Rotterdoom band Officium Triste were celebrating their 15 year anniversary in their home town Rotterdam by way of this gig for which they invited a couple of befriended doom bands. Some of which are quite rare to spot on the European stages. Basically this gig was two tours coinciding on the same stage. Opening the […]

Sacred Reich got an invitation to play the Rockhard festival in German. And since they were around, anyway, they thought it would be a great idea to do a gig in what they call their “European Headquarters”. They probably owe a lot of their “fame” to the Dynamo Open Air festivals from 1989 and 1990 […]

Among the many classic bands that re-united, the classic Dutch death metal band had also been resurrected after the failure of C-187. Basically a solo effort of Patrick Mameli, but joined later by some Pestilence veterans, like Patrick Uterwijk and Tony Choy. But no Martin van Drunen. Anyway, they even recorded a new album which […]

Like many bands, Immolation came over to do a couple of festival shows during the summer season. They added a few club shows to it and one of these shows was in a very hot Baroeg on a thursday evening. The opening band was the Dutch Nox, who were sort of revived. I missed most […]

Probably the technical death metal band from the nineties – Atheist – are doing a short European tour of some 8 gigs this summer around some festivals. In the Netherlands they did a single show in a club I had never been to – not too far off even. About an hour drive. They brought […]

Cynic were, as they said themselves, too late to book for many summer festivals, so they ended up doing 9 gigs in Europe in a month’s time and took the rest of the days of travelling. They did one gig in the Netherlands though and this took place in Amstelveen in the club P60. A […]

So the short history of this small festival is a bit funny. First there was supposed to be DelftDoom, but it was cancelled. Then there was BredaDoom but it turned out the venue got a double booking. So it was relocated to… Delft again, and so now we do have a DelftDoom. In the mean […]

This weekend there was another instalment – the eighth to be exact – of the annual doom metal festival Dutch Doom Day, held in Baroeg, Rotterdam. Once again, 2 days of doom. Nevertheless I decided to go only the first day. Not only because I had some other things to do, but mainly because the […]

The Finnish lads from Swallowed the Sun had just released a new album and so scheduled a tour which started in Rotterdam. So off I went through the rain and wind and somewhat ill towards Rotterdam. The club turned out to be pretty full. Swallow the Sun brought two Finnish bands as supporting acts. The […]