Normally I’m not a huge fan of those massive multi-day festivals, such as Neurotic Death Fest. Usually there are too many bands I don’t like and the bands I do like play to short, or have overlapping time schedules. This year I made an exception for tho for this festival, and for a very particular […]
Celestial Season @ Merleyn, 30 March 2012
Last time I went to Merleyn there was lots of snow and so it took me over 2 hours to get there. This time it only took an hour and a half or so. Much more comfortable. The reason to go there was simple Celestial Season. They were invited to play the roadburn festival this […]
Obscura, Spawn of Possession, Gorod, Exivious @ Patronaat, Haarlem, 6 April 2012
It has been quite a view years since I’ve been in the Patronaat and never in the small hall, but the penultimate gig the tour headlined by Obscura and with Spawn of Possession in particular seem like a valid excuse to go to Haarlem. I was right on time due to some issues finding a […]
diSEMBOWELMENT @ Gloppe 17 April 2012
In 1993, an album was released that is one of the definitive albums of the doom / death genre. And that isn’t from My Dying Bride, but the Australian Transcendence into the Peripheral diSEMBOWELMENT. Groundbreaking in every aspect, and at the time never heard before. I still rate it as one of my all time […]
Whiplash @ Scum, Katwijk, 26 April 2012
Scum is one of those legendary metal clubs in the Netherlands of the past, most of which sort of vanished somewhere in the 1990s or so. But they found a new spot and a new building right next to the beach. And it´s only a some 20 kilometers away from my home. This Thursday, US […]
Paradise Lost @ Tivoli, Utrecht, 2 May 2012
Third gig in three weeks, not bad. This time it was Paradise Lost. A band I haven’t seen live before despite I know them since their debut album in 1991 or so. Possibly because I was less than interested in their mid-era material with all the electronics crap and they never really seemed to play […]
Ataraxie @ 013 Bat Cave, Tilburg, 11 May 2012
Okay this is the fourth gig I went to in four weeks. This time the French doom/death band Ataraxie was playing in the smallest hall of the 013 club. And it was pretty full especially for a doom gig. When I arrived – I was a bit late due to traffic issues where I didn’t […]
Esoteric @ Baroeg, 8 June 2012
The “Doomwards Let Us Row tour” only stopped in the Netherlands once and that was at the Baroeg. And they brought to support acts. Opening were the German doom/death band Ophis – soccer is not doom – whom I had just seen a while back with Ataraxie. They got a bit more time now. Opening […]
Possessed @ Baroeg, 23 June 2012
The choice today was to either go to Sacred Reich in Zwolle or Possessed in Rotterdam. I chose to go to Possessed as I had seen Sacred Reich a few times before, but hadn’t seen Possessed nor the support act Acrostichon. Acrostichon is one of those Dutch death metal gems from the early 90s that […]
Into The Grave Festival 11 August 2012
I think it hasn’t been since Wâldrock 1994 that I went to an open air festival. But this second edition of Into the Grave was interesting enough to go back again to my former home town Leeuwarden. And it was held actually down-town on a former graveyard (hence the name) next to the leaning […]
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