The Swedish Tribulation is a bit of an odd band. Starting out as a more or less typical Swedish death metal band on their debut album, they moved in a far more progressive direction with their second album. Long songs, with a firm basis in death metal but with lots of lead guitar work going […]

After some 20 years the cult Dutch death metal act Ceremony have resurfaced. This was the first time they played live again, as a sort of try-out. Coincidently, they shared a gig with the two supporting bands as well. Too bad the band Profane wasn’t added as well to complete the line-up of 1995. Kurb […]

Peter Hobbs has been quite active the last couple of years. I think this is the third European tour in three years. This time around with Swedish revived death metal band Interment. And as before a stop in the Little Devil cafe was planned. The venue added another support act, namely Lucifericon which is a […]

While a storm raged over the Netherlands, I drove to Tilburg to see the Chilean Pentagram. I already had settled on not seeing Pentagram on this tour as the previous date coincided with Swallow the Sun, the Saturday before. This gig however, was added very late to the tour. It started quite early on the […]

Swallow the Sun seemed to have been in a rather creative mood lately, releasing a 3-disc album, a couple of weeks ago. The started a tour to support only shortly after the release. This tour hit the Baroeg on a dark, rainy, autumn Saturday evening, which actually sets a perfect mood for some doom / […]

I became aware of this gig only a couple days before. With a bit of effort I could fixed it in my schedule, which as pretty crazy with many gigs and spending a lot of time than I’d like in the car for work. Never the less, I wouldn’t want to miss these two bands, […]

When it comes to old school extreme metal, the Deathcrusher tour is one of the most anticipated events of this year. Four bands on tour that were all founded in the first half of the eighties. But with no date except a festival appearance at speedfest in the Netherlands I resorted to going just across […]

The Vorstin is quite a new venue in Hilversum. This (think) second installment of the Krachtstroom festival was hosted here instead of Arnhem. The featured no less that 14 bands of which more than half are actually lesser known Dutch bands. That made me skip the first handful of bands and I arrived when Bodyfarm […]

Krisiun are celebrating their 25 year anniversary this year and coincidentely have recently released a new album. What more reasons could a band want to do European tour. The last show of this tour took place in Rotterdam on this Sunday metal matinee. The venue added three local supports as Krisiun brought none. Sepiroth was […]