It was the Tenth edition of the Belgian Darken the Moon festival already. A few years back I went to edition number V, in Brussels, this time it was held in Sint Niklaas, which is about half an hour closer by. The festival was held in a very neat, old building called De Casino. It […]
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Dutch Doom Day XVII, 24 October 2018, Baroeg, Rotterdam
The start of autumn is usually the time for Dutch Doom Day held at the Baroeg, the 17th installment already. Two days filled with doom metal, often rather obscure bands that one doesn’t get to see often. I went to only the first day, as I didn’t really know or liked any of the bands […]
Napalm Death @ Baroeg, 16 November 2018
Napalm Death are one of the oldest still going extreme metal bands. Formed in 1981 as a hardcore band, they pioneered grindcore in the mid-80s and later included death metal influences in their sound. Even some groove metal influences appeared in the 90s. There are no original members left since 1987 or thereabouts. But Shane, […]
Purtenance @ De Popcentrale, Dordrecht, 4 November 2018
Purtenance is one of the many death metal bands from the early 1990s that released a nearly forgotten album, then, which is now a cult release. Even the re-release of their debut album is hard to come by at a fair price. They broke up after the release and only many years later reformed and […]
Diamond Head @ De Flux, Zaandam, 26 October 2018
Diamond Head are one of the first NWOBHM band, yet they are best known through the covers Metallica played. Back in the early 80s they had everything, yet they never gained the success like some of the other NWOBHM band like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Anyway, for a while they have resurfaced and are […]
Mourning Beloveth @ Baroeg, Rotterdam, 19 October 2018
The Irish lads from Mourning Beloveth were doing a short tour in the Benelux during this weekend around a festival in Leeuwarden. The second gig was in Rotterdam and the third in Belgium, however that gig was cancelled. So a really short tour then. Originally the Dutch underground act Phlebotomized were supposed to play, however […]
Hamferd @ Little Devil, Tilburg, 7 October 2018
Hamferd played this same venue half a year ago. I was very much impressed by their gig, at the time. Then as a support act, now as the headliner. This was the last show of a short tour they did in Europe. The venue added one opening act. Beyond our Ruins had the honour to […]
Schoonebeek Death Fest, 1 September 2018, Schoonebeek
The Schoonebeek Death Fest is a relatively new and quite small outdoor festival. I think it is the second installment, and they aimed at 400 visitors. I’m not sure there were that many tho. Nevertheless, they organised a interesting line-up, featuring a number of bands from the Raw Skull records roster, who organised the festival, […]
Exodus @ Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, 1 July 2018
It has been more than 10 years ago that I saw Exodus live. I quite following them mostly as I didn’t care that much for the albums after Tempo of the Damned which was released in 2004. Partly because I don’t like Rob Dukes’ vocals, and mostly because the songwriting was subpar with too few […]
Coven @ P60, Amstelveen, 20 June 2018
Long before there was Black Metal, there was an American band called Coven. Founded in 1967 and active until the mid-1970s, they were the first band to incorporate occult and Satanic imagery and lyrics, culminating in the track “Satanic Mass”. And they also contributed the sign of the horns into music. Strangely enough the opening […]
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