The “Doomwards Let Us Row tour” only stopped in the Netherlands once and that was at the Baroeg. And they brought to support acts. Opening were the German doom/death band Ophis – soccer is not doom – whom I had just seen a while back with Ataraxie. They got a bit more time now. Opening […]

  I think it hasn’t been since Wâldrock 1994 that I went to an open air festival. But this second edition of Into the Grave was interesting enough to go back again to my former home town Leeuwarden. And it was held actually down-town on a former graveyard (hence the name) next to the leaning […]

The day after “Into the Grave” another excellent band played on the other side of the country on this sunny Sunday afternoon . So logistically a bit of a challenge, but anyway, I travelled to Tilburg the next day. Gorguts was just arriving at the same time, so everything was running a bit late. Never […]

This is one of the gigs I had been looking forward to a lot. The Australians of Mournful Congregation released an excellent album last year called “The Book of Kings”. And the gigs they did a couple of years ago were awesome. And now they were back with a short headlining tour through Europe. Shadow […]