Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • Draconian – Turing Season Within

    Release date: 03-03-2008; Label: Napalm Records By: Elvira Visser   Draconian is a gothic doom metal band from Sweden. The band started out as “Kerberos” in 1994, founded by Johan Ericson (drums and vocals), Jesper Stolpe (bass   and vocals) and Andy Hindenäs (guitar). They started as a death metal band,   quite melodic with black metal influences.…

  • 22-02-2008 Das Ich

    Support: Xmh; venue: Bibelot, Dordrecht (Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser   The first band was the Dutch band XmH, I certainly did not like the band. Maybe   just a matter of taste but XmH did not do much to me. Two keyboards on stage   and a singer, who was walking around and around. Which…

  • 21-02-2008 Hanoi Rocks

    Date: 21-02-2008; Venue: Nachtleben, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende   After a change of venue at short notice (two days before the show) and the cancelling   of the opening act, everything worked out perfectly well in the end. The venue   was still more than just crowded. At 9 pm sharp Hanoi Rocks began…

  • K[nine] – Dead World Poetry

    Release date: 24-11-2007 By: Sabine van Gameren   K[Nine] is a band from Norway, starting a two man formation in 2001. In the   years some persons were added to the line up, released two demo’s and now   they released their EP “Dead World’s Poetry”.

  • Late Autumn – Autumn Depressions

    Release date: 2007 By: Sabine van Gameren   Late Autumn is a band founded in autumn 2003. In 2005 the band started playing   gigs and working on an album. The four German guys created typical dark gothic   rock. I would like to mention the sound of Tiamat and Type O Negative as bands…

  • Perfektor – Napalm

    Release date: end 2007 By: Sabine van Gameren   Perfektor is one of the bands I met at the Emergenza festival of 24-01-2008.   Perfektor is a band which started with the idea to fill up the lack of thrash   metal in their area. The band had quite some changes in the line up but…

  • The Foreshadowing – Days of Nothing

    Release date: 20-11-2007; Label: Candlelight Records By: Sabine van Gameren    The Foreshadowing is a gothic/doom metal band from Rome, Italy. The band is   founded by Alessandro Pace, also known under the name Alex Vega of the band   Dope Stars Inc. “Days of Nothing” is their debut album.

  • 16-02-2008 Beatsteaks

    Venue: Melkweg, Amsterdam (Netherlands)By: Sabine  van Gameren & Sofie Bergen When we arrived at the venue in Amsterdam only ten minutes after the doors were opened, there was still an huge queue in front of the door. We decided that we could better go for a drink first and return after a while to see if…

  • Horrorpops – 12/02/2008

    Kim Nekroman & Patricia Day By: Nina Mende  

  • 10-02-2008 Rising Magma Festival

    Date: 10-02-2008, venue: Exit, Rotterdam (Netherlands)By: Sabine  van Gameren Rising Magma is a stoner rock festival traveling to some places in the Netherlands. The initiative of this came from one of the participating bands: Tank 86. This evening they came to Exit, Rotterdam for the second edition of Rising Magma and they brought three other…

  • 10-02-2008 The Pleasures

    Supports: Danger; Venue: Die Halle, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende   Finally the Pleasures made it to Frankfurt. They brought five nice guys from   Sweden, called Danger. And it was more than just a pleasure to see them all.

  • 05-02-2008 Dew Scented

    Supports: Severe Torture, Destinity; Venue: Bibelot, Dordrecht (Netherlands) By: Elvira  Visser   Three metal bands on a Tuesday evening and I was worried about how many people   would show up. I was proved right, there were not as many people as these bands   deserve, but still there were enough people to make it…