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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:15 pm 
 

Good read! I look forward to seeing them again as long as Frank is on vocals....
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:14 am 
 

Cannibal Corpse Skeletal Remains tour, November 30th, Bibelot Dordrecht with Revocation and Aeon

Cannibal Corpse is a band that I did not really understand when I first heard them. I knew about the controversy ever since Butchered at Birth, even seen that tour, but lacked understanding. 1992 was a golden opportunity to see them on cycling distance, 2002 Frank and me left BEFORE the Buffalo Zombie Squad got to stage (No Mercy, Tilburg), in 2003 I walked away on Wãldrock, but on Wacken 2004 I found my love for this extreme band. The band’s early catalogue had been banned in Germany and Australia, even leading to cops having to memorize the band’s songs from Eaten Back To Life, Butchered at Birth and Tomb of the Mutilated to be able to arrest the band members when these songs were played. What happened: these cops turned into rabid Cannibal Corpse fans HA HA HA. The 2004 show was easily the best performance of the entire Wacken festival. Over the years, I started buying Corpse material, got a T-shirt from Maarten Vet, bought the Anniversary Box, high quality became the standard. Best example: The Centuries of Torment DVD set. I think this would be the 10th show I’d attend. At first it would be held in De Pul in Uden, but there was some story about a double booking and Bibelot it became. By then I already had 3 tickets, The Westfriesian Pit Crew present. Alicia would bring Kees along, Maarten Vet called me he’d love to go, be picked up from Amsterdam. No Maarten though, he called in sick the day before, ticket might be sold at the door. I even made a picture for the company’s WhatsApp, all colleagues wishing each other a fine weekend, I posted a picture of the Centuries DVD with a cola next to it ‘This will be my Sunday, rabid feasting and driving home’. My boss answered ‘lugubre, gaunt, but a good weekend to you’. I replied ‘yeah, the cola is worst’ :)

Axel would drive to Dordrecht, I’d drive home. I checked just before picking up and instantly found out we’d be too late for the beginning. When I came to Tom’s house he was in a weird mood, claiming he’d been on his 10th beer already. Hmmm, don’t procrastinate me… Axel had brought a sixpack HJ as well, so near Ridderkerk I took over, already one speeding ticket to be sent to me, leaving one meagre beer for Axel… and in pouring rain I don’t need talk like Seven-Times-BungaBungaEsther to divert my mind… parking was hell, but just the moment we’d all be out another car moved… swearing I walked into the rain. Selling the ticket was impossible, as the venue wasn’t sold out by far and my nerves prickled once more. No Aeon, that’s the third or fourth time I missed them. I soon found my Breda buddy Bas, but he didn’t improve my mood much, stating Aeon sounded like Cannibal Corpse and he’d only come to hear Cannibal Corpse’s sound.. by Cannibal Corpse. Urghhh. Revocation didn’t do much to improve my mood as well, as the band is too technical for me, some weird non-metal riffing included, blasting the next second, too much against the grain for me. Seeing Kees usually improves my mood, but now he said he loved Aeon and wondered why weren’t there yet… good thing: he hated Revocation too. It was clearly the last show of the tour, so Aeon members screwed up the mics during the last song. Funny to see Revocation’s singer, not the tallest around and his mic in utmost high position. Not being intervened by it too ;). Only thing that lifted my mood at the time was Thomas Wouters of Bodyfarm patting my back and Stephan Gebédi giving the thumbs up.

Between Revocation and Cannibal Corpse the interlude music was funny too. B-52’s, Frank Sinatra in Christmas mood, Rod Stewart :) My mood only got better a little, I even stated ‘if Cannibal doesn’t convince me the second song we’re out’!! The 25 year anniversary backdrop was raised, the floor filling rapidly, sinister intro… No hell broke loose. None at all! Tom and Axel were up front, but most of the show they held a three man pit, I only occasionally entered too. Instantly lost my camera when I swooped the floor, but there were signs hanging ‘No Flash Lights’ so I couldn’t make pictures anyhow. The light show wasn’t even present, the band only used one steady set of lights, none swirling the floor, no stroboscopes, good. This is what they played:
-Staring Through The Eyes of the Dead
-Fucked With a Knife
-Stripped, Raped and Strangled (hmm, that’s odd, so early in the set)
-Kill or Become (Corpsegrinder in a singalong voice, is this a love song? :) )
-Sadistic Embodiment
-Icepick Lobotomy (someone goes down HARD, big gap in audience…)
- Scourge of Iron (my goodness, how friggin’HEAVYYYY!!)
- Demented Aggression (‘Get the soundman some beer, preferably by a woman with nice…’)
- Evisceration Plague (GROOOOOOVE!!)
- Dormant Bodies Bursting
- Addicted to Vaginal Skin (OK, the pit is all Westfriesian now)
- The Wretched Spawn (Corpsegrinder gets a beer offered, ‘not during work’ :))
- Pounded Into Dust (lost my camera in the pit, Paul Mazurkiewicz has his Chocomel time, most visitors of Speedfest yell ‘Slapshottt! :lol: )
- I Cum Blood (headbanging contest, as Kees and Alicia had never seen that before I warn them a bit… fruitlessly :) )
- Disposal of the Body (the one that went down hard is present again, no need for an ambulance ;))
- Make Them Suffer (Tom swaggering but still standing)
- Skull Full of Maggots
- Hammer Smashed Face (shouting contest for more material ;))
- Devoured By Vermin (“if you don’t shout louder we’ve already played the last song of this tour’ :)

Most people know Corpsegrinder for his immense headbanging, but I noticed Rob Barrett bangs his head nearly as much. What’s with the beard? It only entangled his hair hahaha. I am surprised Tom is still standing, albeit out of focus mostly now. ‘Lam als een kanarie’, as he explained it. No need to explain haha. Another surprise: a set list, as I scavenge the ground for my camera and they’re both handed to me! Thanks a lot, even the description ‘Screen Broken’ comes in handy now :lol: I decide to buy him a gift, but he’s gone before I reached the merch counter… all the way down in the building. The main stage of Bibelot.. you need to be a mountaineer to get this high in the building, I wondered if any wheelchair could get this high… Or a toilet for disabled above some stairs hahaha. Instead of being friendly to the man that returned my camera, I bought a signed Cannibal Corpse drum skin (shirts weren’t much of my liking). I haven’t seen if any of my friends got themselves anything, as they leave before the boys return from above… clearly Tom is this drunk, he can hardly walk at all. Not to forget, he’s been Pit Meister the. Entire. Cannibal. Corpse. Show!! We agreed to do a Macca, but as Axel is quite intoxicated as well, he starts pissing off employees… I leave before he’s beaten… and eat the Big Tasty swaggering all over the A15, damned AxelAxel pushing me towards Utrecht.. I wanted to drive through Rotterdam again, see the Feijenoord stadium, the river Maas, but damned computer inside sat nav… big detour. Fuck hobbies. With a half-finished meal I found out ‘if you only have the meat left, Macca’s sucks hard time’. I needed music to keep me awake, so I played Warbringer, Voïvod, Whiplash and the likes, the boys deep in coma on the back seat. Delivered Axel at home, appointment made to drive in a small parade for Kreator next Thursday, ticket paid and I delivered Tom home. It was quite a hassle to get Tom out of the car and I thought I nearly needed to turn Tom’s key as he couldn’t find the keyhole. A keyhole is no Esther HA HA HA. Short night, rotten train company, three coffee and write for MRU. I already got a reply from Snoeck drummer André, work is a mess because of an internal move and the urinoirs are busted. But I had Webster, Mazurkiewicz, Barrett, O’Brien, Corpsegrinder and friends. METAL!

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:47 am 
 

Kreator on tour with Arch Enemy, supported by Sodom and Vader:

Kreator Sodom Vader KutEnemy, December 4th, 013 Tilburg

Kreator is in my top 5 of all time favorite bands. I’ve seen the band more than 15 times, own most of their CDs and DVDs, meeting Mille once (and Ventor twice ;)) was one of my huge highlights of going to shows and festivals. So, if they tour with Sodom, there’s not much waiting to get tickets. But getting tickets and getting rid of them is a difference. Tom wasn’t even asked, he’s seen the Altenessen Thrash Colossus at least 5 times and I know he’s always in for a great pit. As Thirza, I thought, but two weeks before the show I e-mailed Alex the time schedule of the bands he forgot to pass it through to her. So.. one obligatory school project later, no Thirza. I started calling on Wednesday, but I already took in mind I might not lose it. Stip was eager to go, but he hesitated… he’s been in a clinic and off booze for a week now and thought the temptation would be too big, Daan (KISSandCOOPER) did not hesitate. He’d be at my place around 15:30, as would Tom. Tom always has a problem overdoing his vacation time haha, but at his shop the work wasn’t abundant. He even advised to take the Enkhuizen – Lelystad dyke to avoid Amsterdam afternoon hell. I was so deep in conversation I already missed the first traffic lights :;) and made a 450 degree spin on the crossroads ;) Fine hobby you’ve got :)

Avoiding Amsterdam, yeah that wasn’t such a big deal, but from Nieuwegein on, traffic was utterly jammed. Imagine, the A27 from Almere to Breda is 112 km, we needed two hours to do that. Even on the A58 highway the jam reappeared (and not the band.. :/) so I figured we’d surely miss Vader. Picking up coins, a beer for Tom and an energy drink for Daan, Sodom already appeared on stage. The sound was thunderous, but not really well mixed. Fine to have female company (Izegrim Marloes, red Chris, Samantha [sammiela], Kimberly I and II) but Sodom needed some tunes to kick the sound man’s ass. I wrote:
- Axis of Evil (Tom already had a text message from Axel ;))
- Agent Orange
- In War and Pieces
- Surfin’Bird/The Saw is the Law
- Outbreak of Evil (Tom Angelripper clearly directs his rabid audience; nice fierce pit)
- City of God
- Tired and Red

I walked into the merch stand, got myself a nice Behind the Mirror shaped patch, but as I ran into HeeJo and Dennis too, I gave it to Dennis to get NINI satisfied ;) But Dennis and Jo weren’t really well treated by me, as around 15 friends of mine walked by, including Chris (needed a hug from Piotr and a kiss from me, Vader merch was in the alley), Darius, Marloes, the men who returned my camera during Cannibal Corpse, Pim (supergoomba) and many others. I even have a text message thanking me for being there, but I don’t know who sent it… darn new device . The rest of the Sodom set I heard from that stand, as 013 kindly hung speakers in the foyer (only used when the main hall is in use). Sodom = great. Period. It wasn’t until writing this piece I realized it was the 25th anniversary of Agent Orange tour. I loved what I saw, loved how people reacted to the band. Dennis hated it as usual :)

Up next was Kut & Co, otherwise known as Arch Enemy. I can be short about Alissa and the band, don’t care. They started with Ravenous, but I took my pictures (including several friends with Piotr and Bernemann) and left. Beer time, as I shared a beer with Dennis and Jo, Pim, Piotr, Darius… too many to mention. As a sign of friendship I gave another Behind The Mirror patch to Darius, having to return to the Kreator merch booth for the third time hahaha. What can be said about Kreator? The band killed. Period. Smoke killed my pictures. Period. Intense pitting. Period. I later made a picture of the set list, Darius has a guitar pick:
- The Patriarch
- Violent Revolution
- Civilization Collapse (poor Daan, still wearing his leather jacket hitting the pit ;))
- From Flood Into Fire(huge pyrotechnics, I think some sweeping hairs got toasted here ;))
- Extreme Aggression (mix confetti with a few guitar picks thrown in :roll: )
- Phobia
- Enemy of God (huge, huge pit appears, with WFPC present of course!)
- Voices of the Dead
- Awakening of the Gods (only intro, to be followed by Endless Pain)
- Suicide Terrorist (Mille asking for a circle pit, he gets one, who destroys it heh heh)
- Phantom Antichrist (fire blazing)
- Impossible Brutality
- Hordes of Chaos
- Pleasure to Kill
- The Number of the Beast (hey! I have that on vinyl ;) more fire)
- Warcurse
- People of the Lie
- Flag of Hate
- Tormentor

…and another killer Kreator show is over, Until Our Paths Cross Again as some sad goodbye from crew to audience, still rabidly searching for that last pick between the confetti :) Man, woman, I love this band to bits. Even on festivals, I usually pity the band having to perform AFTER the Altenessen Thrash Gods. Last beer emptied, water for Tom, Tom is no longer able to walk
a. in a straight line,
b. on a foot and a half,
c. not really sober
and d. not even taking the time to shake hands with Tom Angelripper, not wanting to stand a second longer than necessary. Somehow even Angelripper noticed we met before, now without a bloody face :) and in a soaking wet Eternal Devastation T-shirt.

How I wished Daan already had his driving license yet, as I stay awake to direct a clearly not-so-sober Tom to Westwoud. We play and sing along to Airbourne, AC/DC, http://youtu.be/Q-xG1qMKhnQ just to stay awake. A Golden Friend, Tom is. OK, it was a risk, we took it, but I rather not drive every single gig. One final afpils and Tom can finally release his ancles from the soaking wet shoes, is it blood or is it sweat? I took one other beer, just to glee my new Behind The Mirror patch (hadn’t I given them ALL away? ;)) and rethink my near perfect Kreator show. Near perfect as I hadn’t more energy to bash the pit, the sound could have been a klit better the first songs, boring Amott and the likes and missing Vader. I don’t complain, as I can hardly twist my right elbow, my left shoulder hurts badly and I have the print of a hand on my chest. Sodom ist Krieg! KREATOR IS KING!!! Metal!!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:39 am 
 

Eindhoven Metal Meeting review, featuring Morbid Angel, At the Gates, Blasphemy, Asphyx:

Not just as a tradition, as I visited literally every day of every edition of this festival (and I want to keep it that way ;)), but also because the first bands were announced ages ago I knew I’d be on Eindhoven Metal Meeting again. Asphyx, Unleashed, Bölzer were amongst the first bands announced, I already had two tickets for the entire festival even before these three names fell. Herrieman belongs on EMM. Period. Soon I really became ecstatic as Blasphemy would do some shows, very first show in a really, really long time… Other confirmations were of a different level to me, I don’t need to see At the Gates and Morbid Angel, Holy Moses, Primordial every two editions, but swhoah. I wasn’t really surprised Tom wasn’t hotheaded for this, I soon offered him a ticket for the Saturday only and ordered Thirza to keep the entire weekend open. Hotel booked, only 12 minute walk to Effenaar, paid in advance, maybe hit The Hobbit as well and off. Last week I brought Tom’s ticket to his house and he sounded mangled. He’d been working too much lately, was stone dead tired, he would decide on the day itself if he’d come along. Only good thing: I had the official 2014 closure – 2015 kick off on the job, had some sharp remarks on my chief executive and we’d celebrate with colleagues. No need to rise early, hammered as I was, we’d drive around 2 PM.

I also had no idea who of my Westfriesian friends would be there; I’d missed the conversation about this, I guess. Entering the hotel was already funny as I nearly ran over my long time friends Ed, René and John. Changed my shirt from Savage Messiah to Municipal Waste, last drop of water and into the shish kebab we went. Entering the Effenaar I soon found out we’d already missed The Committee and Illusionless, no harm done I think. Quickly to the Goddess of Desire stand, see if Harm would have brought HJ patches and he did!! 4 normal ones and one purple, see which one Tom desires hahaha. First band I would love to see again was Funeral Whore, but as the entire festival was sold out I couldn’t reach Kelly and Roy… damned. Soon met Marloes and Jeroen of Izegrim, warm welcome it was. First band we did see was Cripper in the Large Hall, that was pretty good. The band has a vibe I like a lot and during Fire Walk With Me a nice pit occurred. Somehow, the drum sound surprised me, it was sublime! Minor guitar difficulties on stage, but hardly of notice. Bigger problem: Britta is sometimes hardly audible. During the last song Marloes of Izegrim came on stage with another female singer, at first I thought it would be Sabine Classen, but it wasn’t. It’s really great fun to see three front females go nuts together. I’m still not sure who it was, some YT says Sabine, some hinted Kelly of Funeral Whore, but here is one: http://youtu.be/OZDsmy_xR-w three ladies on stage from 12:30 on. The band announced to return to The Low Lands with OVERKILL next year, probably will show up again :). Would my Hannover friends be there as well? After the show I soon found them, warm welcomes never bore :lol: If I wanted to see Morbus Chron I knew now I had to be early, but only place left was on the balcony… but I managed to see three songs. Huh? Had the band started early or is this an exceptionally short show? It was quite an experience, as the doom, death and black metal fueled music fused so good. What I also really liked were their guitars… Gibson Flying V, left handed Gibson Explorer, nice coloring too. You don’t see enough Explorers :).

Carach Angren was next, but somehow I wasn’t interested at all and moved to the District 19 stage (formerly known as Jägerstage) for Attic. Five men pretending to want to look like a hammered King Diamond, but I really liked the songs I heard. Thirza, Pim, me and Bas discussed whether the skulls on stage were real or were there ‘on scientific basis’ :) Strange thing happened just before the last song Satan’s Bride (Funeral in the Woods also was played) : while one guitarist tuned his guitar suddenly Nuclear Assault sounded through the PA?? OK, Pim went nuts, but the looks of surprise on the band members faces were imminent. Thirza had seen the band before and started blowing bubbles ??? to increase the effect of the show? It could not have been because of the brick layer’s décolleté singer Meister Cagliostro was showing :/ I also met Wannes Gubbels of Pentacle (formerly also in Soulburn and Asphyx) and he surprised me by saying Pentacle will do a show, end of February in Little Devil! So, I can finally see Pentacle once! Wannes clearly had come to see Attic and Asphyx as he followed me to Large Hall and took position close to me. Second row, one six footer in front of me, no way to see the entire stage, let alone Martin’s GRIN, but this is what we got:
- The Quest for Absurdity
- Vermin
- Food For the Ignorant (including pit??? not often happening !!! Thirza flew by too :) )
- Death The Brutal Way
- MS Bismarck
- Deathhammer
- We Doom You To Death
- Wasteland of Terror (municipal waste *weak joke* )
- Forgotten War
- The Rack
- Scorbutics (first encore)
- Last One on Earth (last song? Yeah, could have lasted longer if you ask me)
The band went full throttle once more, seeing Paul go insane is such a great sight. Especially as his playing surely doesn’t suffer from it! Within minutes after the show I got good company: Ed Warby, Stephan Gebédi, Paul Baayens and Alwin Zuur (thanks for the guitar pick, Alwin!!) I had such a great time in the foyer I never bothered for Triptykon, At the Gates (Large Hall) and Saille and Sinister (District 19 hall). I returned to the small hall for Urfaust as I had never seen the band before, but regretted that walk within a minute. What an explosion of unwanted stress and hate on stage! I really, really hated it. I wanted out, picked up Thirza and left. Of (Belgian) Evil Invaders I can be short: KILLER PIT!! Try this for a taste: http://youtu.be/DjFdo40zWvs Agent Steel fans beware!
I nearly managed to miss Primordial as well, until Bas showed me the way: I only saw Empire Falls and truly enjoyed that. Shared a beer with Tamar or does she want something else? I am so blue and bleu, I don’t know :) I wasn’t even sure if I flushed my mouth after brushing my teeth, slumbered onto bed and I was out. Happy as a baby, sore throat, arms weary, neck nicely warmed up…

Of the hotel I knew we’d have to pay at least € 15 per person for breakfast, I could have used a coupon for a fiver discount, but walked into the city. Great croissants and a ton of coffee later we got to the cinema. First Hobbit movie was already playing for half an hour, next one scheduled at 1:30 PM. I decided to call my bosom friends Clemens and Suus for more coffee and a great chat as usual followed. First band we wanted to see was Dust Bolt, but ended up the big hall for Exhumed. This show keeps funny, no matter if they do exactly the same as last time. So.. after a couple of songs I did go into small hall, accompanied by Tamar once more, but the hall was so full we never got in. Spotted Dust Bolt for a few seconds, but didn’t even make pictures. We went back, moaning a bit about the lay out of the hall, but missed Thyrfing this way. I texted Tom if he’d come anyway, but he was so tired he kept his butt tightly on the couch. No need to worry, I would do some pushing and grabbing on his behalf :)

I definitely wanted to see Thanatos, as I’d promised Stephan years ago I would only buy his albums new from now on. I even wore my D.B.C. shirt for him (remember the bet last year?? :) http://www.mruforums.com/f22/my-anniver ... ing-15274/
) Tried to go early, but just like during Dust Bolt the hall was packed. As a band aid to my atheist wound we regrouped near the bar and let Christ blow his brains out !!! My goodness, this was a cool show. Early in the set they played Jesus Wept, Dawn of the Dead: I knew the band would do a nice cross (…) of their entire discography. One of the highlights of the show was that the band played Destruction. Chaos. Creation… whooohhhahhhhhh how blunt can you be???? Pity the band lost one guitar in this song, but it still sounded awesome! Albeit a hint cynical, the band sure has humor: ‘We wanted to call this song Fuck The Middle East, but that name already exists, so we named it after today’s reality: Feeding The War Machine!’ Another great tune: Angelic Encounters, with Stephan screeches so shrill and so hard it seems to come from the pit of his ass pubes…. Last song ‘War’ ended a truly awesome show. I ran to the merch stand to buy the Global Purification album, just ended its first spin typing this literal sentence. Thirza pocketed the CD in her shoulder bag and we went hunting for signatures :). On the way to the foyer we found the Hannover ladies once more, they advised me not to go to the small hall for Valkyrja… I should have listened… more smoke than melody, nearly senseless blunt black metal I sure wasn’t in for. On the other hand we had all the time to eat and grab Holy Moses as well. Seeing this band always reminds me of my very first Dynamo Open Air… 1989… The thrash metal grandma still rocks her butt / neck hard and they always deliver. A bit too similar music to make me buy CDs of the band, but I enjoy them live as much… Master of Disaster, Finished With The Dogs, Rise Destroyer, yeah you get the point. Sabine still loves to enjoy metal shows, her fans, other bands and that shows. She’s always happy to chat with fans and other band members, never too bold to ignore anyone.

But it isn’t all dogs and destroyers, as Bölzer suffers from such a KUTTTT sound even the Hannover ladies move out of the small hall within minutes. I think Vincent van Gogh has better ears than this sound man… I do keep near the small hall, not just to avoid Ensiferum (of which I leave the description to Thirza :lol: ), but be in time for my main point of interest today: the legendary Canadian BLASPHEMY!!! From where I stand (and be thrilled to the bone) I can clearly see Martin and Wannes totally and utterly F.R.E.A.K O.U.T.T.T.T.T :!: :!: so do I. The band is truly in top shape, sound is awesome, the vile, dirty deathened black metal blasts every deteriorating festering soul to Mars! Singer Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds sounds so rotten even the rats Morbid Angel would love to lead run away scared. ABSOLUTELY GREAT!!! At the end of the show another display of mutual respect as Martin and Wannes get the time to speak to him too, I later met guitarist and longest-time-member Caller of the Storms and get a pick! Thanks a lot!!! Martin later apologizes for our cut-short meeting yesterday, but as he told me about the fuss some crew member made of his girlfriend’s camera I tell him not to worry too much. We’ve known each other for some 20 years now, there’s always a possibility one meets another on an off day. Anyway, he’s got a real nice lady as girlfriend called Lisa, she remembered me of Maryland Deathfest 2010 :) I also told them we’d meet again, have another beer on PartySan 2015 my friends!

For now, missing bands is no longer a problem as Pim introduces me to the lovely Anne, fantastically beautiful eyes that want to improve the world by taking care of children, a great talk of standing still and travelling, religion and atheism, life and death… I sense a friendship coming, my respect for her grows the longer she talks and I could swear she finds my comments and reactions interesting, to say the least. I do not care for missing Unleashed and Cruachan but I did see Morbid Angel again. The band does an integral set for the Covenant album and I think Roman Hödl sure has a weak spot for them… tour manager for Morbid Angel once, second time headlining EMM, but I still find the band utterly arrogant and leave Vincent and Co. even before spotting Azagthoth himself. The drummer is even hushed away between two huge décor pieces, as if he can’t fill Pete’s shoes?? Errr never mind. Herrieman on 14 Morbid Angel shows… still only four good ones.

What I didn’t entirely understand, is why all Morbid Angel fans (shirts, denims, patches and so on) stayed around for In Solitude. I noticed some weird cross between Peter Pan Speedrock and Satyricon and ask Bas for an explanation… he says ‘they stay because this music is morbid’ but in a half filled big hall I do make some pictures but sense no feeling. Not in band, not in audience. I decided to leave the venue totally, no interest in Xentrix (Pim does, fag ;)), One Tail One Head and Woland. Just like yesterday I don’t even bother for an afterparty after meeting the Blasphemy, Hail of Bullets and Pentacle members, meeting Anne, seeing so many friends... One of them told me the afterparty of the Friday held some bad Twisted Sister cover band and I am broke too. I’ve spent some € 450 on diesel, hotel tax, beer, food, beer, patches, beer, shirts, beer, popcorn, name it. But I loved most of it! Love Anne! Love metal!!


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:13 pm 
 

I had a chance to see The Skull recently. 3 ex-members of Trouble playing new tunes as well as some old Trouble material.

They are absolutely incredible, one of the best live performances I've ever seen. Eric Wagner's voice still rules and he has some pretty hilarious stage banter.

Don't miss them. I got to hear Assassin, the Tempter, Pray for the Dead, in addition to the already awesome Skull material. Great band, great show.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 10:39 am 
 

First show in 16 years on Dutch soil of Soulburn, supporting Dead Congregation, Dec 28th Baroeg Rotterdam:

Soulburn released one of my favorite albums of 2014 some two months ago. I love the dirty, blackened death metal big time and this would be the first Soulburn show on Dutch soil in nearly 20 years. I have seen some pictures with Wannes, Eric and Bob with a very familiar wall (Stonehenge festival) but I can’t find which edition that was... 1998 probably, but now it’s 2014… and the new album has been unleashed upon mankind. I was a bit scruffy about hearing Soulburn played with Bolt Thrower in September, but I simply couldn’t have pulled that off, even if I would have heard it in time. Middle of the week, somewhere in Germany, Bolt Thrower on Baroeg Open Air also, busy times. My time would come anyway, as the band had been announced for Neurotic Deathfest amongst the first bands. And, as I gave away my original The Suffocating Darkness album to Jeroen, I needed an extra excuse to see the band. Daniel gave me that opportunity, as he showed Soulburn would diminish Baroeg to crumbles just after Christmas. By the time I got tickets for Baroeg, I also had arranged a hotel for the Turock show on January 10th (the show with Thanatos and Revel in Flesh). Bonus: they play PartySan 2015 also! Goodie!!

There would be four bands tonight. In the car to Rotterdam I heard Deathlord had to cancel and Impalement would be brought in as replacement. Of both bands I knew zilch, so no big deal here. Entering Rotterdam was slippery as the road was full of ice, we hadn’t seen snow or ice until reaching the A13. I easily found a parking lot and moved to Baroeg, buying the CD instantly. OK, I still had the (playable) CDR Bob gave me, but I needed the original and I needed it signed. So.. for the first time in quite some time I had brought an Edding marker too. First acquaintance I saw was Marcel, the Arnhem stagediver ;) and Ellen. Turned out Marcel is the singer of Impalement, getting to stage in minutes and BOB as well (Bewust Onbeschonken Bestuurder :lol: ) ; I’ve never seen him carry anything else than beer haha. Impalement plays some Aborted-like death metal/grind, but sloppy. Some borrowed Cannibal Corpse riffs, some Obituary, but I later found out the band already released two demos and a full-length. Slower parts are great, band messes up fast parts immediately. Daniel thought when they started Hung, Drawn & Quartered they shouldn’t fuck up a Cancer song, but they didn’t, it was their own song. I wasn’t really happy with the joking announcement of ‘early 1940-ies, torture from the rails… Trains of Death’ and I sure know to keep Dutch lyrics to Kutschurft… We haven’t seen the entire set as I wanted to go on an autograph hunt. Had a great conversation with Wannes (he’d been on Feeding on Angels of course) next to the merch stand and nearly bought the Feeding vinyl for Wannes to sign… I decided not to. I love that album, but I wasn’t eager to walk back to the car and miss the opportunity to stand first row at Soulburn. I will see Wannes in Tilburg, February 28th , Pentacle does a show with Heretic and Wifebeater then. We talked about the difference between the two Soulburn albums, Possessed and Larry LaLonde, the ability for a band to evolve and some more. Great chat! Second band was already playing, but the three-man black metal band VOM didn’t impress us. Kick even stayed near the bar just to be sure :lol: Even worse, the double clang on the vocals irritated us instantly and the over-the-top black metal wasn’t fitting too. I did make some pictures, but that is a waste of electricity and SD card space ;).

Up to a few minutes before entering stage the Soulburn members kept talking to friends and fans. Stephan and Theo from Hail of Bullets were there, Pim of Officium Triste, photographers Eus and Kick and loads of other people roamed the band members as I took position: first row, little to the right of the center of stage and let the darkness in!! It took a few tries to start the intro right, band did a half version of Hellish Entrapment before Lissette van den Berg withered through Baroeg… here’s the set list, used by Bob, given to me by the sound engineer (thanks!) :
- Apotheosis Infernali (not on the list, but the intro was played in full)
- Hellish Entrapment (minor technical difficulties for Remco, he nearly lost his wireless system)
- Under the Rise of a Red Moon
- Crypts of the Black (Twan referring to Old and New, end of December, winter solstice)
- Absinthesis (Twan referring to alcohol abuse, a monstrous riff follows)
- In Suffocating Darkness (KILLERRRR drum rolls!)
- Hymn of the Forsaken (For Wannes, Twan explaining he’d been using Wannes’own words :lol: http://youtu.be/jwgB6E91M04 ; this song is from an earlier show)
- Claws of Tribulation (in a sort of medley with Hymn of the Forsaken, I really love the decrease in speed and the increase of melody here. It’s still mind blowing blackened death metal, but still. See http://youtu.be/i269CR2kIrc )
- I Do Not Bleed From Your Crown of Thorns (breakdown like stuck on river Styx. AWESOME!)
- Feeding on Angels (Twan asking if we were hungry or from Hungary :) genius of increasing speed middle of the song!!)
The band is on warpath! It is loud, tight and sharp and the members have a great time on stage. Naggers would say the band is static, but I don’t agree. This is not mosh music, this is ‘bang your head until the darkness around you is complete’, ‘don’t shout if you don’t ruin your voice’ and that kinda stuff. Musicianship combined with a dark feel and a loudness I like a lot. At least I shouted as long as I could, banged my head until I started looking fuzzy and I got a great response from both Remco as Eric. Twan really pulls the big card with his vocals, I think. He’s sharp, it’s vile, it’s dirty, this is brought with full fledged fire! Typing this I checked out some of his older material and let me say this, it’s not for the faint hearted what he does: http://youtu.be/2cCDCEtamLc

Waiting for Dead Congregation we met a man eager to hack off my big Exodus patch, is this Rotterdam directness once more? Time for goofing Rotterdam style is there too, as Stephan and Eus bombard everybody in their neighborhood with acajou nuts, Theo van Eekelen is an easy target ;). Fun part: Baroeg is serving liver sausage, cheese, Japanese chips and more nuts and sausages :lol: Daniel thought I shouldn’t eat it all :lol: Of Dead Congregation I have a double feeling: I had not seen them before, had listened to some material lately, liked it to a certain decree, but Daniel wasn’t in for it and to be honest, so was I. We thought of some thirteen to the dozen death metal, play fast for the sake of playing fast, rumble vocals just to rumble vocals, but hardly any feel to it. We honestly don’t know why their latest effort ends up in so much year lists… but no harm done, the band plays Neurotic Deathfest too, they already have some fanatic fans so we don’t have to apologize to anyone. Daniel was getting hungry too, so we thanked all band members we see and move out. On the A13 we got to a BK, but regretted that instantly. The burger was fluffy, the chicken was chemical and the cocoa was gone too fast. Three minutes driving we also spotted a Macca.. OK no need to keep fussing about it, we drove back to Enkhuizen/Westwoud smoothly, playing mostly old school death metal and it’s funny to get home before 10 PM for a change…

Soulburn slays. Soulburn hacks souls into the deep depths of darkness. Soulburn makes unwilling ears burn in hell. Period. I mentioned to Bob I’m returning to Maryland this year, might bring the CD to the States as well. I don’t know if Bob is into travelling so much anymore, but I do know this band can fester Maryland or any other over-ocean-festival instead of just playing a few one-off shows… Metal!!

