Metalrage.com Frontpage Articles http://www.metalrage.com The latest Metalrage.com articles eng-eng info@metalrage.com info@metalrage.com 40 Metalrage.com RSS Generator http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2003- 08 Metalrage.com Sat, 17 May 2008 15:45:02 GMT Sat, 17 May 2008 15:45:02 GMT Metalrage logo http://www.metalrage.com/images/words/METALRAGE-45.png http://www.metalrage.com/ Mourning Caress - Back from a five year hiatus As can be read in my review of Mourning Caress’ sophomore record Inner Exile, fans of the band had a long wait before the...]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/822 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/822 info@metalrage.com (Mindsaver) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/822#comments Roadburn Festival - 2008 This was the first year that Roadburn had to deal with some serious bad luck, namely five bands that had to cancel their appearance, among which headliners Celtic Frost. Major bummer. The other names  inc...]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/821 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/821 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/821#comments Obsidian, Model 101 - Major Mayhem Masturbating Metal Madness! Together with Metalrager Sledgehammer Messiah (tough name, small guy) I went to see Obsidian and Model 101 in th...]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/820 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/820 info@metalrage.com (Carn) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/820#comments Edenbridge - A chat with Lanvall. Edenbridge just released the album MyEarthDream, which got a positive review on Metalrage. Still, questions remained unanswered. Fortunately, we were able to ask a few things to Lanvall, who handles guitar and keyboard duties. And being the m...]]> Tue, 13 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/819 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/819 info@metalrage.com (Angel) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/819#comments Arch Enemy, Textures - World Tyranny Tour If you went to see Arch Enemy during last year’s The Black Crusade tour, you sure came off really badly with their four-song setlist. Tonight things went completely different when the Swedes were hea...]]> Mon, 12 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/818 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/818 info@metalrage.com (Mindsaver) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/818#comments The Dillinger Escape Plan - Nearly retarded On their recent tour I got the chance to talk to The Dillinger Escape Plan’s guitarist and last remaining original member Ben Weinman, who is out promoting the new record Ire Works the best he can. We had a short ch...]]> Mon, 12 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/817 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/817 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/817#comments Dub Trio, Zylinderkopf - Live at De Helling, Utrecht DemonDust says: Got anything to do tomorrow night?
Lex says: On a Friday night? What do you think? Of course I don’t.<...]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/816 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/816 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/816#comments State:Chaos - The new wave of Dutch thrash metal The day for the Dutch holiday known to foreigners as Queensday, a number of local rock and metal bands played in bar in Venlo. Headliners for the evening were State:Chaos, a thrash metal band that features the vocalist from my very own...]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/815 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/815 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/815#comments Textures - Paaspop Silhouettes In the Easter weekend of 22nd and 23rd of March it was very, very, very cold. But Metalrage loves the cold, so we went out to the Paaspop festival in the lovely Dutch town called Schijndel and good times ensued. ...]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/814 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/814 info@metalrage.com (Carn) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/814#comments Zu, K-Branding - Amazing experimental shit The BatCave of the 013 was up for some very interesting and experimental stuff today. Unfortunately not many people visited this show, but the ones that did attend the show sure didn’t regret it.

Just as on the previou...]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/813 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/813 info@metalrage.com (Sledgehammer Messiah) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/813#comments Parkway Drive, Bury Your Dead, Suicide Silence - Metalcore Sunday On an easy Sunday the Melkweg in Amsterdam was shaken awake by four heavy bands. I missed To Kill, but there was still more than enough metalcore to destroy your ears. Here we go!
