CD Reviews 2017

â—Š 1476: Our Season Draws Near
â—Š ADIMIRON: Et Liber Eris
â—Š ADRENALINE MOB: We The People
â—Š AETHERIAN: The Untamed Wilderness
â—Š AGUSA: Agusa
â—Š AKOMA: Revangels
â—Š ALESTORM: No Grave But The Sea
â—Š ALL BUT ONE: Square One
â—Š ALTER BRIDGE: Live At The O2 + Rarities
â—Š ALUNAH: Solennial
â—Š ALVENRAD: Heer
â—Š ANATHEMA: The Optimist
â—Š ANCIENT ASCENDANT: Raise The Torch
â—Š ANDRAS: Reminiszenzen
â—Š AN EROTIC END OF TIMES: Chapter One
â—Š APOCALYPSE ORCHESTRA: The End Is Nigh
â—Š ARGUS: From Fields Of Fire
â—Š ARRAYAN PATH: Dawn Of Aquarius
â—Š ARSTIDIR LIFSINS: Heljarkvida (EP)
â—Š ARCH ENEMY: Will To Power
â—Š ART OF ANARCHY: The Madness
â—Š ASTRAL DOORS: Black Eyed Children
â—Š ATLANTEAN KODEX: The Annihilation Of Bavaria (2CD/DVD)
â—Š ATLAS PAIN: What The Oak Left
â—Š ATROCITY: Masters Of Darkness (MCD)
â—Š AUDN: Farvegir Fyrndar
â—Š BEYOND THE LABYRINTH: The Art Of Resilience
â—Š BLACK CAPRICORN: Omega
â—Š BLACKFIELD: V
â—Š BLACK MESSIAH: Walls Of Vanaheim
â—Š BLACK MIRRORS: Funky Queen (MCD)
â—Š BLOODBOUND: War Of Dragons
â—Š CARDIANT: Mirrors
â—Š CELLADOR: Off the Gridl
â—Š CHROME MOLLY: Hoodoo Voodoo
â—Š CINEMA CINEMA: Man Bites Dog
â—Š CLOUDS: Destin
â—Š CNOC AN TURSA: The Forty Five
â—Š COLTSBLOOD: Ascending Into Shimmering Darkness
â—Š COMMUNIC: Where Echoes Gather
â—Š CRIMFALL: Amain
â—Š CRIPPER: Follow Me: Kill!
â—Š CROM: When Northmen Die
â—Š CRYONIC TEMPLE: Into The Glorious Battle
â—Š CRYSTAL VIPER: Queen Of the Witches
â—Š CYHRA: Letters To Myself
â—Š DAMNATION PLAN: Reality Illusion
â—Š DAMNATIONS DAY: A World Awakens
â—Š DANIEL CAVANAGH: Monochrome
â—Š DEFECTO: Nemesis
â—Š DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT: Finisterre
â—Š DIVINE ELEMENT: Thaurachs Of Borsu
â—Š DRAGONFORCE: Reaching Into Infinity
â—Š DREAD SOVEREIGN: For Doom The Bell Tolls
â—Š DREAM EVIL: Six
â—Š DISPERSE: Foreword
â—Š DOOL: Here Now, There Then
â—Š DUNDERBEIST: Tvilja (EP)
â—Š ECNEPHIAS: The Sad Wonder Of The Sun
â—Š EDEN WEINT IM GRAB: Na(c)htodreise
â—Š EISLEY GOLDY: Blood, Guts & Games
â—Š EISREGEN: Fleschfilm
â—Š ELVENKING: Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire
â—Š EMBER FALLS: Welcome To Ember Falls
â—Š EMERALD: Reckoning Day
â—Š END OF GREEN: Void Estate
â—Š ENEMY I: Dysphoria
â—Š ENSIFERUM: Two Paths
â—Š EREB ALTOR: Ulfven
â—Š ETERNAL FLIGHT: Retrofuture
â—Š EVA CAN'T: Gravatum
â—Š EWIGKEIT: Cosmic Man
â—Š EX DEO: The Immortal Wars
◊ EXQUIRLA: Para Quienos Aún Viven
â—Š FALLS OF RAUROS: Vigilance Perennial
â—Š FARSOT: Fail-lure
â—Š FATEFUL FINALITY: Mankind
â—Š FIREWIND: Immortals
◊ FORNHEM: Ett Fjärran Kall
â—Š GALDERIA: Return Of The Cosmic Men
