Once in a while you come across an opportunity you just cannot miss. On Saturday, 3rd of September, Epica played a very special show in the 013 in Tilburg, to celebrate their 20th anniversary!...
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Report: Party San Open Air 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...
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REPORT: Črna Loka Day 2: The Noose, the Waltz and the Wheelbarrow
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...
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REPORT: Črna Loka Day 1 – A Blackened Fairytale
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,...
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Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun
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...
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Report: Dong Open Air 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...
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Preview: Črna Loka Open Air Festival
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,...
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StormbounD – December
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...
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Arch Enemy – Deceivers
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...
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5 Unknown Releases From 2022 You Should Know About
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...
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