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Thanatos - CD presentation for Global Purification, supported by Soulburn and Revel In Flesh (Turock, Essen, Germany)

Some month before the actual release of Soulburn’s The Suffocating Darkness album this gig got announced. By that time I was superthrilled to get to see Soulburn, as they were planned for Neurotic and I did not want to wait so long… Daniel was happy to join me; we’d have a hotel if I couldn’t find anyone else to be chauffeur ;) Paid in advance, so we never had to bother for anything but drive up there, have a great schnitzel at Nord again, get crazy, meet friends and get drunk :) Daniel had been to Essen once, but not been to Turock yet. Tom wouldn’t join because he wanted to deliver my VW Golf Mk II diesel to me, the car had some severe rust… if I hadn’t asked Tom to do it now I might lose a wheel… :shock: He even had to alleviate me to pick it up at 9. No problem, as my brother Toon’s birthday was the day before… near noon I finally awoke and picked the car up. I had to text Daniel twice I’d be there later than the original idea… early to rise, be a tourist in Essen, THEN Nord – crazy – friends – drunk :lol: but no such thing. It was raining like hell all the way down to Essen, we’d need swimming trunks to get through the city. Picking up my car felt so great, I nearly cheered when I drove to Enkhuizen, leaving Tom and Axel with big smiles on their faces. The smell of glue and paint was such a victory Daniel later called me ‘Herrieman Squarepants’ :lol: 8-) :lol: for being so nerdy about my lovely little diesel…

Like said, driving through the rain is hell. It takes way more energy to keep myself concentrated; people love their brakes too much too, the car itself being swung around the Autobahn... the wind pulling the steering wheel all the time. But a man needs a hobby or two, so Daniel got his Schwarzkreuzer tobacco, I’ve got three brands of German beer and we circled the hotel three times to find the parking lot, even scaring Essen churchgoers doing a wild spin in the pedestrian area ;). We drank one beer before entering Nord, warmly being welcomed by Thin Lizzy and Metallica. Gosh, it’s been a while since I last heard For Whom The Bell Tolls. Good to see Nord hasn’t changed, the Zigeunerschnitzel went in smoothly, along with a nice Stauder beer, Daniel had Guinness. Coming to Turock was a bit strange, as a huge fence had been erected around the exit door. That proved to be the smoking area of Turock, I’m sooo glad I no longer smoke as it was very cold to stand there smoking… Within minutes after entering Bob and Eric already found me, along with Stephan. Good company, being welcomed is always good. A minute before Revel In Flesh entered stage we were greeted by Maarten (msd) and Brammerman, rounds of Krombacher easily followed. Revel In Flesh is already three times as loud as the Distillator gig last week but at least it’s nice, dirty sounding death metal. This is death metal live as death metal should sound in a live setting. The guitars are really bone hard, lovely rolling bass, thundering drums and ultradeep vocals the way I like so much. Cranking speakers, full volume bashing! I grabbed the set list during the last song:
- Shadowbreezer – Until Hell Freezes Over
- Revel in Flesh
- When Glory Turns to Ruin
- Deathkult Legions
- Warmaster (not the Bolt Thrower song)
- Cryptcrawler
- Wings of Death
- Graveyard Procession
- Subconscious Error (seems I found an error on Metal Archives :lol: )
This band is good. Period. A quick rebuild of the drum set and Soulburn is on stage, ready to destroy Turock entirely. It isn’t really full, so unlike the Grand Supreme Blood Court show I had visited (see http://www.mruforums.com/f22/grand-supr ... 3rd-14084/ ) but the headbangers were plenty available. The band begun, two entire ranks of headbangers greeted the band, all Dutchies present of course. We also met some Rotterdam death heads I’d seen before but never got to speak to, sharing a beer. The volume is as high as possible, band in raging form but the same set list as December 28th? I don’t mind, I just love these songs! During Absinthesis Daniel parked his beer too close to my banging head, so beer kept sweeping from then on ;) and during In Suffocating Darkness I tried to film something, but when can I see what I’ve done? The screen is still broken haha, have no clue if I recorded anything. [turns out I did manage to film some 20 seconds, the clip sounds as if being dragged under a steam train :lol: but it’s nice to see Daniel banging his head so vigorously]. Twan even called Hymn of the Forsaken a Headbanger’s Bible ;). During Claws of Tribulation I seem to hear nothing else but Bob’s thundering drums and Eric’s intense shredding… what else do you need ???!!! Only thing I didn’t like was the abundance of smoke nearly the entire set, ruining my pictures. But you’ll never hear me complain, as I got Eric’s worn out plectrum and an official Soulburn guitar pick from Remco!! Thanks a lot gents! Really appreciated!! I had seen Bram go nuts I instantly decided he needed some Suffocating Darkness in his home so I bought him the CD, giving me the Thanatos album Undead. Unholy. Divine in return! Even before Thanatos started I had the entire band sign my CD. Daniel bought me the Revel In Flesh CD I just heard typing this (great album, thanks again!). Everybody happy :lol:

Thanatos used this show to officially present the new album ‘Global Purification’ to Germany. I have heard the album some five times now; it’s a great addition to the Top Ten of 2014 records! The band RAGES, some unbiblical proportions, sharp as Jesus’ pegs, goodiegoodie!! Standing first row I made a picture of the set list but got the original one from Paul (thanks! Great!!) :
- Global Purification (BANG THOSE HEADS!)
- Undead. Unholy. Divine
- Dawn of the Dead
- Destruction. Chaos. Creation. (shouting as hard as I could)
- Feeding the War Machine (all Dutch three man pit, totally ruthless!!)
- And Jesus Wept
- Beyond Terror (some German complimenting me with my Maryland Deathfest shirt :lol: )
- Outward of the Inward (monstrous pit once more! Finally some Germans giving acte de presence in the pit)
- The Murder of Innocence (what a KILLER song, soooo BRUTAL !!! )
- Mankind’s Afterbirth (murderous stage diver :lol: )
- World Jihad (dedicated to the victims of the Paris terrorist attack)
- Angelic Encounters (see http://youtu.be/TWgQ-ryLFvY never mind this old video, never mind the announcer, very cool song, there are more songs off this 2008 show)
- War
- Outro
This band means WAR!! War to religion, war to religious morons, war to religious terrorists and war to the ears… it was deafening loud, but sharp as a razor, so I really enjoyed myself. And I wasn’t alone in that, Maarten went totally over his head, Bram looked dangerous after the show :p and the Rotterdam Death Squad freaked out. Or is it Rotterdam Deaf Squad, as one of them asked if the volume could be cranked up even more :lol: After the show the band members stayed around for a sort of afterparty, Paul even apologizing for not having a Thanatos guitar pick, but I’m already happy with Asphyx one he gave me. Now I think I have to code the picks, as I have two Asphyx picks now, two of Paul’s picks (Hail of Bullets and now Asphyx) as I have two GSBC picks (Eric and Alwin), two Onslaught ones, three Epicas :). Bram and Maarten said goodbye to us and left, Bram quite intoxicated and Maarten the sober driver… we do have a couch in the hotel room you know ;) but I think everybody went away happy. The bands raged. Period. I loved every second of it, it sure was worth the 520 km drive (including picking up Daniel and returning him home). We will return to Turock, as we’ve both bought Hatefest tickets (I paid for one, but got two, pity to the organization I only found out in the hotel room :/ I’m no thief…) for April 5th. Turock is a great place for metal. Essen is one of the birthplaces of extreme metal, as Altenessen (Kreator) is only 3 km away from Turock (I even made a picture of the road sign ;)), some 15 km to Gelsenkirchen (Sodom) and it’s really not that far to drive to. Two stops, three hours later after a delicious breakfast with nearly the entire band Thanatos I deliver Daniel home and set course for Tom’s, I’ve got a bill to pay :lol: Tom mentioned he’d been in Turock several times, as a great interlude to Essen Motorshows he and his friends always encounter. Returned home, shave, MRU, no voetbal yet (winterstop), new CDs in the player and… enjoy! Enjoy metal!!

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:04 am 
 

Obituary on tour with M:Pire of Evil (Mantas, ex-Venom), Dust Bolt (Germany) and Posthum (Norway), first Dutch date, Jan. 16th

Obituary, masters of blunt and superheavy death metal the Florida Way would enter Europe again. After three shows in (70K, Stonehenge and Brutal Assault) it would be literally my fourth show Tardy and Co. would accompany in a year. I love Obituary, always have. The band tours with Dust Bolt, so my nearly missing them on Eindhoven Metal Meeting wasn’t such a big deal anymore. Of the other two bands I had never heard before, but that’s only good to me, as I love exploring new(er) bands too. By the time God Dethroned’s curse was over (2014 ;)) I knew the Bovenkarspel Boys wouldn’t join me, as Willem turns beer-friendly the same night. My friend Marit wanted to buy me a ticket as another thank-you-for-driving-so-often-gesture, but she told me so when I was hammered (GSBC in Hoorn) I would never remember. She bought tickets for herself and her husband Ron. But not really. Ron called me Thursday saying they wouldn’t make it, Marit had been sick and burnt out and he wouldn’t leave her alone… two tickets… damned. I still tried if there were Bovenkarspel Boys still willing to join us but no. Called Anne and he handed the phone to me saying he’d love to join. Asking Stip if he knew if anyone else is eager to see the Florida Deceased-in-Print and he told me he’d call our mutual Tilburg friend Jordy. Gladly he accepted. And then there was Shredded Ed, he’d been wanting to come over to my place to show the new Icon material for some time and he told me last week he never wanted to get inside the same car as his gf anymore ???

Friday was the ending of a strange week. One day at the office, two days working at home, one totally unnecessary cooperation meeting (60 men of different services talking interactively about cooperation instead of actually working together… money flies in government services, but work? Nah :/ ) and one funeral and my week is over again. Sigh. I thought I would have some rest and quiet but after the funeral I found a text message from Daniel: ‘shall I go by train or is there any room left in the VW Golf Mk II?’. I answered: ‘let me eat first, pick you up, Tom’d be around at 6 PM sharp, move on to Ed and off we go’. OK. With all the time in the world, I thought, I’d still have to rush. No biggie. Coming near Wognum I was so deep in conversation (with Axel, he thought I’d pick him up but we showed him Jordy’s number) I nearly forgot Ed, but typing this I think I wouldn’t have minded NOT picking him up. He’d been off booze for seven months, but clearly something catastrophic had happened as he was already high in beer when I got to his place. He did not notice I had ‘parked’ the car midway, running engine, boys in the back seats, mumbling about art work for Icon he’d been working on, rolling a joint, not satisfied with the shape of the joint, forgetting where his ticket was… sigh. First week of returning to booze… recognizable. Alkmaar is no fun searching for parking space…

Entering Victorie was fun, instantly being hugged by my long time friend Kamiel and his wife Jolanda. Quickly bought Marit her hoodie and the new Obituary- and first Dust Bolt album and tucking the hoodie in. Norwegian Posthum was the first band tonight. I don’t think anyone in Victorie had ever heard of them, but this is a band to keep an eye out for, we thought after three songs. The band combines post black metal with run off mascara, later on each song they played some other style element was added. Ed heard Burzum, I thought of ancient Immortal, Daniel spotted some Alcest influence, Tom was surprised as he really liked this band too. He just couldn’t hang a tag to it, I think that’s worth a compliment too. During their five song set Axel, Jordy and Stip entered and I instantly remembered Jordy had his birthday last week so I bought him a shirt of his liking. The shirts were so oversized I think I would have easily fitted an M sized shirt :lol: but Cause of Death looks great on so many people ;) No time to hassle, as Dust Bolt entered stage. The German cousins of Lost Society and Havok went to the bottom! The sound could have been a hint sharper, but the band is in top form tonight and both albums get their attention. I got to front row the second song and stayed there, banging my head as if I wanted the entire room littered with my sweat/remaining hairs/… whatever I have on or in my head :lol: Best pits of the day (says my back) were during Living A Lie, Violent Abolition, Deviance and last song the entire venue went 90 degrees, on their backs, on their knees… Agent Thrash! Very cool show! I ran to the merch stand and bought myself and Axel a patch (for saying sorry I didn’t pick him up too ??? Nah, this band welcomes our support ;)).

The venue had filled itself, I later heard the sign ‘Sold Out’ was hung on the door during M:Pire of Evil. I had a hunch and that hunch turned out true within two songs: this is two thirds of Venom! Where is R-Whin when you need him? René, Ed and John did show up. I think I never had a chance so big to meet another (formerly) Venom member as this night, as Mantas is instantly recognizable. OK, his fierce white hair is a little more blond and a little less abundant (even divided under a bandana :lol: ) and the glasses are prudent, but this is the album Prime Evil reinvented! It’s about twice as loud as Dust Bolt were, but hey, if you hear these songs you can understand:
- Die Hard
- Raise The Dead (why no Buried Alive? ;) Bass is everything!)
- Don’t Burn the Witch
- Bloodlust
- Hell To the Holy
- Welcome to Hell
- Hellspawn
- Parasite (Mantas announcing it in that beautiful Newcastle Upon Tyne accent and thanking everybody that ever listened to his own band AND Venom)
- Black Metal
- Witching Hour
I haven’t heard one single strophe of lyrics, as the bass was overruling everything, but what’s new concerning Venom-ous music? I didn’t get Buried Alive but I was buried in blood at least twice by singer Demolition Man, the lovely girl next to me looked at me funny as if my head bled :lol: Tom even offered her his handkerchief to remove her ‘blood’ hihihi. Never there was a greater opportunity to get some Venom related guitar pick, but apart from signing a few vinyl covers Mr. Dunn was off the stage so fast I’d suggest he’d be on witch trail haha.

I decided to keep my spot on first row, but already during the Obituary sound check I was sort of pushed around. The lovely girl next to me understood, her camera dangling for her awesome tits (just look, no touch ;)) and nodding her head to the (one man ;)) sound check. Lange Robert walked in and out of the dressing room, I started shouting ‘Robert, Robert, Robert!’ when he was joined by Terry and Trevor haha. Terry even gave me the thumbs up, so fanboy Herrieman kept his position well. I nearly cost me the moving parts of my back, but I stood my ground, when Obituary finally got on stage. I can clearly use a massage now, as the audience went totally aardbei beyond me. I also got Terry’s bass pick (so now I have three of Butler’s picks :)) and later on Kenny’s set list (Thanks a lot!!) :
- Intro
- Centuries of Lies
- Visions in My Head
- Infected (from now on I was regularly assfucked, feeling a knee between my legs to get my legs apart and my position stolen? Nope!)
- Bloodsoaked
- Intoxicated (John joking about the difference Heineken – Grolsch ;))
- Beer/tune session
- Immortal Visions (shall I just call it multiple rape, what I experienced? :shock: )
- Violence
- ‘Til Death
- I Don’t Care
- Stinkupus (the CD says Stinkupuss :) )
- Back to One
- Dead Silence
- Encores: Back on Top (whoah, for two minutes I can stand on two legs again)
- I’m in Pain (OK, now I’m left alone, no more placement assault)
- Inked in Blood
- Slowly We Rot
This was one hell of a show, I even think this is nearly or really the coolest Obituary show I have ever seen! Loud as a rollercoaster on a sunny day, sharp as a blade, blunt as a Fender Strat axe can be, vocals awesome, guitar duels to their max!! Between songs I found Terry’s bass pick and after the show Tamar showed me her Trevor treasure ;) I instantly offered Tamar a swap (as I already have two Massacre bass picks) but she said ‘it was given to me personally, being so small and front row all the time’ I smiled and said ‘just kidding, be happy with it’. Always nice to see a lovely woman smile.

Obituary members roamed the venue, so I cut off my Joost hug and got the wardrobe: also happy to put on some dry clothing I ran across the hall for all signatures and thanking all members for a great show. I wouldn’t have minded to thank Dust Bolt, M:Pire of Evil and Posthum as well, as I had had a night to remember, sizzling ears, aching back, aura of sweat (poor Bodyfarm shirt haha), vocal chords extended to the max but a smile as tall as a blue whale. Tom really, really needed food and as I know there’s a Macca mid center of Alkmaar I set my EdEd to that. Dumb thing led me back to Victorie and then, after a regular detour off to Hoorn then. Ed only moaning about his gf’s insanity pleas, we’re just in time for the big M to feed us. Ravenous wolves we were ;) triple helpings for Tom nearly ignored my rumbling stomach. Ed hardly wanted to leave the car as if he hadn’t complained enough so far, delivered Daniel home and Tom fell asleep with the first afpils. Not that he was drunk, but plain tired. Hell, he’d been ruling and ruining the pit nearly every band! Entire shows pitting! What a stamina, chapeau! On my hands you can easily see the imprints of the casing of the monitors, as I had to keep pushing myself straight up the raging second row all the way of Obituary’s set, but some 1.824 words later they still move around the keyboard. I had a great time and I think entire Alkmaar had a great time. We. Ink. Metal!

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:31 pm 
 

I'm going to see Crowbar for the first time in my life in March.
Anyone saw them live? What can I expect?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:45 pm 
 

Crowbar? Expect a hardhitting cross between NYHC and slow thrash metal. I've seen them twice, one show was awesome, one was abysmal.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:33 pm 
 

I saw Straight Line Stitch, Bellusira, and Dead Horse Trauma this week.

Straight Line Stitch (headliner/metalcore) - Their vocalist was sick, but she still screamed or whatever it is. The high pitched screaming is not really my thing, but the drummer was excellent. Since the vocalist was sick, they altered the setlist and performed new songs. I left after 5-6 songs.

Bellusira (Australian/rock) - They put on a pretty good performance, but they're a bit generic. Crystal Ignite's vocals were pretty spot on. They played a few songs off of their upcoming EP, including their most well-know song "Cachango".

Dead Horse Trauma (nu metal) - I went to the show to see Bellusira, but DHT picked up a new fan. They came out with black face paint and started with "Patriot" off of their latest album "Kill The Precedence". They vocalist switches between clean, raspyish singing and growls/shouts. Their setlist was very fast-paced and the band seemed to be well polished, with the guitarists jumping around and adding some spins. Definitely check these guys out. They seem to appreciate everyone who attends their shows.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:27 pm 
 

night of grindcore: a fest called Gore City II, Dynamo Eindhoven, feat. Gutalax, Jig-Ai, Rectal Smegma, Jan. 31st:

I’m not the biggest grindcore fan, but do enjoy the madness such bands can bring. I’ve seen Gutalax twice, seen Spasm but so far I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing much Dutch grindcore. Or goregrind, porngrind or whatever it’s called. Kutschurft I can really enjoy, so far no Grindbashers or Rectal Smegma. Magrudergrind I found boring (just as example; the latter isn’t Dutch of course). To be short, I wasn’t really sure if I’d go. I knew Daniel had a ticket, but thought he’d join Axel and the guys. On Friday I called if I’d get me a ticket, otherwise it would be a sour lonesome Saturday evening I guessed. Friday came, slept late, couldn’t find my phone, it seemed I missed at least 4 messages? OK, time to call. Tijmen was already in the car with Axel, I called Daniel if he still had no means of transportation. I picked him up, neither of us had eaten. In the car I called Tijmen again where they drove, Tijmen answering ‘how do I know where we are, on highway A2?’ I answered: which hectometer sign do you pass? He said, after missing two, ’95,0’ I replied: OK, you’re entering the ring road of Den Bosch, you’re about 20 minutes from Eindhoven. I could hear Tijmen’s jaw drop ‘you’re right, how do you know?' Experienced driver, matey! :lol: I asked him to call me if he could get me a ticket, I had no idea if it would sell out, knowing the size of Dynamo… Coming near De Lucht we ate, wondering if we’d bring the Macca balloons or the Happy Meals :).

Parking the car in a garage meant ‘sure we don’t have to scratch the wind shield’ and off to Dynamo. I had only brought a hoodie, no coat, so we walked firmly. Daniel had been following FB for news about the Czech bands, their tourbus broke down about 160 km from Eindhoven, the other bands were supposed to stretch the time a bit. All I noticed was that the sound checks could have been some minutes shorter… We had missed one band, but as there were no schedules hanging we had no idea which one that was. After meeting some Friesian friends we found out the first band tonight was Hymen Holocaust and turned out to be Dutch. Bass is everything, band members in orange overalls, volume cranking beyond my ear plugs but after the announcement ‘the stage is a free zone’ Spasm-esque scenes followed: beach balls, stagedivers, long time crowd surfing; all hell is wanted so it seems. It’s like Obscene Extreme in a small hall. Check out http://youtu.be/vUAi5p2rSRw but on blasting volume. Kees later gave me a setlist, as he stated ‘you value such a paper more than I do’ ;) so for another general idea:
- Intro
- Climaxing Clowns
- Sick Pervert
- Mr. of Perversity http://youtu.be/B9G7cCQV5y0
- Hag Raped
- Hymen Crusher
- Cold Ones Make Me Horny
- Crackwhore Client
- Praise the Load
- Smegmaniac
- Rape, Sex & Death http://youtu.be/vUAi5p2rSRw
- Britney
What I found funny after this show, that this genre is so inventive in language boggle, perspectives on gore, art work and the likes: see picture
Midgets with a cheese slicer, Snow White bondage, red noses and red tongues… How do you come up with this? The artwork isn’t the only strange/funny thing, as the interlude music varies between hardcore gabber, Corry Konings [I even saw a CK backpatch ‘No Corry No Party’ ): ], 1975 disco, early heavy metal (Breaking the Law, Hell Bent For Leather; when Battle Hymns was played even Kees had a tear to his eye) and the foyer of Dynamo is filled to the max between bands. Preparing the blow up dolls, strap ons, hula dresses, huge glasses, beer goggles, toilet seats, mainly puberty behavior as a lot of beer flies through the air. Next band brings in the S&M masks, pest extermination overall, goregrind and they’re called Tu Carne from Spain. Musically I have nothing at all with this band, it’s incredibly loud and all sounds alike, what’s the point in printing lyrics but the ‘fun’circle pit keeps moving. Axel, Kees, Tijmen are present, Gino’s there, Mr.Greenpants… but not us. I suddenly feel old and my remark on ‘having to go to Obscene Extreme one day’ (during Hymen Holocaust) seems invalid already. I end up at the merch market and I found some Repugnant, Jungle Rot and Nihilist! Ahh, I feel better now and the locker is even more useful ;) At the Grindbashers stand I bought a single of which I thought it to be Rectal Smegma, but the band is simply called Smegma. Oh well, support your local underground, I thought. One side note: I don’t think there are much grindcore fans above Hollands rivers Rhine, Meuse and Waal. I know of some Friesian OEF enthusiasts, but in Eindhoven you have Gore City, Grindhoven and some more gore related festivals. Death metal OK, thrash metal OK, but grind? No. Eindhoven is the center of this extremity.

Rectal Smegma, call me an idiot to say so after reading the above, was my reason to go to Eindhoven, along with a nice Gutalax party. The band doesn’t shift much musically, compared to the rest, but the hall is packed and the fun pit is the biggest so far. On each side of the venue the walls only hold one line of people who don’t participate in the pit. Yeah we SHOULD have brought the balloons! Blow up monkeys, swimming bands, toilet scrapers, gas masks, light sabres, Tigger suits, booze, everything present during Holland’s Back Door Porn Gore presenters numero uno: Rectal Smegma! It’s fun to watch. http://youtu.be/FR0tXgiO2JM (never mind the Dutch swearing in the begin)

Normally the festival would have been ended at 11 PM, but around that time the bands do show up in Dynamo. Strange to see Gutalax members without overall and goggles, short sound check, maybe one beer and Jig-Ai is on. The Czech grinders do more of the same (ancient Gorefest shirt or not :S ) ; Daniel and me are tired, no porngrinders to begin with, even thinking adolescence is abundant.. if they don’t have a gimmick goregrind isn’t much at all.. Jig-Ai doesn’t have any weird stage attributes… 2 songs and we’re off. This is not getting any better this way. I actually enjoyed the walk through the cold back to the car, indeed nice dry windshields :) No Gutalax this time, I’m getting hungry again and it’s a two hour drive home… Faxe and HJ waiting, coffee and balletje mayo on the way home (Daniel even bought me Swedish meatballs ;) thanks!), Voïvod and Warbringer over the speakers nearing Lelykstad, http://youtu.be/NQV97Yc0CoY when I drove out of Enkhuizen… life is good. Gore or good.. I choose Gallagher ;)

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:21 pm 
 

Death DTA played Dynamo Eindhoven, they should have been supported by Massacre... Februari 28th

As so often, it was Daniel that was the first volunteer to go to this show. Hell I think he’d have paid extra just for Massacre, but some two months ago the band split up! No matter what, we’d go. I have seen one of the other bands long ago and wondered if Loudblast still could rock my neck (they replaced Pestilence in 1992, along with Gorefest, enough stories surround that tour) and of course, Death DTA is a worthy tribute to Chuck. The band is touring under Symbolic moniker now, with Steve DiGorgio, Gene Hoglan, Bobby Koelble and Max Phelps. I have seen Death with both Reinert and Hoglan on the drums, DiGorgio and Conlon on bass and Masdival and Koelble on guitars… completely different bands, but still my memories to those shows are warm. The day before we actually went Axel also mentioned wanting to join us, he’d buy a box office ticket. Checked before we left: those were still available. But Daniel called with stormy news: he was sick, could barely walk, no go. I voicemailed Axel asap he shouldn’t buy a ticket, but I soon found out Axel and Daniel already spoke.. bring Jelle (rib-basher) in too. Jelle later explained he just bought a car and needed a spin so he got to a ticket shop and bought himself a ticket. Nice, car is full again. We’d leave at 5 PM.

Coming to my house Tom was clearly dehydrated. He’d been hammering old tiles off his old bathroom wall and even though I wanted to ask him to drive to Eindhoven, he only needed HJ. And lots of it. Coming to Bovenkarspel I disappointed Jelle (a bit) by giving him my keys; Axel poured two sixpacks HJ out of the freezer :/ Stale drinking.. in my car.. fine with me. I have an entire crate of HJ waiting for me. Eating in Lelijkstad was a bit of a bad idea, as it’s Saturday and around 6 PM.. Macca packed to the max, trying to speed up by online order didn’t help too. Off to Eindhoven. I drove the last part, so Jelle could have one meager beer (I thought, later I heard Jelle had 3 in the car :lol: Axel = LUL of course for shredding the beer) before entering the parking garage. Some annoying cunts with roll-flutes and balloons pissed me off and they were metalheads! What ??? JelleJelle already made us use the entire inner city of Eindhoven, are we going to miss Abysmal Dawn? But even iPhones can get it wrong, we took a huge detour following the cunts AND following iGetlost? Yep, entering Dynamo we soon found out at least one band was playing, but no idea which one. Two pictures, two songs and they offnounced themselves ‘we are Abysmal Dawn, thank you very much Holland’ [Death DTA only did one Dutch show this tour]. Abysmal Dawn sounded a bit lukewarm to me.

To my surprise, Loudblast had to open the entire tour! My idea that Abysmal Dawn had had much less material, existed way shorter than Loudblast… am I a baboon or not? Thinking which band is bigger didn’t cover the fact… we had missed them! Within seconds after Abysmal Dawn went off stage the Death DTA banner was raised and some short break later frankincense was used to bless the stage or was it to conjure Chuck’s spirit? I don’t know, but I was certainly surrounded by Death shirts, Bolt Thrower ones, Autopsy, Gorefest, Possessed… all the ancient death metal heroes were praised by the eager fans. This is what I wrote:
- The Philosopher
- LEPROSY (enormous pit starts, absolutely great to hear and see this so early in the set)
- Left to Die
- Suicide Machine
- Overactive Imagination (Steve thanking each and every member, fan and others; Max Phelps says… nothing. No single announcement, no anecdote, just lyrics)
- Trapped in a Corner (with help from my neighbor… forgot to ask his name :)) Lights went out completely for about two minutes!
- 1,000 Eyes
- Without Judgment (OK, I secretly used setlist.fm too :))
- Spiritual Healing (Steve changing between 6 string and 3 string bass every other song)
- Within the Mind
- Lack of Comprehension (thinking back of MTV, this song flooded Headbanger’s Ball for quite some time :idea: Steve is clearly the joker of the band as he teases the crowd and the band with the intro)
- Flattening of Emotions (I can clearly hear Gene shouting ‘are you fucks tired or what?’ :))
- Symbolic (with Steffen Kummerer of Obscura; Phelps is off stage)
- Zero Tolerance
- Bite the Pain (I’m not getting back to my former spot second row and I decide to skip the last songs. I meet Laurens and have a great chat about underground death metal.)
- Evil Dead [Fuck. I. Should. Have. Been. In. The. Hall.]
- Zombie Ritual (first encore)
- Baptized in Blood
- Crystal Mountain
- Pull the Plug
Axel had been shouting for Spirit Crusher all evening, but he needed the DJ to hear it. Tom could hardly stand anymore, but his smile was about the size of the biggest tiles he cut out today. Jelle had been talking to the Loudblast guys, asking about their style of music [‘helped by an ancient metalhead’ guess who he meant :lol: ] and getting everything signed. I walked around, met Kick, Eus, Alex Mulder, some Friesians, Last Fear’s Lisa, the Abysmal Dawn guys (battery empty..). During the show I had some bro time with Bobby Koelble, but as I didn’t return to the stage I got zilch. I bought a signed drum stick instead. Fine. Axel was getting annoying to women once more so I urged to get out. Got to the car, before I got out of the parking garage at least one of them already slept.. so sweet… I drove on, Axel murmuring about food, but as he slept when I entered the John F. Kennedylaan (less than a mile from parking garage ;)) he already slept and I drove on. I had some orange juice, low pH but enough glucose to keep me driving. As Jelle fell asleep near Best (9 km later :lol: ) I adjusted my music…from Deathfist to Epica – Paradise Lost – Jeff Healey and I delivered the boys home around 1:30 AM. No need for afpilzen for Tom, as he was ‘blauw als een geit’ and I was fine with that. HJ to the plenty hahaha.

Typing this I had some metal to keep me awake, Massacre – Sodom – Bulldozer - Pest. Not that I had done sooooo much all day, but it’s beyond 3 AM and I have some pictures to sort and some vid I made to watch, let alone voetbal. This might be the last tour Death DTA does (for a while, as FB mentions) but this was good enough for an encore. As Massacre bailed out, Death DTA was given an extra 30 minutes to excite us to the silk in a coffin.. it was great. Sound was awesome, cool mix of songs, no hint of chronology, band in top shape, no headache light show, nearly full house and metal with friends. What more do you need? METAL!

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 4:31 pm 
 

Wapenfest Bladel, feat. Soulburn, Lucifericon, March 7th

After a long and demanding week it’s good to have live music. I’ve been flying all around the provences Noord-Holland and Utrecht, had a two day safety course + exam, worked at home one day and one day emergency duty and the week was over again. Friday I often hang out with the Bovenkarspel Boys, share a HJ from can (the boys drink Schutters, uhgggg!) and discuss live metal and listen to metal. I wondered if the boys had any good ideas or were willing to hear mine: see Soulburn live in Bladel on Saturday. At least D.R.I. tickets are purchased (thanks Jelle!) and I heard a shitload of Teutonic Thrash, but the boys were heading for Rectal Smegma this weekend. I called Ching Hue, but on such short notice I kinda knew he wouldn’t be allowed or simply couldn’t go.. OK I go alone. For a change. I did know the Den Haag Deathheads would be present, but who else?

