Tag Holland
Hitting the world in 1989, Netherlands wrecking crew Dead Head have consistently delivered aggressive, classic thrash metal. Starting life in an era that dropped the big names, they’ve continued to fly the flag for extreme music and with “Slave Driver”,… Continue Reading →
Gelderland’s (A Knight’s Tale immediately sprang to mind!) Celestial Season are celebrating their thirtieth year. Thirty years of bastard heavy death doom filled with melancholy and pathos. Mysterium I follows the “comeback” album The Secret Teachings, which was their first full length in 20 years. As… Continue Reading →
If you’ve had an eye and an ear on the more recent fruits of the ever-thriving Dutch black metal scene, Freja’s debut album Tides and the fact that the band defy conventional genre categories won’t take you by surprise. But… Continue Reading →
GGGOLDDD’s frontwoman, Milena Eva, was raped when she was 19. There simply aren’t words to describe how horrific that is. Despite having lived through such an awful ordeal, Milena has never used GGGOLDDD as a medium to express her trauma… Continue Reading →
Black but wider than that in musical style, Terzij de Horde interest me, still more so when I read a comparison to one of my favourite bands Laster. In fact both Terzij de Horde and Laster hail from Utrecht in… Continue Reading →
Zwaard don’t do clarity. This band from the Netherlands do bleak black metal. Other than this information there is nothing. These three unnamed tracks tell us more. The first thing that is striking here is the sound. It’s old school… Continue Reading →
I am generally intrigued by anything I can’t pronounce and this Dutch group named after a Mesopotamian God along with twin Lugalirra are apparently associated with Nergal. Nope not that one and forget any similarities to Behemoth here. What I… Continue Reading →
Anyone who knows the name Arjen Anthony Lucassen, will be familiar with his many Ayreon projects as well as their slightly more Metal, Sci-fi obsessed younger brother Star One. Having released two albums previously under the Star One banner utilising… Continue Reading →
It looks like the black metal seed has fallen on particularly fertile ground in and around the Netherlands. New sprouts keep appearing alongside established plants. And some of the new sprouts are growing nicely and bearing fruit, developing their own,… Continue Reading →
The man with a band, a choir and enough guest musicians to form a football team is back. Tom de Wit is nothing but prolific, but with that it must be said that he bursts with ideas, branching out from… Continue Reading →
Dark underground black metal is the offering from Dutch band Kaeck, whose second album this is, six years on from their debut “Stormkult”. The occult, black magic and rituals interest them. The style is old school. The riffage is deep… Continue Reading →
It’s one of those things, when a band’s name lays its table out. There’s an expectation that naturally pops into one’s mind. Extreme Cold Winter is a moniker that reflects a sound, a vibe, an aura of brutality. These Dutchmen… Continue Reading →