The previous edition of Drachten Death Fest was one of the last gigs I went to before corona hit., in 2020 This year there finally was a new edition, with a line-up worth the 2-hour drive. And it takes place in a pretty cool venue. The opening band was Deadspeak. A local band who has […]

The first gig of the year for me was none other than the mighty Asphyx. They don’t play all that often in their home country, bu they started the year with a few gigs in the Netherlands. The first support slot was given to a new band from the Netherlands called Necrotesque. Even though it […]

The 6th November has at least 3 option for metal gigs. Memoriam in Arnhem, the 2nd day of Dutch Doom Day in Rotterdam. I opted to go to Soulburn in Tilburg instead. This sort-of spin off band from Asphyx – It was founded by Bob and Eric. Then after the first album renamed back to […]

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 […]