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Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • 17-10-2009 Metalorgy

    Venue: Nosturi, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren Metalorgy festival is up for its second year and seeing that Nosturi, Helsinki (Finland) is pretty filled, we sense the tradition is set. Five bands play this evening.

  • 17-10-2009 Into The Darkness Festival

    Venue: Hirsch, Nuremberg (Germany) By: Nina Mende Another night at the Into Darkness Festival I spent in Nuremberg. As well as in Frankfurt were many people waiting to get in and the venue was completely crowded from the first band on. The bands played in the same order as last time, the only difference was:…

  • 16-10-2009 Throw Away Heroes

    Venue: Club Liberte, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren Throw Away Heroes are “more or less formed in 2005”. The Helsinki based band played in Club Liberte on 16 October 2009.

  • 15-10-2009 Into The Darkness Festival

    Venue: Batschkapp, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende Into Darkness is a festival tour of four bands: Dope Stars Inc., Lacrimas Profundere (who joined for the Birthday Massacre who couldn’t be there), Deathstars and Diary of Dreams. All bands draw quite some fans but somehow I mostly happened to see Deathstars shirts in the audience.

  • 15-10-2009 Maximo Park

    Supports: Pete and The Pirates; Venue: Paradiso, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren Pete and The Pirates are a pop/rock band that is influenced by the dark side of the 70’s as it seems. When the band enters the stage, the circumstances are far from convenient.

  • Jeanette Lindström – Attitude & Orbit Control

    Releasedate: 21-10-2009; Label: Playground Records By: Nina Mende Jeanette Lindström is the jazz singer that prompted legendary producer Quincy Jones to voice the portentous words: “An old soul in a young singer”.

  • Defiance – The Prophecy

    Releasedate: 19-10-2009; Label: Candlelight Records By: Lara Cappelli Defiance is a Trash Metal band from California formed in 1985. They disbanded in 1994 but announced their reunion in 2005 and now they’re back with their forthcoming album “The Prophecy”.

  • Left Spine Down – Fighting For Voltage

    Releasedate: 16-10-2009; Label: Danse Macabre By: Nina Mende Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Left Spine Down (also known by the acronym LSD) is a band that plays what they call “cyberpunk,” a mixture of industrial, metal, punk, and drum & bass. The band features Jeremy Inkel of Industrial music legends Front Line Assembly and Denyss…

  • Waves Under Water – Serpents and The Tree

    Releasedate: 16-10-2009; Label: Danse Macabre By: Nina Mende Waves Under Water is a Swedish darkwave band with a female singer who have now released their debut album “Serpents And The Tree”.

  • 14-10-2009 MUCC

    Venue: Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht (The Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren The Japanese band MUCC brought quite something going when they play in Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht (The Netherlands). Already before you enter the venue there are signs everywhere telling you that it is strictly forbidden to touch the artists or their equipment.

  • En Declin – Domino / Consequence

    Releasedate: 26-09-2009; Label: My Kingdom Music By: Sabine van Gameren The Italian band En Declin is back with a second full length album after releasing the debut called “Trama” in 2005. Their new release is called “Domino/Consequence”

  • 12-10-2009 Friska Viljor

    Venue: Paradiso, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren Friska Viljor was playing in The Netherlands. Amsterdam was on today’s schedule and Paradiso gave stage to these Swedes.