I had just seen Benediction play about half a year ago in Uden. Then without Daz and still fronted by David Ingram. The latter had since then left the band, due to health issues. He has been replaced by multiple singers including Kam Lee of Massacre and Dave Hunt who has previously fronted Benediction for […]

Coroner were an interesting and quiet original technical thrash metal band from Switzerland that released some 5 five interesting and varied album in the 80s and early 90s, then calling it quits. I never got to see them live in their heydays. The have reunited in 2010. And when I got to see them live […]

The 18th instalment of this annual festival again. It focuses on doom metal and is organised by the Belgian doom metal band Marche Funebre. I have been to a few of those festivals if the line-up was interesting enough. Often it is held in different locations, this time in Kortrijk, Almost 2.5 hour drive from […]

On this hot Sunday afternoon the Baroeg organised a gig headlined by Evoken. This funeral doom metal band has been around for a long time and now returned to Rotterdam. They brought one support act, but the venue added two more. I skipped the first band as I wanted to do other things during the […]

It had been 2 years since the old Baroeg was closed, demolished, and a new venue was built to replace it on the same location. It had opened a short while back. And with Asphyx playing there it was a good opportunity to check it out. Old building had its charm, I have been going […]

Benediction is one of those old school death metal bands (est. 1989) that I never saw live a lot and when I did they were mostly supports. So a good reason to drive to Uden to a venue I had never been before. The Dutch thrash metal band Cryptosis opened the evening. This however isn’t […]

It has been 35 years since the US death metal band Atheist released their debut album Piece of Time. So they set up a European tour in celebration of that. There were 3 Dutch dates but either during my holidays or quite far away. However, I could make a stay over in Trier for a […]

On this hot Tuesday, I rode to Leiden on my bike to see the thrash metal band Dark Angel. Not a band that has been doing a lot of touring lately, and most of their gigs has been on festivals. So quite interesting to see them in a club. I did expect it to sell […]

Suffocation has been touring a lot for the last few years. This time they made a stop in Tilburg amidst some festival appearances. I hadn’t been to Hall of Fame before, as it is relatively new, but it is close to the 013 venue. There were two support slots. The first were for the Tasmanians […]

The Chilean band Pentagram started in the year 1985 and hence this year they did some gigs in Europe to celebrate the 40 years since the band started. Can’t really say existed as there have been a long hiatus in this period. There was no support act this Sunday evening in Tilburg, so Pentagram started […]