Tag Holland
This four track EP is a taster for Mr Dreamwalker and his band’s forthcoming double album, which will comprise one light and one dark experience. Damnation and Deliverance, maybe? But that’s to come. Mr Dreamwalker is in fact Dutch musician… Continue Reading →
Sunday 2nd October Smallman came from Bulgaria with the promise of mysterious music. So there we were at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoon, witnessing a very deep, dark and mystical sound with bagpipes and at other times a flute and a… Continue Reading →
Once again I’ll try and describe some highlights of this five star festival, which Rene Janssen and his team put on for our annual entertainment and delight. The plan changed this year as Mrs D and I decided that instead… Continue Reading →
Erik, Celine and I cycled to the club – it is the Netherlands, after all, and cycling is what people do. There was a sizeable queue outside. We established that most of the crowd were not interested in or had… Continue Reading →
I won’t go into my usual mutterings about how hard it is to do justice to H P Lovecraft through music here. Instead I’ll start with the fact that Dutch band Swampcult are at least really going for it. Full… Continue Reading →
A new Epica album is an event. The band put in so much time, thought and effort to write and record it that I feel a comparable amount of time, thought and effort needs to go into reviewing it. So… Continue Reading →
Dutch quintet 3rd Machine hail from Haarlem and bring some serious groove metal with heaviness being the main focus of their sound. Gaining good reviews in their homeland and surrounding European nations, their debut “Quantified Self” which features a guest… Continue Reading →
Fifth album but these guys are sadly a new band to me, I confess. However when the PR says “Motörhead and the Misfits have an illegitimate son growing up listening to Celtic Frost and Slayer. This record sounds like that… Continue Reading →
Everything points to gloom and despair. Fourteen minutes isn’t a long time to wallow in it, but even in that short period this trio get their message across with a mix of enduring melancholy, doom, and dark lyrics. “The Sum… Continue Reading →
Ambient doom brings with it a fuzzy feeling, occasioned by the misty atmosphere which in the old days would have meant interference on your television or transistor radio. Ggu:ll from Tilburg in the Netherlands join the less than happy campers… Continue Reading →
I really have no idea how this lot have managed to pass under my radar with having been around for 20 years now. Just have a look at the album cover for the last album ‘Congress of the Insane’ and… Continue Reading →
Heavy/power/thrash can be used to describe a multitude of bands and their disciplines, it’s always a very general description for me this one. This Dutch band released their first demo back in 1982 with its great title “If It’s Too… Continue Reading →