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 […]
Primordial @ 013, 30 May 2011
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 […]
Helstar and Vicious Rumors @ Baroeg, 25 August 2011
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 […]
Dutch Doom Day X – 11/13 November 2011
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 / […]
Hail of Bullets @ Baroeg, 25 November 2011
A World-War II-themed, old school death metal band town with veteran musicians playing in their sort of home. Can you wrong with that? Probably, but Hail of Bullets are way above average. And doing a one-off club gig aside all the festival gigs they do is a good chance to sort them out. But first […]
Cynic @ Baroeg, Rotterdam, 7 December 2011
Cynic had just released a new EP and so there was an excuse to do a European tour. Supposedly with the French band Hypno5e, but for some reason they were dropped of the tour. Instead the Baroeg arranged a local support band to open the evening. Eden To Ashes were the lucky few. A young, […]
Mar De Grises @ Little Devil, 14 December 2011
Chilean progressive doom/death metal band Mar de Grises were doing some festival gigs in Europe, and were doing some gigs in between. This Wednesday evening they played a headlining gig in the cafe Little Devil in Tilburg (without an entrance fee) – a place I had never been before really. I guess it won’t be […]
Trojan Metal Fest @ t Paard van Troje The Hague
Even though I have been living in the area, I had never visited the once legendary club ’t Paard van Troje (Trojan Horse) in The Hague – just one of those clubs that had all the cool metal gigs in the 80s and early 90s along with venues Nooderligt, Atak, Dynamo and Scum. But ever […]
Ulcerate @ Merleyn, 3 February 2012
Ulcerate are one of the most interesting newer bands in the death metal scene, whom I only discovered last year. They went on a short European tour with only a single date in the Netherlands, so Nijmegen it had to be. And considering they are from New Zealand, I didn’t expect to have a second […]
Krisiun, Vital Remains @ Baroeg, 11 February 2012
The Sounds of the Extreme tour counts no less than 8 bands with three headliners and varying support acts. At the Baroeg there were no less than 3 supports slots hence the obscene starting time of 18.00 sharp. No wonder the venue was nearly empty when the first band started to play.That band was the […]
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