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Primordial is doing a small number of club gigs this year and one of them were in Rotterdam. They didn’t bring any supports, so there were a few Dutch bands opening. First there was Skaldgrim who were said to play melodic death metal. This must be one of the most boring death metal bands ever […]

Kreator set to tour Europe again after the release of their new album “Phantom Antichrist”. So on this Sunday afternoon I travelled to Eindhoven to the Effenaar – a venue I hadn’t been before – to hear how that album works out live. After a bit of a detour through Eindhoven I found a parking […]

On this Friday, four doom metal bands were playing in the Baroeg. The first band that played was Marche Funebre from Belgium. I hadn’t really heard them apart from some youtube uploads. That didn’t really impress me, especially the clean vocals were pretty bad and didn’t fit the music. Well that is pretty much what […]

The second gig I went to in one weekend. This time mostly old school death metal. But first some modern metal in the form of The Amenta who had just started playing when I entered the venue. This Australian band plays a blackish death metal with industrial influences. I didn’t know them beforehand, but they […]

The first gig of 2013 for me is the presentation of Officium Triste’s new album “Mors Viri”. The announced to play a double set this evening – one with new material and one with older material. So as there were no support acts, it was OT plain and in-your-face. The first hour was filled with […]

The debut album of Tribulation is a fine slab of old school Swedish death metal with some different touches here and there. Recently they had released their second album The Formulas of Death. I read that it was supposed to sound quite different and was quite lengthy (75 minutes). So it was time to check […]

One of the oldest death metal bands was playing the Baroeg on this still cold Friday in April. They didn’t bring any supports on this European tour, so two (more or less) local bands were opening.   The first band was already playing when I entered the venue; that’s one of the major downsides of […]

The tenth edition of Neurotic Death Fest, held once again in Tilburg for three days. I only went to the second day as most of the bands the other days didn’t interest me. The first band I wanted to see was US Necrophagia. That’s old school US death from way back. Although I never listened […]

I think the third instalment of this doom metal festival in Dordrecht, at the new location of Bibelot. Anyway I skipped most of the early bands, as they weren’t very interesting and I was (still am) a bit ill. So I entered the venue after the 11th hour had just finished playing. A band I […]