Pestilence is one of the big Dutch death metal bands from the early days. Consuming Impulse and Testimony of the Ancients are classics and helped shape the genre. One album later they split up, only to resurface a decade and a half later. Newer albums never were all that successful and line-ups have changed a […]
Ceremony @ Musicon, The Hague, 3 October 2025
Ceremony is a more or less local band who released a cult death metal album in 1990s. Shortly after its release the band called it quits, only to resurface several decades later, followed by the release of their second album in 2019. Now they had just released a new album and played a show to […]
Asphyx @ Nobel, Leiden, 26 September 2025
Asphyx is one of the longest running death metal bands from the Netherlands – even though they have no original members left. They don’t play all that often in the Netherlands unfortunately, so if they do, it is time to check them out. This time they were invited by Graceless to headline their release show. […]
Atheist @ Mergener Hof, Trier, 11 September 2025
It has been 35 years since the US death metal band Atheist released their debut album Piece of Time. So they set up a European tour in celebration of that. There were 3 Dutch dates but either during my holidays or quite far away. However, I could make a stay over in Trier for a […]
Dark Angel, Nobel, Leiden, 12 August 2025
On this hot Tuesday, I rode to Leiden on my bike to see the thrash metal band Dark Angel. Not a band that has been doing a lot of touring lately, and most of their gigs has been on festivals. So quite interesting to see them in a club. I did expect it to sell […]
Suffocation @ Hall Of Fame, Tilburg, 10 August 2025
Suffocation has been touring a lot for the last few years. This time they made a stop in Tilburg amidst some festival appearances. I hadn’t been to Hall of Fame before, as it is relatively new, but it is close to the 013 venue. There were two support slots. The first were for the Tasmanians […]
Pentagram (Chile) @ Little Devil, Tilburg, 27 Juli 2025
The Chilean band Pentagram started in the year 1985 and hence this year they did some gigs in Europe to celebrate the 40 years since the band started. Can’t really say existed as there have been a long hiatus in this period. There was no support act this Sunday evening in Tilburg, so Pentagram started […]
Massacre @ Musicon, The Hague, 1 July 2025
It was the hottest day of the year (at least so far) with temperatures hitting 39 degrees, when Massacre was playing in The Hague. Not the best circumstances to bike 11 kms through the city. I guess quite some folks skipped this gig due to the heat, as it wasn’t sold out by a long […]
King Diamond, 013, Tilburg, 11 June 2025
The last time the King played in the Netherlands has been 6 years ago. Not much seem to have happened on the musical side of things. But this spring he is back touring in Europe again. This time with a bunch of support acts too. The opening band was Angel Witch. An old NWOBHM band. […]
Convulse @ Musicon, The Hague, 20 May 2025
There are a great many death metal bands from Finland that were founded in the late 80s or early 90s. Most of these have remained rather obscure with a cult following. All of these bands however had a unique style of their own with a typical melodic feel often releasing only a single album on […]
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