High on Fire performs at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on March 29, 2016. Photos: Derek Tobias. BERKELEY — Local heavy metal champions High On Fire returned to The UC Theatre from a year-long limbo Friday night. Following the appropriately gruesome partial amputation of guitarist Matt Pike’s toe, the band was…

Obituary performs at The UC Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 5, 2019. Photos: Karen Goldman. BERKELEY — Some 30 years after the birth of death metal, few bands match the consistency and longevity of Obituary. The Florida death-metallers are currently on the road celebrating their 1989 debut album, Slowly We Rot.…