Esoteric was in the Netherlands and I was quite impressed by their previous show a year or so ago in Tilburg. So it was time to go to Rotterdam to see how’d they pull if off this time. But first there was Eria D’Or, a local band playing a mixture of gothic and doom metal […]

Yeah, I’m quite busy attending concerts lately. This time it was a small indoor doom metal festival in 013, Tilburg. In total seven bands took the stage. First up was the Finnish doom metal band (well all bands today are doom but hey…) Tyranny. I didn’t know them before. Playing a mere 2 songs in […]

Decapitated came to the Netherlands again on their European tour, bringing three other bands. The first band to hit the stage was UK’s DAM. It thought that DAM was an eighties band, but this was quite a join band. Nevertheless they were a quite mediocre death metal band and had a pretty terrible sound. Next […]

I only recently discovered Opeth – at least I knew them from the time Orchid came out, but didn’t think to much of it at that time. Now that they toured Europe to promote their new album “Ghost Reveries” it was time for me to check them out live. The support band for the night […]

Vital Remains was touring Europe stating “That this tour is for the Fans and the Metal Underground!”. For that tour they brought several bands to play varying per venue. In Rotterdam Downscape was opening. And to put it bluntly this band sucked. I don’t who decided to put them on the bill. This German band […]

A day after the Vital Remains concert, the Dutch Dooms Day numero 4 was scheduled. A few bands had dropped off the bill (including Funeral) and that resulted in the only reason for me to go being Mourning Beloveth who headlined this festival. So I had to wait a long time. At 18.00 “In Age […]

On a drizzly Sunday evening, the Birmingham grinders of Napalm Death, played a gig in the city of Haarlem. The band has been around for 25 years already, so it is quite clear what to expect from them. This time they brought two support. To kick off the evening the Glasgow band Mendeed were brought […]

This last week I had to move all of a sudden, so I was dead tired, but nevertheless, this Sunday had two interesting things. First there was a metal market in the Baroeg, which I checked out and got me a couple of new CDs. Second, there was Mortician, supported by Ackercocke and Blood Red […]

It was again time for the annual X-mass fest tour; this time co-headlined by Hypocrisy and Exodus. 013 was reasonably full this year, but I strongly doubt it was sold out. The first band to play in the small hall was Before Silence, which I guess would be called progressive or so. Not really my […]