 
Not so...]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/812 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/812 info@metalrage.com (Sledgehammer Messiah) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/812#comments Vader, Sceptic Flesh, Devian - XXV-Anniversary Tour 2008 Because of the 25th anniversary of Vader I went to the Patronaat in Haarlem to see them play, together with Inactive Messiah, Devian and Sceptic Flesh. When I entered the venue, Inactive Messiah just pla...]]> Sun, 04 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/811 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/811 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/811#comments Textures, Bossk, Mindscan - A presentation of Silhouettes The Dutch metal promise Textures has released it's third album, entitled Silhouettes. The band organised two release parties in Holland, of which I attended the one in Rotterdam. Curious as I was after seeing them perform the ne...]]> Sat, 03 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/810 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/810 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/810#comments Cursed, Human Demise, Black Haven - In a far past I once thought it was cool to run around at Hot ‘n’ Steamy Monkey Love concerts wearing a monkey mask. One such happening took place in Amsterdam, at the Winston to be precise, when the band played with Cursed...]]> Fri, 02 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/809 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/809 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/809#comments Dark Fortress - Portraying alternate realities A while ago Metalrage.com reviewed the fifth album of German black metallers Dark Fortress, which is an impressive effort. When asked if we were interested in doing a mail interview with Dark Fortress we of course couldn’t...]]> Fri, 02 May 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/808 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/808 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/808#comments Misery Index - Prepare for the Traitors On the last Misery Index tour I again tried to get a hold of bassist/vocalist Jason Netherton to ask him some questions. Unfortunately the man was out to get some more tattoos on him, so this attempt to talk to him failed. So we...]]> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/807 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/807 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/807#comments Every Time I Die - Supported by Drop Dead, Gorgeous and Scary Kids Scaring Kids How nice to begin your week with a concert on Monday to get some energy for the coming work efforts. Tonight three metalcore bands helped us to begin the week well. Let’s get it on!
 
Scar...]]> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/806 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/806 info@metalrage.com (Sledgehammer Messiah) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/806#comments Houten Deathfest - Five brutal European bands The peace in the village Houten, near Utrecht, gets disturbed every once in a while. On this day this was done by Houten Deathfest. This was the second edition and everyone had a fucking blasting time with a lot of relati...]]> Sun, 20 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/805 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/805 info@metalrage.com (Sledgehammer Messiah) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/805#comments Ignite, Terror, Strung Out, Death Before Dishonor, Burnt The 8Track, No Turning Back - A night full of hardcore violence Well not every Wednesday night there's a package in your neighbourhood that contains Ignite, Terror, Strung Out and Death Before Dishonor so it was pretty obvious I just had to be there when this package went...]]> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/804 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/804 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/804#comments Hatesphere - Barbie Boys On tour with Dismember, the guys from Hatesphere took a while (say half an hour) to talk to me and my colleague Gilles in their tour bus. We had a lot of fun. You can read the live review from the venue Willemeen at Arnhe...]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/803 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/803 info@metalrage.com (Lukie) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/803#comments Terror, Death Before Dishonor - Same tour, different day The day before this night I went to the same package at the 013, but due to Terror’s great music I also went to their show, with amongst others Ignite and Death Before Dishonor, in Haarlem. The show didn’t...]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/802 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/802 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/802#comments Obsidian - Eat more metal Some time ago I reviewed the re-release of the Dutch band Obsidian’s debut album Emerging, after Sledgehammer Messiah reviewed the first one. Last Friday my band Model 101 had the honour of playing with these kind fellas f...]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/801 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/801 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/801#comments Ill Niño, Magnacult, Freud - Chocomel, chocomel chocomel!!! It has been a while since I had seen Ill Nino on stage. As a matter of fact it was probably on the Confession tour that these latin rockers entertained me the last time. To be honest I’m not quite a fan of their latest two...]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/800 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/800 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/800#comments Trail Of Tears, Scenario II - Gothic metal in Apeldoorn Friday the 4th of April was the first date of four concerts from Norwegian gothic metallers Trail Of Tears during their mini-tour through the Netherlands. Additional support came from Dutch act Scenario II<...]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/799 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/799 info@metalrage.com (Mindsaver) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/799#comments Heaven Shall Burn, Aborted, Misery Speaks - Iconoclast Tour The last time that Heaven Shall Burn played in the Netherlands was one and a half year ago in Eindhoven, during the Hell On Earth tour. Now they returned to a city near Eindhoven, namely Den Bosch. The tour...]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/798 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/798 info@metalrage.com (Mindsaver) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/798#comments Death Angel, Mercenary, Demolition, Extrema - Killing Season World Tour After The Art of Dying in 2004, Death Angel now present us Killing Season, their second full-length since their initial split 18 years ago. A big world tour...]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/797 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/797 info@metalrage.com (Mindsaver) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/797#comments Sahg - Taking the influences in their own direction Two times the Norwegian heavy rock band Sahg blew me away with their traditional yet innovative albums. After the second one I got curious about the guys behind the band, so I decided it was time for a mail interview. My questions were...]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/796 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/796 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/796#comments Down - Amsterdam, we Down! Due to other obligations I had to miss the first show of Down in the Netherlands, back in 2006, b...]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/795 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/795 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/795#comments Heaven Shall Burn - Metalcore for the real metalhead After reviewing their latest effort and just before my first live-experience with them I had the opportunity to interview Heaven Shall Burn. Guitarist Maik Weichert was found willing to answer some of my questions.
