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Venue: \u00a0Houten (Netherlands)
\nBy: Wouter van de Kamp<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

A first edition of a festival is always a risk. How many people will find their
\nway? Will people like it? Are people willing to pay the entrance? And so forth.
\nPromotion shouldn’t have been the problem since it was everywhere. And upon arrival
\nI saw that everything should be ok as far as attendance goes. <\/p>\n

\u00a0 First off were Belgian brutal death metallers Moker. They were already playing
\n\u00a0 their first songs when I got in, but their airvibrations tickled my eardrum
\n\u00a0 brilliantly. Fortunately, besides having brutal death metal as a starting point,
\n\u00a0 they are influenced by what nowadays is called deathcore and\/or metalcore. Great
\n\u00a0 performance and the testosterone of the younger attendants spluttered around
\n\u00a0 the venue from the moshpit.<\/p>\n

Toxocara. Dutch death metallers to entertain the crowd. Currently working on
\n\u00a0 their second release this band is surely on the road of becoming one of the
\n\u00a0 better Dutch bands in their genre. Not wholly suprising though when you have
\n\u00a0 members of Prostitute Disfigurement and The Monolith Deathcult amongst you.
\n\u00a0 And what a great performance. Perfectly fitting their oldschool death sound.
\n\u00a0 And the gradually growing crowd seemed to think likewise. With an increasing
\n\u00a0 moshpitsize Toxocare should be complimented on giving away an entertaining,
\n\u00a0 and, above all, brutal show.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Something to be beaten by the next band: Defeated Sanity from Germany. Although
\n\u00a0 I didn’t find out until after I looked at Stonehenge Festival. Looking
\n\u00a0 through the pictures of Stonehenge I could have known that a brilliant performance
\n\u00a0 should not have been a suprise to me. As if hell broke loose… The venue was
\n\u00a0 filled now with 192 visitors (official counting), add to that the present volunteers
\n\u00a0 and bands and Chipolata was filled more than ever before.<\/p>\n

I immodestly claim to be quite an expert in the metalgenre, but unfortunately
\n\u00a0 to me the bands started to sound quite the same to me. Death metal is cool,
\n\u00a0 but it starts to bore me after a while. Perhaps the Greek metalheads of Extreme
\n\u00a0 Violence could entise me? Well… they did for quite a while, actually. Playing
\n\u00a0 their first abroad show and having just one release on their disco they did
\n\u00a0 give away quite a performance. Especially when you realise they played without
\n\u00a0 bassist (after inquiring the organiser I found out that he stayed home due to
\n\u00a0 personal circumstances). First thing that came to mind was Dying Fetus. So for
\n\u00a0 those of you who like them… check them out!
\n\u00a0 I must honestly confess I did not watch the whole Extreme Violence set because
\n\u00a0 I found out that a whole evening with only death metal is not something I can
\n\u00a0 stand. The audience though, seemed not to be like-minded as they were eager
\n\u00a0 to stay in the hall. Props to the moshing people by the way. Ever from Moker
\n\u00a0 on their was a moshpit (with gradually increasing average age, funny thing as
\n\u00a0 well). Not contintually, but repetitively people started bumping into eachother
\n\u00a0 and all other physical contact that belongs there .<\/p>\n


\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0 <\/center>\u00a0 So up to the headliner: Despondency. As you might already have gathered I was
\n\u00a0 getting quite fed up with all the death metal. Again a German brutal death band.
\n\u00a0 They got what they deserved: a very enthusiastic crowd and lots of moshing.
\n\u00a0 Very technical as well by the way. They know how to play there instruments and
\n\u00a0 they certainly know how to play their instruments. What an act!<\/p>\n

With a final total attendance of 196 (a number that I haven’t seen Chipolata
\n\u00a0 getting near to, ever since they started doing live shows) I think this really
\n\u00a0 is a good start of a newly arisen metal festival. Big props to the organiser
\n\u00a0 and his fellows. Keep up the good work. The province of Utrecht was in desperate
\n\u00a0 need of a proper metal evening and this seems to be a very promising one to
\n\u00a0 become the leading death fest here. If everything goes upwards it has the potential
\n\u00a0 to go even beyond that, but we’ll have to see about that. The next Houten Deathfest
\n\u00a0 is announced to be at 12 April and the headliner will be Benighted… How about
\n\u00a0 that! Be there or be square!<\/p>\n

Despondency official
\nExtreme Violence official
\nDefeated Sanity official
\nToxocara official<\/a><\/p>\n

Houten Deathfest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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