After their cancellation at Headbanging Enschede, Sodom was back on the road for a short European tour, of which the only Dutch date was in Eindhoven’s Dynamo. So after some 17 years I thought it would be time to go and see Sodom live again. They held a kind of competition to fill the second […]

On this Sunday afternoon, the Baroeg in Rotterdam promised us some doom set. Basically this is the tour of the Chilean band Procession with two local bands added to the bill. Opening is the Dutch Ortega who I had seen playing just a couple of months ago. So I already knew I wouldn’t like them […]

Patrick Walker is back with a new doom metal band ever since he broke up Warning. And with a new album under their belt, they are doing a few gigs around Europe, including this Sunday afternoon gig in Rotterdam. Not that it was a full house, maybe 50 people came to check them out. There […]

Five bands toured through Europe under the moniker Power of Metal – all more or less power metal, hence the name. I’m normally not much interested in power metal, oh some early Helloween would be fine. But other than that, no thanx. But this toured featured no less than the recently re-united Psychotic Waltz. A […]

A new doom metal festival in a venue I had never been before – popcentrale in Dordrecht – with some interesting bands on the bill. I skipped the first couple of bands.   When I entered the venue, the Belgian Hooded Priest had just started playing. I had seen them play before (2008), but apparently […]

I’ve seen Primordial a few times over the years, but never headlining. And they don’t do many club shows unfortunately, but only appear on festivals. And now with a new album under their belts, this is a one off chance probably to see them headlining in a club on this short tour with a rather […]

A co-headlining tour from two US heavy/power/thrash metal bands that have existed for some 30 years. I wasn’t all that familiar with either band really but since they seem to be classic I checked them out nonetheless. And the mp3s I heard didn’t sound bad either. Turned out, the average age on stage and in […]

The Dutch Doom Day is celebrating its tenth edition with a three day event with in total 15 bands. Like usual the line-up is very varied with some bands not even all that doomy at all.The Friday opened with a band form the Azores called A Dream Of Poe who play pretty standard doom / […]

A World-War II-themed, old school death metal band town with veteran musicians playing in their sort of home. Can you wrong with that? Probably, but Hail of Bullets are way above average. And doing a one-off club gig aside all the festival gigs they do is a good chance to sort them out. But first […]

Cynic had just released a new EP and so there was an excuse to do a European tour. Supposedly with the French band Hypno5e, but for some reason they were dropped of the tour. Instead the Baroeg arranged a local support band to open the evening. Eden To Ashes were the lucky few. A young, […]