Support: Pyscho Luna; Venue: Nachtleben, Frankfurt(Germany) By: Nina Mende By now it somehow became an annual ritual that The Birthday Massacre are playing in the Nachtleben in Frankfurt/Germany. This year’s support band was Psycho Luna from Germany. Psycho Luna is a romantic-melancholic mixture of bombastic guitars and subtile synthesizer and moving…
Venue: Houten (Netherlands) By: Wouter van de Kamp A first edition of a festival is always a risk. How many people will find their way? Will people like it? Are people willing to pay the entrance? And so forth. Promotion shouldn’t have been the problem since it was everywhere. And upon arrival I saw that…

Mika and JJBy: Sabine van Gameren Recently, the Finnish band Hellcity 13 released their debutalbum. As soon as Tempelores got the possibility to question them about it, we did.Read all about tomorrows hottest band of Helsinki: Hellcity 13.
Release date: 07-11-2007; Label: Gunrecords/Sony BMG By: Sabine van Gameren All Ends is one of the bands I ran into at the Växjö metal festival in Sweden. For me, it was not the first time and probably also not the last time as you can read in the review of the festival.…
Supports: Lacasa del Cid, Eminence of Darkness; Venue: The Cave, Frankfurt(Germany) By: Nina Mende
Support: Nurzery [Rhymes], Inversion; Venue: The Cave, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende So I was back in the Cave again, let’s see if it will become home like Virgin Oil in Helsinki did this August. Tonight was a rather strange line-up, strange in the sense of non-fitting. After a chaotic but fun…

Location: Växjö (Sweden)By: Sabine van Gameren When I walked through Växjö before the festival started, I noticedthat it is quite a small town. When I finally understood how the Swedish people pronounce it, I was already at the end of it.
Location: Mainz-Kastel (Germany) By: Nina Mende For those who have thought that the festival season ends with summer, here is news for you: On November 3rd was the Ice Age Festival in Mainz-Kastel/Germany, the second of its kind. I was somehow expecting it a little bit bigger than it was, but it was nice and…
Venue: MTW Offenbach(Germany) By: Nina Mende
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…
Suports: Jesus Martyr, RUA, Db’s, Utrecht (NL) By: Wouter van de Kamp
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 …