...]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/794 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/794 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/794#comments Maroon - There is no genre Before the first gig of their tour through Europe with Chimaira I had a conversation with Andre Moraweck. The frontman of the German metalcore band Maroon spoke very enthusiastically about almost everything and it turned out to ...]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/793 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/793 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/793#comments Ill Niño, MagnaCult - Big band rocks small venue Since it had already been a while I went to a concert, I figured visiting an Ill Niño show would be a nice night out. Together with Zmok I went to Haarlem, Patronaat to witness a show in what turned out to be the smallest venu...]]> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/792 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/792 info@metalrage.com (BoEk) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/792#comments Collapse 7, Pleurisy, Devious - A good night for metal Visiting a concert at a venue in a smaller town and drink beer, it’s always a problem. Because these shows end later than the last train departs, and going by car is not an option, we had to miss headliner Fleshcrawl tonight. Too...]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/791 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/791 info@metalrage.com (Sledgehammer Messiah) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/791#comments Zimmershole - Byron Stroud: Everyone gets to kiss the corpse The very first interview I ever held for Metalrage.com was with Byron Stroud. The friendly Canadian spoke back in 2003 with Mat-Core and myself about Zimmershole: one of the great bands he’s involved in. In 2008 a lot has chang...]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/790 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/790 info@metalrage.com (Lex) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/790#comments Weedeater, Stinking Lizaveta - Get stoned with the weedmonkeys Come on man, how can a pothead like me not visit a concert by a band named Weedeater?!?! Not even knowing the music, I just went down for some THC-drenched music.
 
Opening act was Stinking Lizaveta<...]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/789 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/789 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/789#comments Velvet Revolver - Worth the damn long wait! We all kow the story of Velvet Revolver, from rehab to court and back and now (if we should believe all the newssites) they'll be going on without Scott Weiland, who will probably return to his former outfit Stone Temple Pilots. It's...]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/788 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/788 info@metalrage.com (LondonCustoms) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/788#comments Winter's Verge - Isolated Power Metal Winter's Verge is one of the many beginning power metal bands that hook up a contract with Limb Music. I liked their debut record very much so I found it pleasing to ask them a few questions.
http://www.metalrage.com/articles/787 info@metalrage.com (Peekay) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/787#comments Paradise Lost, Detonation - Fuck it, let's play! Some members from Metalrage.com advised me to go and see Paradise Lost, because I would definitely dig it. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go to one of their shows with HIM, but luckily enough they returned a month late...]]> Sun, 30 Mar 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/786 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/786 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/786#comments Turisas, Norther, Heidevolk - And the battle was about to begin. Heidevolk, a band I’ve seen several times before, and I’m sure I’ll see them many times in the future. I really love this band, especially live. Their shows are always very entertaining and it is always very obvious the ...]]> Sun, 30 Mar 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/785 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/785 info@metalrage.com (Arcane) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/785#comments Paaspop 2008 - Frozen krentenbollen and loads of beer Quite an experience. Camping out when temperatures go below the zero centrigrade mark, you must be an utter twat to do so. Around 3 AM the mud had become frosted and the krentenbol I personally had saved to enjoy in the morning had gotten roc...]]> Sat, 29 Mar 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/784 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/784 info@metalrage.com (Lex) Album News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/784#comments Celtic Legacy - A chat about influences and pirates I was delighted to get an invitation to interview Irish Metallers Celtic Legacy as I just enjoyed listening and reviewing their third record Guardian of Eternity. I received the invitation to interview them at about midnight a...]]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/articles/783 http://www.metalrage.com/articles/783 info@metalrage.com (Peekay) Band News http://www.metalrage.com/articles/783#comments