Keepers · 12/01/2024
Cattle Decapitation. Sounds about right for my vegan self. I have to admit, I'd come across this band's name a couple of times already while reading up on other bands or genres and the name alone was so offputting for me, I never looked closer. Turns out, Cattle Decapitation is as pro-vegan as you can get in extreme metal. While none of the band members are indeed vegans, their music and their lyrics deal with animal exploitation and animal rights. Among other things. Formed in San Diego in...
In The Pit · 06/03/2023
For three years the State of Unrest tour of Lamb of God and Blind Guardian had been postponed. Originally planned for 14.03.2020 in Hamburg the concert has been rescheduled seven times in total until this finally happened. We haven't been holding on to our tickets since 2020, we only bought them in September 2022, but many loyal fans were there yesterday, who had been waiting for the whole three years and the atmosphere was awesome. My first concert in 2023, again in the edel-optics.de-Arena in...
Keepers · 02/03/2023
153 days till W:O:A 2023. It happened again. I got totally lost in the discography of yet another band I came to love. I planned to write a quick article about Dark Tranquility and I ended up listening to their music for a whole week now. Dark Tranquility is a Swedish melodic death metal band and together with In Flames and At the Gates one of the pioneering bands of the Gothenberg metal scene. They formed in 1989 and have been active for over 30 years now, producing 12 studio albums for me to...
Keepers · 04/02/2023
A slow-burning, atmospheric dive into Be’lakor’s melodic death metal masterpiece—long tracks, no choruses, just pure immersive power.
Keepers · 30/01/2023
184 days till W:O:A 2023. Finally another album that took my heart by storm. Amorphis' second studio album Tales From The Thousand Lakes from 1994 made it so easily to the stack of my favourite albums. This album is perfect as it is and I love every single track on it. Amorphis formed in 1990 and they have released 14 studio albums so far. Many albums for me to choose from. I chose Tales From The Thousand Lakes because it is said to be the first step into the direction of the Amorphis signature...
Genre Tourism · 23/11/2022
251 days till W:O:A 2023. Deicide, yet another one of those bands that are widely acknowledged of shaping metal the way it is today. Deicide was formed in 1987 by drummer Steve Asheim and the brothers Eric and Brian Hoffman. Glen Benton joined the band as vocalist and bassist soon after. The band performed under the name of Carnage first and when Benton joined they called themselves Amon. Since 1989 they have been known as Deicide. Being founded in Tampa (the "capital of death metal"), Deicide...
Genre Tourism · 13/11/2022
258 days till W:O:A 2023. Defleshed - a death-thrash band from Sweden around guitarist Lars Löfven, bassist and vocalist Gustaf Jorde and drummer Matte Modin. Founded in 1991 by Lars Löfven, the band quickly made a name for themselves in the death-thrash genre and released five studio albums between 1996 and 2005. They disbanded in 2005 due to lack of inspiration. In 2021, after 16 years, the original line-up from 2005 came together again, initally with the goal to record only a couple of...
Genre Tourism · 10/11/2022
265 days till W:O:A 2023. Baest (initally spelled Bæst) is a Danish death metal band formed in 2015 and yet another band totally new to me. Within the last seven years the death metal newcomers have released three studio albums and two EPs that were mainly met with enthusiam among death metal fans and critics. Touring with Abbath, Decapitated and Hatebreed as well as playing on several festivals throughout Europe quickly turned them into a serious and well-attuned live band.
Genre Tourism · 07/11/2022
268 days till W:O:A 2023. Abbath - not a name I was familiar with until recently, but certainly one of the big names in black metal. Ole Eikemo aka Abbath Doom Occulta or just Abbath was a founding member of legendary Norwegian Black Metal Band Immortal, but also played a part in several other metal projects. One of those projects was "I", formed in 2006 and their to this day only album Between Two Worlds which I came across by chance a couple of weeks ago. I instantly connected with the epic...
In The Pit · 29/09/2022
It's been one week since my first metal concert and I am still feeling pumped. Chris and I went to see Samael and Diabolical live in Berlin September 23rd, my birthday present to Chris this year. Samael was one of the first metal bands I've been introduced to back in 2004 when Chris and I met. The 1999 album Eternal was played frequently and The Cross was one of our favourite songs. So when I saw that Samael was touring their 1996 album Passage this year in September and October, I jumped on...