’s gravelly voice has interpreted rock songs, ballads, disco and the American Songbook. His “One Last Time” farewell tour got expanded so he’s saying goodbye a while longer. March 13 at 7:30 p.m. $180-$950.80. mohegansun.com.
‘Jurassic Park in Concert’
Palace Theatre, 100 East Main St., Waterbury
Symphony orchestras love playing John Williams soundtracks. Usually, it’s his “Star Wars” or “Harry Potter” soundtracks, but here’s a different one. The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra is accompanying a screening of the original “Jurassic Park” movie. March 14 at 2 p.m. $49-$95. palacetheaterct.org.
Vir Das
College Street Music Hall, 248 College St., New Haven
Stand-up comedian Vir Das, who has just written a memoir, will be performing in New Haven on March 14 at 8 p.m. $59.62. collegestreetmusichall.com.