August 2022 - Metal-Exposure

19 Minutes

Festival Reports 2022 Live

Report: Party San Open Air 2022

Ingrid August 31, 2022

Words by: Ingrid, Wouter, Tal Pictures by: Ingrid, Wouter After two years of without an edition as almost every festival has been absent due to Covid-19, we were finally able to travel to Obermehler/Schlotheim...

7 Minutes

Festival Reports 2022 Live

REPORT: Črna Loka Day 2: The Noose, the Waltz and the Wheelbarrow

Didrik August 28, 2022

Words by: Didrik Photo credits: thanks to Črna Loka Waking up on day two I felt surprisingly fresh and without any tinnitus, which definitely confirmed my earlier assertions that the sound was just...

7 Minutes

Festival Reports 2022 Live

REPORT: Črna Loka Day 1 – A Blackened Fairytale

Didrik August 28, 2022

Words by: Didrik Photo credits: thanks to Črna Loka A magical fairy land in the local woods where children come to see dwarves and smurfs and little mushroom-shaped houses; a tiny little magical place,...

4 Minutes

CD review 2022

Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun

Didrik August 25, 2022

I think we all thought that when there’s an album on the Byzantine Empire it’ll be Turisas that releases it. Yet the Finns have all but disappeared, and instead we got one from the...

15 Minutes

Festival Reports 2022 Live

Report: Dong Open Air 2022

Ingrid August 9, 2022

Words by: Roel and Ingrid Pictures by: Ingrid What should have been the 20th anniversary of the Dong Open Air Festival in 2020, finally took place in 2022. We, and many with us, have...

1 Minute

Preview

Preview: Črna Loka Open Air Festival

Didrik August 8, 2022

Black clouds gather over the old town of Škofja Loka – not because of rain though, we don’t get that anymore – but because of the impending first edition of the Črna Loka festival,...

4 Minutes

CD review 2022

StormbounD – December

Michael Brookhuis August 6, 2022

The last couple of years have been challenging for bands. Releasing a record would have been hard, as touring was impossible. This does mean that there is a lot of new music coming our...

3 Minutes

CD review 2022

Arch Enemy – Deceivers

Feariel August 4, 2022

Pioneering melodeath metal band Arch Enemy is back again – and they’re hitting harder than ever, despite the logistic obstacles they had to surmount to record their latest album, “Deceivers.,” which marks the band’s...

7 Minutes

CD review 2022 Specials

5 Unknown Releases From 2022 You Should Know About

Didrik August 1, 2022

There have been many years since we started counting and 2022 sure is one of them. Luckily, most of the recent years have involved a lot of metal releases and now we’re past...

3 Minutes

Concerts 2022 Live

Live: Saor ‘Origins’ release Glasgow

Metal-Exposure August 1, 2022

Writer: Tal Some bands are worth traveling from the Netherlands to Glasgow for. Saor is one of them. The release party of their 5th album, called ‘’Origins,” took place in Slay, Glasgow on Friday,...