Support: Frivolvol; venue: Tavastia, Helsinki (Finland) By: Elvira Visser
Support: Truth or Dare; venue: De Gooth, Ridderkerk (Netherlands)By: Sabine van Gameren
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…
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…
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…
support: Black Light Discipline; Venue: Tavastia, Helsinki (Finland) By: Elvira Visser
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.…
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…
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…
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”.
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…
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…