In the late 1980s, Sweden was the origin of many bands who created a blend of death metal with heavy, crunchy riffs and melodic guitar work with some punk influences and a guitar sound that was inspired by the English grind band Unseen Terror. Typically these bands didn’t play mid-paced with simple but varied drum […]

I had seen Exodus a couple of times before, but both times on a festival. Now I finally got the chance to see them on a headliner tour and with them they brought the relatively new, English band Biomechanical. Reading the biography on their website, I expected some sort of nu-metal band band. Biomechanical turned […]

The Slovakian brutal death metal band had organised a four-gig mini-tour through the Netherlands. And as they didn’t bring any supports themself, each of the four shows had different opening acts. Gouda was the fourth show on the tour. I don’t really know what their business case is but if the other three gigs had […]

After years of line-up issues and actually splitting up, Sinister recently got back together and recorded a new album titled After burner this year. Many things have changed tho, in the lineup. Former drummer Aad is now the singer; Alex switched from bass to guitar and they recruited a new drummer and bass player. Now […]

The first concert I went to this year was headlined by a band – Deicide – I was never interested in and I hadn’t seen before either. Nevertheless I went to this gig to see the support act Psycroptic who opened. This Tasmanian outfit had recently released their third full-length and toured in support of […]

Officium Triste is a doom / death metal band from from the area of Rotterdam. And it is time for their annual gig in the Baroeg and this time head lining it again. Three other bands were found to support them. And much to my surprise the sound was quite good the whole evening – […]

013 in Tilburg was the venue that hosted this thrash metal festival during the carnival. While outside the parade with decorated vehicles and oddly and colourfully dressed people were gathering, inside metalheads dressed in black were awaiting the return of the mighty Onslaught with four other bands. The opening band was the local and rather […]

The last show the domination tour 2007 took place in the Baroeg, in Rotterdamn. This year Rotting Christ was the headliner supported by no less than six other bands. Opening band of the afternoon was the Greek band Inactive Messiah. They were given 20 minutes to play and frankly that was more than enough. This […]

Kreator had re-issued their latest opus, Enemy of God, and I suppose that was reason enough to do another tour. I had completely missed the opening act Watain due to a change in time schedules. I walked into the hall just as they started to change the set. No big loss tho as I the […]

Vital Remains went on a European tour to support their new album Icons of Evil, and the first dates of the tour were even before the actual release. They were supported by three largely unknown band. At least I didn’t know any of them. The first support act was the Italian band Kenos who play […]