Kreator had just released a new album, and immediately took of on a European tour. The stop at the 013 venue in Tilburg was only the second gig of the tour. Last time they were here the venue was sold out in advance, it didn’t this time though, but then it was also still a […]

The second gig I went to in the weekend was a whole different beast. No doom, but a mixture of death and black metal. Venom Inc. is 2/3 of the original Venom line-up. I was never really much of a fan of the band, I guess I’m just a bit too young. But I acknowledge […]

The Dutch Doom Day festival celebrates is 15th edition this year and once more took place on three days. Nevertheless the line-up didn’t appeal that much to me. Only the Saturday had a few bands I’d like to see. And those bands actually played as the last three. As I entered the venue Rotterdoom act […]

It’s been nearly six years since I had been in this venue called Iduna. But to see Destruction on this tour it would have to be either this or a day earlier in Rijssen, both mostly equally far away from where I live. Anyway the venue has a brand new, much larger hall than last […]

This is the second gig in this weekend that I went, although a little closer to home. Artillery’s third album By Inheritance is one of my favourite thrash metal albums ever. Unfortunately, none of their later albums even manage to come close. They are on a co-headlining tour with Mystic Prophecy (I had never even […]

The Force is the second album by the UK thrash veterans Onslaught. It was released in 1986, and hence this year it is thirty years old. The lads thought it a good idea to tour in celebration of this anniversary. They brought no less than four bands with them and played in the Baroeg on […]

Even though I have been living in the Hague area for more than a decade and a half, I never went to the club named Musicon although I rode passed it on my bicycle numerous times. The American thrash metal act Flotsam & Jetsam played a gig there as part of a 3-day drum clinic […]

Entrails is one of the many Swedeath bands that started in the early 1990s. They recorded some demos, but never released them and vanished from the scene rather unnoticed in 1998. Some ten years later the band was restarted by guitarist Jimmy and they recorded some demos. 8 years later they released 4 albums and […]

There are two active Solstices around, both having released several albums. That might incur some confusion. One is a classic doom band from the UK. However the band now touring Europe is the US death / thrash combo. And with them they brought to more bands. The opening act of the evening is the Italian […]