The first gig of 2013 for me is the presentation of Officium Triste’s new album “Mors Viri”. The announced to play a double set this evening – one with new material and one with older material. So as there were no support acts, it was OT plain and in-your-face. The first hour was filled with […]

The debut album of Tribulation is a fine slab of old school Swedish death metal with some different touches here and there. Recently they had released their second album The Formulas of Death. I read that it was supposed to sound quite different and was quite lengthy (75 minutes). So it was time to check […]

One of the oldest death metal bands was playing the Baroeg on this still cold Friday in April. They didn’t bring any supports on this European tour, so two (more or less) local bands were opening.   The first band was already playing when I entered the venue; that’s one of the major downsides of […]

The tenth edition of Neurotic Death Fest, held once again in Tilburg for three days. I only went to the second day as most of the bands the other days didn’t interest me. The first band I wanted to see was US Necrophagia. That’s old school US death from way back. Although I never listened […]

I think the third instalment of this doom metal festival in Dordrecht, at the new location of Bibelot. Anyway I skipped most of the early bands, as they weren’t very interesting and I was (still am) a bit ill. So I entered the venue after the 11th hour had just finished playing. A band I […]

It seems that metal gigs start earlier and earlier these days. On this Tuesday, no later than 18.30 the first band got on stage. Ludicrous to be there on a working day and trying to use one of the most jammed motorways in the Netherlands. So I missed the first band entirely – the more […]

It’s already been a while since Evoken released their latest opus Atra Mors, but it wasn’t until now that they were doing a tour to support it in Europe albeit a short one. And this was the only date in the Netherlands. They brought two support slots but there were different guests on every gig, […]

By Inheritance is one of the best thrash metal albums ever released, unfortunately I hadn’t been able to see the mighty Artillery live yet. As they’ve been reactivated a couple of years ago, the got around to touring only in 2013, on the Speed of Sound tour together with Gama Bomb as co-headliner and two […]