No need to worry yet, as my Saturday started with my head over a bucket and with the word BrilBurn on my hand, I’d have to pick up my new glasses first. I have been wearing this pair for five !!! years, more focus please! I still had all the time in the world, drove out of Westwoud without denim (hobby :() and chose to do my car cleaning the easy way.. but with a window opened a zip my entire co driver seat + stuff drenched… damned. On top of those things I had an extra schipperstrui (very thick, neck bound sweater) and I would need it… Would it dry enough? Beforehand I chose not to drive home, but stay in Bladel for a change. The difference/choice/option would be some 140 minute drive… sober. In the dead of night. And alone. Weather checked, 3-5 degrees Celsius.. uhhm, doable. As an extra precaution I had some 4 extra sweaters/hoodies to choose from… (one wet now >< ) Coming to Bladel I found really a perfect spot for an unseen overnight maybe unwanted unpaying visitor… Wall on the east side, hardly visible from the onward street… perfect to duck under a sleeping bag. Beer time! I had brought a sixpack of HJ and found three bars around the center square with HJ on tap… what will Het Wapen (‘Coat of Arms’ something) bring? I parked my VW Golf Mk II about 200 yards away from Het Wapen and had four beers to begin with, thinking it would be nice to shed the last two after the show. Coming to Het Wapen.. uhhhggg Dommelsch. I shoulda drank the other two too ;) First acquaintance I found was Laurens, shared a Fanta with him before I noticed the merch stand: demos on vinyl, demos on tape, woohoo! Coming back to the café I found Roel Sanders (ex-Asphyx, ex-God Dethroned, ex-Kill Division, this night he still was in Lucifericon, apparently only in Snaggletoöth now). The venue looked like a wedding party room, Roel thought there would be some dancing final the next day; asking if it would hold the same music brought some extra smiles to the venue too ;)
Before the first band Bones started I already brought my new stuff to the car and found Bob, Eric and Twan. Nice chat! Bob told me of the driver’s hobby around Helmond and I cheerily agreed :). Like I thought the Den Haag Deathheads were present too, shared a beer with Koen and Patricia and Bones got to stage: the Belgians brought a blistering mix of Sacrófago, Winter and Morbid Angel. This sounds great! Other songs bore thoughts of ancient Sepultura and any Krisiun so I liked it a lot! This is not really representative, but still.. http://youtu.be/Qakf9n4QQXI this was cool. I’ve had a good conversation with Bob B. (about anything related to beer and shows ;)) before Lucifericon got to stage and… wow. Just wow. The mix of Deströyer 666 and old Marduk blew away all blisters Bones just put to skin: hard, loud, voluminous, lovely thundering bass, beating drums (hey Roel! :)) I got a set list:
- The Temple of Lucifericon
- Brimstone Altar
- Moon over Fading Statues http://youtu.be/DC4SP8ym73k
- Azazel’s Torch http://youtu.be/zQVLEOXLqh0
- Omega Therion
- The Jaws of Time
- Witch of the Cosmic Grave
- Deathtongue
Extremely checkable! That the organizers of Wapenfest play in this band too (just like Pentacle came from Bladel to begin with; they played the first Wapenfest with only Bladel metal) doesn’t matter. It rocked. Period. Band members/organizers Rob and Anton made sure I got at least one extra flyer to plaster my bedroom wall again :lol: Thanks dudes! Highly appreciated!! Having shared a beer with 3/4ths of Legion of the Damned and 4/4ths of Soulburn already I was hungry. Hungry for violent headbanging. Hungry to raise my fist and yell. Hungry for blackened death metal grandioso!! And I got: SOULBURN! With Laurens and the Den Haag Deathheads near, we made sure every microliter of sweat was crossed the venue! Liters of beer in between, we shouted. We banged our heads. We raised our fists to…
- Hellish Entrapment
- Under the Rise of a Red Moon
- Wielding Death (hey, haven’t heard that one live yet :) )
- Crypts of the Black
- Absinthesis
- In Suffocating Darkness
- Hymn of the Forsaken
- Claws of Tribulation
- I Do Not Bleed From your Crown of Thorns
- Feeding on Angels
Killer! Absolutely KILLER!! Why is this venue not filled more than we experience now? Because some Westfriesians chose Rectal Smegma instead? No, I don’t think so. Not many people (especially Westfriesians other than Daniel ;)) can appreciate such dark, blunt as fuck, shrieking and vile blackened death metal like I do. Like Koen does. Like Laurens does. Wannes is present and does the song Feeding on Angels. Brilliant!! I loved it! I got the setlist from Remco, a guitar pick from Twan, oh oh fanbooyyyyya! Thanks a lot, gents! As I already had bought my newly bought stuff to the car all I had to do was.. get rid of the last consumption coins. Beer! Even though it was Doomelsch, it didn’t really taste bad so, OK, I’m off for a cold night. Brushed my teeth (not with beer :lol: ), got myself five extra layers of cotton and dozed off. The schipperstrui was dry enough ;) As I predicted when I entered Het Wapen my head had resemblance to a piece of wood near a chainsaw, but I remembered Laurens writing his address and invitation to coffee. Driving slower than I usually do I got to Vught and was pampered once more. Coffee a bit strong, stroopwafels and muesli in chocolate were enough to wake me up. Thanks for the hospitality, family Graas! Entering the A2 highway I got a text message from Tom: ‘Beugeltje in het zonnetje?’ and I got to some serious Grolsch after emptying my car. The Bovenkarspel Boys had fun, I had fun, texted a bit ;) Feyenoord and FC Groningen both won, what else does a man need? More metal, as we head out to Groningen itself next week. Distillator, Cliteater, Endstille, € 12,-, here we come! METAL!

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:37 pm 
 

Defenders of the Old 2015 in Brooklyn ranks as the best festival that I've ever seen. I live in Northern Virginia and since I was spooked out by some smoke incidents on local Metro trains that I would have had to use to get to the Amtrak station, I decided to drive and left on 3/12. A few traffic jams on I495, smooth sailing on I95, and then pedal to the metal on the NJ Turnpike. A bit of a traffic jam on I278 before crossing the Verrazano Bridge and road racing down 3rd Ave. to my hotel (a short walk from the Bell House venue). I walked around Cobble Hill nearby and had dinner at a French restaurant. 3/13, after brunch I took the subway into Manhattan and bought a few things at Generation Records which still has a great Metal selection. (This was my 1st time back in NYC since 3/2010.) I didn't like that Shakespeare and Co. Books was now closed. It used to carry interesting music books and had a great Horror literature section. St. Mark's Bookshop, which stocked Metal books, relocated to the Ave. A area but it was now just an average store. Lots of stores that sold Metal shirts, spikes, etc. gone. All that's left is Generation Records, Trash & Vaudeville, Search & Destroy, St. Mark's Comics, and the Strand.

For Day 1, Nightmare City (replacing Magic Circle who cancelled) and Aggression started things off and sounded great. As for NME, I really like "Louder Than Hell" a lot but it and the band did not sound that great to me live. Destructor and Liege Lord were a completely different story-they kicked ass. The Nifelheim twins seized control of the front for Destructor, Aggression, and would do so again for Exciter and the Rods the next day. Riot V were simply awesome. In addition to playing my 2 favorites "Metal Warrior" and "Swords & Tequila" they brought out some surprises such as "On Your Knees" and "Hard Lovin Man." Rick Ventura and Lou Kouvaris guested on a few numbers and played solos. Riot V played for 2 hours and ended with "Thundersteel."

The next day after killing time in Park Slope nearby, I went to the DISORGANIZED SNAIL PACED signing session but still managed to get 1 vinyl signed by Exciter and 1 cd signed by the Rods. Tyrant of Nifelheim was also waiting on line and wearing a Rods "Wild Dogs" shirt. There was also a lunatic drunk guy from New Hampshire making a scene in front of Exciter about how important they are to him.

After dinner I headed back to the Bell House. I missed Natur but Cauchemar were excellent. I like the music of High Spirits but their stage presentation (everyone in identical dark shirts and white pants) wasn't my cup of tea. I like the music of October 31 and they put on a great performance. In most cases, the bands on the receiving end of King Fowley's verbal abuse probably deserve it. However, since I am a Judas Priest cultist, I only politely watched their set. (ie. no headbanging or air guitar) Brocas Helm were great and their leader played an amazing extended guitar solo. I was looking forward to the Rods but after the opening song "Evil in Me", the guitar Marshall head failed and it took them 20-25 minutes to set up a replacement. The Rods were great for the limited time they played but it would have been nice to hear "Let Them Eat Metal" and "Devil's Child."

Fortunately there were no problems for Exciter. This was one of the best concerts that I have ever seen. The berzerk crowd at this sold out show were screaming in unison to "Stand Up & Fight", "HM Maniac", and "Long Live the Loud". Early on, the bouncers gave up trying to stop the crowd surfing and stage diving. I bet there was more stage diving/crowd surfing at this show than at the Venom and Slayer shows that I witnessed. 2 of my 3 favorites, "Scream in the Night" and "Violence & Force" were played (I guess I'm in the minority in believing that "Destructor" should also be mandatory). While Judas Priest and Destroyer 666 remain my top 2 bands both on record and live, I think I'll rank Exciter as my 3rd best live act.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:54 pm 
 

Day 3 at St. Vitus was also a classic killer show. After the Metal Market, I did a lot of walking and killed time by surfing the internet at a convenience store. As I was walking back toward the venue, I noticed that Hellbutcher of Nifelheim and some others were walking near a store that I earlier noticed had Iron Maiden Trooper beer in stock. I quickly caught up with them and told them and they were enthusiastic about it. They had the Trooper beer on stage during their set. People came from all over the world for this. Jon Metalian of Slayer Magazine and 2 members of Cauldron were there. I spoke with 2 guys who had travelled all the way from Australia and one of them told me that Simon Berzerker (formerly of Destroyer 666) was in attendance. Ares Kingdom, Iron Force, and Slutvomit were all great but, obviously, Nifelheim was the best of the night and played to a rabid, maniacal crowd. Nifelheim were supposed to start at 11PM but started at 11:20 instead. The highlights for me were "Black Evil" and "Infernal Flame of Destruction". All 3 nights of Defenders of the Old were awesome and this trip was well worth the cost.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:09 pm 
 

Good review! I really wanted to go to that fest but I lacked the funds unfortunately, maybe one day! I'm glad you enjoyed Cauchemar and it's too bad Magic Circle cancelled since they're so great. I want to see Nifelheim, damnit!
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:43 pm 
 

Nocturnus at the Elbo Room in S.F. was sick as hell - not surprisingly, especially considering NWN! put on the show. I arrived in the middle of the second band, which was either Plague Phalanx or Antebellum666, I'm not sure which. Whoever they were, they played a perfectly enjoyable brand of black/death/thrash, their music as well as their denim/spikes/hoodies stage attire being somewhat reminiscent of Black Witchery. Oakland (fuck yeah!) natives Lycus were up next, playing their usual style of detuned, ultra-heavy, bordering-on-funeral doom - the clean/harsh vocal contrast was an especially nice touch - and I was honestly disappointed when they had to cut their set short. I went out for a smoke, and when I came back Nocturnus were still setting up. Their sound was somewhat iffy for the first two or three songs, with the rhythm guitar in particular being a little hard to hear, but once the equalizer issues were fixed, they absolutely destroyed the place. For a bunch of guys who must be around 50 - having started way back in 1987 - they had amazing energy and enthusiasm, loud as fuck and absolutely relentless. In addition to playing all of 'The Key' - albeit not in order - they also threw in all 3 tracks from the original Incubus demo, and a medley of early Morbid Angel (Browning-era) tunes plus the entirety of "Angel of Disease," which was a definite highlight of a uniformly excellent set. Speaking of Mike Browning, he drummed and sang simultaneously without any sign of flagging whatsoever, which at his age is a rather impressive feat.

All in all, a terrific show by a legendary band. Browning, as a death metal pioneer, honestly doesn't get the kudos he deserves. What a shame.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:57 pm 
 

Great review, NorthernDarkness6! I was there for the first two nights but missed my chance on tickets for Nifelheim. That weekend is definitely up there among my favorite concert/festival experiences. I got there a little late on Friday, and after settling in at the hotel and eating dinner I only managed to see Destructor, Liege Lord, and Riot, but all three slayed. Man were Destructor good. I was only vaguely familiar with them before the festival. Riot in particular put on a proper headlining set. They sounded like the most rehearsed and professional band that weekend, but everyone was at the top of their game. Unfortunately the place wasn't packed that night and the crowd was a bit limp during Riot. It was obvious everyone was there to see Exciter.

I spent Saturday in Brooklyn walking/eating. I decided to bypass the signing session because the last thing I wanted to do was stand in line, and I'm not big on meeting bands anyway. I got back to the Bell House in time to see High Spirits and everyone else after them. King Fowley's stage antics and banter were a highlight. Brocas Helm ruled and I'm glad I finally got to see them - they were one of the main draws for me, actually. The whole band seemed confused every time they went into the next song (every time) but once they gelled, they sounded just like on the record. The disappointment over The Rods' short set was palpable throughout the venue but they still put on a good performance. Hot City was played and it was stellar. At least we got treated to a drum solo during the setback; Carl Canedy is one hell of a drummer. Speaking of solos, I don't think I've ever seen a lineup of bands with more guitar solos! And as David Feinstein's gotten older he sounds more reminiscent of Dio, which gave their songs a little extra edge.

Exciter killed it and the place went crazy for them. One of the best shows and crowds I've ever seen, I can agree on that. Beehler was practically pulling his hair out between songs in disbelief over how good the response was. It was shoehorned at the end of their set but they played Long Live the Loud, my favorite song of theirs. That would've been a high note to leave on, but I stuck around for the encore and stared down Jim Schumacher as he sat on a couch by the venue exit when I left. Can't wait to see what's in store for the next Defenders!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:14 am 
 

DATE: March 27
BANDS: WOLVSERPENT, Occultation, Predatory Light, Muscle and Marrow, Father Murphy
VENUE: Linen Building, Treefort, Boise Idaho

This show was one of about a dozen simultaneous shows going on tonight as part of the ongoing four day Treefort music festival, but this was probably the only one of interest to fans of heavier music. Soooo, with nothing better to do, I went and checked it out.

I got there a bit too late to see Father Murphy, but I heard they were actually pretty interesting so now I'm kinda bummed. Ah well, maybe next time.

Muscle and Marrow are a two piece consisting of Muscle on vocals and guitar and Marrow on drums...okay I don't know their real names, but anyway.... They are a two piece, they're from Portland, and play what can best be described as real heavy post-metal spacy rock. It was decent, honestly, with some interesting ideas and a rather unique sound. The bass was so loud that you could feel it vibrating in your chest and it was honestly a bit uncomfortable at times (heh heh, maybe for wimps!) and while that was true for all of the bands it was more of a distraction here.

Predatory Light were badass. Heavier than the Owyhee Mountains, faster than light, blacker than darkness, and awesome to hear in a live setting. The music is a mixture of black and death metal, with crushing heavy, doom-ish passages that are accentuated with fast blasting parts (as opposed to simply blasting and tremolo picking all the time like a lot of black metal bands do.) Really great songwriting and really intense. Definatly a band I was glad to check out.

I'd checked out Occultation on youtube and liked them, and I did like their performance here as well, but they were quite a bit different in a live setting. It didn't capture the weird, cavernous sound that the studio recording has which made them so intriguing. However, they were still pretty good. They were not as heavy as either of the bands they were sandwhiched in between, but still pretty decent gothic progressive metal, with some distinctive playing and songwriting. I thought the drummer especially was pretty talented.

Wolvserpent just blew me away, and everyone else in attendance. Their sound just washes over you in waves of enveloping blackness and heaviness. You can almost hear subtle, perhaps subliminal, things amid the wall of sound that is woven together, and the songs are crafted brilliantly, sometimes starting with just a simple chord or a simple melody played on a violin, then gradually building up to a climactic bulldozing wall of intense heaviness. I suppose you could describe them as sort of ambient doom metal, but that isn't the full extent of it. They remind me of what Celtic Frost was striving for on "Monatheist-" slow to mid paced riffs, dark, heavy and atmospheric, but Wolvserpent were, if anything, even better than that album. The last time I saw this band was about six or so years ago when they were still called "Pussygutt" and to be honest, at the time, their one dimensional droning sound didn't do much for me- but the current version of the band is light years better in every way. They had a lot of samples and background effects to augment the fact that it's just the two of them, but I didn't mind- it sounded awesome either way.

Anyway, overall an excellent and worthwhile night out.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:26 am 
 

Night Demon and Roadkill in Musicon Den Haag, March 27th:

During the Thanatos show in Turock I got to know Koen. Over the years we’d seen each other often, but didn’t speak until then. We met again on the Dutch Steel event and Wapenfest and I got invited to Night Demon. I was on the guest list, Koen mailed me. Wow, that’s still new to me! Thanks! So.. another The Hague Heavy Metal Allegiance night, now with Night Demon in a venue called Musicon. We’ll see what this night will bring, I hadn’t really put much effort in neither Night Demon nor Roadkill, the support act. One or two listenings, that’s about it. I knew the Roadkill guys organize the Road Grill every year, combination of Beer, Meat, Metal (saw a shirt later on ;) ; barbeque with bands, so to speak). Somehow I did prepare for tonight, as I played some Angel Witch, Motörhead, Holocaust, Raven and even some Diamond Head this week. On the drive to Den Haag I even played Welcome to Hell… the day began quite relaxed, slept an hour longer than normal as I would park my car at the office (and still be earlier than usual :lol: ). Indeed, a relaxed day followed. Not that I didn’t do anything at all, note. But getting a free set of sunglasses, focused, antiglare, “normal” setting (noooo RayBan, nothing hip ;)) from the boss, even a parking spot in mid-town Am’dam, between talks of total power failure in half the provence Noord-Holland (never noticed a thing :lol: ) and do some vital work, but simply two gears slower HA! Good day! I chose to eat along the A12 road, time for a nice steak!

Driving from the restaurant I found Venom between my MP3s and hummed all along the album into Rijswijk and Den Haag. I’d be at least an hour too early, but in a city that big I love to have some spare time… to park, be a tourist, maybe visit the Appie Happie nearby, found some awesome DVDs and even did my hobby WALKING the wrong way. OK, I had an excuse; the venue was on the lower end of a bridge I couldn’t look over. 173 cm isn’t that big ;). Musicon is, as I later heard, owned by Golden Earring drummer Cezar Zuiderwijk and he made some vicarage building into a music café. So.. with the chalkboard next to the door, Musicon is literally surrounded by the City Life Church building and what’s on the menu: Night DEMON ;). I thought the doors would open at 9 PM, but Koen already spotted me and pulled me in. Got my guest list stamp (even made a picture of the guest list later on :) )and off to the bar for some… orange soda. Damned, another venue with HJ on tap!! I was torn through the entire venue, Koen making me meet all kinds of Hague Metalheads, neighbors, band members, roadies, wife and kids. Thanks Koen, really felt welcome this way! Even more when one of his sons offered me the Disturbing Foresights 7” single (Koen played bass there). In the meantime some golden (earring?) oldies of thrash passed by… Trapped Under Ice, Silent Scream, Beyond The Black, Shovel Headed Kill Machine, Aftershock, Peace Sells; last song before a band was another spin of Beyond the Black and Roadkill entered stage. Convenient? Singer Mac Blade sounds exactly like David Wayne used to sound and the band even has some old speed metal feel to it. Speed metal, a bit, heavy metal, a lot. I think of Saxon – Strangers in the Night, Black Sabbath – Headless Cross, Iron Maiden – Seventh Son and Thin Lizzy – Cold Sweat. Oh wait a second, that was the closing cover the band did. I haven’t seen the entire set as I wanted to bring the 7” in one piece to my car and brought a bunch of flyers as well for Metalcon: Dew-Scented, Sinister, Izegrim, TMDC, Cliteater and some 12 bands more. Maybe interesting for some Westfriesians! Not for me though, as it’s May 23rd and 24th, Tom and me are on MDF then. More info on www.metalcon.org and https://www.facebook.com/Metalconmusicon

Then Night Demon came on. When I entered Musicon for the first time, both bands, roadies, friends and organizers were having Chinese and who kept walking up and down for an extra buffet? Yep, the merch man :lol: Night Demon did one song as a warm up and let Roadkill bite off the first headbangers ;) Night Demon… Koen already pushed me to the front row (stage was about 8 m wide, plenty of room for headbangers, stage about 60 cm high, not high enough for stagedivers :evil: ) saying ‘come on herrieman, we have to bang, we have heads to shed, vocal chords to be abused’ and we did. What followed was an anthology of NWOBHM, Diamond Head but fiercer, Angel Witch, first Maiden album, first Vanderbuyst (hey, I heard that near Delft today :)), Samson, UFO, some great Don’t Break the Oath intro, very cool solo in Curse of the Damned (https://youtu.be/6NaMp_2SBTw starting with a Motörhead bass sound even though it’s a Gibson Flying V bass ;)) and even a Queen lick (inspired on Tie Your Mother Down, I think). The song Road Racer was the fiercest of the lot, but that turned out to be a Riot cover https://youtu.be/WMomOtkEaNM . Ancient Evil is a cool stompin’song. The band doesn’t seem to use set lists, so I have no idea what other songs are played. The following song was a lot slower and had a Holocaust- or Demon-touch (I’ve known this song since I was 11, go figure.. https://youtu.be/06fSjeJgbtg ). The band, all three man with an aura of sweat, tries to call it quits, but the rabid audience doesn’t comply... singer Jarvis Leatherby brings the audience back to the very first Night Demon show, and promised he’d never ever do this again… start The Hague’s most well known and well appreciated musical export product: Golden Earring’s Radar Love!! The Hague EXPLODES!!! Done the heavy metal way, shorter intro, shorter verses, heavier guitars but the effect is astonishing!! Hay, Kooymans, Gerritsen and Zuiderwijk can be proud! Musicon trembles, I thing all traffic lights in the area flipped to ‘orange’ for a while :lol: Note, there are plenty of traffic lights nearby ;) The band does one final song, their self acclaimed anthem Night Demon. I got a very, very sweaty guitar pick and Sandra, one of Koen’s friends gets the drum stick very, very close to her bosom :).

With a neck gyroscopically lined out, I head out to the merch stand. I chose to buy cotton instead of vinyl or silver, but that will change once. A shirt is easily found and needed (dry ;)), but the (Belgian) merch man has to head out to the bus for a (normal) XL hoodie :?: . I am happy the Chinese leftovers don’t litter the merch but I am getting tired (after all, it was a normal day at the office too, relaxed, but still work) and try to find Koen. Thank him, invite him and friends/family to Hoorn in September (TANKARD!!) whatever, I do get to say goodbye to Patricia and Arjan, but no Koen. I am getting hungry as well and as I’m more familiar with Rotterdam than I am with Den Haag I chose to move out. Grab a burger and a hot wrap, but the first BK is already shut and the first Macca has an ambulance parked pronto on the porch.. too much adrenalin or simply too much cholesterol? One zip of Chocomel, 101 more kilometers to go and I can zip HJ again. I think I topped my record Zaandam-Hoorn ;) and let the engine cool off properly before turning it off. 156 km/hour on my clock, baby!! My VW Golf Mk II diesel runs smoothly!! Pictures added to my laptop and off to bed. Tomorrow will be a long day too, we head out to the French border for Entrails and the CD release party of Carnation.
I felt so good with this music I might dig up more ancient British music and their offspring. I had a great time, so once more: THANK YOU KOEN!! Metal!

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:43 pm 
 

Festival: Bloodshed And Blasphemy Upon Belgium, feat. Entrails and the CD presentation of Carnation - Cemetery of the Insane:
March 28th, JH Nootuitgang, Edegem (near Antwerp), Belgium

As so often these last months, it was Daniel that got me hot for this. Entrails is touring Europe, their new album is to be released in May and the Dutch dates the band is accompanied by… a band neither of us has any interest in… so... do we need death metal or what? Yeah, we do. Good thing: Entrails would headline over a CD presentation show of Carnation, the new Belgian death metal talents. Daniel got us tickets, I got the hotel reservation. We’d drive early, tourism yada yada. At least, we had all the time in the world, Daniel showed there was a PizzaHut nearby, halfway hotel – venue. OK. Weather wasn’t really on our side, but swoah. The crème fraise / bacon /onion/leek pizza was excellent, Maes Pils could be better ;) . I needed some extra cash as well, as I’d probably end up with at least one Carnation CD (if they were really up for it), maybe some Entrails stuff and was happily welcomed at the ATM: ‘Thanks that you’re willing to wait’ and a lovely ‘bankcontact’ ; how I love Belgian language pride :) . Daniel had thought we’d walk some half an hour, get a taxi back.. but now it was OUR turn to hobbywalk… nearly three quarters of an hour… still no Kerkplein.. damned. Turned out we had missed one small sign ‘Optiker’ (optician ;) ) where we had to turn left. We joked we’d walk the well sized pizza down the pipes, but coming to Nootuitgang I had to shit so badly my legs even started hurting and I was oblivious to the last minute of the first band Skelethal. For an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqQv7MhUZ_o . Daniel happily showed me the first Crystal Alken, excellent!! The venue has some card system like I was used in my fraternity days, so I got myself one big consumption card too. € 17 for 10 beverages: Beertime, metaltime! Disinterred was up next. I liked the music only a bit, I wasn’t happy with the hardcore-ish vocals. Music: around Bolt Thrower, but nastier. And of course, no Willets Grin. No grin at all, so it seemed. Not on the band, not on us. We soon had it with this band and got outside for a stroll and a smoke.

We soon spotted a minor point of this venue: no wardrobe! People behind the entrance did not mind us hanging up our jackets, but to our own risk. Apart from one very personal item (once belonged to my father, my mother made it’s casing) I have nothing of value in my jacket, but this item won’t be stolen today *insider joke* One man spoke to me, he turned out to be a reporter for Belgium rock and metal magazine Rock Tribune! Hello Stephan Willekens, nice to meet you. He declined my offer for a drink, but who cares, I can drink on my own too :) We also met Marco, one of the regular bookers of Little Devil. He once sold me the Hammerhead CD, thank you very much. We’re not here for album deals, but Daniel managed a three-shirt-deal with Jocke Svensson. Is he already drunk again? :) no he isn’t. He even said he was staying sober to be sure he’d see the Carnation show that will follow. First band now is Villainy. We had thought Pim (supergoomba) would be there to accompany them, but no. We hardly accompany this band as well, as Daniel came up with the term progpostblackdoom. Err.. what? I recognized one single Voïvod riff, I think off Dimension Hätross somewhere, but the rest... indeed weird. Time for another smoke for Daniel. Outside we met Pascal, with a cool idea for a festival sweater: the festival poster up front, all band logos on the arms! He thanked me for showing the Asphyx back patch, the way to get Soulburn and Hail of Bullets patches (e-Bay, dùh ;) ) and shared a beer with a cola. Cool dude. No pictures ;) . The bar lady tried to hint me something, I guess, as she drew a pussy, a heart and a dick on the leaflet??? Am I bleu again?

Indeed, we met Svensson during Carnation. Holy shit, this is cool! I can describe that they have some Fleshcrawl feel to me, but Daniel thought that’s too much honor. So, blunt, heavy death metal, ultradeep vocals (well done!!), quite an energetic stage appearance, volume is blasting high but the sound is great! I grabbed the set list:
- The Whisperer
- Cemetery of the Insane
- The Rituals of Flesh
- Aggressive Colonization (so far my favorite song of the day!)
- Explosive Cadavers (on YT they call themselves ‘Carnation equals blistering death metal madness from Belgium’ :) try yourself: https://youtu.be/tPUJYmyMF3Q )
- Supposed to Rot (indeed an Entombed cover and the first pit of the day starts)
- Hellfire
- Genocide at Babi Yar
- Necromancer (cover? Not sure)
- Fathomless Depths
- The Great Deceiver (singer Simon Duson with a huge cross with Christ inverted on it)

I do hope there’s some more info to be found on this band than just https://www.facebook.com/CarnationBE and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC36...n4SdKLipr4wzpQ this was aWeSoMe!!!! Off to the main course for us decomposing cadavers: ENTRAILS!! I made a picture of the set list:
- End of All Existence (HAH! I NEEDED THIS!!)
- The Curse of Death (awesome shirt too!)
- Carved to the Bone
- Breath of Blood
- Voices
- Blood Red
- Unleashed Wrath
- Eaten By The Dead (still a friggin’great song!! https://youtu.be/VIxwBpmLmuc mind you, really live it sounds thunderous!!)
The picture says ‘extra nummer’ :S ???
- In Pieces https://youtu.be/sK9Tlg7lC_Q
- To Live Is To Rot
- Beyond the Flesh https://youtu.be/xY4U4_zHJ0E
- Crawling Death

Up to now I still don’t know why I made a picture of the set list instead of wanting it. I have one Entrails set list, signed by the band, remember the Matthias Nilsson scheme? Brutz Und Brakel, Berlin, Nov. 2-3 I simply had to ask this guitar player if he remembered Berlin and if so, did he still have (my) My Dying Bride longsleeve? No, Perki said, he’s in the band since last year and he’d even never been in Berlin… I kinda looked eager, wanting, but didn’t get his guitar pick, but Jimmy Lundqvist’s one! Hey, that’s cool, he’s the only person to be in Entrails the ENTIRE career, only surviving member for so long, of his only ‘own’ band, THANKS!! During Carnation I already got myself a gig poster (‘nobody will need it in half an hour’ :) ) and the Carnation CD, now I went overboard as well: I needed a ‘Gravedigger’ special edition Entrails shirt, the coolest of the three Daniel bargained. So.. arms full, wallet emptied, off to the hotel. No need for a taxi, it had stopped raining and we both could use a stroll. I must say it walked a lot easier than this afternoon ;) and off for a short night. The clocks had to be set to summer time, all clocks being put forward an hour. Too soon my phone woke me up, wanting Daniel to take a shower so I could have a slight lie-in but he was merciless :( The shower did open my eyes, but I badly needed coffee for the journey home. Driving from Edegem to Antwerp we noticed we had walked nearly two kilometer too far!! That explained missing Skelethal :( Again, all the time in the world, but I tend to tell my stories so enthusiast I missed the turn at Lelijkstad, having to do an extra (and dull) 30 km drive. Delivered Daniel at home, thanks for the ointment tip my friend! I will need my arms to show gratitude to the next band and drink beer of course. Next stop: Essen! Hatefest! Metal!!

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:00 pm 
 

Hatefest: featuring Six Feet Under, Marduk, Vader, Debauchery, Hate, Eisregen, Weststadthalle Essen, April 5th

At the CD presentation of Thanatos – Global Purificaction (see http://www.mruforums.com/f22/thanatos-c ... urn-16997/ ) Daniel and me got tickets for this show. The tour would only pass by Baroeg and Atak, but only featuring Vader and Hate. Like I explained in said review I did get two tickets instead of one and thought Tom would join us. Hotel for three, all fine. But his parents celebrated some anniversary, so no Tom. No Bovenkarspel Boys too, as it’s kermis. Axel posting beer pictures at 7:30 AM? No Stip, he had to choose between carp and death metal… I do hope he caught some. We’d drive early, if the weather was any better than in January we’d be tourists for a change. I picked up Daniel around 10 and the weather was fine indeed. Met a few metalheads near the hotel, the parking lot clearly was no Judas Priest one ;) Strange thing we both noticed: a lot of booze-related trash, even a nearly empty Jim Bean bottle on a playground? Early to rise, early to booze ??? :/ In Nord we had some great burger and baguette and the first Stauders/Guinness went in smoothly. I still had to sell the ticket so we got to Weststadthalle quite early, a fine line of waiting metalheads and the unavoidable Pfand-collecter, the ticket was gone in seconds. I already met the Hannover ladies and Anne (see http://www.mruforums.com/f22/eindhoven- ... gel-16968/ ) making the five of us happy! Hate was the first band today. Daniel really liked it, but I couldn’t do anything with it and returned to Simone and Monika. They head out to Maryland Deathfest and Stonehenge too!! Great! As a thank you I gave Monika my Distillator pin and wanted to buy Simone a shirt, but she said ‘wait until Marduk has finished, then decide to buy one.’ OK, fine with me, with the ‘extra’ € 30 for the ticket I had plenty of money anyway. Rounds of drinks happily flew by as Debauchery hit the stage HARD! The band went full throttle and was clearly delighted to tour with Six Feet Under and Co. again. Loads of smoke sort of ruined my pictures, but as I’ve seen Debauchery several times I don’t really bother. The band has a permanent replacement for Murderdoll, but I have no idea who he actually is. Amongst others the band played Bloodgod Rising, Apostle of War, Demonslayer, Hate Slash Kill, Let There Be Blood and thanking all bands of the tour, especially Steve Swanson for inspiration: Warmachines at War. I. LOVED. THIS!!!

