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 […]

Pessimist is one of the many American death metal bands that is also there, even though they have made three quite good albums, and have been around for long time. Being a bit late to the ball doesn’t help either. As far as I know they have never toured in Europe before. And now they […]

After a few announcement of a new European tour by Atheist that got cancelled, this time it really happened as a co-headliner tour with Cryptopsy under the name Unquestionable Blasphemy tour. Last time I saw Atheist was 2009, so nearly 15 years ago. It was about time though. Maybe a venue like Fluor was a […]

I think this was the third instalment of this festival that I went to, even though it is not that close by it is often worth the drive. This year had a longer bill that the previous years as they opted to use too halls for gigs. Unfortunately there were two cancellations shortly announced before […]

Under the flag of Dutch Doom Day presets, local doom legends Officium Triste organised a gig; pretty much their annual gig in the Baroeg. They arranged two additional bands. The just-as-local Facade fast the first to hit the stage. Classified as doom / death but they have some more progressive elements in there as well […]