Gavin Spearhead's Blog

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 […]

Kreator had re-issued their latest opus, Enemy of God, and I suppose that was reason enough to do another tour. I had completely missed the opening act Watain due to a change in time schedules. I walked into the hall just as they started to change the set. No big loss tho as I the […]

Vital Remains went on a European tour to support their new album Icons of Evil, and the first dates of the tour were even before the actual release. They were supported by three largely unknown band. At least I didn’t know any of them. The first support act was the Italian band Kenos who play […]

An odd package assembled on this tour, that took the stage in Theater Romein in Leeuwarden. The opening band was the German death metal outfit Debauchery. Dressed in white and covered in blood, they played their 35 minute set of mostly mid-paced death metal. The band’s music is simple, straight-forward, and hundreds-of-times-heard-before death metal. Nevertheless […]

Lasts I time I saw Immolation play live was some 5 years ago. But this tour, they didn’t play anywhere reasonably near, so I had to go to Groningin to see them (When I lived in the East, they never played there, but always at the Baroeg in Rotterdam. Now I live in the West, […]

Officium Triste just released their fourth opus titled “Giving Yourself Away” and this performance was the CD release gig, a.k.a the CD presentation. It also coincided with the departure of their guitarist Johan, for whom this was his last gig with Officium Triste. And this happening took place in the rehearsal room of Officium Triste, […]

Cynic is doing a short reunion tour through Europe, playing a number of festivals and some club gigs. Local supports were brought in as the band hadn’t brought any. In this case the band Dutch band Detonation. Detonation plays a fast paced melodic death metal that sometimes reminds me of early Gothenburg style bands like […]