Why don't many metal bands come through NO?

There are no metal festivals in New Orleans. Siberia books a lot of metal but that's a really small place. The HOB is too small for bands like LOG, Mastodon, Megadeth, etc. They book a lot of screamo bands, which is apparently what kids are calling metal these days.

This is puzzling to me. I grew up in New Orleans in the mid to late 1990s and was an active venue crawler in south Louisiana until about 2005. From my point of view, NOLA had tons of metal .... Down, EYEHATEGOD, Goatwhore, Crowbar, Soilent Green, amongst many, many others. Maybe the scene has changed, but in my day it was rad.

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