I haven’t seen much of Vader, but they were clearly on good grounds tonight. Later on I met Pjotr again, grinning like a spoilt kid in a sweet shop. The Debauchery band members were pretty cool too, but I forgot to bring out my camera… am I getting tipsy or what? Clearly, but seeing Eisregen didn’t improve that. Let’s say it was a short visit to the venue, which floor plan surprised me. Weststadthalle is an old factory building with some of the machinery still standing / hanging. A huge lifting hook still hangs, as a souvenir to ancient hard industry. The venue could hold 1,050 persons, but the foyer seems bigger than the concert hall. Wide and shallow, I think it’s some 60 m wide and only 15 - 20 rows of audience present. Of Eisregen I can clearly understand why these guys weren’t even invited to the Dutch shows Hate and Vader did, it’s typically something German. Music only Germans understand, like Böhze Onkels, JBO and Knorkator…. Daniel starts a conversation with some Doomsday Receiver, but I head out for a walk. I’d rather have a bad Marduk show than some political talk I don’t want to spoil a night of metal with. HA! Marduk… K.I.L.L.E.D.!! Marduk sounds enraged, fired up, aggravated, sharp as shark teeth (all three lines of them!), sound is really roaring loud (does an amp have a digit 14? :lol: ) and even headbutt Christ: ‘Slay the Nazarene for Easter!’ HA! Try this, but about 27 times harder and faster: https://youtu.be/PSFKQdqzwN4 Marduk doesn’t complain they’re not headlining, they give Barnes and Co. something to think about.. can they outdo a full fledged, dripping with hate set Marduk just produced? Yes. They’re up for it. The sound has been turned to normal (digit 10 ;)) and Barnes sounds deeper than the core of the earth. All zombies to the rescue!! I made a picture of the set list:
- Silent Violence
- Revenge of the Zombie
- No Warning Shot (DIEEEEEEE!!, it’s still such a great song!)
- Feasting on the Blood of the Insane
- Victim of the Paranoid (did we close our hotel room, Daniel? :lol: )
- Human Target
- Deathklaat
- The Day the Dead Walked (DAAAAYYYYYYY THEEEEEEE DEAAAAAAAD… you know the drill :))
- Seed of Filth
- Shadow of the Reaper
- Torn to the Bone
- Beneath a Black Sky
- The Evil Eye
- Hammer Smashed Face (what a madness in front of the stage!)
Yup, I somewhat promised Daniel not to hit the pit (don’t recall why..) but I couldn’t stand still anymore. I dove in, bashed some Germans to the ground and picked them up, I flew around myself, yeah it was a great pit once more. The Stauder was sweated out a bit, but not enough to make me want more. There was an after-party in Turock, but we were done for. We could use a nice night of rest and Daniel let me sleep until it was nearly too late for breakfast ;)

In short: I loved it. Essen is a city just like Utrecht, but a bit more industrial and more booze spilt ;) The weather invited for a stroll and we gladly did. Hate – misunderstood? Vader – cool. Eisregen – never mind. Marduk – awesome (Simone got herself a shirt). I wasn’t even bothered Six Feet Under played the exact same set as in Amstelveen, plus one song, it simply ROCKED! Strange that SFU didn’t do Holland this time, but the tour isn’t over yet. 11 gigs in 11 days, all through Germany, one date in Austria and one in Switzerland. I got myself a nice Hatefest tour shirt, band logos and all, pity they didn’t use the knives like on the flyer. It seemed a reason Daniel bought a Marduk shirt instead of a tour one. OK with me. The trip back home was a nice one too. Playing E-X-E wasn’t the best choice for Daniel, but Negator made a new fan and George Thorogood isn’t up Daniel’s sleeve ;) Metal is!

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:18 pm 
 

Dutch Death Metal Night, De Kreun, Kortrijk, Belgium, March 11th. This show featured Izegrim, Thanatos and Bodyfarm.

I had no idea what I did when I ordered tickets for this event. I was piss drunk to begin with but the band names made me curious: could Thanatos, Izegrim and Bodyfarm blow up Belgium? I had no idea all my Westfriesian friends would be heading out to Peter Pan Speedrock instead of joining me. I had no idea Ching Hue did NOT want/was not allowed to celebrate his birthday like last year, visiting Tongeren Metal Fest. I had no idea Antwerp is such a beautiful city, even though I had visited it some 25 years ago. I had no idea Darius is such a good city guide. I had no idea I still would find nazi memorabilia (stamps of Adolf, his book, Waffen SS Hammerhead caps, Stahlhelmets and the likes) in the middle of the city. Read and shiver.

Like said I had ordered tickets drunk, the tickets were named Herman and Tom. Tom had no cash AND had a ticket for PPSR, the same night. I tried to get rid of the second ticket all over Noord Holland but to no success. So… another lonely trip to a metal fest far away, 312 km this time. I did know Maarten (msd) and Brammerman had shown interest in joining, but I didn’t know if either had bought tickets. I had not arranged anything, so I might end up in my VW Golf Mk II diesel for a night. Oh well. Not the first time, probably not the last. At Kruibeke gas station I already met the Bodyfarm crew, but I couldn’t remember the name of their bass player and Thomas wore glasses, we both had not expected that. Not willing to enter a Maccas I bought a Kruibeke speciality: leek meat balls. Yummie! I just followed my sat nav and some 300 m before the actual square I saw quite a big and empty parking lot. I had no idea it was a guarded church parking, and when I returned from my tourist round of the city I found the gate locked! I tried all 4 door bells (aka the genitor, the priest, the nun school and the sacristy) and had to enter the church to find someone capable of opening the gate. I wished I had played Possessed – Beyond the Gates then ;) but the genitor understood my intentions. And those were: not scare away church goers by simply awakening hahaha (remember http://www.mruforums.com/f22/death-meta ... ore-16726/ ??? ). I had no idea the local FC would be playing a home game, so the city was littered with cars too. I found a private parking, making a mental note: ‘do not awaken any inhabitants’ and I would leave as quietly as possible. Add a three-week-carnival on the square where the conservatorium to the chaos… yeah it was a busy day. I had brought some HJ and bought some Belgian beers for at home so I drank my first beer in blazing sun, even pointing Paul Baayens the wrong direction. I had seen the name De Kreun on a building, but it turned out to be some office, at the fourth floor. Poor Paul, bringing all his gear up to find out it wasn’t the right venue :P I’m sorry!! Maarten and Brammerman found me, gulping down Blauw beer (am I getting blue already *Dutch joke*) and a Sex Pistols Burger (with jalapenos, was pretty good) in a snackbar called Paul’s Boutique. Nice! An AC/DC bar stool I nearly stole, records on the wall like The Clash, John Lee Hooker, ancient Bowie and the likes, all kinds of references to sixties- and seventies-music in their burgers, fries and so on. Bram had forgotten his ear plugs so we went around the building, finding the Bodyfarm crew, acknowledging ‘yeah it was me, that black VW Golf with the Hypocrisy sticker is mine’ :)

I had no idea of the amount of tickets sold, but one of the organizers (their main project was Alcatraz Metal Meeting) said there were only some 75 tickets sold. Ai. A venue about the size of Manifesto, but without bar inside? I tried to get rid of the ticket, but after a while Bodyfarm started so I took the loss and went in. By that time I already had Stephan’s guitar pick and some beers to share. Bodyfarm is top notch tonight. The sound is clear, the band eager and the Dutch are in for it! Pity hardly any Belgians joined us, but it was fun. Fun to see the band interacting with just the three of us, great to find out the band is working on new material. Their new song is called Firing Squad and has a Hail of Bullets – Berlin feel to the beginning, then a much faster/blunter part. Here’s the set list, thank you Thomas:
- Intro
- Tombstone Crusher
- Heartraped
- The Coming Scourge
- Der Landkreuzer
- Malevolence
- Firing Squad (the venue went a little quiet after the song, Bram said ‘best een leuk liedje’ and that made the entire band grin ‘Thank you Kortrijkkkk!’ :lol: )
- Slaves of War
- Unbroken
- The Well of Decay
See this band! Buy their demo (while it lasts), get their 2 CDs, buy merch!! The band deserves it!! The individual band members thanked all three of us personally, shared a beer and wait for Thanatos to bulldoze Kortrijk to shreds. During the first song I tried to make some pictures, but one of the organizers yelled ‘no flash!’ at me, I turned my camera to him asking ‘can you see how to change settings on this thing’ :evil: Dickhead.
Enough chit chat, here’s the set list (thank you Marco)
- Global Purification
- The Murder of Innocence
- Dawn of the Dead
- Destruction. Chaos. Creation (three man pit once more, guess who? ;))
- And Jesus Wept
- Feeding the Warmachine (no reference to Fuck the Middle East now ;))
- Outward of the Inward (Bram mentioning ‘they’re out of beer’ :?: Stephan heard it and said ‘get your own new ones, my beer is out of the question tonight :lol: )
- Beyond Terror (is beyond beer, a tap is working again, but hardly any beer pressure left…)
- Undead. Unholy. Divine.
- Angelic Encounters
- War (World Jihad was on the list too, but they didn’t play it ??? )
- Outro
I took a picture of the set list but got Marco’s set list and Paul’s guitar pick. Thanks! Now I have two identical Thanatos picks and have to remember which one was whose. Incredulously, I got Marco’s guitar pick too! Thanks, now I have THREE identical Thanatos picks :lol: On Stephan’s behalf I bought the Realm of Ecstasy CD and got my copy of Global Purification signed by the other two band members. He even mentioned thinking RoE was a much better album than my earlier purchase Angelic Encounters, I will find out! I knew the RoE CD was recorded with an entirely different band line up as the latter albums, so I did not need autographs on this one. Still, I have no idea why the Belgians didn’t join us, there were some ten photographers present, but NO ONE joined our pitting nor our headbanging. Weird.

Minutes later, Izegrim went in full throttle. The welcomes before the show were warm (as usual and I met drummer Ivo on the carnival) and the band clearly was on battle strength. I kept walking around for no particular reason, made my (smokey) pictures [including one of the set list] and drank with the Bodyfarm- and Thanatos-guys, excusing myself for Paul’s detour and had a great chat with some American (!) friends of Paul, explaining about Maryland Deathfest 2010 and 2015 ;). So.. from picture:
- Modern Day Freak
- Deathstrip
- Relic of the Past
- The Legion
- Victim of Honor (introducing the lovely woman of the vid https://youtu.be/EWQpb6q6vGc YES SHE IS HOT!!)
- Deliverance
- My Secret Society
- Endless Strife
- Point of no Return
- Celebratory Gunfire
- Fuck Your Glorious Nation
- World Power or Downfall
I had no idea why Belgians organized a Dutch Death Metal Night and HARDLY do anything!! Was it the venue? Time? Carnival? Beer Brand? We had fun, that’s a fact nobody will deny. But we were nearly the only ones! Doofs with too expensive cameras (hey Kick! ;)) elbowing us away from the stage? Thaaaa cukf ??????

Bram and Maarten went home; I knew I had to stay silent to the parking lot my car stood. I thanked the bands, the guests and new American friends and wobbled off to a cold but doable night. Buried in hoodies, schipperstrui and a nice pillow I had a short night. I called if Darius could supply me with coffee and he showed me half of Antwerp city center, as a well-informed city guide. Excellent coffee, a Belgian waffle, a shitload of pictures and stories about the city and some baguette later I got back to my car. Darius surprised me with a 3CD box of ‘Past, Present and Future of Nuclear Blast’ (Dimmu Borgir was mentioned on the Future of Metal part ;) Impulse Manslaughter on the Past-part). Thank you my friend!! You’re welcomed to the Tankard show! To Puch or not to Puch :lol: I had no idea I would be welcomed and treated like a true guest and friend, but I loved it! From a drunk purchase to a nice sunny ride home! I had no idea what Kortrijk would bring, but it brought METAL indeed!

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Neurotic Deathfest, the 12th edition of the world's biggest indoor death metal event, feat. Bloodbath, Obituary, Entombed AD:

Deathheads unite once more! Europe’s biggest indoor death metal extravaganza was here again and as early bands were announced we didn’t need further introduction: we go. 6th year in a row! First bands announced were friggin’Bloodbath, Soulburn and Immolation… YEAHHH!! Daniel had arranged his own early birds and I already had 2 (he only needed ONE word to be seduced, I used three :) ). Of the first batch of bands announced only Hate Eternal had to cancel. One question was, as usual... what time can we leave? I always have plenty of days off to spare but Tom doesn’t. A week or three ago, something, I had a random beer meeting with Tom and we discussed: we’d leave after Tom’s job was finished… but Friday already had Soulburn and usually Tom’s job is most busy on Friday… Tom had a brilliant idea: why don’t you travel with Tijmen and Axel, they also have the Friday off!! Amazing, why didn’t I think of that before? Bloodbath fans are plenty present in West-Friesland, why not team up??? Auberge du Bonheur booked once more, as Jordy had explained he was to be the host of at least one band during the festival (sound familiar? ) and it would be too busy at his place. OK fine, no hard feelings, first beer on me anyway! So.. we left at 1 PM. Had all the time in the world, if you manage to pass Utrecht before three, you don’t end up in the pre-weekend traffic jam :/ Axel managed to nearly destroy his own Mitsubishi Colt GLX (hey, that’s cool, I used to drive one as my very first car too, but some 25 years older :) ) to smashes, playing along his phone driving to the jam… Axel showed he can also miss a turn, the hobby spreads wide ;)

Auberge du Bonheur has HJ on tap!! The sixpack I had was gone before Utrecht… I could have brought another one of course but the damage was repaired soon enough. First round of drinks was pints full of the golden liquid with the silkwhite foam… Kate already made me very, very happy to sell me her dad’s AC/DC ticket!!! Coming to 013 I already had shaken some 15 hands of friends: Pim, Koen & The Hague Heavy Metal Alliance, Jurre, Bart, Rob, Daniel, Jordy, Alex Mulder, Swiss Alex and his mom, my French friends… But with a nasty surprise when I opened the booklet: Organizer Lemmen calls it quits after 12 editions… saying he’s seen the growth of the festival, from one day – 5 bands in Rotterdam to three days of mayhem in Tilburg, having booked (nearly) every band he wanted and not wanting to double the formula???? No more Neurotic Deathfest? How are we getting our Dutch Death Metal Rally then? Won’t someone pick up the glove? On with the bands. First band we just had to see was Soulburn. The Dutchies went in, full fire blazing set of blackened death doom metal of high quality. The band played nearly the same set as on Wapenfest, but shorter and in a different order. No Feeding on Angels? Is this blasphemy?? Nah, Twan later explained the band simply had to make choices.. no biggie. I gave him the spare copies of Shepherd and Bitch Hammer, see if anything comes from that? I had missed out on Bob for a change, but I sure as hell was present, first row! The smoke annoyed, but even stranger: I was asked to quit using flash light? Again, I explained by turning my camera around, showing the broken glass, but he wanted to confiscate it? On what behalf, dude? OK, he later apologized for not being certified to do that, but I kept low profile. I don’t want discussion during my favorite festival, so I ducked my camera in my pocket and went on to the medium stage for Korpse. The hall was packed, I liked what I heard in grind, but didn’t enter. For an idea: https://korpsesbdm.bandcamp.com/ I wanted a nice view on the new Morgoth singer Karsten Jäger. I can say: he did well. It took a while to figure out where I’d heard this voice again: Disbelief! So, his voice is a sick addition to a pretty OK band. I even thought of Trenchrot or even Martin van Drunen for his influences [ err weird to used such a relative young band for such an institute but it works for me]. The old songs sound even more brutal than before! Very cool show! As I am naturally curious to bands that are new to me, I returned to the medium hall for Regurgitate Life. Err band or one-man-shred? To be honest, I‘ve said it before, I won’t thread on a stage myself, but chapeau for standing there alone. I just didn’t like the volume of his samples, I don’t really like slamdeath and the audience seems to agree with me. And what’s the point of making more pictures of one man on a stage? Back to the main hall for Nader Sadek. He seems to be some high profile musical mastermind, hardly performs live, interesting band members as acquaintances… but not for me. I think it weird, the stage has the outskirt of a dead or dying forest, tons of smoke, but it just doesn’t reach me. Off to the medium hall for Devourment. The band goes full throttle, but as I don’t know any music I’m not really eager to keep hanging. The main hall has the first headliner: Entombed A.D. LG and the boys don’t waste time (on Hellid? :)) and play a blistering cross of nearly the entire career. Hop to the pit and the night comes soon, made some pictures but with the same amount of smoke I hardly recognize anything. Yeah, LG’s tufty hair, his particular voice, the sound, the rest I don’t recognize. I liked it though. Afpilzen happens with Twan van Geel, Pim, Anne (hey!) and Tamar. As I twisted my ankle once more I’m helped into a taxi and we’re off. Don’t worry, it’s not as hard as it sounds, keeping my foot in ice for about half an hour makes me run around again tomorrow. I nearly fell asleep with my toothbrush stuck in my mouth, I was exhausted.

Breakfast… fresh bread and bagels, smooth salmon, hagelslag, fresh orange juice, a bowl of fruit, a pint of coffee and… what? Beer? Good thing was, Tijmen also announced wanting to join me to Dokk’Em Open Air this year. From Alex’ mom I got the tip but didn’t get the first band… Disavowed. I had seen the band before, liked it a lot, but we had other priorities: HJ on de Heuvel (= hill) with the beauties behind the bar . Holocausto Canibal was the first band we did see… or tried to. The band was checking sound, made some pictures and left. Err twist of mind? Gorod was the first band we saw in the main venue. Musicianship OK, but apart from the earlier shows it didn’t stick. I was in for something more blunt, but heading out to the Batcave wasn’t the best idea, the slamdeath area was hopelessly filled with windmillers and coin pickers, the band was called Slaughter to Prevail; Daniel later told me the band was even misspelled on the shirt ;) Appropriate :) Turned out we had already missed some four bands: Centurian, Contrastic, said Disavowed and Perfecitizen. Penny for ideas?

Dead Congregation was up next. The band sounded great and my idea about the band is much more positive now. It’s extremely bold what these guys do, blunt as a burnt spade to a gravedigger. I needed something to eat and we ended up in a döner chebab joint with Bavaria, so temporarily no beer for me. Come to think of it, I drank more sauce than I ate meat I don’t know if any of us had any interest in Origin or Benighted, but at least I missed them. What I made sure, absolutely sure, was to be center of the pit for…. the very first Dutch appearance of B.L.O.O.D.B.A.T.H. !!!! Bloodbath, bloody Bloodbath… what a massacre that was!! The sound was thrilling, Nick Holmes going totally over the top, band in top shape and I even found/fought over a setlist (Kees got a pick) :
- Let the Stillborn Come to Me https://youtu.be/Z3bw4T_LdlA
- Mental Abortion
- So You Die
- Breeding Death https://youtu.be/fEDiAJ5VmBg
- Anne (present? Yeah!!)
- Cancer of the Soul
- Weak Aside
- Soul Evisceration
- Unite in Pain
- Like Fire ‘LIIIIIIIKKKKE FIRE!!’ :)
- Mock the Cross
- Eaten
- Cry My Name
This. Band. Rules. Nuff said. I had seen so much Bloodbath shirts I think this could have been the greatest appearance ANY band ever did on Neurotic!! But the night was young and Axel needed to dive off stage during Jig-Ai, but he never saw all people moved out, trying not to be hit by the wet, slippery and not the smallest Axel HA HA HA. The casualties so far: Tom – thick wrist. Axel – bump on head, blue elbow and 30 bruises. Herrieman: bruise the size of a voetbal on my ass and a bloody nose. My left knee is tough to bend. It was good to have breakfast in the sun, but it was ruined by a truck tour through Tilburg, I later heard some 255 trucks of all sizes had been riding (and mostly: blow your horny horn!). A truck tour is a combination of a truckersmeeting, charity (mostly handicapped children aboard) and a big barbeque. I know that that stench will be incredible haha.

Sunday began with the other cruise survivors Jurre, Bart and Rob. The men had chosen to return to Steenwijk the end of the evening, but Bart couldn’t resist the HJ at first haha. Jurre said he needed a good night’s rest, but why speed up drinking then :) The Bovenkarspel Boys told me they wanted some spoof grindcore stuff like pig masks, confetti and a blow up doll, but as far as I remember there wasn’t much grindcore left this weekend and Jig-Ai already played, remember black and blue Axel? The pictures are hilarious though. The seven of us did get to see the first band: Hideous Divinity. This band plays some slamdeath, but it’s done with a smile and a twist. This was fun, to me not that long as I find breakdowns can get predictable in such bands; better: Koen spots me and puts a little plastic bag in my hands (I don’t smoke, remember?) but what’s inside: a shiny new Rosie demo cassette tape!! WOOOOOWWWWW ROSIE, the first Dutch answer to AC/DC!! Awesome, thanks gazillioneeeee Koen!! Highly appreciated! Also, Internal Bleeding is next! Keith DeVito & Co. have a very weird drum sound tonight, which makes that the sound isn’t really full today. Full? No. Loud? Yes, they do hit hard. I liked it a lot. Next up is The Walking Dead Orchestra in medium hall. Err why are people in shirts of The Red Chord already moving out during the second song? Is it this rad?

I get one glimpse of Mass Infection but the reaction is no different then on Extremefest 2013… at all. I am curious about Broken Hope though. I had never seen them before, remember one CD I hardly like, but some people really freak out this band tours again. I don’t. I watch for some songs, some pictures, but nothing lasts. To be honest, I was eagerly waiting for Immolation of course, would B1 and B2 show up again? I had seen B2 Friday, but she was in a bit of a hurry, camera dangling… I also tried to get a go at Bleeding Utopia, but as usual I couldn’t find the Batcave soon enough, they were already thanking the crowd. Damned dick of mine! OK, back to main hall for Immolation then. We met Ross and Robert Vigna. Robert explained me the band had to do this show as a three-piece as their other guitarist Bill Taylor couldn’t comply; he was a bit nervous about doing the show with only one guitar; I wished I had seen Vigna later on and compliment him with this effort: Immolation grinded the heavens to pulp. Ross’incredibly low kitty purr reached his best and deepest grunts, barks, rolling consonants sounded awesome! Still, no idea of any songs played, but it was great. Period. I had never seen InfidelEd’s footage, but compare it to this: https://youtu.be/25y8_KjQZGc By the way, haven’t seen Ed all weekend. He might have advised me to go see Cardiac Arrest or Nominon, but I didn’t. I stuck around for the stage change and sound check of Obituary and got everything I wanted: a great set (didn’t make notes anymore), another of Terry Butler’s bass pick [Trever didn’t bring any off stage :( and missed him after the show] and a crowd that went hoppieproppierammie (*Dutch joke*) the band played for an hour, oldies and newies, enough violence and loudness… but didn’t dive in anymore. I had been searching some times for toilet paper to stuff in my nose and didn’t want to scare 013 cleaners with MY bloody mess. We hugged all our friends, took a cab and we’re off. In the morning Tom complained about the harder bed than usual, I noticed some 20 per cent raise on hotel bill but the breakfast was excellent as always. We came to Westwoud around noon, one more coffee and an entire afternoon to relax. I brought the bass pick to Marit (I know she could have used an hour of Immolation or Obituary) and toured West-Friesland for Jelle’s rolling tobacco (not at home), my AxelAxel (not at home yet, what time did you get up?), swam an hour and had great pizza.

Neurotic Deathfest 2015 was over again. Neurotic Deathfest is over, so it seems. I have no idea if anyone fills the gap that will start to fester underneath, no more NDF’s to look forward to. In a sense, I get what Ruud Lemmen is saying about not wanting to copy-paste band names, formulaic way of programming (Obituary did hit NDF at least three times, if I’m correct) but what have we seen over the years? The first ever Dutch show of Terrorizer, reunion tour of Carcass and Dark Angel, one-off Bolt Thrower gig, Bloodbath first Dutch show ever, Suffocation with different singers, name it. It was awesome. This edition was OK, Bloodbath RULED big time, Entombed AD was a nice mess, Obituary and Immolation rocked the joint. The venue that will be closed for 6 months and be refurbished (new sound set) and lengthened (for some € 10 million) but the fact remains: no more NDF! Damned, I would have loved to show Scott, Missy, Iced, thrash-till-death, Dane, Wigg NDF once. I know Mike doubted whether he could afford it, but as it wasn’t sold out I could have petted my heart/wallet a bit and get him a ticket… but we had fun. To Tom and me it was 6 years of death metal, grindcore, slam, thrash, tons of friends from all over the planet, excellent bands, bands with off days, new bands, old stuff, filthy burgers, excellent hotels, cats hairs, enormous pits and empty halls. Metal. And loads of it.

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Kreator - Morbid Angel - Nile - Fueled By Fire. Oberhausen. It's old. I know. 2012. Ban me if you have to. It's an oldie. Ban. Or read about one of my all time favorite bands performing on home ground. Kreator - Morbid Angel - Nile - Fueled By Fire.

After seeing three of the Big Four of Teutonic Thrash in their Heimat, it wasn’t such a strange thing wanting to see the biggest of the Big Four also in Germany once. Tankard on RockHard 2012 and Destruction / Sodom were spotted on Way of Darkness last year. So, to me it was only a matter of time to order tickets. Big plus: the Dutch dates of the Kreator / Morbid Angel double headlining bill were both on a Sunday, this gig would be on a Saturday; no need to take time off work. When this tour was announced, the suggestion would be that Morbid Angel and Kreator would exchange the headlining status, the possibility was there we’d be able to go home early if Morbid Angel would play last. Thinking back of the double headlining Kreator / Celtic Frost tour I thought we’d be unlucky… but as this gig was the last one of the 2 month tour I hoped at least one band would do something special tonight. I was still a bit bummed by the fact I didn’t go to Zwarte Cross to see Kreator, the album Phantom Antichrist is one of my favourite albums of 2012. I knew from early on Daniel would go with us, along with Tom and at least one Vet. At first I thought I would bring Daan to the Obicabre show and take Maarten along to this gig. No such thing, I gave the Obicabre ticket to Jelle and sold the Kreator ticket to Daan. Maarten wasn’t even around this weekend, he’s touring Germany with Stip. Getting closer to this weekend, I found out the Leeuwarden gig would be the day after Eindhoven Metal Meeting. Kees, who had been drinking with me and Daan last Friday, told me the four of them barely survived it… and he told me his Thrashfest 2010 shirt had been stolen. He really, really wanted the Extreme Aggressions shirt. Fine. I’d buy it. This only meant I would have to bring quite some cash to the show. Especially as Kees later mentioned there were also ‘I survived the Mosh Pit in Leeuwarden 16-12- 2012’shirts, I wanted one Oberhausen shirt too.

Oberhausen is at the beginning of Ruhr Area, coming from Westwoud would be a 243 km trip. I’m still in a loaned Peugeot 107 car, as my problems with my clutch and diesel diffusers are still not solved. I would not have wanted to put 3 men much taller than myself in a car I normally fit in quite well… not for a 243 km trip… and back.. and Tom, seeing the 107 I drive now, volunteered his luxuous, big station car gladly. He also said he wouldn’t mind driving home! Ahhh, thank you my friend! We ate at Hunxe resting place and drove on, the weather being horrible also meant the parking area was nearly flooded. We waited for about 10 minutes before the gates opened and within minutes I had my special event shirt (‘I survived the Mosh Pit in Oberhausen 22-12-2012’) and Kees’ Extreme Aggressions shirt. I delivered those to the wardrobe, along with my jacket. I still had plenty of money, just in case Fueled By Fire would be of my liking. It was. The American thrashers are highly tributing to Hell Awaits and Bonded By Blood, even playing Kill Again as an encore. The encore was played with the assistance of Destructhor of Morbid Angel and all bands were thanked for a demanding but great tour. Good thing I kept some cash around, the next trip to the wardrobe included the Fueled By Fire CD and the 7”vinyl single of Kreator - Civilization Collapse. Please check out http://www.fueledbyfire.webs.com/ if you’re in for some good’ol American thrash.

Going to a German show of a German band sure had some surprises as well. Not the different brands of beer available, but right after Nile started their show I was greeted by Ellen and Dom (Seita), they had had their little German tour as well, but I forgot which show they mentioned having seen in Essen, the day before. Nile on the other hand did not surprise us at all. OK, they started off with an oldie (I think it was from Annihilation), then Defile the Gates (sp?) before Kafir! was played. Tom told me he thought the band has excellent musicians, but they don’t perform as a band (anymore). Sanders and Toller-Wade seem to be soloing right through each other’s solos, and Kolias is doing something belonging in different songs, so it seems. Daniel liked it but had some funny man in front of him so he moved around a bit. Let him explain :) The sound quality was different, depending on where you stood. The Turbinenhalle is an old industrial factory, Tom also remembered Eindhoven’s Klokgebouw was about the same structure. One bummer: it was pretty cold in the hall. Daan thought it would warm up during a nice pit, but Morbid Angel gave me no reason to get near the stage. Maze of Torment early in the set did not enlighten my lust for the pit. Neither did Nevermore, Lord of All Fevers and Plagues or Where The Slime Live. One song off Formulas Fatal to the Flesh and it was already time for God of Emptiness, with Tom laughing his head off when I told him about this song appearing in Beavis & Butt-Head. At least one of had fun because of that during the Morbid Angel show ;). But seeing the backdrops made clear this was no double headlining bill at all. Kreator came on stage, biggest backdrop of them all; there had been three hanging before, Fuele By Fire had none, Nile the smallest, Morbid Angel already visible and Kreator sticking out of that too; clever lighting during the Morbid Angel show made you think they wouldn’t be followed by the mighty K.R.E.A.T.O.R. Kreator grinded the entire hall to pulp. Germans sure know how to do a decent pit, as from the intro Personal Jesus (the Johnny Cash version) to third encore Tormentor it was total mayhem. I think you can fill a voetbal pitch when you would put all the bruises and black and blue spots together after the show. Including a nice little elbow hit during Tormentor… meant I had another nosebleed. This is what I wrote:
- Personal Jesus by Johnny Cash
- Phantom Antichrist (and the intro to the album)
- From Flood into Fire
- Enemy of God (huge circle pit, Germans shouting ‘Du! Andere Richtung!!’ :lol:)
- Phobia
- Hordes of Chaos (headbanging contest, Mille won ;))
- Civilization Collapse
- Voices of the Dead
- Extreme Aggressions
- People of the Lie (with a little help from Setlist.fm )
- Death to the World (with an enormous wall of death I nearly lost my camera to)
- Coma of Souls
- Endless Pain
- Pleasure to Kill
- The Patriarch (encore)
- Violent Revolution
- United in Hate (at the intro I still thought it was Until Our Paths Cross Again, silly me)
- Betrayer (band being shouted back on stage)
- Flag of Hate
- Tormentor

Searching for the Red Cross section (I thought I heard something when the elbow hit the nose) was a funny walk. Everybody a. made room
b. handed handkerchiefs
c. some of them even volunteered a gulp of beer to keep bleeding :lol:
d. I met Tom Angelripper, so now I have a very bloody picture to add to the MRU Gallery. I thanked Angelripper for the set list he gave me on Eindhoven Metal Meeting but he was already gone, possibly disgusted :). I was not only bloody, but also wetter than a whale, so I figured I needed some more dry clothing and maybe some extra warmth, so I also bought the Civilization Collapse hoodie. We rounded up the Westfriesians (Tom had seen me wander to the Red Cross section and followed) and went to the car. With me on the back seet, my own handkerchiefs used not to get the car bloody I fell asleep within 5 minutes. Hatebreed - Perseverance or Cannibal Corpse – Butchered At Birth could not wake me up, but the coffee near the Arnhem border did. We decided to do an after gig party at my house, but as Coen called that he needed to speak to his brother Daan, Tom drove out once more. I think it was already light when I hit my pillow. Daniel slept in the attic, I have no idea if he was earlier to rise than I was. At least I awoke just after noon, gave Daniel coffee and brought him home. Went by my sister to print my latest tickets (I also was asked to buy Daan a FortaRock ticket), brought the Extreme Aggressions shirt to Kees and ordered pizza. Watched Feyenoord beat FC Groningen. Hearing the Fueled By Fire CD I type this, grinning. My glasses pressing my nose. Still grinning.

