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 […]

It was the hottest day of the year (at least so far) with temperatures hitting 39 degrees, when Massacre was playing in The Hague. Not the best circumstances to bike 11 kms through the city. I guess quite some folks skipped this gig due to the heat, as it wasn’t sold out by a long […]

The last time the King played in the Netherlands has been 6 years ago. Not much seem to have happened on the musical side of things. But this spring he is back touring in Europe again. This time with a bunch of support acts too. The opening band was Angel Witch. An old NWOBHM band. […]

There are a great many death metal bands from Finland that were founded in the late 80s or early 90s. Most of these have remained rather obscure with a cult following. All of these bands however had a unique style of their own with a typical melodic feel often releasing only a single album on […]

The Chilean Pentagram is a fairly obscure death metal band that has been around for almost 40 years and only managed to release two albums so far. The second only being released this year. Every one in the band except Anton is called Juan – oh well. I discovered them recorded one of their songs […]