The Dutch cult act Consolation had been defunct for over 20 years, before ultimately reforming this year, much like their companion band Nembrionic. They played the Stonehenge festival this summer, but this was the first club gig that they did in more or less their hometown Zaandam. The venue is located on a dreary industrial […]

Another tour that postponed several times, but finally the mighty Suffocation was touring again in Europe, visiting many summer festivals and adding some club gigs into it as well. They brought three support bands. The opening band was Frontierer from Scotland. I hadn’t heard of them, they are not on metal archives. Well, I don’t […]

Founded in 1994, Evoken is one of the oldest still going extreme doom metal bands. A headlining gig for a band like this is quite a rarity. So reason enough to go to the Baroeg on this Friday afternoon. The German band Ophis was supposed to play the support slot, but they canceled shortly before […]

Napalm Death have been doing a lot of touring the last couple of years, and for this tour they did only one gig in the Netherlands, this time again in the Patronaat in Haarlem. They brought no less than 4 support acts on this Campaign for Musical Destruction tour. I missed the first band called […]

The first stop of the tour with Dread Sovereign was at the Baroeg in Rotterdam together with two other bands, whom I wasn’t all that interested in. Yet Dread Sovereign doesn’t play live very often so it was worth going to this gig nonetheless. Dread Sovereign were the opening band but were given a very […]

The German thrash veterans of Destruction have a new album, which kind of escaped me entirely. So I hadn’t heard it at all. But they are doing a short tour to support that album under the Thrash Alliance flag with three more thrash metal bands. I missed the first band – Final Breath – entirely […]

The first gig for me in 2020 is an indoor festival with quite an interesting lineup. I had to drive all the way to Drachten to see it. And be because it started early and long drive, as well as that I had seen Mouflon before and didn’t care that much, I decided to skip […]

I missed At the Gates during their heydays in the 90s. They played in the same venue a year and a half ago at NDF. At that time, I was more interested in other bands and they didn’t make a lasting impression. So now they are back as headliner to promote their latest album I […]

Immolation have been touring a lot the last couple of years. I think this is already the third tour they do for Atonement in Europe And they frequently appear in the Baroeg, which is very convenient for me as it is quite close by. And as they never let down it is interesting to go. […]