It was already the fourth instalment of this small festival in the Baroeg in Rotterdam, with a mixture of extreme metal bands performing on single day. Six bands were scheduled, however one band – Grindpad – cancelled shortly before the event. So everything started an hour later than planned. The opening band was Deadspeak. A […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On this Sunday no less than 7 bands performed in the Baroeg. The Morbidfest tour that got postponed several times, finally actually took place. Unfortunately Grave had forfeit their slot. I think Baroeg combined this tour with another of two doom / death bands. Hence it turned out to be a very varied package. The […]

I used to live in Enschede some 20 years ago. At that time, the club Atak was in Enschede. The Neigbouring Hengelo had a club too, called Metropool. Things were simple these days. The old Atak got closed down, a new Atak was build – much larger. And if I’m not mistaken Metropool also got […]

Two days after Thanatos I was in the Baroeg again. This time a short tour with 3 bands, playing quite different styles performed there. And 3 bands that don’t play all that much live around here. The bands were still soundchecking as I arrived, but started right on the scheduled time The first band was […]

Thanatos is one of the oldest extreme metal bands that are still active in the world and the oldest in the Netherlands. In March of 2020 they had released their 7th album and a album release party was scheduled in the Baroeg. Then shit happened with lock-downs and the date got rescheduled several times. Eventually […]