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This is the third gig I went to in 5 days. After Into the Grave and Gorguts it was now time to see Immolation who were touring for a couple of festivals, and Krisiun. No less than three bands were brought as support, as part of Immolation’s tour. Due to the crazy starting time – […]

It was only a few months ago, since I saw Immolation in Tilburg. Now in the autumn they are touring extensively again, with Marduk and a bunch of support groups. Reason enough to go to the Baroeg again. I missed the first opening act entirely, due to the early hour it al started. I don’t […]

Already the 11th edition of this doom metal festival, held in the Baroeg. I’ve been to most editions over the years, and this year was interesting enough to go to both days again to see 12 doom metal bands. The opening band was the Belgian Tyrant’s Kall who play generally rather simple doom death metal. […]

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 […]