The third gig in a week for me…. these are busy times. This time a little closer by and hence I took my bike instead of the car and had no trouble with traffic and all that. Destruction played in the Gebr. De Nobel in Leiden with two support acts. Maybe they are the least […]

I’m not much of a fan of power metal usually, but Helloween’s double album Keeper of the Seven Keys is an exception to that rule. Possibly because it was one of the first metal albums I got into. Later albums couldn’t interest me much as they were weirder and when singer Michael Kiske left they […]

The Chilean doom metal band Procession – though operating out of Sweden – has just released a new album called Doom Decimation and they thought it to be a good idea to tour around Europe a bit to promote it. The only Dutch date is in Rotterdam. So I decided to check them out. They […]

I had never been to the new TivoliVredenburg venue. The building is pretty huge, especially compared to the clubs I usually go to. It is several floors high and has many halls. Paradise Lost played at the sixth floor. So that meant many escalator trips up. The opening band was the Portugese Sinistro. They play […]