Kreator… smashed me again. I loved it. We loved it. The (nearly) sold out Turbinenhall loved it. With 5 songs off Phantom Antichrist I think they supported this album greatly and to me, it was no ‘greatest hits set’. Up to the encounter with the elbow me and Tom gave 110 per cent to make this a great show. Still, it was quite a fierce, but friendly pit with the occasional crowd surfer. The band gave 110 per cent as well. Had the lights annoyed me during the Morbid Angel and Nile shows, now they certainly didn’t. I wish there was a way to get to watch the pictures the band uses in the intro more easily, as it has some great band footage. The backdrop is awesome, sound was superb. Kees told me on Friday Morbid Angel had an annoying beep nearly the entire show, but Kreator’s sound was close to perfection, just like tonight. I thought the factory hall would dampen the sound, but it was well balanced. Great merchandise, pity they didn’t have the Phantom Antichrist shirt in all sizes anymore, Daniel bought a Nile shirt instead. In West-Friesland there are at least three Civilization Collapse hoodies :) but Daniel’s fell to the floor several times. Mine still smells new..

links to http://www.mruforums.com/f22/kreator-mo ... 2nd-13861/ later on: I found myself on the Dying Alive DVD :lol:


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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:52 pm 
 

The world biggest and coolest rock band tours again: AC/DC, kick off for their 2015 tour:

The band surrounding the Scottish/Australian Young Family has been my favorite band ever since I knew how to operate a radio cassette player. I was 6 when I was fired up by Whole Lotta Rosie, even though it took me ages to figure out how the band was called/spelled and if Lotta was an actual English word. Never mind that now, it would be my sixth show of my long time heroes. But it came with a twist. The album Rock or Bust was to be released, just around the time this show was announced. The actual show was sold out in 6 minutes! SIX MINUTES!! OK, I sort of settled with it, Tom settled with the remark ‘field tickets or no show, I’m not gonna spend some € 100 for sitting’, until my GSBC buddy Robin tried to freak me out, saying he knew someone that might sell her second ticket. At that time I had no idea who he meant, but some month before the actual show I found out it was Kate; her father wouldn’t go in the end. Pfew, I got to my sixth AC/DC show, their third appearance in Arnhem (1979, Rijnhal, just before Bon died; 1988, the show I had tickets for but wasn’t allowed to join my Hoorn friends as I had a biology test the next day) and they’re FIELD tickets!! Still I couldn’t take Tom along, as Kate, like I told her, would never let her field ticket be sold. Not to mention, with the family business in the band I thought it would be the last AC/DC tour ever… Malcolm dementing, entering Stevie Young for the second time, Phil Rudd going behind bars? Enough numbers and problems, here’s my adventure, the adventure of the first show of the 2015 tour:

May 5th is Liberation Day in Holland, following Remembrance Day I think these days are vital to the world and to me. Not much, as I simply had to work both days. I would take May 6th off, I wouldn’t drive anyway as Kate mentioned she’d travel with Kevin and his father. Plenty of room in a newer VW Golf, but how to reach him? I had his number, but all I got were ‘problem with connection’- ‘no such number’ and ‘out of order’-remarks? OK, try through e-mail, MRU mail, SMS, I’d be picked up from Breukelen station, but up till 4 PM I still had no idea what time. I couldn’t wait any longer and went away from the office around 5 PM, having done nearly NOTHING all day :) (checking mail, MRU mail, whatever; that I did). I ‘ate’ in blistering wind next to Macca Breukelen, it was too full to sit still anyway. And, in full metal outfit, I think I might have been coloring outside the lines in that place :) . Nearly blown away I didn’t hear my phone ring and didn’t feel it shudder when Kevin texted. So, around 6:30 PM they were on the station, but on the other side I was… driving to Arnhem was fun. Talking the metal talk, Kevin’s father seemed to have seen his share of metal anyway. Metallica, AC/DC, Maiden, Anthrax (so.. he’d been to two editions of Monsters of Rock; I only visited the Nijmegen one ;) ) I loved it! Coming to Arnhem we were directed towards Burger’s Zoo for parking, if you held a concert ticket and a parking ticket you were allowed in shuttle buses to the stadium. I tried to make pictures of the ‘AC/DC parking keep left’ but failed. Coming to Gelredome we split up. Kevin had two successive tickets off Ticketmaster, but the men had to go into different entries, different tribunes??? We had to enter through L entrance, but couldn’t find it at first. OK, get a hand full of coins and a beer then. Oh, only pint glasses? So… 3 coins for a liter beer, that’s not too bad. Entering L Kate still thought we’d be front row, but as the main square in front of the stadium was pretty emptied already, I thought we’d be happy to get to any bar inside… especially when there are only three bars on the entire field! A band was playing already, as so often, AC/DC doesn’t care who their support act is… sigh. Now it was Vintage Trouble, some doofus James Brown impersonation, bigband and copper section and all, sounding too jolly for me. OK it was faster than Brown, but speed is not obliged in good bands. Good thing was: they were playing their last song already.

The venue sizzled with excitement, thousands of blinking Angus horns (why ??? useless stuff... like you'll ever wear that again after that particular show???) in a voetbal stadium with the roof shut.. ai that might mean sound is going to suck. Lights out, biggggg cheers arise, cool intro as usual (Apollo heading for the moon, being hit by a lunar volcano and blasted … to Holland! Very cool!!!) and they’re off!! The band is hardly audible in the first chords, but as usual the first song rolls, the band gains volume and AC/DC blasts everybody into cheering mode:
- Rock or Bust
- Shoot to Thrill (hah! Volume is as it should be!)
- Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be (Angus looking and playing like a young god, incredible! He has slightly longer hair than the previous tour and he looks great, albeit an ugly little brat :) )
- Back in Black (including monochrome screens, looks great!)
- Play Ball (getting beers, best view on stage all night :) meeting half of Mutator)
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Brian even manages to forget these lyrics ;) )
- Thunderstruck (clearly a favorite of the much varied crowd; old, extremely young, farmer, clerk, metalhead, musician; I even feel like 18 again!!!)
- High Voltage
- Rock’n’Roll Train (no stage train now, but cool screens)
- Hell’s Bells (Brian is getting too old to dangle the clock chord?? Nah, he’s in great shape, just no chord…)
- Baptism by Fire (meeting B2 and Eus)
- You Shook Me All Night Long
- Sin City
- Shot Down in Flames
- Have a Drink on Me
- TNT (explaining Kate about Six Feet Under :) )
- Whole Lotta Rosie
- Let There Be Rock (Angus didn’t even do his striptease, has he grown up? I hope not ;) )
- Highway to Hell (first encore)
- For Those About to Rock, We Salute You
One thing I found strange: The song Thunderstruck nearly gets more cheer than Highway to Hell?? I know it was a hit single, released in 1990, followed by two enormous tours, but I hardly think most people of my age visited one of them, they were sold out also. Clearly everybody MUST know Highway to Hell, but does the electric discharge on the screens bring out more fists in the air than the very best album of all times?? I even met Adrian Vandenberg, thanked him for ‘waking me up musically’, but I should have handled the camera myself. The doof that wanted to help me with the shot clearly couldn’t get pass the broken shield, I think he didn’t even see it wasn’t on… big bummer. Fun thing: Kevin later told us he had ‘won’ two beers by guessing the show wasn’t over after Let There Be Rock (with Angus on a raised platform in the middle of the audience again, it’s soooooo cool to see him do that! He noticed two drunk doofs with their arms full of beer wanting to leave after LTBR, but he stopped them and challenged them for a bet: if he knew what songs would follow, the beers were his. Yep, well done mate

At the exit I found B2 for the last time tonight, soon found Kate and we headed out to the busses, not forgetting we’d have to go to BURGER’s Zoo, not Safaripark Beekse Bergen ;) , soon to be found by Kevin too. The bus trip back to the car was a quiet one, I had shouted so much I wanted to rest my voice a bit ;). The car ride home was ‘metal for survival of the best quote/anecdote’ haha. Nearing Hoorn I thought Kevin’s dad missed a turn, but he needed petrol heavily. I defended my remark saying ‘I can’t see your fuel gauge from here’ :) and was brought home. Stiff neck, sore eusophagus, wallet empty, new AC/DC shirt (The Evolution Of Rock ;) ) and some other souvenirs more I took one last HJ at home. I freakin’love AC/DC!! Of course, pity my brother / niece / best metal buddy/… couldn’t join me, but am I selfish for wanting to see my favorite band? I tried to find another field ticket, but I simply refuse to pay 150 per cent or more of the original price. Side note: Tom couldn’t afford it anyhow, Alex couldn’t take time off, Thirza unemployed, Toon had the kids… nah, not selfish. Just fan. Fan for life. A.C.friggin’D.C.!!!!!

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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2015 8:26 pm 
 

Ufomammut, Usnea + Tunguska Mammoth and Show of Bedlam, May 17th 2015 @Bar Le Ritz PDB in Montréal

My blog post includes some pictures taken by some other people: http://metantoinemagicalrealm.blogspot. ... h-and.html

On this warm Sunday evening, the metal fans of Montréal and its surrounding all met on Jean-Talon boulevard for a night of doom of epic proportions. It was my second evening in a row at this cool venue after the excellent gig of Chilean psychedelic rockers Follakzoid but this time, it was jam packed. The Farnham and Trou du Diable beers were cold as ice and managed to put everyone in a good mood. Even though it would had been nice to get Sons of Otis on the lineup (they played the Toronto gig the night before), we got two legit Montréal based openers.

Show of Bedlam are one of the favorite local opener for metal gigs in Montréal these days, I've seen them several times including a great performance back in March when they opened for Enslaved and Yob but it's always cool to see them again. Their debut full length (initially released in 2012) was recently reissued by PRC so I grabbed a copy (5 bucks!). The band is working on a new album and their live performances got tighter and better than before, their blend of stoner, sludge, doom, noise or post-hardcore is interesting, intense and original. It's like a mix of Neurosis and Swans! Paulina's stage antics are always frivolous, spastic and insane, she's a pretty cool frontwoman. They always use some strange projections (including some grinding teeth or weird nature images) and this is really adding another layer to their live presentation. Kudos to the many promoters putting them on their bills, they're always worth it.

8 /10

Tunguska Mammoth were the second local openers and their name was more than adequate to be on this bill! I've seen them before so I know what to expect. The quartet plays a form of stoner/sludge with semi harsh vocals. They mix Mastodon and High On Fire into a coherent and catchy mix and are somewhat similar to bands like Red Fang. They played a new composition and it sounded better than their debut album, a bit more original too. I think they rely a bit too much on simple riff progression to unnecessarily stretch some of their songs but overall, it's enjoyable and groovy enough to keep the ball rolling. It's not a style I really dig these days but it's well done and there's not a lot of Montréal bands playing these styles so they're definitely an appreciable bonus when they open for international bands.

6,5/10

Usnea from Portland, Oregon is currently touring North America with Ufomammut and they were an appropriate choice since they're crushingly heavy. Their blend of funeral doom, doom/stoner, doom/deathwith some slight black metal overtones (especially in the vocals) is quite good and even though they're all over the place musically, their long compositions work fine. The band also slight psych and spacey influences and it gives them an entrancing atmosphere. Their dual vocal approach is also quite fun, Justin Cory (guitars) handles the high, screeching black metal ones while Joel Williams (bass) handles the deep, cavernous ones typically used by funeral doom bands. Excellent band.

8/10

Ufomammut were the definite “pièce de résistance” of the evening. I've been following these guys for a while and I was anxious to see them for their first Montréal gig. The band played Victoriaville (the FIMAV festival) last year as their sole North American gig and being a broke soul, I couldn't attend this show. I was expecting the band to be truly heavy but damn, they exceeded my expectations. The Italian trio are masters of psychedelic doom/stoner, they're the real deal. Massive riffs, an elephantine bass tone, slow but thundering drums and buried but fuzzy and hallucinatory vocals.

Bands often use a projector as a way to add something to their performance, the aforementioned Show of Bedlam do it and I really liked The Ocean's videos. Ufomammut, on the other hand, integrates the projector so effortlessly that it's like a fourth member. The band is also a visual art collective under the name Malleus (they handle all their artwork) and it shows. They have a perfect control on how they present themselves and that's yet another proof that they're a terrific band. During their ninety (??? I've lost track of time, to be fair), they used a wide variety of psychedelic visualizations ranging from stalactites to mysterious priests and intense volcanic flames. It's really well done and fits their heavier than thou music like a glove.

The trio played their whole new album “Ecate”, it was enjoyable and mesmerizing. They have a pretty good discography without any truly flawed albums but it's fun to hear a veteran band play their new material so convincingly. They came back from a short break after the album and played some older material like Stigma from “Idolum”. I'm not quite of the other trackssure since I was completely out of energy near the end, they really drained me in the best way possible.

Ufomammut were one of the most spectacular bands I've ever seen, this set goes directly in my top five of all time. I doubt I'll see a heavier band this year.

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PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2015 12:39 pm 
 

Maryland Deathfest 2015, Bloodbath, Razor, Winter and probably loads more

Another MRU meeting at MDF, May 21st – 24th, feat. Devourment, Napalm Death, Bloodbath, Suffocation, D.R.I., probably Sodom and a lot more

Ever since our excellent journey to Baltimore in 2010, both Tom and me were eager to come over to Crab County and enjoy metal, friendship, beer, sun and new friends. In August the pre-sale was announced, first names mentioned were Bloodbath, Obituary, Suffocation, D.R.I. and Sodom. Enough reason to bring the Bovenkarpsel Boys around, I thought, but that wasn’t the case. We did order a whole bunch of tickets, made a few mistakes doing so (the all-day-all-venue tickets were sold out in some hour or so; Hugo got one). But I should finally stop ordering stuff drunk, as I ordered twice as much Saturday tickets and NO Sunday tickets… First bummer was that the MDF organizers didn’t buy my story of the demanding ticket sales, no refund on the extras… OK, that’s of later worry. When I urged the boys to finally order the flights, they bailed out on me. No MDF appearance of the Bovenkarspel Boys from January on. I was so near depression at that time I thought it was my latter behavior making the boys bail, but Tijmen was strict: no, don’t worry, we get to see the big bands on NDF, Summer Breeze, Ruhrpott Metal Meeting or as sort of pre-party to Stonehenge ;) We booked flights to New York, probably rent a car there and drive up to Baltimore Airport, be picked up, stray to the pre-party and MDF XIII would commence! As an extra, I bought Hugo’s all-day-all-venue ticket, just to be sure we’d be able to see it all.

Tom had two extra days off, I still had some work stress on Tuesday.. 9 o’clock coffee at my place, no train but a nice VW Golf Mk II Diesel ride up to Schiphol. I already started missing turns WALKING to the shuttle bus to the airport and nearly forgot the tickets… Tom laughing his head off. Friggin’Merc parking slub. In Dublin I had a Slaney’s Beer that was literally undrinkable. On the flight Dublin – New York I personally improved high scores on all puzzle games I could find (new turn to RSI again ;)) as Tom had some movies and I got a cookie saying Cloud Floating Choc Chip Flapjack. How do you come up with such a name? :lol: . When we landed we saw an airport employee directing the plane totally without earplugs/ear cap so we might apply him to a deaf school :lol: The Homeland Security officer didn’t believe me when I said my postal bag was filled up with ‘just clothes’, never hearing the rattling Heineken Dark bottles and the HJ can pack. Entering New York we got a shuttle cab to the ‘hotel’ and try to feel some NY. We didn’t. At the time we dropped our bags, we’re on the run for 19 hours, being some 2:30 at night in Dutch time, ate at a BK and even were too tired to get the ID’s out of the room to get me a beer. Tom no longer drinks, so we just got our rest. Rest is a big word here, the hotel is noisy, warm, so I awoke 2:30 NEW YORK TIME :( Bed was good, but the breakfast was below par too. We’re NOT returning to Queens! Renting the car was a bit fuzzy too, as Tom couldn’t use his card so he had to call his brother Bart and I was too eager to leave to Baltimore I got more in the car as I needed. So… we paid $ 240 for one 212 mile car trip… flying would have been cheaper anyway ;) Even with the sat nav I managed to do three detours even before leaving the airport… silly me. We took a sandwich at Chesapeake, it was funny to have heard the name Van Kampen shouted out into the hall ;). The greeting was welcome, Missy was so happy with ‘our little secret’ *insider Scott joke* Missy and Scott didn’t join us tonight, but the three of us had fun. The traffic jam was so huge in the city, Jason nearly missed THE one band he needed to see tonight… It’s not that bad, as you forget the parking cost… Before even being checked the ticket, I was already pulled into SoundStage by Andre and Kathe and Alex and his mom Malgosia and greeted cheerfully! Bucket of beer followed as Origin got to stage. Even before being able to share a beer with Jason he went OFF to Origin, oh my. I don’t know any songs, but liked it. I was waiting for Internal Bleeding anyway and I got what I wanted: a tight, heavy, hard slashing show, full of interaction, full stage with a huge party on stage, stagedivers, headbangers and so on. During the following Skinless show we got tapped on the shoulder by Jeff! Skinless obliterated. Period. Skinless had some cool addition too: they wanted every single person to film the show together, post it to their FB and off all footage on From Sacrifice to Survival would be on their new YT-vid. We also met Angzilla and her husband Alan, that was pretty cool too. But during Devourment Tom and me got fed up a little. I liked the bands so far, but they’re all slamming death metal and Devourment tipped the balance here.. they were too much ;). Even though I found a Dutch men named Bonno with a blog ( see if it spells: https://www.facebook.com/GoodmusicPromotions?fref=ts ) but he had bad news: both Excel (car accident) and Sodom had to cancel. What happened: Sodom was sooo eager to do everything right this time (no visa for MDF 2010) they had the work permit sent to the wrong record company by accident. Damned. No Sodom. I ended up in the Ram’s Head after a whole lot of hiphop fans entered SoundStage for the Mobb Deep afterparty. Jason and Jeff went over their top, but I ended up in The Ram’s Head, just to have been there. I had heard Scott say something about Ufomammut and he was right: what a bunch of brainless noise! Sludgedoomstonerslowheavyhard, I had had enough. Off to Kavanagh Road then. Even that wasn’t without an adventure, as some fuckhead doof truck driver hit his car AND DROVE ON! I was able to write whatever I could see; license plate, company, time, but as I was in the back I had no idea where we were and Baltimore police simply refused to accept the report being taken, we stayed awake for more than an hour to sort things out.

A nice fresh shower and a bunch of dishes washed (it always relaxes me to do dishes) coffee is up next. It’s fun seeing Tom literally spell out every band to be seen this weekend. Today is going to be a great day. I already sold one Edison Lot ticket and off that $ 50 I bought some patches for Scott’s vest. He needed some Dutch death metal on the vest haha. I got to meet the lovely Hope at one specific Bud Beer stand and kept returning to her all day ;) The first band was Artificial Brain, which Jason seemed keen for. I liked the double growl death metal they play, but because of the weird entrance to the fest I only saw two songs. Indeed, Jason freaked out. Edinson Lot has two stages, of which stage A is the widest. Funebrarum was pretty blunt, but too repetitive to stay focused. Instead I found Andre and Kathe again and saw they have identical denims! So, once around the denims I knew what missed: yup, return to the merch venders for two Hail of Bullets patches. Laughs. I got a nice rubber MDF beer mat instead. Thanks! By that time Cianide was nearly off stage. I tried again to sell a ticket, but had no luck and walking by the backstage part I met Trevor Perez again. I remembered me, but still had no guitar picks on him. That’s the fifth time already, dude! ;). Not wanting to miss more bands (too late for Master AGAIN :/) I gave the last Friday Edinson Lot ticket away ‘because I can’. I ended up with the Hannover Ladies seeing Lock Up, but without Lindberg I hardly recall the show. Terry Butler roamed the venue too, patted me on the back and had a nice chat. Not too long as well, as Suffocation was up next. They were about to kill, apart from As Grace Descends and Entrails of You I didn’t write any song titles and just bashed in. What remains: flying bodies everywhere, huge smiles on my and Tom’s face, huge bruises followed :lol: Who needs a circle pit if I’m around? :lol: I wanted to buy an American tour shirt of Suffocation, but they only had some simple designs I didn’t really like AND without tour dates. Tom put a huge stick of barbequed chicken up my nose, thanks a lot my friend!! Obituary headlined stage B and they did great!! They played mostly old material and the sound was excellent! Even Paul Speckman gave the band the thumbs up, picture follows. The ending band tonight would be Bloodbath. Tom, Malgosia, Alex, Jason, everybody went out of their heads. I didn’t write anything, just hit the pit hard. Playing nearly the same set as on NDF we gathered the MRU members during Eaten / Cry My Name for a late night Napalm Death snack (Scott, Missy, Angie, Alan, Jason. I was so eager to see Missy’s anticipation we got up to the SoundStage and ran towards the stage, ending up ‘just’ at second line. This held some minor difficulties, as the fans were allowed to do practically anything they wanted… Stagediver upon stagediver upon stagediver upon me… ouch. Missy got hit pretty hard and I haven’t seen her in quite some time. I took some dazzled looking pictures as I had difficulty to keep standing… but Barney and Co. had a great time, great set, loads of really old stuff, great sound and a raging pit in front of them. Yeah, this was 110 per cent Napalm Death! As I couldn’t purchase a Suffocation shirt as I wanted, I got me a Napalm Death one instead.. only two dates, only two AMERICAN dates on that back :lol: But looking at the door of the venue was sobering a bit: Paul Speckman was denied access, as he had an Edison Lot performers wrist band, not a SoundStage one.. totally respectless. If Speckman would have been friggin’Obama with a beard, he still wouldn’t be able to enter.

The morning started with my own baked eggs, cheese and turkey and devoured with taste. We had all the time in the world to decide what to do, Jason might even hook up with us going to New York. All options are open, we decided to wait until Tuesday to finally leave. Missy wanted to create some Heavy Metal Parking Lot atmosphere as we filled the cooler with ice, water, beer and some chips nearby. We entered the Edison Lot when Einherjer finished their last riff, so no pictures and no review. No Hope too :(… Blood Red Throne did a great job, but as I needed some sun tan oil we saw one man being thrown off the property quite harshly. What the fuck do you do to get thrown of a metal festival, even this early on the day? Start a fight with security, just like at the exit? Doofus. We came back near stage B for Volcano. It’s a Brazilian band, I instantly thought they were renamed from Volkanas but this is actually one of the oldest extreme metal bands from Brazil. I must have had some copied demo from my former penpal, but don’t recall if my spelling is correct… Tom had a great time at the pit, I simply liked the resemblance to Nifelheim. Great to see musicians have such a great time. Jason was all over Bulldozer, I watched it with Bonno, Count Caterpillar came to stage and massive cheers appeared. The speed is contagious ;) I must check out more, as songs like The Great Deceiver are right up my alley! Even though it has the slowest intro of the band, the final riffs are superduper fast and all hell broke loose.

I just don’t understand Triptykon enough to understand why people (like Scott) freaked out so much. If you do play your old Frost tunes, at least do it at the proper speed. Why does Tom G. Warrior so openly denies his Hellhammer days, that would have been interesting to (finally) hear!! Tailgate once more. But now for the biggest surprise of the fest so far, Sodom was replaced by none other than SOLSTICE!! Yup, the American death metal one!! I thought of texting Daniel with it, but I realized I might set up or awaken him this way. I chose not to do it. The aggressive death metal summons quite a violent pit and the sound is nicely dirty. Halfway the set the band does a plea for a Demolition Hammer reunion by playing (the highly cheered) .22 Caliber Brain Surgery. The plea gets answered by the biggest pit of the festival so far. Razor is another band that gets the full cheer and great pit. I have no idea of songs played, but it was great. We decided to go home, as Scott was dead tired. Jason still wanted to see Agoraphobic Nosebleed and went alone. This day had been long enough for me. Scott ordered pizza at home, thanks a million for that!

May 24th started with an MRU brunch at Little Havana. Alan, Angie, Tom, Jason, Scott and me had such a great time there! The group would be split up eventually, as Tom was all over SoundStage’s programming and I wanted to see Winter. Jason and me enjoyed Primordial too, prior to being bored to death in a gentle way by Winter. We roamed the merch once more, some more purchases done (like a nice Thrash Zone shirt for Tom). Jason said of Primordial: ‘listen to it, it’s allllll epicallllll Primordial stuff’ *sarcasm understood* and the 10 minute Winter intro was way over the top. I took some pictures of both bands and left for SoundStage. We knew SoundStage was filled with grindcore and thrash metal all day, nice pitting to be done. We both wore our Westfriesian Pit Crew vests and got PizzaHiFive first. With a name like this it must be partytime, Tom thought, but one look and a listen and a half later I thought more of Concrete Sox than of Municipal Waste. What a crust explosion, only one drummer and one guitarist shouting his vocal chords to China! Loud, but not interesting enough to hold the entire set. Same with Water Torture to a decree, as it was loud and fast but not too good. Only good thing of Water Torture was that I was accompanied by the Hannover Ladies again.

I knew I had heard the name Spazztic Blur once, but linked that to Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton. I was mistaken, Spazztic Blur IS an old band, I got that right ;) It started OK, nice old school punk, but the jokes they make turn old pretty fast. It’s not funny enough to keep up anyway. Wake is even worse. Is this really a band worthy of replacing Excel? What a bunch of gutwrenching bullcrap noise this is! Good thing: Melt Banana is up next, we’re accompanied by Jason once more. Loads of smoke, one Japanese female with an iPad directing lights and drums, one Japanese male shredding his fingers bleeding. The reaction is one of a total partybomb exploded. It hit hard. The band gets greeted by nearly the entire SoundStage shouting, whistling, running in circles, throwing light sticks, inflatable animals/palm trees/balls and a nice pit lasting the entire set. The female that does the introduction hardly gets beyond ‘ thank you Malyland Deasssfesss’ but it’s fun. Plain fun. Great fun. Such Great Fun!!! Later Missy found a nice description:
Melt Banana is ‘Euphoric digital partygrind’ I agree. Easily the biggest party of the entire festival. It lead up to another one of my highlights of the fest: D.R.I.!!! Harold Oimoen spotted Tom at the smoker’s lounge and he was all excited! He started about seeing ‘some fan on the cruise with the same backpatch’ before he recognized me too :lol: As I said I made the Westfrisian Pit Crew vests, I was offered a place on the set list for the first Dutch D.R.I. show and he made pictures of the both vests and a picture of the both of heads turned to him. He grumbled a bit when I said I already had tickets for the Dynamo show in July… Up to the band then. D.R.I. KILLED!! From Who Am I to the fifth encore it was a madhouse. Pity both Tom and me got in problems with our ankles about halfway the set we couldn’t make up our promises to Harold… to mash things up. I wandered around the merch stand, wanted to buy a specific US tour shirt. I ended up buying the shirt I wanted, but now in S and handing it to one of Hope’s colleagues… damned how I wish to have seen more of her… I already forgot D.R.I. was already so far in their set I couldn’t pin anymore so I needed Tom’s help for another US shirt… We got out to the parking garage and MDF 2015 was over… but not our adventures. We slept late, ordered club sandwiches and beer, just chill out watching Napalm Death 1995 and Sherlock Holmes. Tomorrow we might do Baltimore, move on to Philadelphia and then New York. Tom and me slew MDF once more!! Eagerly awaiting Jason’s, Scott’s, Missy’s, Angie’s and all the other views on this fest… WE LOVED IT!!

Scott, Missy, thanks for all the hospitality, the driving, the beers, the love, anything!!

But our trip wasn’t over, oh no. At first, we hung on Scott’s couch for two days, apart from watching movies, stitch patches (even a MDF one on Jason’s denim), order food and drink beer we did NOTHING. During the festival Jason, Tom and me discussed what to do next, as Tom and me weren’t really eager just to do the-four-hour-waiting-line for one tourist attraction, we’d be all over the place. Good thing was, Jason has friends all over The States. We’d hook up with the three of us, drive to New York City, grab a hotel and off. I booked a hotel near 94th Street, not too far from Manhattan. During the trip I couldn’t conceal my very first job I wanted to do but never got to: truck driving! Compared to American trucks the European ones are too tight, too cost-effective and to be honest: too dull. So.. I made some 25 pictures of the most badass trucks Jason passed, even though they’re taken through the dusty rear window I like the pictures. In New York Jason’d park his car (for free?) and meet up with Conner. He’s a cool bloke, he’d been to drama school with Jason and moved to New York to get the job he’d desired. We started at Mama’s Bar, some cool Jamaican-style cocktail bar with a very hot bartender ;). On a barquest it became. Second bar was the coolest metal bar I’d been in a long time, the place is called Duff’s and it’s PACKED with memorabilia, signed stuff, backstage passes, cool posters and we met Terence Hobbs of Suffocation!! He soon spotted our MDF wrist bands and totally freaked out! We both did the fanboy-ship, Jason got the remains of the beer, I got the bottle *gloat* We also met another MDF-survivor, I think his name was Tony and he mentioned a metal show in a club near th Street. OK, we’re curious, we might show up. First we got to Club Bizarre instead and emptied their stack of Bud completely. I got so many compliments about my freshly bought Napalm Death shirt I felt my cheeks warm up. Got back to the hotel after a bizarre commune transport ride, ending at 5:15 AM at the hotel… The second day in New York held the Staten Island Ferry, Statue of Liberty, a very cool bar called Steiny’s Pub (another hot bartender, trying hard to get Tom to light his rollie with her bar matches :lol: ) and no 9/11 Memorial. We’d been led the wrong way, so it seemed. Fine. We tried. Period. The Slake Club was a vague, discotheque-like bar with the metal in the attic :?: We looked three times to see if it was the right address… and paid $ 15 (for what? We didn’t even get a stamp or a ticket to begin with) to get in. First live song we heard was a bad Nirvana-worship band, later we found out the band was called Young Cum :roll: Best part: they quit after ‘our’ second song.

Tony had described Ikillya as ‘a nice cross between The Black Dahlia Murder and The Haunted’ but I have to dampen his enthusiasm a bit. First song really sounded (a bit) like TBDM, but latter songs bore more resemblance to DevilDriver, Lamb of God and, of course, Pantera. I was getting annoyed, as this band played way too loud, the guitar sound was too shrill, vocals too prominent… the band has some talent, but the individual members are better than the sum… last songs I heard even got near Killswitch Engage and BfmV… urgently time to leave. We’d had a seriously short night before, NYC was boiling hot, no earplugs (gave my last clean pair to Missy before) and we walked off. Hey, it’s not that late, some 10 PM, let’s get to the hotel and get a few beers. Tom got a pint of pistachio ice cream and we had a sixer Heineken. Tom made me swear I would NOT bring any of the unused Heiny to Holland, that would be blasphemy HA HA HA. He even stated he was a bit estranged Terence Hobbs drank Bud Light *grin* . In the morning Jason got his second parking ticket on the second day, now with the second distance violation (to a firestand). At breakfast (right across the hotel) we met an elderly woman asking Tom ‘what is a Neurotic Deathfest’ and she started whining about her near-death-experience. I was stupid enough to tell her my mother had had two NDE before she stated I’d have four angels around my chakra and should be protected against all evil; Jason reacted ‘I am a messenger of Satan’ and she totally, totally freaked out. Jason teased her even a bit more by naming all kinds of nicknames of The Dark One, so… mostly heavy metal band names hahaha. She even started slamming her coffee pad in yells of ‘The Power of Christ compels you!’ [we’d just seen The Exorcist at Scott’s :lol: ] Central Park was OK after that. Still boiling hot, but even in NYC D.R.I. has followers (and signs :lol: see Gallery). Jason decided not to wait for NYC traffic hell to embark, so he brought us to JFK some 6 hours too early. No problem, Tom and me usually have enough talk AND enough silence in us ;).