â—Š GAME OVER: Claiming Supremacy
â—Š GENTLE KNIFE: II Clock Unwound
â—Š GLERAKUR: The Mountains Are Beautiful Now
â—Š GOBLIN KING: Blood, Drugs & Death n roll (EP)
â—Š GOTTHARD: Silver
â—Š GRAVE DIGGER: Healed By Metal
â—Š GRAVE PLEASURES: Motherblood
◊ HÄIVE: Iätön
â—Š HALLATAR: No Stars Upon The Bridge
â—Š HANGING GARDEN: I Am Become
â—Š HATE: Tremendum
â—Š HELFIR: The Human Defeat
â—Š HELHEIM: landawarijaR
â—Š HELION PRIME: Idem
â—Š HELL IN THE CLUB: See You On The Dark Side
â—Š HELLWELL: Behind The Demon's Eyes
â—Š HERZPARASIT: ParaKropolis
â—Š HOLY MARTYR: Darkness Shall Prevail
â—Š ICED EARTH: Incorruptible
â—Š INCURSED: Amalur
â—Š INNER AXIS: Live By The Steel
â—Š INSATIA: Phoenix Aflame
â—Š JOHN GARCIA: The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues
â—Š JONO: Life
â—Š KAIPA: Children Of The Sounds
â—Š KATLA: Modurastin
â—Š KILL THE UNICORN: Prism
â—Š KING OF ASGARD: :taudr:
â—Š LASCAR; Saudade
◊ LES DISCRETS: Prédateurs
â—Š LETHE: The First Corpse On The Moon
â—Š LOCH VOSTOK: Strife
â—Š LODZ: Time Doesn't Heal Anything
â—Š LONEWOLF: Raised On Metal
â—Š LORD OF THE LOST: Swan Songs II
â—Š LORD VIGO: Blackborne Souls
â—Š LOST DREAMS: Exhale
â—Š LOST IN GREY: The Grey Realms
â—Š LUKE GASSER: Mercy On Me
â—Š LUNATIC SOUL: Fractured
â—Š MALLEVS MALEFICARVM: Homo Homini Lupus
â—Š MAMMOTH MAMMOTH: Mount The Mountain
â—Š MARCHE FUNEBRE: Into The Arms Of Darkness
â—Š MASTERS OF DISGUISE: Alpha / Omega
â—Š MIDNIGHT RIDER: Manifestation
â—Š MIDNIGHT SIN: One Last Ride
â—Š MINAS MORGUL: Kult
â—Š MIRRORPLAIN: Path Of Salvation
â—Š MOONLOOP: Devocean
â—Š MOONSPELL: 1755
â—Š MORS PRINCIPIUM EST: Embers Of A Dying World
â—Š MR. BIG: Defying Gravity
â—Š M.W. WILD: The Third Decade
â—Š MY OWN GHOST: Life On Standby
â—Š NACHTBLUT: Apostasie
â—Š NAILED TO OBSCURITY: King Delusion
â—Š NE OBLIVISCARIS: Urn
â—Š NERVENBEISSER: Zeitenwandel
â—Š NEUN WELTEN: The Sea I'm Diving In
â—Š NIGHON: The Somme
â—Š NIGHT LEGION: I
â—Š NOCTE OBDUCTA: Totholz (Ein Raunen Aus Dem Klammwald)
â—Š NOCTURNAL RITES: Phoenix
â—Š NOVEMBERS DOOM: Hamartia
â—Š OBSCURITY: Streitmacht
â—Š OCEANWAKE: Earthen
â—Š ODROERIR: Das Erbe Unserer Ahnen
â—Š OZ: Transition State
â—Š PALE KING: Monolith Of The Malign
â—Š PERSEFONE: Aathma
â—Š PILLORIAN: Obsidian Arc
â—Š PINK CREAM 69: Headstrong
â—Š PLACE VENDOME: Close To The Sun
â—Š PLEASUREAGONY: Idem
â—Š POWERWOLF: Blessed & Possessed tour edition
â—Š PRIDE OF LIONS: Fearless
â—Š PRIMAL FEAR: Angels Of Mercy - Live In Germany
â—Š PROSPEKT: The Illuminated Sky
â—Š PSYCHEDELIC WITCHCRAFT: Magick Rites And Spells
â—Š PURPENDICULAR: Venus To Volcanus
â—Š PYOGENESIS: A Kingdom To Disappear
