Another week, another gig. This time around, the doom death band Hamferð were touring Europe as special guest of the Downfall of Gaia. They had just released their new album, and promoted it in Tilburg on this Wednesday evening. As usual with this club the gig started more than half an hour later than scheduled. […]
Nile, Terrorizer @ Gebr. De Nobel, Leiden, 10 February 2018
I’m not a huge Nile fan, and I only have their first album. And I have only seen them live once before as a support act. But a headline tour with Terrorizer as well is an interesting package to check out live, and Leiden is really nearby even though I took the car instead of […]
In The Grip Of Winter Fest, 28 January 2018, Baroeg, Rotterdam
A new festival in Rotterdam’s club Baroeg, mostly aiming at death metal, may be a bit of misnomer considering the total lack of winter weather. But hey, referring to a Autopsy song is always fine. Hehe, maybe they can Headline next year. Six bands were found to play on this dreary Sunday afternoon and early […]
Golden Earring @ IJsselhallen, Zwolle, 20 January 2018
The Golden Earring is a band I had wanted to see for a long time. As a teenager I was a pretty big fan, but that sort of waned after I got older. However, I never happened to see them live for various reasons. They are – I guess – the oldest rock band still […]
Apophys @ Hedon, Zwolle, 19 January 2018
The first gig of the year for me is the album release show of Apophys is the Hedon club, not all that close by, but I could combine it with some family visits. Even though all three bands on the bill are more or less local bands, they drew quite some crowd. So Hedon’s small […]
Eindhoven Metal Meeting, 15 December 2017, Effenaar, Eindhoven
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 […]
Testament @ Patronaat, Haarlem, 10 December 2017
Winter set in this weekend that Testament were playing in Haarlem as the final gig of the Brotherhood of the Snake tour. Snow covered the low lands and as a result traffic on the roads and rails was a mess. Fortunately, by the time I had to leave for Haarlem most of the snowfall had […]
Destruction @ Gebr. De Nobel, Leiden, 24 November 2017
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 […]
Helloween @ 013, Tilburg, 20 November 2017
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 […]
Procession @ Baroeg, Rotterdam, 18 November 2017
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 […]
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