The flight home was packed with more RSI-inducing games, senseless interruptions of nice movies and music and the last dollars were spent on coffee and muffins. No need for dollars for a while…

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:27 pm 
 

Dokk'Em Open Air 2015, tenth edition, feat. Candlemass, My Dying Bride, God Dethroned

Dokk’Em Open Air is celebrating the tenth edition this year. With some big names like My Dying Bride, Candlemass and the Dutch reunion show of God Dethroned I knew this would kick ass. As usual I bought two tickets for the entire fest, but who’d join me I had no idea. At first Tom said he would, but seeing the Saturday vs. Friday programming he chose to work. I bought him a Saturday ticket and tried to sell it to one of the Bovenkarspel Boys. But Tijmen, Kees, Willem and Jelle had other plans. Some week or two ago Daniel bought my festival ticket, but we agreed to calculate just the Saturday costs. Fine with me, that € 10, maybe € 15 difference, och I don’t care. We both found it disproportional to pay the entire festival ticket, as Daniel wouldn’t camp, wouldn’t access the Friday and was sure as hell not interested in the pre-party on Thursday. An AC/DC tribute (Highway to Rosie), one Metallica tribute (Damaged Justice) and some Pearl Jam blah blah… nah. We booked our flight and hotel for Gothenburg Deathfest on Thursday. Accompanied by three pizzas, thanks a lot Daniel! But taking the Friday off wasn’t the easy trip to Dokkum as I expected. I chose to get me some currant buns with cheese, but coming back to the car I saw the play list: holy fuck has the first band already begun No it had not. Pfew. Still in no big rush I drove on, before parking I already drove in the wrong direction (Leeuwarden seems to be totally rebuilt, nice NOT to show how to drive :/). In Dokkum I already saw Peter (Lord Belial) and his buddy Rob, but before I could drop off any of my stuff they moved on. I couldn’t stop anyhow, traffic in Dokkum was fierce… But like so often, I wasn’t alone. In minutes after leaving my trusted VW Golf Mk II diesel behind I was helped by a man that knew quite some of my Wervershover friends… I couldn’t figure out his name, but thanks for helping! I offered him a HJ at the camping, but he refused. ‘Too many different brands on one day is going to kill the Saturday’ he said I heard Threshold play, but first things first: the tent. And a HJ. Soon to be joined by Rhea and Sander, some more HJ shred. Fine with me, at least the beer is still cold Peter and Rob enjoyed Threshold, they later said. My first band-to-see was Madball, the OS NY HC still sounds aggressive and pounding, I just enjoyed my beers and my friends. I’d meet a lot of friends anyway, as cruise survivors Jan, Jurjen, Jurre, Bart, Rob, René and HenkJan (yep, HJ doing HJ ). Freddy Cricien mentioned 'it's been a while ago we had to start so early'

I heard more bands than I saw. I just had a good time and had seen Player (Slayer tribute) would do different sets all along the weekend, I waited around for The Gentle Storm, discussing the band with Ostfriezen, Westfriezen, Friezen and no-Friezen (Groningers ). Arjen Lucassen has written the music and played the CD, but he still hates performing live so he left the honor to Anneke van Giersbergen, Marcella Bovio, Ed Warby and Merel Bechtold. Not a bad band to begin with!! They sound something like Epica, but different. I can’t put my finger on what’s different, but it is. Maybe its the difference between a full blown band and a project, maybe the difference in songwriting between Mark Jansen and Arjen Lucassen? Who knows? I liked it, anyway. It also seemed I already missed Shining, the self cutting one. Yup, Kvartforth is shrill as fuck again. Biohazard on the other hand, they do what they do best, easiest: mash up Friesland, as if the band never left Wãldrock… I get a picture of Billy Graziadei standing on hands of fans, he totally freaks out when a beer is thrown and he missed the plastic! Not like THE Pinkpop YT of the year: https://youtu.be/MTlFk-chSh4 I just bashed in. I knew Tom would love to see this, my arms are black and blue. Tom gets a rematch on Dynamo Metal Fest . Lost my glasses and my container, but people who had seen me bash soon brought me to the Lost And Found division. Container completely busted, glasses a bit askew, but in one piece. Pfew. I return to the pit. I was thinking about getting my hoodie, it’s getting dark and a bit colder. I ran into Benji and shared a beer. Just in time returned for Kataklysm. The band, of which I simply stopped buying records after Prevail but surely enjoy the live sets they do, is in top shape, Maurizio is honored to finally play this festival and gives 110 per cent. The crowd reacts ecstatic and an hour of Kataklysm is gone in minutes, so it seems. I remember To Reign Again and As I Slither early in the set, I quit writing and sweated out some more Amstel… I do get back to the tent for another dry shirt and leave the denim behind. In the hoodie I watch three songs of Candlemass (Mirror Mirror and Bewitched and one more) and agree to myself I’m tired and drunk. See if the airbed is pumped hard enough, ear plugs and gone. Fine.

Awoke, searched my phone I saw it was only 8 AM, turn around again, re-awaken around 10. The last of the currant buns with cheese went in rather hard, I need coffee too. The festival provides coffee for only half a coin, so I do two at once. I was invited to share the remaining, not so cold HJs from Jurjen and René and treat them coffee too. Jurjen said ‘I used to have a set of hero pajamas, but now I will start wearing Herman pajamas’ *blush* I can’t linger too long. I had already passed Baldrs Draumar and Herder and texted Tom where he was, IRON REAGAN was about to begin! Within the minute I sent it, I saw a very familiar big smile coming my way: let the bashing of politicians begin! Of course, half the band originates from Municipal Waste, but the effect remains amazing! Pit during sound check, Tom, Axel, Benji, René, herrieman, name them. I seem to have impressed LandPhil too, I got his set list (thanks!!!)
- Intro - I Won’t Go
- Insanity Plea(se)
- Close to Toast
- Cycle of Violence
- Obsolete Man
- Government Surveillance (both words misspelled )
- Tongue Tied / Living Skull / Drop The Gun / Spoiled ID / Zero Gain (the shortest songs on the albums )
- Miserable Failure (spelled as Mizz Fail https://youtu.be/lhiBDQF_0HM yup, it was this kind of madness or.. https://youtu.be/6MrdwzZHCXA )
- Broken Bottles
- Your Kid’s an Asshole (excellent shirts!! Tom, Daniel and Axel all bought one, I was too late :/)
- In Greed We Trust
- Instrumental break
- U Lock the Bike Up
- Cover (didn’t write which one)
- Four More Years
- Eat Shit and Live
22 songs in less than 45 minutes! That’s hardcore!! I liked it so much I bought a CD and poster, which got signed by the entire band; thanking us for all the great times we gave Iron Reagan AND Municipal Waste, Tony still remembered Stonehenge I needed some time alone, just recuperating from this awesomeness and decided to bring the poster to the car. I had seen there’s a fish restaurant on the way from the parking to the festival, no need for gruesome hamburgers or Bratwurst. The fact I missed Moonsorrow and Masterplan did nothing to hide my apetite, the Plate Cod went in with taste. No need for another beer, water it became. I returned, well nourished to the festival for my friends, my Dutch thrash metal heroes: LEGION OF THE DAMNED!! The band went in sharp, loud and fast:
- Sons of the Jackal
- Mountain Wolves Under a Crescent Moon
- Buried in a Nameless Grave
- Bleed for Me
- Death’s Head March (with an enormous pit behind me, I stood first line and stayed there)
- Cult of the Dead
- Armalite Assassin
- Sermon of Sacrilege
- Pray and Suffer (with Tom and Benji crowd surfing )
- Black Plague (…) I can’t find where this piece of lyric came from, shame on me )
- Taste of the Whip
- Legion of the Damned
The band got the warmest thanks I had experienced all weekend! I later thanked Erik for 23 excellent shows and discussed which one was best. Mighty chanceless discussion, but we had fun. Harold later also thanked me for showing up again. But it’s not all Legions and Reagans… I had to choose between kutherrie (Powerwolf, no pictures) or annoying kutherrie (the Stonehenge asshole again…) but could listen to my own kutherrie and went for a leak. I even found my former gf Helen, looking a bit less sour than the last time we’d met (2007), but why was she surprised to see me? I never left metal, chick! OK, good to see she’s got a new boyfriend, but walking hand in hand on a metalfestival… Time for the most anticipated show of this year’s edition of Dokk’Em: GOD DETHRONED!!! The band gets cheered even during the soundcheck, they brought special God-Dethroned-on-Dokk’Em shirts which were sold out even before I got the chance to see what they had. I saw an God-Dethroned-in-Italy shirt and bought that for Marcel, my FC Groningen buddy and my long time friend. Pity they didn’t have those shirts in XXL, otherwise I would have bought Arend one too. He understood I bought myself a festival shirt, so far it’s been absolute one of the coolest Dokk’Ems so far. But God Dethroned… yeah I loved that too. They still don’t play with a setlist and here’s what I heard:
- Faithless (intro)
- Hating Life
- The Art of Immolation
- Through Byzantine Hemispheres (Henri joking they finally got to play a Friesian festival in 25 years )
- Nihilism (Daniel sees me and says ‘yes, this is your ultimate delight’ seeing band and audience go nuts. Thanks my friend, you’re right, it was AWESOME!!)
- Boiling Blood
- Swallow the Spikes
- Soul Sweeper https://youtu.be/wzFwyFx4RIc (OK this one is from RockHard)
- No Man’s Land
- Soul Capture 1562
- Villa Vampiria (Henri joking ‘are you going to start singing to us or should we fuck off to Drenthe again?’ )
- Sigma Enigma
- The Grand Grimoire
Again, God Dethroned rocked me, us, anyone!! I loved it!! I am so happy the band is playing shows again, but The Netherlands only got one show and the rest is far away… 70K, Chronical Moshers, Brutal Assault, Austria… Seeing the entire band My Dying Bride being brought to the merch stand was a bit fuzzy, as the band was scheduled to play only minutes later… actually nearly left the festival entirely, as I wasn’t in the mood for doom anyway and the small stage had Player, the Dutch Slayer tribute band. Nice to see the Firedragon Ladies spit and eat fire but Player was sorta distracted. Also, very good to hear a singer that can rival with Araya’s power and bangs his head like a buzzsaw!! The band mostly does ancient Slayer material and they do it with more fire than the last (original) Slayer set I’ve seen… I still caught some MDB but Jan and Jurjen invite me to empty their Amstel stock, as they simply refuse to bring the beers back home. Not that Jan needs another zip of booze anymore, his tongue is double and he shifts between Friesian and Dutch quicker than I change underwear but the gesture is nice. I have all the time in the world, Axel was already driving Tom and Daniel home by that time. Fine. I slept easy this night. I awoke early, but turned once more and managed to get my tent in its bag just before the rain got serious. The drive home was an easy one, stopped for diesel and two croissants and brought the AC/DC baby shirt to Sjors and Sabine, as they have three girls and one boy now. So good to refresh old friendships, but I’m hungry, my tent needs to dry, I have a Laundromat to fill, need a shave, pictures, MRU, Chinese food…. But I had metal. And loads of it. Weather was pretty good most of the time, brought a poncho but didn’t really need it. See you on the eleventh edition, Dokk’Em, remembering what Peter said ‘this festival is my home’…

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:16 pm 
 

Graveland Deathfest, feat. Belphegor and Terrorizer LA

first edition ever of Graveland Festival, Hollandscheveld, July 11th

Ever since Neurotic Deathfest this year this flyer kept popping up in my house. The lineup would be interesting for a lot of NDF-visitors, I knew that. Belphegor had been on NDF at least twice, Terrorizer in the different form (now with original singer Oscar Garcia, no hint of Sandoval) and some local bands, not to forget also some international newbies as well. Or at least, new to me. I’ve known Pentacle for ages, know Wannes myself, but never seen his own band perform. During last Monday’s BBQ with Tom I noticed he won’t make it, but Daniel was still around. I had not spoken to anyone else about this festival, as I thought it would collide with Dijkpop this year. It didn’t. Dijkpop had a shitty lineup anyway and I had the 50th birthday of my sister in law. I bought tickets just one day before the fest, we might even end up at a colleague’s farm for coffee and bagels but he turned out to be on holidays. Fine, we leave later ;) Soon I got a call from Kees Bloemkool; he’d gladly join us, bring Alicia along too. Cool. The Hell Inside Crew is complete again!

I had lent my AlexAlex a family member to get to my sister in law’s party, but it had not been returned to me. Now I have a hard time remembering who got it, but I would need some navigation, we’d never been to Hollandscheveld yet… My brother Toon had a spare one, so I could use a ToonToon instead. Thanks bro! I picked up Alicia and Kees in Hoogkarspel, Daniel in Enkhuizen, Alicia would drive us to Drenthe and I’d bring everybody home. Nice. Leaving Enkhuizen Alicia already showed her alternative route, by wanting to drive onto the crossing in reverse! The man behind us disagreed Smoothly we got to Lelykstad, I had not had coffee and decided to keep my own safety in hand and drove the last hour and a half At the festival sight we already met cruise survivor Andrée and the first band had just begun: Snowburner. I had had a tip from my buddy Darius to check this band out and it was a worthy tip! The band plays some cool stoner mixed with heavy metal; resembling Orange Goblin, but a little different. Try https://youtu.be/XdCiVcqbDnA for a hint. Walking around the festival (about the size of two voetbal pitches) I hung up some Stonehenge festival leaflets, as Darius has asked me to do so. I also brought a small stack of Tankard-in-Manifesto-flyers but I ran out of adhesive tape too early ;). The second band actually gave me a reason to wander the site, as Teethgrinder played some dull metalcorish-grind stuff we lost interest in soon. In the meantime I already met Bart, Rob and Peter of Stonehenge- and 70K fame and some band members like Oscar Garcia already roamed the venue. Hey, Harm of Goddess of Desire is here too, see if I can find some more German patches for the German part of my shorts :). Later on some Occultfest posters were hung with decent Duct tape, I just creased my Tankard flyers slightly under them. Why put on festival posters without one single band, just one brainless outcry ‘Think for yourself, don’t be a slave’ (??) instead of one teaser band name (??)

The third band wasn’t really up for it too. The band plays beautiful guitars (Rickenbacker, Gibson SG) but it seems the band, by playing these expensive guitars, had ran out of money when it came to learning those instruments and paying for practice room… The Danes were called The Hyle, but it won’t stick in my mind, I guess. The organization had hung play schedules and I soon found out they were different to the schedule I had printed off the internet. It seemed Pyre had not arrived yet, but Entrapment had. Bart soon told me he didn’t expect much from the band now, as longest-lasting member Michel Jonker couldn’t make it today. In fact, the band has the sole member in Michel, according to MA. It didn’t matter much, so it seemed, as this band including Henke Zinger (ex-God Dethroned, ex-Grind Minded, ex-Katafalk) and Jeroen Vrielink (ex-Massive Assault, ex-Autumn) fires us up greatly! The sound is a bit shrill in the beginning, but the band is experienced enough to blast that little annoyance to pieces in no-time. I had seen the singer before, I have talked to his gf for a long time on last NDF, but it was Kees that remembered him: he used to be a barfly at Enkhuizen’s Irish pub The Dubliner! Funny how small a world can be, right? Suffer is up next. The German band has a female singer Daniel seemed to enjoy more than she rocked me. The band plays grindcore of the ‘index-finger-in-the-air’ type, the guitarist trying four times to tell some story about racism in Germany and he’s annoyed four times the audience doesn’t listen. OK, audience, when Snowburner began there were some five guys in front of the stage, now some 40 I guess. Would this festival ever get even this way? OK, it’s still early, but it never really got crowded the entire day. The weather shouldn’t be a no-go-deciding factor, as it was blazing hot and prickly sunny. I soon returned to the car with the festival shirt I got from Daniel (THANKS!!) and some CDs we purchased; returning with a dry shirt and a bottle of sun tan lotion. I also bought a cap, as Kees is nearly albino/ginger, he needs to protect his head. One condition: I get to keep the cap :)

After the Danes in The Hyle, the Germans in Suffer and the Dutchies Snowburner, Teethgrinder and Entrapment it was time for some more international appeal: Pyre from Russia. I had no idea what to expect as I had not had time to check out the bands. Dùh, I wanted to come for a long time, but the definitive decision fell Thursday! And I had emergency duty on Friday, so I couldn’t ‘just’ keep up with YT all day. Enough excuses, here’s Pyre! And the band instantly showed they’re here with a reason: death metal no compromise!! The guitars sound more Swedish than Dismember, the drums twang and the vocals are a cross between said Dismember and Disbelief!! This is a great band!! Kees was all over the drummer, he said ‘it’s cool to watch a drummer with facial gymnastics, is it utter concentration or has he had some pill or two?’ :) you’re right Kees, what an intensity on both sides of his nose… From some doof with a camera I didn’t get the set list, so Kees simply jumped over the barrier and grabbed it. The organization has printed a lot of shirts and made a beautiful entry to the festival but surely there wasn’t much security (yet). Daniel, would you be so kind to post a picture of the festival entrance? I had forgotten to take a picture… But here’s the set list I got:
- Possessed https://youtu.be/-xPhR8KkC04
- Merciless Disease
- Flesh to Poles
- Destined to Die
- Under the Death Reign https://youtu.be/_G7UcNoYkFk
- Cursed Bloodline
- In the Chains
- Goddess of Disaster
- Far Beyond the Unknown
- Devastactic
Here’s the one: Pyre - http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Pyre/3540344063 Kees and Alicia were so thrilled they both bought the same CD (Human Hecatomb). Silly me, I thought at least one of them would hand the CD to me as thank you for the diesel… I already had bought Alicia the Deströyer 666 CD, I had the Whiplash- and Occult CDs… no Pyre CD for me. Yet. If I find one it’s mine!! We loved them!! https://youtu.be/tRfe4WpJ3tw does this sound Swedish or what??

The rest of the schedule would be normal again, so Pentacle was up next. What? Pentacle? Do I finally get to see them?? The band has been around forever, I’ve known Wannes for a very long time, seen Asphyx so often with him, but never his own, original band. Or original, that is open for debate. I really like the toughness and the slow motion death metal, heavily influenced by Celtic Frost, Hellhammer and Messiah, but there’s not a lot of crowd reacting to the band and I pity the barflies so now and then. Wannes and the Verhoeven brothers play on identical Ibanez guitars and bass, the sound is great! Gubbels is a funny man sometimes. He knows he won’t change the metal world by his band, but he hasn’t lost his humor: he jokes about playing the last songs faster (…) so he can start watching Terrorizer LA earlier :), being given the thumbs up by Garcia, Rick Cortez (usually Sadistic Intent, now touring with Terrorizer LA) and Leon del Muerte (Nausea, ex-Exhumed). The band Terrorizer LA is completed by drummer Mike Caffell and their task is simple: Terrorize Hollandscheveld to shreds!! With a full 45 minute set they can add one or two latter songs (I missed which ones) to the ENTIRE World Downfall!!! Now it’s getting crowded and the crowd goes apeshit!! Garcia might look a hundred years older than I had seen him in 1989, but that comment fades when he opens his mouth… the incredible deep grunt sounds like a new VW Golf Mk II diesel to me!! First pit of the day and it’s a fffffucking BRUTAL one too!! The album still sounds as fresh as in 1989 when I got it on tape, or in 1994 when I bought it on CD, even as good as the Terrorizer show on 70K.

Having changed shirt about 6 times it’s now time to change my sunglasses for my normal ones, leave the sun tan lotion in the car, wash my arms and head and off to the headliner tonight: Belphegor. Daniel was looking forward to the band as much as I was, I think they never let me down. So far they didn’t. But this show lacked some finesse, something extra, I don’t know exactly what, but it’s below par to us. The band has an exploding fog machine, that totally ruins the stage setting with the goats, devil signs, blood, crosses and so on. Why put on corpsepaint or even (fake) blood if no one can see it? The band doesn’t sound as sharp as usual. OK, I admit, the band has some gruffness over them, but that doesn’t mean they can do whatever they like on a stage. Daniel concluded ‘probably it’s more of an inside-venue band’. The vocals sound hollow to me and the guitars don’t seem to follow the same song structures… what to do? Get rid of the last consumption coins and leave. Say goodbye to Rob and Bart; Andrée is already so drunk he didn’t even notice me saying ‘see ya on PartySan’ and we leave.

At the entrance of the street were the festival was held there was a plank saying ‘Jesus lives’ and by returning to that edge of the town the plank is officially demolished around the town name sign *evil grin*, is this still the Dutch Bible Belt? Probably, we have fun taking pictures of the vandalism ;) . I thought I didn’t need the ToonToon anymore but managed some 35 km detour again… going north instead of west… but it was a great day. Extremely good weather, the Hell Inside crew present, good bands and some below par. Enough to compare today, haha. Just like the beer, I had one zip, didn’t recognize it, the water was as expensive as beer? Great merchandise too! I just hope the 300, 350 people present drank enough to let the organization break even and return next year with Graveland Deathfest!! Like Roy of Funeral Whore said: ‘no need for another festival that grew too fast’, keep it underground! Metal!

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Dynamo Metal Fest, Kunstijsbaan Eindhoven, feat. Arch Enemy, Nuclear Assault, Death Angel, July 18th

Dynamo, the name thrills and goes back a very, very long time. In 1986 Angel Witch was the first headliner of probably one of the very first heavy metal festivals ever, I went in 1989 for the first time. I loved it, I will always remember details like the smile on Phil Rind’s face, hilarious moments when S.O.D. entered stage, Mecrappica, Manocrap, Mercyful Fate bringing me to tears, meeting a girlfriend, nearly dumping her for not allowing me to see Death and so forth. I’ve been to 10 editions, one Dynamo Outdoor and now Dynamo Metal Fest. I liked the idea so much of one stage, only a couple of bands and really, really affordable entrance fee (€ 15) and cool bands as Death Angel, the Dutch farewell to Nuclear Assault and my friends in Bodyfarm bashing Eindhoven to pulp again. No need for the biggest-band-rat race so many festivals do these days, making us believe we have to see Knor or Parkway Drive more often than once. I bought two tickets but Tom had to cancel two weeks before… his mentor, coaching him into the craftsman he’s now and long time friend Ed turned 70 this weekend. OK, ticket has been paid for, I take it along. I knew the Bovenkarspel Boys wouldn’t make it as Axel decided to celebrate his birthday… why not invite them all to Dynamo ??? I knew Daniel had a ticket and I’d meet Darius there, as I would see Jessica too. Mikert offered he’d drive this time, but I was happy I didn’t have to drive. I had been fishing with Alex yesterday, totally sunburnt my head (ouch :/ ) and Toon had his Natte Nel meeting. I was hungover. Simple. Imagine being tired, painful, some HJ, three different homebrews and Toon’s drinking pals and you might have a hunch how I awoke… I did offer to drive to Eindhoven, Mikert declined that. OK, breakfast first (lovely Subway, but I only dared the half footer ;) and a coffee… should have ordered two coffee…). The boys were so disgusted by the stench of my burning sun tan lotion they started smoking in the car ;) [better be prepared, but at first I couldn’t find my own STL, my neighbor gladly offered hers when she saw my burning red head]. Lovely neighbor :) Coming to Eindhoven I wanted to make a quick round to sell the ticket, but within 20 meters I was already done walking ;) and went in. We’d missed the first band anyway, but I have no idea who played. No time to stand in the giga line in front of the tokens, BODYFARM was already sound checking! The band got introduced by Eindhoven’s oldest grindcore combo Rompeprop (they quit after this year, it was a nice gesture from the organization of DMF they could do the introductions) standing behind a Rompeprop bar, beer included :) Here’s what they played:
- I Am The War (msd and Brammerman pull me into the pit, I hadn’t even had time to shoot some pictures :))
- Frontline Massacre
- One song I thought to be Slaves of War but wasn’t :/
- Sleep Terror
- The Coming Scourge
- Another miss in song titles as some Enkhuizen Puur Obscuur fans found me and offered the front line position, accepting it blushingly ;)
- Malevolence
- Firing Sqaud (Thomas announcing the new album in October, but the name is still a secret)
- Slaves of War (yup, no they did play it :))
- Unbroken
- The Well of Decay
The band is blazing! The sound was OK, could be a hint better, but friggin’loud the way we like it! The new song sounds awesome and I already explained to my new Enkhuizen friends ‘hebbe hebbe hebbe die CD’ :) [gottahave gottahave gottahave that CD] The line in front of the tokens was still silly long so I decided to grab a festival shirt, be in line for a locker while Orange Goblin got to stage. I l like this band, but under the roof of the ice skating ring the sound was made more hollow than it should be. I wrote Times You Win, Times you Lose, this was a lost show for me. As the first people I met when I got my tokens were the Steenwijk Cruise Survivors, I grabbed some extra beer to come straight to myself… I was thirsty, incredible. The half beer I got from Maarten during Bodyfarm was welcome, but clearly not enough. ;) I wish there could have been a different play order, as I had pockets full of tokens and Alestorm was ready to piss me off. I even considered ordering water just to piss the Painfully Pissed Pirates off. The Steenwijkers made me watch the band while asking about something they’d seen on stage… damned Rob, Jurjen, Bart! ;) But hey, Dave’s here too!! Good’ol Dave Ingham! Great to see you again my friend! Darius showed up too and he had brought ‘a friend’, not telling I’d get totally fuddled seeing her. Bam is nice, whoah yeah! After a few drinks I gather up my nerves and offer her a shirt of her liking, rightfully interpreting my blushing head ;) Darius helped me by saying I always seek to surprise people ;) Time for Biohazard then. I sure wouldn’t have minded a great pit, but as Tom wasn’t around I chose to chill with Bam and Darius some more, met Jessica and her sister and some more beers to shed. Found Nathan too, nice! He explained his presence with a nice chat about Nuclear Assault and other Lilker-infested bands :)

I was also saving up energy for the band that deserved this pit a lot: Nuclear Assault! The band played one single riff and Maarten and me started a pit that wasn’t rivaled in savageness all day :lol: I love Nuclear Assault, they were the very first thrash metal band I ever saw (1988!) and I absolutely adore their sloppiness haha. The band, on their goodbye tour, played fast and loud, mostly classic songs like Live Suffer Die, Brainwashed, Survive, Critical Mass (explaining new friends about MTV’s Headbangers Ball ;)) Butt Fuck, Sin, Betrayal, but then my thumb snapped nearly in half… bleeding like an ox I went backstage to the first aid. Damned, it’s only a small wound but it hurts like hell. I met Thomas of Bodyfarm, thanking him again (he’d seen us all ;)) and assuring him I’d be the first one to buy the new album I was pushed out of the backstage area. Coming back Nuclear Assault nearly finished, but I have a great shot of Pim walking through the Nuclear Assault pit, but I dare not enter the pit again. I don’t want to hurt another thumb ;)

Anyway, hurt or not, I needed some food and chose the same juicy burger Bam had (very happy with her new shirt :) ) and wandered the merch stands for cool stuff. I found a few AC/DC shirts for babies as two of my friends had another fresh baby the last months. I watched Death Angel from quite a distance, the band showing loads of gratitude to be back in Eindhoven again. I’d seen the band at least three times before in Eindhoven (four if you consider The Organization as Death Angel-ish too) and they were hungry for violence! It’s still so fucking cool to hear Voracious Souls live, cold shivers up my spine!! Most material they played was quite recent, but the band is in top shape and then, then it simply doesn’t matter which songs they play. The Dream Calls for Blood, Truce, Thrashers, anything. It was a mess in front of the stage. Every single mosher was gasping for air as the dust turned Dynamo Metal Fest into Dustpop haha. It was great to watch, great to participate.

Arch Enemy headlined this edition of Dynamo Metal Fest and the second edition is already pinned in my agenda: June 16th, SACRED REICH will do what they like to do best: return to Eindhoven :lol: OK, I must say I wasn’t close to the annoyance I felt during the Kreator – Sodom – KutEnemy show last December, (see http://www.mruforums.com/f22/kreator-so ... 4th-16954/ ) the band clearly was delighted to be headlining this festival. With songs like My Apocalypse and Ravenous early in the set, I think they wanted to bash Eindhoven up! I also know AE is one of Mike’s most favorite bands, so I knew he’d like to see the entire set. And with a band in raging form, I don’t care I don’t like their last couple of albums. OK, even Legion of the Damned has sharper intros but the band does everything they can. Bam and Darius (no couple ;)) went home, I hope Bam also accompanies Darius to Stonehenge next week…

I still had my phone in my locker and therefore I had no idea what time it was. I decided to drain my last tokens for beer and water. One final visit to the loo and Dynamo Metal Fest, the first edition, is history again. Emptied the locker and waited for Mike and Daniel to return. Damned I forgot to pay Mike something for the gasoline… But I slept before Mike entered the A2. Thanks for driving safely and bringing me home, dude! Appreciated!! I will return to Dynamo Metal Fest, as I won’t need to miss one single DMF stroke again. I have had good and silly reasons not to go to more Dynamo Open Airs, but Sacred Reich in Eindhoven is still special to me. Metal is special. Friends are special. New friends made and they’re special too. Metal!!

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 2:47 pm 
 

D.R.I. Eindhoven, July 24th, Effenaar

Westfriesians are D.R.I. maniacs. Thrashers, deathheads, punks, skaters, pitters, all combined. I forgot when it was mentioned first, but D.R.I. would finally return to Holland. First show since 2011 including two cancelled shows (Spike’s injury and cancer treatment). “Tom and me were taken care of”, so to say. Way before Maryland Deathfest Jelle (rib-basher) mentioned wanting to bring the Westfriesian Pit Crew to their place of right: a D.R.I. show. Having met Harold Oimoen on MDF (with the WFPC shirts on) I was offered a place on the guest list, but I had to decline that… Harold was even a bit bummed I refused the opportunity of bringing extra friends along, for free. But I already calculated… Jelle, Axel, Tom, me, OK full car. We’d need a second car to go to Eindhoven. Can I be selfish for just once? I’d figured I’d be the one to drive that second car… and my calculations were correct. Jelle and Axel all tried ‘you’re driving, right?’ :S by text message I texted back: ‘I drive home so often, now I simply won’t’. The boys agreed reluctantly. Good thing: I had ordered some 6 CDs for Tom (Vulcano, Razor, D.R.I. [2], The Exploited, except Dirty Rotten LP everything got delivered) he’d pay me back and he’d get his Stonehenge ticket handed to him. Fine, now I don’t need to search for an ATM ;). 8 text messages later it got finally through: Axel’d drive to Eindhoven, we’re being brought home by Jelle. Yes!

This week I had emergency service, I got home exhausted every day this week so I worked at home Friday. Alex came along with smoked eel and maccarel (he’d been fishing AGAIN ;)) so I could finally work in peace. I had been searching for D.R.I.- and Heretic material all day, so I think I was prepared enough. Jelle had said he didn’t really know if he’d make it in time, he’s a truck driver with long days and uncertain endings , but as it’s the ‘bouwvak’ (“builders’s weeks off”) it wouldn’t be to hard to do the Westwoud – Eindhoven trip in some two hours. Tom also worked, but at least he had the time to eat and shower *pfoei* ;) I invited him over for inpilzen, as I just wanted to be sure I’d NOT drive. For once, I started drinking at 6 PM, around the time Tom rolled his first rollie in my garden :) Cool thing: the show would be in the small hall of Effenaar! Cool! We ate some more at a gas station and were quite in time to see the first band: Heretic from Best, Noord-Brabant ( see http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Heretic/3540364953 , https://youtu.be/YlqwccRo1rg and https://youtu.be/OGKy0IlZlWk ) The rock’n’punk aka black metal (corpse paint and all ) was FUNNNN!! But the venue wasn’t sold out? D.R.I., for the first time since quite some time, NOT SOLD OUT? NOT COOOLLLL! :shock: What the hell happened to Holland or is two shows in Effenaar and Baroeg even too much for such an epic band? What But, long story short, I bought Axel a (European, same front print as mine) tour shirt, got myself some stickers and an koozie, which Axel brought to the car. By accident I called Kurt’s other band Pasadena Napalm Death buying the goods (sorry!!), but he smiled about it. Cool to see: the set list had two (!) lines of songs, are they gonna play over an hour? An hour and a half? Jelle later got the set list from Harold, I got Spike’s guitar pick after bashing Effenaar to bits: [took a picture of Jelle holding it]
- Who Am I (just a three man pit? Entire WFPC and nobody else? The fuck?
- Slumlord
- Dead in a Ditch (OK, now it’s getting busier! Pim around, Laurens…)
- Suit & Tie Guy
- Argument then War
- I Am The Liar (to myself, my ankle hurt but I kept on going!!)
- How To Act https://youtu.be/tO3rmIk8Y2I who’s handing out beer to whom? :)
- Commuter Man
- Nursing Home Blues (nursing my foot :S)
- Against Me
- Anonymity
- As Seen on TV
- Probation
- Wages of Sin
- I’d Rather Be Sleeping
- Syringes in the Sandbox
- How To Act like a Barracuda
- Mad Man
- Couch Slouch (around this time I just stopped pitting, I was soaking, soaking wet already :))
- People (got around Spike’s side of the stage, I WANTED a guitar pick!!)
- Yes Ma’am
- The Explorer
- Karma
- Acid Rain
- Dry Heaves (spelt as DRI Heaves :))
- Thrashard
- Don’t Need You
- All For Nothing
- Manifest Destinty
- Beneath The Wheel
- Abduction
- Violent Pacification (Jelle got the set list)
- Five Year Plan (indeed, I got the pick!)
The set list said “Another highly Collectible D.R.I. setlist to be handed out to a Collector” :) Actually, me asshole now, I wanted Harold’s pick too, as he’d been scribbling notes on the bass pick,he said he’d seen us go crazy so he made sure all band members signed my ticket. Harold wrote ‘yer worldwide, DUDE!! Harold O.’ :), Spike drew the D.R.I. mosher, drummer Brandon Karns wrote ’just’ his name and 'DRI 2015'. I also got Kurt’s beer so my koozie is filled :) . D.R.I. KILLED. I wrote: 'Beuken, beesten, bieren (hard hitting, animal-like, beers)' :). Spike plays ordinary Turtle picks, not the D.R.I. mosher I expected. Axel had the time of his life as I made pictures of him with Rompeprop AND Kurt Brecht... the trip to the car was short enough still to be cold so I was happy with my dry shirts. I even put on a second dry shirt near the first Macca’s we came across, still sweating my balls out. The boys were happy with their merch as well. Tom didn’t need anything, he’s got two D.R.I. shirts already, Axel got his birthday shirt, Jelle bought the same ancient live album I did. We. Had. A. Blast!! Last thing I wrote was… FUCKGAAFFF. No need to explain, right ;)

We decided to do the very last afpils, it already was round 2 AM we got to my place. Especially as it really were the last two beers, I ‘threw’ Tom out around2:30. OK, I’d been sleeping most of the ride home, but it’d be a short night… I’d pick Peter (Lord Belial) up at 9 for Stonehenge. You know, the festival D.R.I. had to cancel in 2013 due to Spike’s illness (colectomy surgery). That review follows soon. Now I end this short story:
I. Consider. Myself. A. D.R.I.. Fan. As. Of. Now.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:03 pm 
 

Stonehenge festival 2015, July 25th, feat. Devin Townsend Band, Marduk, Master a.o.

