Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • iRonica – Consequences

    Release date: 31-10-2007 Label: Poko Rekords By: Sabine van Gameren IRonica is a Finnish metal band which is already rocking from 1999 on. Another female fronted metal band, but this one is quite different as they claim on their own website. Now, that is not surprising, since every band seems to tell us this, but…

  • 26-10-2007 Detonation

    Suports: Jesus Martyr, RUA, Db’s, Utrecht (NL) By: Wouter van de Kamp

  • 27-10-2007 Aaltjesrock

    Location: The Underound, Lelystad(Netherlands) By: Wouter van de Kamp   When I arrived at The Underground in Lelystad, the first band, Deathrage had   already finished their gig and Necromortica already started playing, such that   I did not have the time to look around what the venue was like, or to buy any  …

  • Hellcity 13 – Hellcity 13

    Release date: 24-10-2007 Label: Bale By: Sabine van Gameren   Hellcity 13 is a band from Helsinki, Finland who just released their debut   album “Hellcity 13”. Their music is gothic/glam rock with a little   disco feeling in it. The album has some dark lyrics, but at the same time you   keep on…

  • Seether – Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces

    Release date: 23-10-2007 Label: Windup/Sony BMG By: Sabine van Gameren   To be honest, I don’t know many rock bands from South Africa other then   Seether. Seether made its breakthrough in Europe and America with the ballad   song “Broken” featured by Amy Lee,singer of the popular gothic rock   band Evenescence. But when…

  • 22-10-2007 Hellnights

    Venue: Nachtleben, Frankfurt (Germany)   By: Nina Mende   I just love Halloween: the dressing-up, the trick or treating and the annual   Hellnights Tour with 4 to 5 gorgeous bands!   This year’s line-up was planned to be the Crimson Ghosts, the Deep Eynde,   the Spook and Nim Vind, but Nim Vind couldn’t…

  • 22-10-2007 Iced Earth

    Support: Annihilator; Venue: Rockefeller, Oslo (Norway) By: Elvira Visser When I came in I still had no clue of the bands that were going to play. I did not even know the name of the supporting band. Outside there were some fans waiting because inside the venue it was not allowed to smoke, first thought…

  • 21-10-2008 Apocalyptica

    Suppports: Sturm und Drang, Stam1na; Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (Germany) By: Nina Mende   Tonight I was at the Schlachthof in Wiesbaden to see three Finnish bands: Stam1na,   Sturm und Drang and Apocalyptica.

  • 21-10-2007 Norther

    Support: Drone, Amoral;  Venue: Nachtleben, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende   Tonight was a night where three metal bands were performing at the Nachtleben   in Frankfurt. Two of them were Finnish. The bands were: Drone from Germany, Amoral   and Norther from Finland. The Nachtleben was quite full for a Sunday night,   full…

  • 19/20-10-2007 Lost in Music festival

    19/20-10-2007 Lost in Music festival

    Location:  Tampere (Finland)  By: Sabine  van Gameren Are you feeling lost when entering the world of MySpace in your search for your   new favorite band? Do you have the feeling that there is an overkill of bands  and no idea which of all those thousands of MySpace bands are worth to check?Lost in Music…

  • 15-10-2007 The Answer

    Date: 15-10-2007 Supports: Wasted; Tivoli, Utrecht (NL) By: Wouter van de Kamp   Not many people took the opportunity to see the support act Wasted this night.   Was it because of the Monday? Was it because of the entrance being € 12.50?   Was it because they only wanted to see the headliner? We will…

  • 18-10-2007 Mama Trash Family Artist Event

    18-10-2007 Mama Trash Family Artist Event

    Venue: Gloria, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren On the 18th of October 2007, band promoter Mama Trash organized an event with some of the artists signed up by her agency.In front of Gloria, where this event took place, were already some people waiting in the early afternoon to see their heroes.