Photo Reports
On Friday September 15th, we made our way to the Kaminwerk in Memmingen, to see A Life Divided and Tag my Heart. I’m sure the almost 200 other people had just as much fun as I had.
After Tag my Heart literally warmed up the whole hall, A Life Divided gave us one sing-a-long hit after the other.
All in all, a great evening.
For those who missed Graspop, tonight was the second chance to see Infected Rain live in Belgium this year. Sergey and Vladimir left the band earlier this year, and Vladimir was replaced by Alice. If you didn’t know this, you’d think she’s been in the band since the beginning. She fits in as if she’s always been there!
Lena mentioned that Infected Rain’s first time in Belgium was in 2014, and she appreciated the dedication of the people who had always showed up since the first time. The venue itself (DVG Club) is ‘the new location’ of what used to be ‘De Verlichte Geest’ where Infected Rain has played before. Lena said expressed her thanks towards Sarah, calling her the best hostess a band could wish for.
As usual, the entire band took the time to meet the fans after the show, have a little chat and take some pictures.
Warm up act was All Hail the Yeti from Los Angeles, CA.
This past August On The Rocks, Helsinki experienced a full on death metal assault by the undeniable legends themselves, Possessed! After canceling shows in Finland over a few years, these Bay Area legends were highly anticipated by Finnish metalheads with a great turnout on a sold out show. The house was absolutely packed to the brim, and the massive moshpits didn’t help to move around in the venue at all. The gig was a great balance of newer material and also old school classics for the old heads in the crowd. It was a sweaty, intense and fun evening of full death metal mayhem, and you can see it for yourself by looking at our photos down below!
In the last hot days of this year’s summer, the ‘H.E.A.T & Eclipse Co-Headliner Tour 2023’ entered the stage at the ‘Im Wizemann’ in Stuttgart, Germany.
Approximately 10 mins. early H.E.A.T entered the stage first and added some degrees of heat to the venue. Their name was not an exaggeration at this day. Singer Kenny Leckremo jumped on stage like Jack out of the box and kept moving, dancing and involving the audience full-time. With their last album ‘Force Majeure’ (2022) in the back, they delivered a great gig.
After the short break, co-headliner Eclipse took the stage and audience immediately by opening up their gig with their current hit-single ‘The hardest part is loosing you’ from the latest long-player ‘Megalomanium’. The crowd got wild immediately and pushed further by the band, as well as the temperature and humidity in the venue.
That was a night of awesome Swedish hard rock, and both bands delivered to the full expectation of the audience. Hope you’ll enjoy our photo-report!
Ever since his stint at Eurovision, Daði Freyr has been on our radar as an absolutely unique artist in the realm of pop and more mainstream music. So when he finally made it to a venue nearby us, we knew we had to catch this show! It became a night full of great music, jokes and togetherness, absolutely memorable!
Eight years after their last visit to Europe, Be’lakor was back on tour in Europe where they played 16 shows spread over 3 weeks, which was immediately their biggest tour ever. They played at 6 Festivals including Wacken, Summer Breeze and Brutal Assault and in 10 club shows of which more than half were in countries where they had never played before such as Sweden, Finland, Belgium, and Switzerland. No wonder 9 out of 10 club shows were sold out! This show was originally planned in Kortrijk, but because it sold out so quickly and the demand for tickets kept coming, they decided to move it to the JOC in Ypres which has double the capacity of the venue in Kortrijk.
Considering they come from Australia, they have probably already started the tour with quite a bit of jet lag. So at the very end of the tour, 3 weeks later (of which they barely had 3 days off), it’s no wonder they gave a tired impression on stage. Nevertheless, they played a flawless set. After 8 songs, they stopped and left the stage. The ‘we want more’ shouts were soon answered with the last song, by unanimous request of the audience: ‘Countless Skies’.
The support act was the German formation Hiraes, a band was formed by the musicians of the former band Dawn of Disease (Lukas Kerk, Oliver Kirchner, Christian Wösten, Mathias Blässe), supplemented by the super energetic vocalist Britta Görtz (Critical Mess, Ex-Cripper) who knows how to get the crowd along in no time! Hiraes released their first and so far only album ‘Solitary’ in 2021.
Already the 15th anniversary of the Belgian metal and rock festival Alcatraz! The fest has grown out from a fun 1-day event into a beast of a 3-day festival with every single year a killer line-up with always at least a couple of surprises. Of course, we were present again, trying to see as many of the awesome bands as possible. But seeing so many people having the times of their lives pulled our cameras away from the bands regularly, capturing the great community and atmosphere you could find all over the place!
Already the 15th anniversary of the Belgian metal and rock festival Alcatraz! The fest has grown out from a fun 1-day event into a beast of a 3-day festival with every single year a killer line-up with always at least a couple of surprises. Of course, we were present again, trying to see as many of the awesome bands as possible.
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
Already the 15th anniversary of the Belgian metal and rock festival Alcatraz! The fest has grown out from a fun 1-day event into a beast of a 3-day festival with every single year a killer line-up with always at least a couple of surprises. Of course, we were present again, trying to see as many of the awesome bands as possible.
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with some of the most extreme music around on the Swamp Stage from Serpents Oath, Archspire, Kataklysm and Bloodbath!
Already the 15th anniversary of the Belgian metal and rock festival Alcatraz! The fest has grown out from a fun 1-day event into a beast of a 3-day festival with every single year a killer line-up with always at least a couple of surprises. Of course, we were present again, trying to see as many of the awesome bands as possible.
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere brought some of the best of the sludge, post-metal and psychedelic rock scene with Psychonaut, Gaupa, Stake, Brutus and Cult of Luna!