For five years in a row I have been going to this little, cozy, underground metal festival. Over the years we’ve had some excellent bands and great performances, so it wasn’t strange I bought the earliest of early bird tickets for this year. In August haha. The first bands announced were Izegrim, Smothered, Sabiendas, Taake and Hideous Divinity. I have nothing with Taake, but I am befriended to Izegrim and Sabiendas. During the first months after the first announcements the line up shifted nearly every couple of weeks, so it seemed. Wehrmacht, God Dethroned, M.O.D. and Altar were seen on the website, but they all had to be rectified… no European Wehrmacht tour, Dictated instead of God Dethroned (sharing Henri Sattler and Michiel van der Plicht), M.O.D. quit entirely and Altar.. where that rumor came from I have no idea. But… Master! Will I finally get to see them? I booked the B&B of my cousin again, but I knew the old place had been sold. The name is still the same, but the location was some two streets away. It’s being refurbished since last year, I wondered if it’s be totally finished. My cousin assured me we could sleep there, no matter what, but if it weren’t completely finished we’d be replaced, no extra charge. Come to think of it, I think she let us pay less as the accommodation wasn’t full fledged yet.

Who would join? The week before the fest I got a text from Jessica if I had another ticket to spare? Huh, room in the B&B OK, but a ticket? Even before I got home that day to call my cousin to expand the group Jessica texted she’d bought a ticket, maybe drive home herself. Wait a minute, I just called Mirjam… sigh. Tijmen had lost his e-ticket and Rob T couldn’t make it in the end, fine. Would Darius have to use the B&B too? Fine, accounted for. The weather could be a bigger problem, the morning of the festival word spread Code Red was announced and it wasn’t the Sodom album… trains didn’t run! Daniel had to call the boys if he could join us; Tom had to work and would come alone, like last year. At Hoeve Blitterswijk the coffee was great, especially after such a short night (see D.R.I. Effenaar, July 24th ) but I made it. The taxi from the B&B nearly rammed msd and Brammerman but they couldn’t see us (darkened windows). At the festival site, now near the train station instead of De Buze (being rebuilt) I immediately saw a huge line in front of the cashiers so I made my round looking for lockers as Daniel rushed to the stage for Smothered. I found no lockers but I did found Dave of Mutator; he said he’d bring whatever wasn’t needed all day to the car. Sun tan oil, hoodie, shirt, sun glasses and so on. I joined the stage for Smothered and heard a band go full throttle. The Swedes even played a new song called Into The Void. Found the Steenwijk buddies Rob, Jurwin (and not Jurjen or Jurre :)), Peter, Bart and even Henk showed up! How’s he going, deafy? *tease, tease*

If you wanted a festival shirt you’d have to buy it at the cashiers, get a coupon and pick it up at the merch stand? Why the double action? I handed my new shirt to Dave and he said he’d bring them away after he’d seen Wrath. What they do, they call themselves Midwest Metal and they sound like a faster little brother of Overkill, of course I don’t mind such a band ;) The band has a Bon Scott-lookalike as singer and that also pleases me ;) On the other stage Sabiendas was checking sound. I got warmly greeted by guitarists Christian and Alexandra, but I seemed to be one of the few that liked the band? I love OSDM, so the harsh death sounded great to me. Singer Jan is an animal, but some seem to think his vocals are a bit dull. Fine with me, the band also announced new material scheduled to be released some October. Hey, Inken is here too (see Death Metal Birthday Pt II, feat. Cripper, Izegrim, more ), nice chat followed. Short, OK, as Inquisitor would be next. Some people reacted stunned or disappointed it wasn’t actually black metal and certainly no Inquisition! The band is Dutch, but to me forgettable. Later on I read it was a reunion show, but the thrash didn’t impress me at all. I was waiting for Dictated anyway. Not just because of the two female guitarists, but also because I had heard some pretty cool tracks come by. The band plays pretty technical but blunt death metal without getting pretentious about it. More friends to be found, albeit under a poncho or not. John dB and Jordi showed up, Nol and the gang, at least four Marcels ;) just before Fleshless got to stage. The Bovenkarspel Boys went nuts, the pictures were soon used on the website of the local newspaper. At least I can’t download the pictures, but the pictures are cool. The organization kept the visitors on and off location well posted about the Code Red. Wasn’t it just Code Red near the North Sea? Nah, it started raining and splashing. The wind got more aggressive too. But I had the Hannover Ladies to accompany me to Hirax. Hirax soon turned out to be the absolute highlight of the festival as I enjoyed the band a lot, the sound was great and the audience thankful. When the festival ended (see below) I also met Katon for a quick chat. Diabolical was up next. I really love the album A Thousand Deaths, but the show wasn’t as special as I’d imagined. Turned out it wasn’t even the first time I saw the band, I liked the show with Amon Amarth a lot more, tbh. The rain wasn’t really working to the bands advantage, too. Darius showed up too, he’d be a festival volunteer once more. I asked whether he’d be joining us to the B&B but he wasn’t sure yet.

Ingested was up next. The techdeath bored me within minutes, as Cytotoxin wasn’t up my sleeve too. Also, too technical and the pig squeals… leave them be. By that time the festival grounds completely changed from denim & leather to plastic ponchos… (umbrellas are banned on most events). I was getting hungry, but also saw the preparations of Izegrim wanting to start. They couldn’t. Period. The wind on their stage was full to the head of the stage and the water lay behind the drum kit. It was getting dangerous to perform there and even more as one piece of the roof of the stage let loose and nearly hit Jeroen!! To the organization it was clear: it’s getting too much, there was some rumor of starting an hour later, but it only got worse from that point on. Everybody was asked to leave the premises, some stayed behind De Meenthe (city theater) to see if they could return. Nope, it’s over. The organization kept the online people informed and most people left for the city centre, as the after party was to begin earlier. So.. no Izegrim, no Taake, no Master (again!! I just met Paul Speckmann on the way to De Meenthe, he smiled and said ‘this is your eighth time you’re going to miss my band, right? I hope we don’t curse each other this way’ :) I bought a shirt…), no Brujeria, no Vital Remains, no Devin Townsend Project, no Marduk, no Player, no Nervosa! I had no real hurry to get to De Zwetser, I needed a decent meal and a dry place to drink another beer. Daniel joined us too, the trains weren’t moving at all, again! We rounded up the boys, called Tom not to go to Steenwijk anymore, picked up two crates of HJ before entering the taxi home. It got a lot later than I expected, my cousin Toon tried to get me out of my hum again, but why? You know I don’t like talking about death when I am getting drunk! It hurts to hear you talk about my brother and dad, you know!

Another short night. I had a dead ostrich on my back, a duck in my mouth and a monkey in my brain. My other cousin Marion showed up for the combined church visit and 85th birthday of her uncle (so that’s from HER mother’s side, not mine) and we moved on. We had all the time in the world, stopped for coffee and two open bridges.. more coffee ;) and a tour through West-Friesland for Kees’ Tankard tickets. I called Dave to pick up my stuff but he told me he wouldn’t mind bringing it to Westwoud! Cool, that’s at least a 45 minute drive. I showed him my metal cavern and found out we’re soulmates to AC/DC, Mercyful Fate and Sepultura. It was quite an emotional talk, as I nearly lost control again! Damned, why do I drink so much? I couldn’t keep Dave too long as I also had the house warming party of my (pretty) new neighbor! First thing she showed me was her newly decorated bedroom, but I replied, red as a beet, ‘not the best place to show first to a bachelor man’ :) We had a great chat and I invited her over for dinner, see what happens… My camera lost its lid for the battery, is this machine getting tired of me? Anyway, it’s been a up and down weekend. Ups like D.R.I., Smothered, Sabiendas, Hirax and lot of friends, downs like the weather, the danger, some bands and the emotional rollercoaster I put myself in once more. I hope my neighbor is in for a treat, I think I’d rather cook something myself. If not, as she already knows now, I have Chinese every Sunday ;) And loads of METALLL! Stonehenge, thank you and see ya next year!

Oh yeah, the reactions to the further cancellation on FB and the local newspaper were too silly to mention, but I give an impression: ‘grrr no need for so much coins now’, ‘I just came for nothing’, ‘good you took safety above all’ and ‘how’s Jeroen doing?’ Organizer Rene Brugmans stated the coins could be used next year too. Fine, I will be there too. And I don’t even have spare coins :)

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:56 pm 
 

Party-San Open Air 2015, feat. Bloodbath, Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, Flughafen Oberwehler, Schlotheim Germany

Party-San is a festival setting I like a lot. It’s not that expensive like Lowlands, park your car next to your tent without the Wacken chaos doing so ;), the programming is wide but not Graspop-commercial, the beer is better than on Bloodstock, breakfast is worse than any Wãldrock food, village nearby like Dokk’Em, plenty of friends like… yeah which fest doesn’t hold some of my friends? With just one name, I knew Daniel would be all over it, a.k.a. Bloodbath, but also I soon heard Kees Bloemkool might join us (or to Brutal Assault for Kreator??) would consider going, Supergoomba Pim would go with friends, my Steenwijk buddies are regular visitors. One detail I liked a lot too: Soulburn and Asphyx on one day! So, even from musician-side I would have friends around. What about my German friends, the Hannover Ladies, Andrée, Käthe, Wiebke, Gaby, the Brutz gang?? I love it!! One other cool thing: PartySan always prints extraordinary rare shirts with themes on it. The reunion show of Asphyx? Asphyx-type PSOA logo shirt. Bloodbath returning on Schlotheim soil? Bloodbath-type PSOA logo shirt. Und so weiter.

Two years ago I took Kimberly with me, but this year I never mentioned PSOA to her. In her current financial and physical state (broken ankle) I wonder if she’d show up anyway, she has her ways of lurking up on places I don’t expect. Mikert had a ticket around the same time we got it, but it was quite unsure if he’d join us in the end, hence the remark on Kees earlier. Kees doubted, Tijmen doubted, fine with me, I don’t buy extra tickets this time. Over the years I think I have had some € 1,500 worth of tickets to be sold last minute, I hope I quit that habit. With the MDF experience nearby, I made sure I won’t be stressed before leaving, so I took another day off beforehand. Up to August I had no idea who would be the third of fourth visitor to my VW Golf Mk II diesel and I simply don’t care. One week before the festival Tijmen called me, he had some troubles reading the German instructions how to pay for his ticket. I told him: ‘Read like Dutch, boggle an UNG at the end of the word and you read German’ :) OK, we head out to Schlotheim with the five of us! Kees just entered the VW Golf owners club one day before heading east, my wheelbearing is new again. Off to Deventer first, as Kees still had to pick up his ticket (Alicia bought Mikert’s one, he couldn’t make it in the end). Near Deventer we found out it was Tamar that had a ticket to spare! I offered her place in the car (and the tent :)) but she declined. In Germany we spotted one Borderpatrol car for about ten minutes, not noticing it was US they signalled!! The Boneheadspatrol finally drove in front of my car (Tijmen drove) and signalled us to follow and pull over. What a douchebags! They even didn’t believe me I had SOAP in my toiletry bag. Wir haben kein Drogen, Ich rauch nicht!! As a result we had lost Kees’car and arranged to meet on Wewelsburg’s rastplatz. Entering Schlotheim and all worries and irritation evaporated. We are in a METALTOWN! It was so hot we stayed near our tent shadows for quite some time, erradicating my car’s battery with Kees’electric cooling box. But we had cold HJs to shed, as Pim already greated us before finding our weekend’s place. Some fools with shot glasses called us pussies for not trying the homebrewn garlic liquor. I am sooooo sorry I had that garlic filth I had to brush my teeth three times and STILL taste garlic!

First priority: band and festival merchandise! I got the special edition Asphyx Krushes PSOA 15 shirt and a nice black metal themed festival shirt, but didn’t like the Bloodbath themed shirt. Neither did Daniel. The following metal disco was fun, as we soon met the Steenwijk friends Bart and Rob. The night was short, as I seemed to have a leak in my airbed and as the bands wouldn’t start before 4 PM, we had all the time in the world to find me an extra airbed. Or… children’s matress, 140 cm was the biggest thing I might lay on… but it was even more comfortable then I thought. The shop owner was nearly embarrassed when she saw us metalheads with a children’s matress… stupid chick. Let’s say we have seen the village four times haha. The festival site hadn’t even been opened when I parked Kees’car (he was ‘done driving’ ;)) for a while first long trip he ever drove ;)) It was hot, incredible. I have no idea why they didn’t open the site earlier, as the terrain also held a tent with a stage and a bar (which hardly could keep the beer cold, we later found out :(). If it had to do with the volunteers, fine with me, maybe explain so??

The first band on stage was Degial. I had not heard of this band before and after the show the opinions varied, I was underimpressed, Daniel liked it. intervals between bands are short, 15 minutes between bands. So, if you take too much time to get beers, the next band has already begun. Same with Morbus Chron. It took so long to get my next round of beers, Morbus Chron seemed to be halfway the set already. Fine. I liked the couple of songs, but wasn’t as excited as ‘the first time’ (EMM 2014). Kimberly did sneak herself in again and she nearly made me miss Midnight. The leaflet helped. It was described as ‘one of the most important underground bands since the start of the new millenium’ and ‘masked chaotic trio from Cleveland Ohio’ ‘mixing speed metal, black metal and classic heavy metal’. I don’t need so much words, I couldn’t simply see what’s so special about this band apart from ‘hardly touring’ to ‘not worthy of another tour’ to me. What was worth another tour: NUCLEAR ASSAULT! Less chaotic than the Dynamo Metal Fest show, sharper, louder at least… a set only consisting of Game Over, Handle With Care and Survive songs I totally freaked out. I also met Andrée and Käthe and had a great time with them. A nice fall back to earth was the following Secrets of the Moon show. Wtf do I need with a band slower and less doomy than Type O? I never was a Typ0 fan to begin with! Another miskleun was The Ruins of Beverast. I hated it. I’d rather… no I won’t spill my venom or my semen here ;) the doom was obnoxiously loud and shrill. No, rather pick up my upteenth Primordial show. The band was good. Alan was on fire (or should I say ‘on fire as usual’??) and I wanted to hear The Coffin Ships, Gallows Hymn and As Rome Burns. I got all three, near stage or on the camping ground. No pictures, no need for more beer. I said goodbye to all acquaintances and hobbled off to the tent. Exhausted and, happily, not sunburnt. I wore a shirt during the day, my denim when the night nearly came. Behemoth? When? I already hit the new matress. It slept fine.

Tijmen obviously didn’t sleep fine. He had problems with his stomach for almost three days in a row and he even ended up on the First Aid stand on Thursday. I found out when I gave the mini Nuclear Assault patch to Kees, he said he had not seen Nuclear Assault as he accompanied Tijmen during… Nuclear Assault. Kees still wasn’t eager to drive, so I took his VW Golf Mk IV to the nearest train station in Mühlhausen. With vinegar in my veins we got a train ticket.. it would take him 9 hours (!) just to get back to The Netherlands and then he’d need at least three hours more to go get to Bovenkarspel… poor guy. € 87 for Mühlhausen – Kerkrade and then some € 45 for Kerkrade – Bovenkarspel.. Typing this I noticed we should have chosen Hengelo as prime Dutch destination instead, it would have been at least two hours shorter… poor guy. With two liters of water and a bunch of bananas he’d make it… man how I felt bad leaving him there. The fact I’d ‘miss’ a few bands didn’t matter at all, but re-entering the festival site I got a glimpse of Dutch goregrinders Cliteater from the bar tent. Hot in the shade, so to say. Of Vanhelgd I can be short too, Daniel really liked it but we were sitting in the shade of the tent. Up next was Gehennah, one of the reasons Pim got excited for this festival. The mix black metal - Queen – stoner – Motörhead without Lemmy but with Bram Vis was quite nice. They even played the GG Allin cover ‘Drink Fight Fuck’. Without fistfight.

Aeturnus on the other hand hardly did anything to me. I was happy to meet the Sabiendas guys, the Hannover Ladies (I got all remaining Stonehenge consumption coins! Thanks!), Jogi (see Brutz Und Brakel, Berlin, Nov. 2-3 ) and ate American pulled pork! Excellent!! About a pound of meat, tasty sauce, some coleslaw on a good bun. I couldn’t linger about food too long, as I wanted to be on first row for Soulburn. Soulburn gave me goosebumps. I got the full monty: band members acknowledging me, smiling faces, sharp sound check, UBERLAUT volume, a set list from Remco (thanks!!), a great set, nice lighting, still a sharp soundband going nuts, some bumps to the back as well, neck massage between songs… yeah this was great. No wonder with such a set list:
- Crypts of the Black
- Absinthesis
- Hymn of the Forsaken (Hymn of the Headbangers? :))
- Claws of Tribulation
- Hellish Entrapment (including intro)
- In Suffocating Darkness
- I Do Not Bleed From Your Crown Of Thorns
- Feeding on Angels (Freaking on Angels :))
- Outro
When will my voice return to me? I LOVE THIS!!! I managed to get another round of beers spilt and returned to the front line for Deserted Fear. I was being pushed aside with evil grins on their faces? Fuck off stranger, I have four beers and I’m in a hurry! Get the fuck off my path before I kick you! Deserted Fear made me forget this little incident, the band was clearly hot and on fire (had seen an enormous amount of Deserted Fear shirts and patches around all weekend). The band played an excellent cross of both albums, the 45 minutes seemed over in 45 seconds… this was great! The enormous joy these men show on stage, you can plaster a house with the smiles of Mahne and Fabian Hildebrandt haha. It’s a great band, they’re great guys and they get what they deserve: a raging crowd, headbangers, moshers, beer drinkers, nodding onlookers, merch sales… I wanted to buy Kees a Deserted Fear shirt but he refused, he said he already had enough shirts. OK, Kees, understood, but the Stonehenge shirt you’re wearing is already white… you bought it BLACK, remember? Shirt is only two years old… One band I’m not really going to buy a shirt for anyone is Postmortem. The Berlin organizers of Brutz & Brakel do play in a death metal band, but the sound is dull and the band isn’t top notch for a change (see RockHard festival, Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, June 10th-12th ) and I leave without further ado.

I wanted to check out something I had not seen before, but had a hunch with the band name: Speedbreaker. Yup, premonition correct, it was like Peter Pan Speedrock all the way. I do not really know that genre that well, but I sometimes think ‘who was the first one, except Motörhead that did such stuff?’ As a welcome change in style of music on such a festival it was cool, but not really commemorative to me. But... walking around... buying stuff, drinking beer… I had no idea Melechesh was up next. So, what did I get? Just a mere fifty seconds of Ladders to Sumeria and the band was off. OK. I screw up sometimes. I’m sorry. But to who? I need to eat, drink, shit, note bands, meet friends, have more beer and… wait for Agalloch. I have heard the band over the years on YT, but never got to see them. I made some pictures, but as I’m not familiar with the songs I don’t know if it actually was a good show or not. From the camping it sounded great, I did get to see 3 songs. The drum stick hit my head, but I didn’t want to risk my arms for it. I was near the main stage fence for friggin’Asphyx!! I have the set list on the back of a rare shirt, don’t care how rare, but they GAVE DEATH METAL ANOTHER MILESTONE! Paul was in bloody top form, Alwin roaring like fire, Stephan going wild, Martin… oh Martin. A smile bigger than a plastered house, the first crowdsurfers of the fest, security being cool about that, band sounding like an atomic clock [to me, at least, first row, see below] and loud as it should be.. Death The Brutal And The Loud Way:
- Intro
- Vermin
- Scorbutics
- Death the Brutal Way
- MS Bismarck (oh no, they didn’t do my all-time favorite Asphyx song, they played Into the Timewaste! Daniel freaking out! My smile said it too.)
- Deathhammer
- Wasteland of Terror
- Forgotten War
- The Rack
- Last One on Earth
Meeting Martin the next day I had heard there had been some debate on the terrain about the sound of this particular show, but Martin said to me ‘we had a great sound and on you it wasn’t showing it was less than good’ *enormous grin* We meet again Martin, MDF 2016 you’ll have at least one shouter, one headbanger and the rest combined in at least one man :). This was so cool. I let all grabbers do their thing (Stephan’s drum stick hit my head ;), set lists being torn apart, guitar picks flying away from the crowd, a small wind occurred ;)), I was happy anyway… and awaiting Bloodbath… and, yeah what? Why was Bloodbath NOT scheduled as headliner of one of the days, but two bands following afterwards? I remember one Elsrock not even waiting for Samael, a few blurry thoughts about ancient Samael shows, but still I don’t see why Samael was a headliner and Bloodbath wasn’t. To be short, much ado about me getting bored. Bored? With Bloodbath playing? Yeah I got bored. With Bloodbath. With Nick Holmes. With a small wind blowing away all of those death metal favorite songs blown away. Nick should be in a white duster with brown gore visible, not a black coverall dress. Not with a sound that wasn’t fantastic. Daniel, I know, cut me up with a colic infested knife, show me my own liver, laugh at my face and barbeque me, but I was bored as fuck. Even Eaten couldn’t wind me up. Of all Bloodbath Greatness I Felt Nothing. Call me the biggest DeathMetalNoEarNoBrain in the world, I don’t care, I had nothing with this show. Daniel said before or later, I don’t remember, he wanted to hear the band instead of seeing it. Uh…

What followed after Nick? Uh… Oei.… Er… Are you sure? [all on minimum timbre] Ensiferum? Add a few short expansions to the shortest non-verbal expressions to embarrassments on a shitload of PSOA visitors… mostly in brutal death metal shirts… waiting for… Cannibal Corpse. It sure wasn’t the first CC show on PSOA, but they showed balls by starting with one of their slower songs… Scourge of Iron! The band got the full appreciation pit, headbangers, shouters and the waltz rolled on:
- Scourge of Iron
- Demented Aggression
- Evisceration Plague
- Stripped, Raped and Strangled
- Disposal of the Body
- Sentenced to Burn
- Kill or Become
- Sick Embodiment
- some more songs, I was soooo happy I wandered one more time through the crowd and went to the tent.
Even the water I put under my car was boiling hot… brushed my teeth half-choking and rolled onto the matress…

Saturday would be a short day, I imagined. A lot less beer, maybe? Less sun tain oil? Lifeless would be in the tent and the overall line up on main stage wasn’t really special like Friday. We drove into town for breakfast and cash and managed to miss Lifeless anyhow :( It rained a bit, but that cooling down on the entire festival was welcome. I made sure I had at least 4 liter water for the return drive, as I knew I would have to do it all alone. Tijmen had sent a text message he was in Holland again, tired, still a bit upset stomach, but relatively OK. Pfoei, no need to worry anymore. The first band I got to see was Cowboy Bob & Trailer Trash. I thought it was a joke, but the band did get some attention. Hell, every band that plays some Johnny Cash on a metalfestival gets attention, but the rest wasn’t up my sleeve. Daniel did like it a lot more than I expected, that’s for sure. On main stage we had Holocausto Canibal afterwards. The band was delighted to be the first Portugese band ever to appear on PSOA? Huh? What about Moonspell? Anyway, with such heat returning to the festival ground I wasn’t really in for grind. Kees, Alicia and me roamed the little shops again for obnoxious amounts of patches and in one particular stand I found about 6 different AC/DC floormats… I said to Alicia, grinning, I’d have to be stopped in three seconds otherwise I’d buy one… I counted one, two and said ‘the heck I want it’ I also found 2 different Lifeless patches and Daniel grabbed the yellow one. Back to main stage for Evil Invaders? Nah, we stood at the Havana Club bar and heard a totally false impression on Exciter’s Violence and Force, then a weird Destruction tune? I had expected more of an ‘own sound, own thing’, I think. I met Lampy again and got invited to the next Death Metal Birthday that will feature at least God Dethroned! Thanks!! In the meantime I met Marcel The Eindhoven Insanity and Marcel Number 5 and Pim I (Soopergoomba) and Pim II :). Winterfylleth filled the main stage at that moment and I must say I liked it a lot. I’m still not familiar with the band but I will keep an eye out for (live-) material.

It became time for some food, the garlic bread was excellent! On main stage the thrashers could go berserk as Toxic Holocaust entered main stage. The band clearly had the vibe going, the pit was pretty violent and the smiles on band and audience were telling nice tales ;). What a cool band! I returned to the tent for a small dump / brush teeth / personal hygiene [in the right order ;)] and returned to main stage where Krisiun had just begun. Some days I think the band awesome and want to buy material, but the band members still wear Black Force Domain shirts and just be Krisiun. I couldn’t help it, thinking ‘they’ve been doing this for over 25 years’ and walked out. This simply wasn’t my Krisiun moment, I guess. Walking around again, meeting the Hannover Ladies I heard Daniel say he’d seen Lifeless… and loved it… darn. I hope they get to play a lot more in the future… After Krisiun my hunger for death metal wasn’t satisfied, oh no. We stood near the tent where Deathrite got themselves a nice welcome, the band plays a dark, heavy cross between Fleshcrawl and Lifeless, try this for a taste: https://youtu.be/pATWKhpUSQU Even Sven Gross of Fleshcrawl was part of the headbangers! Good to see you, dude! Not in the mood for Rotting Christ I sat in my car for a while. Mesmerizing, trying to start the car… it fired! So my battery wasn’t dead after all! I stayed in my car so long I missed Ghost Brigade for the biggest part, but I didn’t care too much. Typing this I found a YT Playlist with most bands of this festival and my ear caught this attention:
https://youtu.be/wICPawefEtk?list=PL...F8t167b_oNcqbm (check out https://youtu.be/tvFyvkwb89M as well, you’ll like it).

More death metal? YESSSS! Kataklysm checked sound and begun with To Reign Again! Goosebumps all over my arms and back! I met Martin van Drunen and his girlfriend again, had a nice chat but forgot to ask which website she works on… Martin had not seen Kataklysm in all these years so I offered him a beer, but with a backstage pass it’s not the smartest thing to do to keep accepting beer. I left them be, Martin had plenty of fans to be selfied with ;).As I Slither early in the set, The Black Sheep, Push The Venom, Ambassador of Pain before I collapsed near a bar… Play this first part loud to get an idea https://youtu.be/HoegFtJNFKE (Maurizio sounded BETTER than on this vid!). I will probably never buy a Kataklysm album again, but I will keep seeing this band blow up festivals and venues!! AWESOME! But what a mood extinguisher next: Mayhem. Concerning Mayhem I am the vampire virgin with an overdose of garlic! I felt so bad I ordered the biggest garlic infestation, veggie and all, I could find. I didn’t care I had no chance on ANY romance anymore, I washed the pig blood off with garlic. I could hardly walk anymore so I decided to skip both My Dying Bride AND Samael’s special Ceremony of Opposites set. Dane will kill me for this, but I couldn’t walk anymore. Let him drag me back to the festival grounds then if he’s so eager to see this show ;)

Back at the tent I wasn’t the only one tired and sore. I asked if Daniel had seen Mantar but he hadn’t. I brushed my teeth three times because of all the Knoblauch and tripped onto my mattress. Gone in a whim, we agreed to awaken each other as early as possible. Drive in the coolness of morning was the idea, so to speak. We stopped near Am Biggenkopf again, passed Wewelsburg without Boneheadpatrol :) and Kees told me he had no interest in meeting my friend. With Oberhausen first spotted on the road signs, I lost the view on Alicia driving. Kees called Daniel to say they’d go straight to Arnhem and on. I tried three times to call Henric, Daniel even found his home number, but we missed each other. Near Amersfoort I got a call from Henric, we won’t drive back now. We meet again. At home I hung my tent to dry, filled up my Laundromat and shaved. With the first drops of shower falling I noticed my shampoo didn’t even bubble, as my hair was soooo filthy :) I dreaded the comb haha.

All together: PartySan is cool. Period. No matter if it’s cloudy, rainy or blistering hot, it’s a great setting. Good bands, not too crowded, awesome merch and friends from all over Germany and other countries. Pity we had to drop Tijmen, but he’s OK. As for the bands.. Nuclear Assault, Primordial, Soulburn, Deserted Fear, Asphyx, Cannibal Corpse, Deathrite, Toxic Holocaust and Kataklysm summed up made up a worthy trip to Schlotheim once more. No wishy washy Heaven Shall Burn-turn-down this time, but I also haven’t seen much of the headliners. I’m OK with that. With so many friends and so much metal I am a happy camper. The next edition is already announce, but with the line up so far I won’t consider: so far ‘just’ At the Gates and Paradise Lost. I’m broke but I don’t care. Again. Metal!

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:25 pm 
 

Tankard, Manifesto Hoorn, Sept. 4th

Beermetal!! Die With a Beer in Your Hand! Who said ‘metal is dead in West-Friesland’? OK, there had been a lot of fuss about attendance at metal shows in Manifesto, but look at yourself, organizers! If Manifesto, or Cayen, or P3 or even Patronaat don’t cooperate, not a lot of big metal bands will show up beyond Amsterdam… at least, do not plan metal bands in a venue when there’s another metal show within 20 km… Yes, there had been fuss about Tankard as well. It did not have to do with the band or their management, but the amount of 50 tickets sold minimum hung like Damocles’ sword over this show. Beginning in March I bought three tickets, knowing Tom would like another nice pit or two, bring Robin in as well; later on I bought more tickets for a real Verkenner-reunion (Frank and John, maybe notice Peter, Peter and Michael too? We'll see.), handing out tickets to long time friends as birthday gifts. Jessica called, there were only 24 tickets sold! I had literally 20 per cent of all tickets sold! So, I imagined, I needed more. Convinced Alex to join, bring Thirza in; Lilian also wanted to come. Now I have nine tickets, is it enough? No, texting ‘still only 45 sold’. Damned! Who else to turn to? The Bovenkarspel Boys all enjoy a nice beer and some metal, Kees Bloemkool bought 6 tickets. Hurray! The show is definitely confirmed! Only thing different now: no Anger Machine as support act, but Skeletons of Society. Fine. Maarten Dijkerman texted me he and Brammerman were too busy to come. Pity. It would have been fun to see his broken wrist in Manifesto again *evil*

I had been drinking Belgian beers with my Verkenner friend John and decided he could have some Heineken Tarwebok as a thank you… with the ticket between the sixpack. Coming to John the day before… he had thought they were mine, yes, that’s right, but also thought we’d drink them together? So.. you never saw the ticket? Ai, spare ticket. Johannes called he’d been operated for a rotten grinder, wasn’t sure if it was sensible to drink. Ai, possibly two spare tickets. Woud Robin be OK, in a hospital or good to go? Robin helped. He said his mom Jolanda would love to join us, as she knew Metallica, Sepultura and AC/DC from her youth days and hadn’t been ‘out’ since she was 16?? OK, the taxi is called again (going from 6 to 4 to 6 people :)), of course with beer metal you don’t BOB (Bewust Onbeschonken Bestuurder, Don’t Drink & Drive) and I don’t cycle to beermetal! Ha! We did some inpilzen at my place (I still had that Trooper beer cold for Robin) and after two quick Amstels at the Lindeboom bar the taxi was present. It was quite busy at Manifesto, but why don’t you open the doors? In financial hard times like these, you don’t waste retail! Already meeting friends like Dave and Alex from Mutator and Cynthia we finally got in. DJ Ruud mostly played death and thrash metal so my Extremefest shirt wasn’t out of bounds ;) Let’s say I kept returning to the bar :) Never an empty glass, so to say. I bought Dave a Sex. Murder. Beer. shirt and a Die With A Beer In Your Hand shirt for myself and the band begun. Actually hardly noticed the band Skeletons of Society play a blunt cross between thrash and death, I was so busy handing out beer and drinking, most of the time two glasses handed ;) We came for Tankard and Tankard is what we got. The band went in full throttle and a full blown WFPC got the sweat into the beers! Robin later grabbed a set list:
- :) https://youtu.be/pOmnkbgfCog OK, they didn’t start with Zombie Attack :)
- Need Money for Beer
- The Morning After
- Zombie Attack
- Fooled By Your Guts
- Not One Day Dead
- The Beauty and the Beast
- Stay Thirsty (one of my favorite Tankard songs! Yay!)
- Rapid Fire
- Rules for Fools
- Maniac Forces
- Die With A Beer in Your Hand
- Minds on the Moon
- Raining Blood :) intro for Rest in Beer
- Metal To Metal
- Space Beer
- Rectifier
- Chemical Invasion
- Alien
- A Girl Called Cerveza
- (Empty) Tankard
The band was tight, the beer flew, the sweat followed, the sound was awesome and exactly loud enough. The band had fun and the audience had fun. It’s that simple With so many friends (Daniel, Jeroen, Sven, Cynthia, Jessica, Axel, Kees, Jelle, Tijmen, Thea, even a colleague from my company’s office restaurant :) ) and family around it’s even more fun. Good times! In the taxi home we discussed which song was Tankard in optima forma, but we couldn’t decide. It’s all fun. In De Lindeboom I got surprised by Robin, he had three guitar picks and handed me one! Thanks bro! Seeing enormous grin told the tale. His mom? Whoah, was she drunk or what? :)

Who said ‘metal is dead?’ again? Ha!! METAL IS BEERING ALIVE!! Beerrrrrr!!! Metallll!

