Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • 23-09-2007 Seven Circles

    23-09-2007 Seven Circles

    Venue: Diamond Dogs, Göteborg (Sweden) By: Sabine van Gameren This Swedish band started out in 2004 and had gone through some changes during the time. On this Sunday they played a gig in Diamond dogs bar in Göteborg. First thing what jumps in mind when seeing Seven Circles is Tiamat. For those who know Tiamat, Seven…

  • 22-09-2007 The Dead Rudolfs

    Venue: Bibelot Dordrecht (Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser

  • Intuition – Stronger

    Release date: 21-09-2007, Label: Infacted recordings By: Nina Mende   Intuition is the duo of vocalist Garrett Miles and programmer Ken Porter. Their   singles, “Two”, “Staring Off At Nothing” and albums, Further   and Overworked and Underplayed (2006) were released on A Different Drum Records   in the U.S. The latter, re-titled Stronger for…

  • 21-09-2007 SQY Rocking Team

    Supports: TH1RT3EN, Uplifted; Todo, Best (Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser   This Friday evening it was time for some real rock n roll.   SQY Rocking Team(formerly “Sequoyah”) was playing in a little place   called Best in the Netherlands. They play 70’s – 80’s glam-rock ‘n roll.

  • Postscriptum – Prophet: deny

    Release date: 21-09-2007, Label: India Records By: Nina Mende   PostScriptum had their live debut in 2005 at By:Larm, Scandinavia’s largest   club festival. Their two shows were no less than amazing, and brought the band   plenty of attention. They recorded the EP “pre post” and released   it on their own label Post…

  • 19-09-2007 Hevein

    19-09-2007 Hevein

    Supports: Dauntless, Rapture; Venue: Tavastia, Helsinki(Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren

  • Heartbreak Engines – One Hour Hero

    Release date: 17-09-2007, Label: People Like You Records By: Nina Mende   Starting up in late 2002 by clashing some ideas in a dirty old rehearsal room   somewhere in Germany, quickly first songs shaped up, a band name was found and   stages entered. Half a year later their debut “Good Drinks, Good Butts,…

  • 14-09-2007 Uniklubi

    14-09-2007 Uniklubi

    Supports: Hollow Heart, Nitrokiss; venue: Tampere Talo, Tampere (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren One of the things which never happened to me before, was that I had to prove that I did not drink any alcohol before I enter a concert hall. And that while you try to enter it around 18.30. The evening is very…

  • The Generators – The Great Devine

    Release date: 17-09-2007, Label: People Like You Records By: Nina Mende   It has been nearly a decade since The Generators crashed themselves onto the   underground Los Angeles music scene. What started out to be just a side project   turned into a full time band that has six full-length releases under their belt,…

  • Traffic Island – Enough is Enough

    Release date: 25-04-2007, Label: Universal Music Oy By: Nina Mende   Formed in 2005 and with the eventual line-up properly cemented in place by 2006,   the sweetly aggressive Finnish rock band Traffic Island signed a deal with Universal   Music in November 2006. Traffic Island’s boundary stretching debut album,   “Enough Is Enough”, takes…

  • 14-09-2007 Xantossa

    Supports: Skeletor, Irritation; Venue: De peppel, Zeist (Netherlands)   By: Wouter   van de Kamp   This show was announced as Herrie met Harries (Noise with Harry’s) (see picture),   which I later found out was named that way because of a guy called Harry playing   in two of bands. Due to circumstances beyond…

  • ZänKoma – Promo

    Release date: 2007 By: Niina(guestwriter) The English have heart, Germans have angst, and Texans have the firepower – throw them together and you might get WWIII, or a highly explosive rock band, an international force of musicians from three countries and two continents. It was in L.A. that Adam Balogh (Vocals / Guitars), born in…