â—Š QUIET RIOT: Road Rage
â—Š RADIO MOSCOW: New Beginnings
â—Š RAM: Rod
â—Š RAZZMATTAZZ: Diggin' For Gold
â—Š REBELLIOUS SPIRIT: New Horizons
â—Š RED RAVEN: Chapter Two: Digithell
â—Š REO SPEEDWAGON: Not So Silent Night
â—Š RESISTANCE: Metal Machine
â—Š ROYAL THUNDER: WICK
â—Š SAMAEL: Hegemony
â—Š SANCTUARY: Inception
â—Š SARCASM: Within The Sphere Of Ethereal Minds
â—Š SARKE: Viige Urh
â—Š SATURDAYS HEROES: Pineroad
â—Š SCARVED: Lodestone
â—Š SECRET SPHERE: The Nature Of Time
â—Š SEPTICFLESH: Codex Omega
â—Š SERENITY: Lionheart
â—Š SHADE EMPIRE: Poetry Of The Ill-Minded
â—Š SHAKRA: Snakes & Ladders
â—Š SHORES OF NULL: Black Drapes For Tomorrow
â—Š SIDEBURN: Eight
â—Š SILIUS: Hell Awakening
â—Š SILVER DUST: The Age Of Decadence
â—Š SILVER WIND: Legion Of The Exiled
â—Š SKYCLAD: Forward Into The Past
â—Š SLAEGT: Domus Mysterium
â—Š SLEEPING ROMANCE: Alba
â—Š SOEN: Lykaia
◊ SÓLSTAFIR: Berdreyminn
â—Š SORCERER: The Crowning Of The Fire King
â—Š SOROR DOLOROSA: Apollo
â—Š SOULDRINKER: War Is Coming
â—Š SOULMATIC: Silverliner
â—Š SOUNDSCAPISM INC.: Desolate Angels
â—Š SOUND STORM: Vertigo
â—Š SPARZANZA: Announcing The End
â—Š SPOTLIGHTS: Seismic
â—Š STALLION: From The Dead
â—Š STEEL PANTHER: Lower The Bar
â—Š STEVE HACKETT: The Night Siren
â—Š STILLBORN: Nocturnals
â—Š STORMHAMMER: Welcome To The End
â—Š SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE: Vagabond
â—Š SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS: To The Elements
â—Š THAKANDAR: Sterbende Erde
â—Š THE DARK RED SEED: Stands With Death (MCD)
â—Š THE GREAT DISCORD: The Rabbit Hole
â—Š THE GUILT: Idem
â—Š THE MOON AND THE NIGHTSPIRIT: Metanoia
â—Š THE MUTE GODS: Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth
â—Š THE NIGHT SUNS: Human (EP)
â—Š THE PRIVATEER: The Goldsteen Lay
â—Š THE PROPHECY: Origins
â—Š THE RUINS OF BEVERAST: Takitum Tootem! (EP)
â—Š THE SAD FLOWERS: Idem
â—Š THE UNGUIDED: And The Battle Royale
◊ THYRGRIM: Vermächtnis
â—Š TIM BOWNESS: Lost In The Ghost Light
â—Š TRAUMER: The Great Metal Storm
â—Š TROLLFEST: Helluva
â—Š TYKETTO: Live In Milan (CD/DVD)
â—Š UNLEASH THE ARCHERS: Apex
â—Š UNTIL RAIN: Inure
â—Š VALFREYA: Promised Land
◊ VARG: Götterdämmerung (EP)
â—Š VICTORIUS: Heart Of The Phoenix
â—Š VINSTA: Vinsta Wiads
◊ VINTERSORG: Till Fjälls Del II
â—Š VOICE: The Storm
◊ VÖLUR: Ancestors
â—Š WALPYRGUS: Walpyrgus Nights
â—Š WHITE SKULL: Will Of The Strong
â—Š WHITE WILLOW: Future Hopes
â—Š WILDESTARR: Beyond The Rain
â—Š WITHERFALL: Nocturnes And Requims
â—Š WOLFHEART: Tyhjyys
â—Š WOLFPAKK: Wolves Reign
â—Š WORLD TRADE: Unify
â—Š XANDRIA: Theater Of Dimensions
â—Š YMIR'S BLOOD: Idem

