Gavin Spearhead's Blog

I went to a dismember concert this weekend in the Baroeg, Rotterdam. I was late due to some fuckhead commiting suicide by throwing himself before a train on the trajectory I had to take… hence I missed half of the opening band Fall Of Serenity (ger) who were a last minute replacement for Sanatorium (cze). […]

The first band for the night was Brutus, which I had seen a few times before and I still think are as dull as soft porn. Anyway, they played a mortician cover again, which was probably their best song of the night. Next up was prostitute disfigurement, which is pretty standard brutal death metal but […]

I was sold out weeks before the show – they only did two shows in NL. So it took a while to get in (only reservation no pre-sale tickets) – but I was there early. The club (Baroeg) was pretty much packed. Watain was the opening act, which is a black metal band (true I […]

The X-mass metal fest is an annual tour that always comes to Tilburg. Unfortunately the bands playing there are often the same. But this year Napalm Death was on it, which was the reason for me to go. The first band to play was Ensiferium, some sort of folk metal or whatever. Not really my […]

It has been quite a while since I saw Grave, their previous tour in 2003 got cancelled somehow. But now they’re back to promote their latest, excellent album “Fiendish Regression”. But first the support acts. Opening act were Katafalk, from Groningen. Their thrashy death metal (and not death/black as on the flyer) was pretty good […]

The Ultimate Domination tour featuring Decapitated and three other Polish bands came to Rotterdam, so it was time for me to visit the Baroeg once more. The opening band of this Sunday afternoon gig were Crionics. A black / death metal band with keyboards, seemingly highly inspired by Emperor. Not that I could hear that […]

After the release of their latest album ‘Enemy of God’ it was time for Kreator to tour the world and provide a display of what thrash metal means. At 18 february the band came to 013 in Tilburg, with 3 supports. I can be very short about the first two supports. I didn’t know them […]

Not many people should up on this Sunday gig in the Baroeg, possible the weather had something to do with it, as well as this was only the day after the national holiday “Koninginnedag”; or it was because the bands weren’t too well known. Anyway, there were only some 30 paying customers, I think. At […]

The first date of the Napalm Death European tour was in Utrecht, the Netherlands – in a place called De Helling where I had never been before. The place was pretty neat actually. But not everything was alright this evening. First there was a support band (Destiny IIRC) announced, but they didn’t show up. So […]

Krisiun tours Europe again, kicking off in the Baroeg in Rotterdam. This time they didn’t bring any support bands on their tour so local venues needed to book their on. In Rotterdam, it was the Dutch band Carceri that was selected to open for Krisiun. Carceri play a mixture of brutal and melodic death metal […]