Gavin Spearhead's Blog

After some 20 years the Wehrmacht had reformed last year. And they did a gig in their hometown Portland of which some videos can be found on youtube. But those didn’t sound too good really, mostly much slower than their album renditions. Nevertheless a European tour got announced for Fall 2010. So I was really […]

This Saturday was the second edition of Headbanging Enschede, taking place in the new Atak. Which had a number interesting bands on the bill, so I drove to my Alma Mater, Enschede. I skipped the first few bands as I wasn’t interested in them at all. There weren’t even all that much people, I guess […]

After their cancellation at Headbanging Enschede, Sodom was back on the road for a short European tour, of which the only Dutch date was in Eindhoven’s Dynamo. So after some 17 years I thought it would be time to go and see Sodom live again. They held a kind of competition to fill the second […]

On this Sunday afternoon, the Baroeg in Rotterdam promised us some doom set. Basically this is the tour of the Chilean band Procession with two local bands added to the bill. Opening is the Dutch Ortega who I had seen playing just a couple of months ago. So I already knew I wouldn’t like them […]

Patrick Walker is back with a new doom metal band ever since he broke up Warning. And with a new album under their belt, they are doing a few gigs around Europe, including this Sunday afternoon gig in Rotterdam. Not that it was a full house, maybe 50 people came to check them out. There […]

Five bands toured through Europe under the moniker Power of Metal – all more or less power metal, hence the name. I’m normally not much interested in power metal, oh some early Helloween would be fine. But other than that, no thanx. But this toured featured no less than the recently re-united Psychotic Waltz. A […]

A new doom metal festival in a venue I had never been before – popcentrale in Dordrecht – with some interesting bands on the bill. I skipped the first couple of bands.   When I entered the venue, the Belgian Hooded Priest had just started playing. I had seen them play before (2008), but apparently […]

I’ve seen Primordial a few times over the years, but never headlining. And they don’t do many club shows unfortunately, but only appear on festivals. And now with a new album under their belts, this is a one off chance probably to see them headlining in a club on this short tour with a rather […]

A co-headlining tour from two US heavy/power/thrash metal bands that have existed for some 30 years. I wasn’t all that familiar with either band really but since they seem to be classic I checked them out nonetheless. And the mp3s I heard didn’t sound bad either. Turned out, the average age on stage and in […]

The Dutch Doom Day is celebrating its tenth edition with a three day event with in total 15 bands. Like usual the line-up is very varied with some bands not even all that doomy at all.The Friday opened with a band form the Azores called A Dream Of Poe who play pretty standard doom / […]