The Sunday of Dutch Doom Day featured another seven bands of various types of doom metal. The day started with the Dutch band Akelei who play melodic doom metal with Dutch lyrics that are sung clean. They use three guitars (and aren’t the only one this day), which were used to create multiple layers of […]

Houwitser have reformed a short while ago and are playing a couple of gigs in the Netherlands. Now I never really cared much about Houwitser, but they had Putrefied as support. They album was pretty decent – it reminds me most about the first Incantation album – and I heard good things about their live […]

Certainly one of the more colourful people of the metal scene these days, this Kvarforth. The main difference with most attention whores is that he actually composes great music. And that makes it worth checking out his band Shining went on a short European tour in the late autumn. And so I went to the […]

Albeit one of the oldest death metal bands Master have been more or less overlooked among the other early death metal bands, such as Death, Possessed, and Massacre. Nevertheless Paul Speckmann has kept the band going for ever since and as such it is probably the oldest band that is still active. Meanwhile Speckmann moved […]

A new album is forthcoming by the Swedish death metal veterans of Dismember and the band went on the road to promote that album already. I went to an apparently rather new club in the heart of Purmerend, named P3. The first band World Escape from Germany had nearly finished their set when I entered […]

I got into Impious a couple years ago as I found a copy of their album “Terror Succeeds” for no more than 50 cents at some crappy store. Considering I know their style was thrashy Swedish death metal, I was willing to take the risk. It turned out to be actually quite a decent album. […]

On this Easter monday afternoon Immolation stopped at the 013 club in Tilburg, which was a good chance for me to check them out again, despite the wintery weather. This was the second European tour to promote their latest opus “Shadowns in the Light”, less than a year after their previous tour. This afternoon there […]

The Baroeg was sold out this evening Death Angel played, just as the other two nights in Utrecht and Eindhoven. I suppose that must mean that thrash metal is back. Anyway, they had a new album out that I haven’t heard yet, but their first three albums are good enough to warrant going to Rotterdam. […]

An odd band this General Surgery is; they were founded as early as 1988, but quickly quit after the release of one EP in 1991. Somehow the band was resurrected some 12 years later. Even though they weren’t on tour, they did a few shows throughout Europe including a stop at the Baroeg. Three support […]

A year and a half after the previous European tour in support of the Smear Campaign album, Napalm Death were back to the Netherlands once again. And as Barney said, this was the last leg of the Smear Campaign tour, kicking off at this show in Dordrecht. The German Sardonic were given the honour to […]