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Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • 04-03-2008 Electric Eel Shock

    Support: Frivolvol; venue: Tavastia, Helsinki (Finland) By: Elvira Visser

  • 01-03-2008 Sweet Avalanche

    01-03-2008 Sweet Avalanche

    Support: Truth or Dare; venue: De Gooth, Ridderkerk (Netherlands)By: Sabine van Gameren

  • 01-03-2008 Emergenza Rüsselheim

    Venue: Das Rind, Rüsselheim (Germany) By: Nina Mende   Yes, it’s Emergenza time again. There was another first round in Rüsselsheim/Germany   I went to. This time there were eight bands playing, but only seven to vote   for via hand sign. The last band was a winner of last year’s Emergenza,   a band…

  • 29-02-2008 Matthau Mikojan

    Support: PSG and Renoise; venue: Club Liberte, Helsinki (Finland) By: Elvira Visser   Tonight there were three bands playing in Club Liberté in Helsinki and it was   only five euros so reason enough to go see these bands. It was quite cold in   the area where the bans were going to perform, while…

  • Flyleaf – Flyleaf

    Release date: 07-03-2008, Label: Universal By: Nina Mende   Heavy music and pained lyrics go together like cake and ice cream, and Belton,   Texas quintet, Flyleaf, aren’t about to break with tradition. But while many   loud rockers reopen old wounds by singing about their broken homes and broken   hearts, Flyleaf confront past…

  • 28-02-2008 Turmion Kätilöt

    support: Black Light Discipline; Venue: Tavastia, Helsinki (Finland) By: Elvira Visser

  • 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…