Gavin Spearhead's Blog

Hate Eternal were on tour once again; now that isn’t usually a trigger for me to head to the Baroeg especially not with this flu I have right now, but this time they were supported by none less than Spawn of Possession. Probably one of the most technical death metal bands around currently. That’s a […]

It was time for me to experience some brutal death metal again as Suffocatin was once again on this side of the Atlantic. This time supported by the largely unknown extreme German metal band Obscura. Openers however were the Dutch deathrash band Devious. As I got to the venue the first band almost immediately started […]

In the late 1980s, Sweden was the origin of many bands who created a blend of death metal with heavy, crunchy riffs and melodic guitar work with some punk influences and a guitar sound that was inspired by the English grind band Unseen Terror. Typically these bands didn’t play mid-paced with simple but varied drum […]

I had seen Exodus a couple of times before, but both times on a festival. Now I finally got the chance to see them on a headliner tour and with them they brought the relatively new, English band Biomechanical. Reading the biography on their website, I expected some sort of nu-metal band band. Biomechanical turned […]

The Slovakian brutal death metal band had organised a four-gig mini-tour through the Netherlands. And as they didn’t bring any supports themself, each of the four shows had different opening acts. Gouda was the fourth show on the tour. I don’t really know what their business case is but if the other three gigs had […]

After years of line-up issues and actually splitting up, Sinister recently got back together and recorded a new album titled After burner this year. Many things have changed tho, in the lineup. Former drummer Aad is now the singer; Alex switched from bass to guitar and they recruited a new drummer and bass player. Now […]

The first concert I went to this year was headlined by a band – Deicide – I was never interested in and I hadn’t seen before either. Nevertheless I went to this gig to see the support act Psycroptic who opened. This Tasmanian outfit had recently released their third full-length and toured in support of […]

Officium Triste is a doom / death metal band from from the area of Rotterdam. And it is time for their annual gig in the Baroeg and this time head lining it again. Three other bands were found to support them. And much to my surprise the sound was quite good the whole evening – […]

013 in Tilburg was the venue that hosted this thrash metal festival during the carnival. While outside the parade with decorated vehicles and oddly and colourfully dressed people were gathering, inside metalheads dressed in black were awaiting the return of the mighty Onslaught with four other bands. The opening band was the local and rather […]

The last show the domination tour 2007 took place in the Baroeg, in Rotterdamn. This year Rotting Christ was the headliner supported by no less than six other bands. Opening band of the afternoon was the Greek band Inactive Messiah. They were given 20 minutes to play and frankly that was more than enough. This […]