This was the second day in a row I travelled to the Baroeg in Rotterdam. Fortunately it is quite close by. This day it was the host to the 6th installment of the Veneration of the Dead festival. Normally, I am not much into black metal, but I do make some exceptions. In particular when […]

I think I have been to the annual 2-day metal festival only once before. Usually the number of interesting bands is quite low, so that doesn’t warrant the hour and a half drive and ticket price. This years Friday had no interesting bands after the cancellation of My Dying Bride. Hell, I hardly know any […]

Gorguts is doing a short European tour this summer in between some festival gigs. Apparently it is a quadruple rotating headlining tour, but for this gig Gorguts would be playing last, yet all four bands got some 40 minutes to play. The opening band Venom Prison started at 18.00 already, so I had to miss […]

Diamond Head is a band I guess most people got to know through the cover versions Metallica did. They nearly covered the entire Lightning to the Nations album throughout their career. Where Am I Evil? is probably the best known song. And so I am one of those. I only listened to the originals much […]

Psychotic Waltz is one of the most original metal bands ever. They are often categorised as progressive metal, but that is far from the whole story. Particularly the first two albums are chock-full of great and varied songs. There is a obvious thrash background. And all are excellent musicians. There latest album is already 20 […]

Pogo is the host of a new doom metal festival this winter. Two days of doom metal. However, the lineup of the first day was the one that interested me the most, in particular the two last bands that actually played. So I decided to skip a couple of bands and only attended the evening. […]

It has been many years since I have been in the P60 club in Amstelveen even though it is actually quite lost. Apparently they didn’t program any gigs that interest me much. I think the last time, probably the only time was when Cynic played there. Anyway, this Friday and Saturday they programmed a new […]

Dark Millennium are a progressive Death metal bands from Germany that released 2 albums in the early 1990s. Especially the first album is very good and quite original. They broke up quickly after the release of the second album, before I got a chance to see them live. Now some 23 years later they did […]

My Dying Bride is probably the most consistent of the three “big” doom death bands. Even though some albums are a little less inspired, they have remained quite true to their style. Unfortunately I had not been able to see them all that often, so a European tour is much welcomed, but even three gigs […]