Another postponed tour finally took place. The Headbangers Ball Tour – named after the TV show of the 80s and 90s – brought four thrash metal bands on the road from that time period. Although only about 10 shows long, the tour kicked off in Amersfoort of all places. The opening band was Artillery. By […]
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Demilich @ Baroeg, Rotterdam, 16 November 2022
Demilich are Finnish death metal band from the early 1990s. They play a rather oddball kind of death metal with peculiar, but technical riffs and extremely low guttural vocals. I am not sure if they ever toured in support of their sole album, released in 1993. At least I never got to see them live […]
Soulburn, Little Devil, Tilburg, 6 November 2022
The 6th November has at least 3 option for metal gigs. Memoriam in Arnhem, the 2nd day of Dutch Doom Day in Rotterdam. I opted to go to Soulburn in Tilburg instead. This sort-of spin off band from Asphyx – It was founded by Bob and Eric. Then after the first album renamed back to […]
Dutch Doom Day (Day 1), Saturday 5 November 2022, Baroeg Rotterdam
This year was already the 20th installment of the Dutch doom metal festival Dutch Doom Day. For me the first day was the only really interesting day. So I only went to the Saturday. The Sunday incidentally had three gigs I more or less wanted to go to, but from the line-up of DDD only […]
Consolation @ De Flux, Zaandam, 14 October 2022
The Dutch cult act Consolation had been defunct for over 20 years, before ultimately reforming this year, much like their companion band Nembrionic. They played the Stonehenge festival this summer, but this was the first club gig that they did in more or less their hometown Zaandam. The venue is located on a dreary industrial […]
Suffocation @ Patronaat, Haarlem, 15 August 2022
Another tour that postponed several times, but finally the mighty Suffocation was touring again in Europe, visiting many summer festivals and adding some club gigs into it as well. They brought three support bands. The opening band was Frontierer from Scotland. I hadn’t heard of them, they are not on metal archives. Well, I don’t […]
Malevolent Creation, Musicon, The Hague, 10 August 2022
It doesn’t happen all that much that the Hague host death metal gigs or metal gigs in general. So when one does happen I can ride my bicycle to go and take a look. Malevolent Creation are a second tier Floridian Death metal band from the late 80s and were celebrating 30 years of their […]
Evoken @ Baroeg, 29 July 2022
Founded in 1994, Evoken is one of the oldest still going extreme doom metal bands. A headlining gig for a band like this is quite a rarity. So reason enough to go to the Baroeg on this Friday afternoon. The German band Ophis was supposed to play the support slot, but they canceled shortly before […]
Netherlands Death Fest V, Effenaar, Eindhoven, 29 April – 1 May 2022,
When the lineup NDF V got announced, I immediately bought tickets for the whole weekend, as that line-up was the most amazing I could imagine with many bands I wanted to see but never had. Then the Wuhan cough happened, and the fest got postponed a year. And another. Some bands already dropped off the […]
Primordial, Effenaar, Eindhoven, 18 April 2022
Under the banner of Heathen Crusade to Doomsday, Primordial toured Europe for a couple of weeks. It had only a single stop in the Netherlands, and that was in Eindhoven, on this Easter Monday so what better to do on some x-tian holiday than to go to a heathen crusade. Like many tours this has […]
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