One day after the Krachtstroom festival I drove to Tilburg to see the band A Forest of Stars. A bit of a hard to classify band, rooted in modern black metal, but with obvious doom and folk influences and layers of complexity. I was curious, yet even a bit skeptical if they could actually pull […]
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Krachtstroom Festival @ Vorstin, Hilversum, 18 October 2015
The Vorstin is quite a new venue in Hilversum. This (think) second installment of the Krachtstroom festival was hosted here instead of Arnhem. The featured no less that 14 bands of which more than half are actually lesser known Dutch bands. That made me skip the first handful of bands and I arrived when Bodyfarm […]
Krisiun @ Baroeg, Rotterdam, 23 August 2015
Krisiun are celebrating their 25 year anniversary this year and coincidentely have recently released a new album. What more reasons could a band want to do European tour. The last show of this tour took place in Rotterdam on this Sunday metal matinee. The venue added three local supports as Krisiun brought none. Sepiroth was […]
Cryptopsy and Psycroptic @ Little Devil, Tilburg, 10 August 2015
Cryptopsy has been doing a lot of touring lately. I think this is the third tour within a year in Europe. Probably because they are an “independent band”. Anyway, as I saw them both times and closer to home, normally I would probably have skipped this show. But they brought Psycroptic with them on this […]
Napalm Death @ Burgerweeshuis, Deventer, 3 July 2015
It has been quite a while since I saw Napalm Death, I guess over 5 years ago. They’re doing a bit of touring now in Europe, mostly around some of the festivals that are abundant with a number of club gigs to fill in the gaps. But the first date of this tour is in […]
Doomday Celebration @ Gebr. Nobel, Leiden, 26 May 2015
It’s been nearly 15 years since I went to a gig in Leiden; I don’t think there has been much metal ever since. However now, a new venue named Gebr. Nobel opened its doors in 2014. And they organised a neat festival on this Sunday of the pentecost. I rode on my bike to Leiden […]
Dordrecht Doom Day @ Popcentrale Dordrecht, 16 May 2015
This is already the fifth installment of this small, indoor doom festival. The bill wasn’t all that interesting, with one major exception: The Chilean band Capilla Ardiente who did a short tour through Europe. I don’t expect them to return again soon, so that was a strong incentive to go. I skipped the first couple […]
Pungent Stench @ Baroeg, 3 May 2015
Pungent Stench, or as advertised Martin Schirenc Plays Pungent Stench, is one of the classic European death metal bands. The broke up a few times, and now only Martin is left as an original member. And due to some legal dispute he can’t use the name Pungent Stench, but never mind, it is as Pungent […]
Rotting Christ @ Baroeg, 5 April 2015
In the early 1990s Rotting Christ were one of the first Greek black metal bands. Their debut album Thy Mighty Contract from 1993 is awesome. And I was fortunate enough to see them live on the legendary Fuck Christ tour with Blasphemy and Immortal, where they promoted that album. There actually is a low quality […]
Cryptopsy @ Baroeg, 15 February 2015
Cryptopsy has been doing a lot of touring lately and this would be the second tour that visited Europe is half a year. I saw them play in The Hague that time. This time they dropped by the Baroeg in Rotterdam. They brought no supports on this tour so the venue arranged some bands themselves […]
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