Sacred Reich got an invitation to play the Rockhard festival in German. And since they were around, anyway, they thought it would be a great idea to do a gig in what they call their “European Headquarters”. They probably owe a lot of their “fame” to the Dynamo Open Air festivals from 1989 and 1990 […]

Among the many classic bands that re-united, the classic Dutch death metal band had also been resurrected after the failure of C-187. Basically a solo effort of Patrick Mameli, but joined later by some Pestilence veterans, like Patrick Uterwijk and Tony Choy. But no Martin van Drunen. Anyway, they even recorded a new album which […]

Like many bands, Immolation came over to do a couple of festival shows during the summer season. They added a few club shows to it and one of these shows was in a very hot Baroeg on a thursday evening. The opening band was the Dutch Nox, who were sort of revived. I missed most […]

Probably the technical death metal band from the nineties – Atheist – are doing a short European tour of some 8 gigs this summer around some festivals. In the Netherlands they did a single show in a club I had never been to – not too far off even. About an hour drive. They brought […]

Cynic were, as they said themselves, too late to book for many summer festivals, so they ended up doing 9 gigs in Europe in a month’s time and took the rest of the days of travelling. They did one gig in the Netherlands though and this took place in Amstelveen in the club P60. A […]

So the short history of this small festival is a bit funny. First there was supposed to be DelftDoom, but it was cancelled. Then there was BredaDoom but it turned out the venue got a double booking. So it was relocated to… Delft again, and so now we do have a DelftDoom. In the mean […]

This weekend there was another instalment – the eighth to be exact – of the annual doom metal festival Dutch Doom Day, held in Baroeg, Rotterdam. Once again, 2 days of doom. Nevertheless I decided to go only the first day. Not only because I had some other things to do, but mainly because the […]

The Finnish lads from Swallowed the Sun had just released a new album and so scheduled a tour which started in Rotterdam. So off I went through the rain and wind and somewhat ill towards Rotterdam. The club turned out to be pretty full. Swallow the Sun brought two Finnish bands as supporting acts. The […]

The (North) Irish lads of Gama Bomb picked a rather wintry time to play around here. The cold (-10 C) and snow probably apparently kept many people home, as only some 50 showed up eventually. Gama Bomb didn’t bring any support acts so the club had arranged for two. Opening act was Nuestros Derechos of […]

Less than a year later “experimental black metal” band Shining is back at the Baroeg. And a new bass-player, with album #6 under their belt, and album #7 to be released in a few months I guess they found it time to do some promotional gigs again. They brought two Norwegian black metal bands as […]