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 2:35 am 
 

DeathFeast 2015, feat. Nile, Suffocation, Asphyx, Andernach, Germany, Sept. 10-12

DeathFeast is a festival that has travelled and changed name. Some editions were held in Hünxe (DeathFeast, Extremefest), some in Andernach (DeathFeast). Andernach is some 180 km from Hünxe, but the idea is the same: three days of intense metal and grindcore, but I had no idea the size of both festivals would be around the same. I only knew: Suffocation, Asphyx, Deserted Fear, Germany. Enough for me. First batch of tickets ordered for me and Bram, Daniel said ‘too much slam’. OK. Two weeks before the festival I spoke to Kevin (Mastodonianmastodon) if I could get him a ticket as well. One week before I noticed Tijmen and Axel would pick up Gino and head Southeast. But I made a little mistake, thinking the festival would begin on Friday… it didn’t. Now I had made an appointment I could not change, as our laboratory would celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary… with lovely female colleagues… yeah you get the point. The Bovenkarspel Boys would be on time… When I had driven on Thursday I would have left around 10 in the morning, (first band at 4 in the afternoon); now I want to drive at 8. Seeing Bram’s fluffy eyes, pointy hair and scruff beard I knew he’d missed my message (‘I don’t listen to voicemails’ dùh!). What about Kevin? He still wasn’t at Hoorn station (I had hoped he has a driving license too, but his exam will be in two weeks.) so beforehand I knew we’d miss at least one band. And one festival day :(.

Tents sorted, cooling box with HJ, first coffee at Venray’s Macca we could have met Legion of the Damned, but no long hair spotted ;). Coming to an area where I’ve worked could bring back memories, but the hills and forests around Koblenz aren’t for me now. I have to drive, I have no idea how far it is from the village and my BramBram misses out on the last couple of hundred meters.. darn hobby ;) Putting up the tents was easy and with a nice sun shining the HJ was excellent. A band was playing already but I had no idea who. We soon found Axel, Tijmen and Gino and the HJ went from hand to hand (even though Gino doesn’t drink he was happy to see us). Would there be 500 people present? Hardly. But the first grindcore suits were already visible :) beach balls, mankinis, a penguin suit, yup present. We all needed cash, so we walked into Andernach searching for an ATM. Found one, it seemed Kevin had left his card in ‘different trousers’ and the plastic bag holding my freshly bought German beers (and Duff !) split… embarrassing moments near the counter… Back to the festival for Pighead. The band does some goregrind Axel adores so the funny circle pits move on! No need for a pit destroyer :) and I check out merch. A nice festival shirt, stickers, a nice poster and some patches brought to the tent before Profanity entered stage. The Augsburg band played death metal but not really impressive to me. With only one stage the intervals between bands are remarkably short and Fleshless enters stage. The band goes like a slingshot and a cool, brutal pit appears. Camera ducked away, off with the glasses and into oblivion! The band sounded pretty sharp too.

My friends really want to see Kraanium, but the Norwegian grind machine doesn’t really impress me much either. OK, there’s some old school grindcore pit, but how much confetti do you need? Meeting Terrance Hobbs was pretty cool again. Shared a beer and up to the next band. As I am still no member of FB I had no schedule and thought Suffocation to enter, but oh no, it’s Disastrous Murmur. The band appears to be some bad Bathory tribute or a drunk Desaster clone and I move to the back. I stayed there, it had been quite warm all day (driving, setting up the tent, the village) and Suffocation now did start. I have no idea who’s on vocals now, but the sharpness wasn’t really present. No complaints about the vocabulary of the lyrics, no tongue, no wishy washy hand movement and halfway the set I decided I had had enough. Final beers (still cold, yay!) were shed amongst anyone near Tijmen, off to bed. I was drunk enough to sleep beyond Nile, which totally and utterly excited Bram and got Kevin another guitar pick. He told us in the car he’d been a Mastodon fan since the beginning days of his own metal career and had literally dozens of their guitar picks, he wouldn’t object handing out his Nile pick. I did not really believe him, but in the car home I got it anyway :). Great, haven’t seen one split second of Nile, still a pick handed to me after I’d been awoken in the middle of the night… Kevin still had his sleeping bag in my car. Note, when drunk I can swear so harsh Glenn Benton would crawl under a stone, but they got my point. My goodness, how fast can you lose your body heat in Germany Autumn skies?? It took me until AFTER I put on new socks to heat up my feet again. Up to the village for breakfast (on the terrain there only were French fries, Bratwurst and some soaking fat Schnitzel and rock-like coffee… I took the car to the village because of Bram’s problems with his feet (duck feet) and sorta thought Kevin would have brought his card now. As of now, we award him the Darwin Trophy, as it turned out he had left his card in Wognum, now some 400 km away…

Day two of DeathFeast err Day Three :( of the festival at least had great coffee in the village and fresh baguettes with great cheese, ham, salamy and egg.. I have no idea if Less Than Zero was actually really the first band, but by hell, did they leave an impression or what? A female, roughly a foot and a half smaller than me, huge sunglasses, with a grunt, so deep and aggressive the entire camping bled empty! The band itself plays some groovy grindcore, double vocalled (the male singer resembled Sven de Caluwé a lot, in looks and tone) and sharp, wow! I couldn’t find any MA nor YT reference, but I have to keep an eye out for material. What a downfall happens in some twenty minutes time… Devangelic plays some thirteen to the dozen ‘serious’ grindcore and the terrain bled empty in minutes… More of interest was Guineapig. The three man confetti grindcore was fun to watch and remarkably dirty too. I liked this!

Now I have to agree with Daniel once more. Fermented Masturbation (…) and Putrid Offal play some slam/death/grind I can hardly put my finger on. OK, Putrid Offal is a little more death than grind, but I don’t stay too long. I long for some sun tan oil but get a beer drinking contest with our German camping neighbors. They have brought some seven 24 packs of pint beers of seven brands and a funnel/hose/tap which exactly holds the entire pint. Kevin masters this game, to me it meant just a clean, dry shirt needed :) I normally don’t drink binge and I especially hate so many brands mixed, I leave grinning after my first beer shower in a long time. I have to be in time for Deserted Fear anyway. The band does nearly the longest sound check I’d seen all weekend, but the volume on front line was below expectations. The band does agree with my expectations, as the mix of both albums is brought with fire and big smiles. The band is clearly a fan favorite, as I’ve seen tons of Deserted Fear shirts on a festival once more. Nearly without voice I get my fan hour with Alwin and Martin of Asphyx introducing me to their drummer Stefan. Alwin made the picture of me and Stefan and Alwin’s gf Christel made the one with Alwin. Thanks for using the camera ‘beyond the broken glass’ :) She also got my e-mail address so I can befoul someone’s mail box with Asphyx-concert reviews. We had so much fun I missed Iniquity entirely! Damned! I was in time for the goodbye-to-Germany-show Rompeprop did. The band quits after this year and they’re still IN FOR A NICE PARTY!! Meeting the Deserted Fear band members was fun too, as they seem to play on Morbid Angel guitar picks??

Asphyx headlined this festival, of which I will probably return if possible. Asphyx ruled from The Quest to The Last One! I got two set lists, Alwin’s guitar pick and a nice hug from Martin and another beer from Paul. Thanks a million my friends! Here’s the set:
- The Quest For Absurdity
- Vermin
- Food For the Ignorant
- Death The Brutal Way
- MS Bismarck
- Deathhammer
- Asphyx (Forgotten War)
- Into the Timewaste
- Wasteland of Terror (YESS!! Hadn’t heard that one long enough ;))
- Scorbutics
- The Rack (first encore)
- Last One on Earth
Loud enough, well played, big grins everywhere!! Totally happy I head out to my tent and surprise my German neighbor and now friend with one of the set lists and a guitar pick. I noticed the band entering a car and swiftly made sure my German friend ( already forgot his name) got the entire band to sign the set list. He was so happy… never dull to surprise someone, as I also bought Bram an Asphyx shirt and a Cannibal Corpse patch I had not seen before.

The night was going into the bigger hours already when I hit my sleeping bag. I knew I wouldn’t be driving as early as the return from PartySan, but I did not care. Plenty of room in the car too, as Bram decided he had enough of his tent and left it. It nearly cost me our Pfand money on the camping, as the nagging security member was thinking hard if he’d seen the tent before :S I had all the time in the world, had a Bram-sponsored meal and a brand new Nile guitar pick along my other conquests (festival shirt, Asphyx set list, pictures and so on) and some nice sing-along-music to shed: The Shavers, De Heideroosjes, D.B.C. and more). I delivered Kevin on Enkhuizen station and helped Bram with his stuff. His mother loved the name Rompeprop so much she wanted to know what would happen during a Rompeprop show. YT is your friend, as she also was happy to see Effigy of the Forgotten – Maryland Deathfest ( see https://youtu.be/l8RdlptBgsg ) She’s some 65+ years old, but still happy to hear our little adventures. Thanks for the hospitality and coffee, Mrs Vis! Came home, hung my tent and sleeping bag in the wind, Chinese food, pictures on laptop, voetbal (Feyenoord won with a little luck, FC Groningen beat SCH in the Northern Voetbal Derby) and laundry.. shave later.

DeathFeast is fun, that’s for sure. I am not really a slamdeath fan, but can enjoy some grind (and the party-poopers) and if Asphyx ever shows up on another stamp-sized festival I will probably jump into my VW Golf Mk II with joy! Metal!! Grind! Bitburger! HJ! Friends! Metal!

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:44 am 
 

Baroeg Open Air, Sept. 19, Zuiderpark Rotterdam, feat. Venom Inc. and Vader


This festival was sort of a last minute choice, to be honest, just like the 2014 edition. It’s free, it’s multi-culti, multi-arty and… cool. Last year we only saw Bolt Thrower and what a great show that was. Now I still think of Bolt Thrower, as last Monday BT drummer Martin ‘Kiddie’ Kearns passed away. Let’s say I played a lot of Bolt Thrower these days. I called Tom but he was occupied, I met Peter in the train and offered a seat in my car. Friday night Bovenkarspel Boys Beer Night, see who joins us. None, I soon found out. Called Kevin if I could get my loan or if he’d join us, as he lives in Wognum I could easily pick him up but got three times… nothing.

Picked up Peter around 2 PM and drove easily to Rotterdam. It took a while to find a parking spot, but as we could see the tent(s?) of the festival we’d guessed to park nearby and possibly free. Not exactly knowing how long it would take we soon found a boy who had a problem… he had a Finntroll drinking horn and wasn’t allowed back in. He said he’d had the horn the first time he entered the festival, no problem, but as a poor student he went out for an extra drink and had to hand in the horn. First girl I spoke to on the terrain was an Enkhuizen girl I faintly knew and she was the girlfriend of the now hornless one. I knew we had missed at least Gingerpig (with Boudewijn Bonebakker of Gorefest fame) and the opener to Dynamo Metal Fest… Facelifter. At the coins machine I found out I had left my pin pass in the car… it would take me too long to walk back, I would miss one of the few bands I had never seen before. So, gallant as he is, Peter offered me a handful of coins to pay for the diesel. OK, that’s a swell idea, thanks a lot my friend! Ryker’s is the first band we see. It’s a German hardcore/punk band and they play at least two covers. But sitting in the sun there’s no need to hurry to hear the blunt punky hardcore pass by. I liked it, but unlike Sick of it All or Madball I think I won’t go to a single Ryker’s show for this. We came for Vader and Vader is what we got. Doing a sound check I already found Kick and Eus (Aardschok), Eva (yup, the one from http://www.mruforums.com/f22/brutal-ass ... 2-a-13417/ ), red Chris, Laurens, Pim, Pim and Darius (without Bam but with his own gf now) and saw Piotr with a grin so wide his cheeks must hurt. Smiling at Peter I told him about the different ‘versions’ of Vader I had seen… from blistering to boring ;) this show was like a hurricane:
- Two songs I already missed headbanging
- Vicious Circle
- Reborn in Flames
- Show Me Wrath (Sepultura cover!)
- Breath of Centuries
- The Final Massacre (and a massacre that pit was!)
- Decapitated Saints (Peter exclaiming ‘it’s just like they have to go ALL the way in those meager 50 minutes’ :))
- Chaos
- Triumph of Death
- Tyrant of Hell

It’s been a while since I last saw SO MUCH FIRE AND JOY during a Vader show!! Incredible! All three demos spit into the raging pit! Great sound, hilarious solos! This was AMAZING!! I texted JaapJan for his BD, Tom on his family dinner and Daniel relaxing the band went totally OFF THEIR ROCKER! [hilarious replies :) ] Piotr made a lot of friends this afternoon! Sold a shitload of merch too ;) including a cool silver and red Vader pin for me (I still had some cash on me, pfew!). Koen (The Hague Heavy Metal Alliance) invited me to the Raven / Distillator show in Musicon, Den Haag on October 16th, see if I can fill up my car with some cruise survivors ;) and NWOBHM maniacs. Batmobile is up next. The band from Rotterdam and Breda plays rockabilly/psychobillly with a standing zebra bass and a Gretsch holding furious orange suit as guitarist/singer. I don’t know enough rockabilly to make a comment on this. The sound was like an elated party, but musically I can’t do much with it. I rather talk to Lange Robert about this Summer’s Obituary tour, of which he did nearly the entire tour as a roadie. I was getting cold too. We figured we could return in time for Venom Inc. to begin, but failed miserably. One good point: first smile I saw was Maarten’s! msd will join me to Geldersch Metal Treffen, if he stays sober or not, he’s going to see Fleshcrawl! Arriving back at 9.10 PM we missed possibly two songs, but got these instead:
- Die Hard
- Don’t Burn the Witch (no pyro, no blasts, nothing? Err… boring!)
- Live Like An Angel, Die Like a Devil (yup, Abaddon plays with ridiculously thick drum sticks again :))
- Buried Alive (growling the lyrics to Darius ;))
- Raise The Dead
- One Thousand Days in Sodom
- Warhead
- Schizo
- Prime Evil? No, probably not, but we leave.
Indeed, the old men are getting tired and in my case, thirsty for HJ. I had some doofs trying to push (Peter’s… ;)) orange soda out of my hands, saying I wasn’t tr00, not metal drinking anything but beer, by some 14, 15 year old pusheads?? You’ve got some serious issues, dude! It reminded me of a reaction just before leaving DeathFeast last week, some crosseyed, way to thick glasses and slumhair sucker friend of K.N. thought I had lost my marbles drinking coffee? The fuck asshole, do you even know me? Fuck off. Seriously, Fuck off. Don’t spoil my excellent day with nice weather, good friends and cool to great METAL!

OK, I must say I think the whole shebang with Cronos/Venom and Abaddon+Mantas+Demolition Man/Venom Inc. ridiculous, but as money doesn’t interest me at all I don’t think I will be bothered long. Venom doesn’t really play tight, they never done that, and Venom Inc. doesn’t play tight. What’s the big deal? But it’s fun and it’s ancient Venom we hear. Fine with me, right? And I sure as hell wasn’t alone, just having a good time. Only thing I really didn't like was the Venom Inc. logo. So be it.

Smooth ride home of course, playing Suffocation and Anthrax in the car, I delivered Peter near his home. He did not dare to buy any merch as he had some serious marital shit when he ordered some € 100 worth of CDs and shirts, I am ready for HJ… it was fun. Baroeg Open Air, stay the way you are (previous editions held headliners such as Unleashed, Entombed, Sodom, Bolt Thrower and now Venom Inc.) and I will return. Again. Metal.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:54 am 
 

Gothenburg Deathfest, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Oct.3rd, feat. Cephalic Impurity, Maat, Repugnance, Overtorture

My friend Daniel knows how to find cool bands and, of which I know now, cool festivals on FB. He’d contacted one of the bands that would appear on GDF. All I had to do to join him to this festival is say yes and book days off. And I did. At first I wanted to keep it a complete surprise what I would meet there as it’s been a very, very long time ago I went to a festival I had never seen any of the bands before. OK, I could have seen Repugnance on DeathFeast, but missed them. Of the other band logos all I could figure out (and forget) of the band logos was Maat. But I got curious after all and tried most of them out, via MA or YT. I took the Monday off, I’d work late on Thursday long enough not having to do overtime Friday. We’d fly around noon. Daniel had to contact the organizer via FB to get the tickets, as it was impossible to get tickets sent over to Holland. Another note: none of us had any idea how big this fest would be, at least, I couldn’t find any reference to both venues mentioned (venue changed some time before October). Bram (see DeathFeast review) would accompany us.

I wasn’t top notch when I took my bike out to Hoogkarpsel. My throat had been stingy for some days, I’d need Trachitol to conquer this weekend. Fine, I’d ride to my brother Toon’s house early anyway, maybe score a cup of coffee or two before entering the train. We’d agreed to take the first compartment but as the commuters wouldn’t be out of the system yet I was happy they left some space (and in the right direction ;) Thanks!). I already left my shirt behind at Toon’s because I’d been sweating so much. Sweating I answered the questions of a review of the newly built station facilities and I got his life’s story as a bonus… The plane itself was delayed for some 25 minutes due to fog, but I wasn’t bummed by that. The fact that bummed me was.. pressure problems. By the time we landed, my ears nearly bled and hurt like hell. Not only I felt like walking in a watertube, that was all I heard as well. Coming to Sweden I expected quite some https://youtu.be/q3n7QwEbRwc s but Sweden is nice and multiculti all the way. The amount of beggars/refugees stunned us.

Coming to Stenbergsliden I was surprised I had to pay extra for some membership (hey, this isn’t Paradiso Amsterdam?? right Fucking 600 Skr!! :( ) and extra for bed linen; make my own bed. We had a two person room with a third bed to be hinged to the wall. Daniel said ‘no way ‘Osé, not sleeping with that monstrosity hanging above my head and we ditched the mattress on the floor. Grumble. We had some excellent lasagna and the different beers started flowing. We ended up in Henriksberg Estate, the original festival venue [a five bar venue]; we had chosen this hostel as it was literally across the road. We played pool with some locals by the names of Niklas and Michael, who both might end up in Rösa Sten tomorrow too. Let’s say it’s been too long I played pool and I do prefer carambole billiard… The next day we’d tour the city, but after a while my ruined night (coughing like a cougar) shortened my visit a lot. The boys took a game of bowling to keep me sleeping. Thanks a lot, it’s been a good rest!

Röda Sten is a cultural facility in Gothenburg’s harbor. We got to see some beautiful imagery, I kept thinking of https://youtu.be/4lPMn90DzOU This is really a unique venue on a unique place! Littered in graffiti, docking chains around, simply a ferry turning in front of us, one of the biggest ship cranes I’d ever seen, yeah I felt welcome somehow. But the biggest surprise was inside: all and all I think the merch room was bigger than the room for the visitors. Aren’t here more band members than visitors? The festival is so small, within five minutes after we bought an XL shirt, the (three :() XXL shirts were already sold out.. Bram bought a shirt of which I’m gonna make sure he’ll fit, via my sister of course. We soon found out the Russian headliner Cephalic Impurity had cancelled. Fine with me, after a few beers in town I’d be happy to catch a cab to the hotel around 2 instead of 3 AM…

First band tonight was Festering Remains. The young Swedes played some brutal death combined with grind and pig squeals, which thrilled Bram more than it did me. So far they released two EPs, but they only had one left to sell. With song titles like Horrendous Visions of the Past, Deranged Dementia and Stabbed Beyond Recognition I think I kinda know their influenced: Severe Torture! This one they played for sure: https://youtu.be/HBWtDO_jF2o Their singer impersonated Corpsegrinder in his banging style, but couldn’t keep up all the time ;). The band is amazingly tight for
a. such a young band (singer Tim is only 18! The rest of the guys is some 21-23)
b. relatively inexperience (only two EPs to choose from, holding a cover too)
c. such a small venue with different concrete poles near the stage,
d. only the smallest of drum kit and two small stacks of amps. I was impressed. Another check out soon: the song Gateways to the Wasteland, no it’s not an Asphyx nor Morbid Angel tribute ;)

Quite funny to see different ‘Dutch’ shirts like Severe Torture, Rompeprop, Neurotic Deathfest and Hail of Bullets. I wore my Legion of the Damned shirt :) We’d been joking about the various Swedish band members we’d meet too, going from the Karlstad guys (ex-Vomitory), Stockholm warriors (Unleashed), some Tumba Tumbler (Amon Amarth), revive Quorthon or to piss off In Flames or a sober Åkerfeldt ;). No such luck. OK, a quick glance at the merch stand and off to Creeping Flesh. Another young Swedish band, formed in 2013, pretty cool, strongly influenced by old Sinister, Deserted Fear and Jungle Rot! Bram couldn’t do much with it, guess he was still too full of Festering Remains, but Daniel and me liked it a lot! Daniel called it ‘a unique cross between old school death and brutal death’, I filled the description ‘with a rare melodic touch but so effective’ (I thought of https://youtu.be/wqm8EnIOYu4 [the part after the mid song break]. Hear for yourself, here’s one of their EPs: https://youtu.be/Jiu5VQ2HoxQ The band played their first gig ever I heard, but it was so tight I must have misunderstood. A band that surely didn’t play their first gig was French tech/death/grind quintet Darkall Slaves. I had totally NOTHING with this band, so did Daniel, but the first pit of the day was counted. Good thing: our pool buddies have arrived. Time for a stroll across the harbor I thought.

I had not seen where the next band came from, but they sure as hell made sure EVERYBODY present knew they came all the way from Newcastle Upon Tyne and they had never played Gothenburg before! I think: let them play in Holland asap! The Murderous Magpies were called Horrified and singer Daniel Alderson has one of the sickest voices on the planet! Just as I tried to explain to Bram, but my Trachitol had been replaced by beer so I had no voice left… The band plays fast OSDM and they ROCK!! Alderson even mentioned what I tried to explain to Bram ‘for the fans of Asphyx, Pestilence – Consvming Impvlse and shitt!!!’I totally freaked out. I just HAD TO HAVE something off this band and I got nearly all: I bought a CD and a (huge) patch, got a drum stick for showing my Asphyx back patch and Alderson, seeing me making notes, HAD TO spell out the set list between my scribblings :) :
- Horrified
- Descend Into Putridity
- Palace of Defilement (not on the EP nor the full length)
- Internal Lands
- Narcolepsy https://youtu.be/ZInxnqQE_sM pity this recording doesn’t do justice to the vocals!
- Funeral Pyres https://youtu.be/XVgSY2weOWQ
The band showed they were thrilled to play for us, to be in Sweden and to receive such praise from us. The band even signed my CD and the band was so thrilled to sign anything, they let their tour manager (probably Alderson’s gf :)) sign it as well Bass player Dan H told me later he’d replaced Scoot for a Vallenfyre gig once or was it the other way round? Haha, I don’t remember, but the entire band made me check out bands from English underground, scribbling band names on my paper… I need room for my notes too you know ;)

Now it was getting time for Repugnance. Daniel has them as FB friends and I had missed them on DeathFeast… technical death metal, hinting towards Dying Fetus, Hate Eternal and a hint of Avulsed, first stagediver present too. A big pit started at a song with the word ‘Debauchery’ in it, but I couldn’t find the rest of the song title. Maybe some new material, ready to be unleashed upon mankind? This was pretty cool.
I still had doubts whether I’d make all the way to the end of the show, but not until Maat (Germany, name of an Egyptian goddess of mythology) had entered stage and Daniel had seen Overtorture. Maat first. The band is clearly influenced by old Nile (AotW) and some Behemoth (DG), as they have some Middle East toning and some mummypaint to the faces ;) but also a hint of Vader or Decapitated passed by. Some riffs were clearly ripped from Behemoth, to an extent I thought they did a German version of Ov Fire and the Void?? Hear for yourself: https://youtu.be/6jT9JMOOLs8

Then Overtorture. At first I was a bit annoyed by the overclear hint to Malevolent Creation, at first with some At the Gates vocal line, but later on I just joined Daniel in headbanging. To say the least: we had fun, Daniel freaked out. I leave further description to him as my piece of paper was too full to write anymore :) Daniel had a phone number of taxi company, but because of the international access code it took a while before WE found out the taxi had already arrived. We came to the hostel and were gone in seconds. Gothenburg Deathfest was over, our trip wasn’t. As tourist I want to see cities where I stay, explore some nature or ordinary shopping and we did. Pity we didn’t enter 2112, the In Flames-owned bar (once two hours before opening, later… closed on Sunday :( ), could not find Rockbaren but had excellent pizza in Vapiano [their restaurant concept was pretty new to all of us] and I ended up back in Henriksberg for some afpils while the boys had manga/anime time. We’d have to rise early to get the 9.10 flight back to Amsterdam. Kudos to Swedish public transport to drive so early!! We managed easily, but my ears hurt again. I found it great to see the entire West-Friesland next to the airplane wing once, I sure wish I had my camera on instead of my ear plugs… at Schiphol, being awake for some 9 hours already, I was getting hungry and Daniel was getting fed up. We split. I had my AC/DC biography to read (excellent book!) and Bram had his anime favorite, even printed the Japanese way… backwards and right-to-left I found impossible to read. Laundromat, shave, my sister’s birthday and it’s agricultural waste water again, but I had fun. Now you have some Swedish words to remember:
Brandlarm! Helvete! Udda! Strupe! Metal!

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:08 pm 
 

Geldersch Metal Treffen, feat. Hate, Fleshcrawl; Willemeen Arnhem, Oct. 10th

I have been nagging to Sven Gross and Mike Hanus of Fleshcrawl as long as I could remember to play in Holland once more. As far as I know it’s been some 2002, 2007 something, the band did their last Netherlands show. After cancelling the Ramrock festival it’d be another Fleshcrawlless Dutch year I thought, but soon we spotted this: Geldersch Metal Trefffen, first announcement: FLESHCRAWL. I love this band to bits, so does Daniel. And as Maarten (msd) had totally missed the Hanus Brothers and Co. the previous time, I knew I had to bring him a birthday gift of course (June). He knew ages ago he had a ticket, but would he be onto it? At Baroeg Open Air he still wasn’t sure but was sure about one fact: we couldn’t crash at his place. OK, let’s arrange something different. But coming back from Gothenburg I still had no reservation not so ever. I texted Maarten a few times.

I’d love to see Nuclear Devastation, but if not, we’d go for The Crawls anyway. I had bought Descend Into Obscurity a while ago, it got delivered last Wednesday. I love the murky Swedish German death metal, and DiO is a bit different to that. OK I have been sick all week, but I knew one thing: if I drive (and back) I sure as hell can’t use the throat tincture I had… it was 43,6 per cent alcohol! :) I had one spare ticket as I couldn’t post it to Apeldoorn and Maarten wanted to be there at the first band.. no we won’t make that. So, spare ticket, calling the Bovenkarspel Boys (some other party), Stip (no answer), Maarten Vet (very, very weird voicemail :( ) and Daan Vet (no money). Within minutes Maarten Vet called and he’d buy his brother an extra ticket. Picked the brothrers up around 3 PM, drove to Daniel around 4 PM, off to Arnhem, two stops in a 150 km drive? Maarten D had given us an address for free parking, but that was at some Watermuseum and I wasn’t sure about it’s gate… so no free parking… €13 damned!

Entering Willemeen is a mess. From outside you can see the smokers department, but it’s behind a huge fence. Inside every door seems to be open and with a not-hundred-per-cent-gone-flu/laryngitis I kept walking, searching for a warm place. Found a band on the small stage, but it was more bagpipe than metal and they’re called Rhovanion. Not now. Coming back to the main hall I soon found Marcel II, III and V and some DM Bd surivors (Inken, Lampy) and Anne is there too! Yup, I’m too late, there’s the bf. Gave her a rauchbier and moved on. Chapel of Disease was checking sound. At first I liked the vile blackened death metal, a nice cross between Desaster and Sadistic Intent, but they couldn’t keep that standard up. Msd was already totally, totally fucked up and slept near the small stage, where Collision bored me to death in seconds. I totally wasn’t in for grindcore and left even without making pictures. The Enkhuizen Boys agreed and we lined up for Fleshcrawl. Mike’s sound was extremely shrill in the sound check, but later on I didn’t notice much anymore. One peek at the set list and Daniel and me started smiling: it’s the longest set we’ve ever seen Fleshcrawl do. Even before the band started I got the remainder of the Dommelsch beer from Sven and a nice spot to see:
- Soulskinner
- AS Blood Rains From the Sky (first bumps to the back)
- Dark Dimensions (Daniel’s favorite Fleshcrawl tune)
- Structures of Death (Dommelsch reminding Sven of Dynamo Open Air 1997 ;) he must have been there as a paying visitor I guess)
- Damned in Fire
- Into the Fire of Hell
- Slaughter at Dawn (hey, that’s one of their oldest songs, not often played live)
- Under the Banner of Death (slight stack problem for Mike)
- Beneath a Dying Sun (thinking of Gothenburg again ;))
- Written in Blood
- Forthcoming End
- Flesh Bloody Flesh
- Made of Flesh
- The Day Man Lost (Sven explaining this is a Carnage song)

O. My. Fucking. God. This band can entertain! The sound is thunderous, the volume just great, the band tight and Sven Gross heightens the bar in the audience, headbangers, shouters, a very violent mosh pit, stage divers (hey Marcel ;) ) and Sven even helps all the men/women that want to enter stage! Tumbling over equipment doesn’t raise a single eyebrow, the band butchers on! Comes to mind, msd just made it in time and I see some black bush of hair sweeping near the pit. It seems like at least one boozo doesn’t see the stage, as he stumbles into my (and my pretty neighbor’s) back time after time. I had not enough confidence in my lungs to enter the pit, but I’ve seen plenty of arms and legs (Benji’s too ;) ). This. Was. A Great. Gig!!! I bought msd a Fleshcrawl shirt (extremely hot merch chick) and drape it around his shoulders… he’s survived his own drunken stupor and bashed on and on. Lovely to see.

Somehow I didn’t want to spoil these excellent memories (Sven and Mike hugging me, thanks from Bastian, Manu and Oliver too) on Hate. The Poles take their time to check sound, I spot half a second of the Thrashcan banner but as they play after Hate I round up the boys and leave. Nicely hugged by Marsha and msd, goodbye to Anne and off to the car. One pee brake later I end up in Enkhuizen’s Macca with Daan, but eat at home. I am exhausted and pretty twisted in the back. Strange, hardly any noticeable effect on the neck as I had been headbanging like a watermill, on and on, different routines and directions my head made ;)

Sitting behind my laptop I just had to search for the original Day Man Lost and zipping my ice cold HJ I relax once more. 300 km driven, but to be honest for just one band. I don’t care too much, as this was an excellent showcase we witnessed, never mind the rest. I sure hope to hear new material of Fleshcrawl, as the band could hardly have been tighter than tonight. See them for a seventh time, get another hug or two, be blasted to death once again. I love Swedish German death metal!

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