DVD reviews 2017

â—Š BTBAM: Coma Ecliptic Live (DVD/CD)
â—Š FATES WARNING: Awaken The Guardian Live (DVD/2CD)
â—Š PILEDRIVER: The Boogie Brothers Live In Concert (DVD/2CD)
â—Š RPWL: A New Dawn (DVD/2CD)
â—Š TYKETTO: Live In Milan (CD/DVD)

Interviews 2017

â—Š CNOC AN TURSA: Concept album with historical background Interview with Cnoc An Tursa by Vera in March 2017
â—Š ERIK NORLANDER: On the 'Surreal' album Interview with Erik Norlander by Geert in 2016
â—Š KING OF ASGARD: A Monument In Viking Metal! Interview with Jonas Albrektsson by Vera in March 2017
â—Š MARCHE FUNEBRE: Belgian Doom Supreme Interview with Arne Vandenhoeck by Vera in February 2017
â—Š MY OWN GHOST: Driving power poprock from Luxembourg Interview with Julie Rodesch by Geert in April 2017
â—Š THE GUILT: Lazer punk from Sweden Interview with The Guilt by Geert in July 2017
â—Š THE WOUNDED: Prachtige comeback! Interview met Marco van der Velde door Vera in februari 2017
â—Š TILES: On the 'Pretending 2 Run' album Interview with guitarist Chris Herin of Tiles by Geert in 2016


Concertreviews 2017

â—Š Beyond The Labyrinth - Wondelgem - 23/12/2017
â—Š Cactus - Spirit of 66, Verviers - 20/05/2017
â—Š Darken The Moon VII - Het Bos, Antwerpen - 27/03/2017
â—Š Darken The Moon VIII - Kamikaze, Mechelen - 28/10/2017
â—Š Darken The Moon IX - Biebob, Vosselaar - 03/12/2017
â—Š Female Voices Fest - Verlichte Geest, Roeselare - 21/10/2017
â—Š Manfred Mann's Earthband - Le Kursaal, Limbourg - 09/11/2017
â—Š Marcus King Band - AB Club, Brussel - 25/04/2017
â—Š Orden Ogan, Rhapsody Of Fire, Unleash The Archers - Biebob - 31/10/2017
â—Š Paradise Lost, Pallbearer, Sinistro - Trix XL, Antwerpen - 02/11/2017
◊ Prophecy Fest - Balver Höhle, Balve (D) - 28-29/07/2017
â—Š Skullfest - Wervik - 10/06/2017
â—Š Tank, Scarved - Moonlight, Diest - 20/01/2017
â—Š Tarja, My Own Ghost - Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL) - 13/03/2017