On May the 8th they already released the first single and video of this new album, titled Hellion. As you can see and hear here, it’s definitely not just some simple rock, it includes some nicely roaring guitars, a somewhat doomy atmosphere and some clean vocals as well as some nicely shouting vocals.

Today, they released another single off of The Secret Teaching of Sorrow, titled Land, and DutchMetalManiac is proud to give you the exclusive Dutch video premiere of it below.

Land may be a bit less heavy, but it certainly contains that same nice doomy atmosphere. It also is quite different compared to Hellion in terms of the guitars, Land contains more hypnotizing guitars instead of roaring ones. On top of that we’ll hear the great vocal range of Charlotte Shiroe’s clean vocals in Land. See and hear for yourself below!

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Epsilon sounds very brutal including some very low vocals, some spacy-sounding guitars as well as some tight riffs and pounding drums. On top of that it also features a ripping solo by Vulvodynia’s Kris Xenopoulos.

That’s not the only link with Vulvodynia though. You might know one of Boargazm’s guitarists, Chris van der Walt, as Vulvodynia’s bass player. He says the following about Epsilon: “Epsilon is the introduction for the sound of the Armagammon album. We have taken all the elements of music and life that inspire us and mixed them together to form a sound that we like to hear when playing together. It’s always going to be intense, groovy and filled with interesting ideas.”

While Heine van der Walt, guitarist and vocalist of Boargazm, says the following about it: “We couldn’t be more stoked to be back at it again! We’ve experimented a lot with grooves and tunings on the new stuff and we’ve found a sound that is a bit more evolved but still rooted in our own methods. Also having a shredder like Kris Xenopoulos put some of his magic on there is such a treat.”

Listen for yourself below.

You can pre-order Epsilon here.

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The campaign of Liefde voor Muziek (“Love for Music”) is there to show the Dutch government how big and diverse the Dutch music industry is, along with its cultural and economic worth, as well as to show them how important (live)music is to the society. Not only for the people creating music and the people around them, but also for the people visiting live events: the countless concerts in venues as well as the 1100 yearly festivals. The goal is that the government takes the already made suggestions and proposals seriously and that they quickly present a good long-term plan to save our music industry.

With signing the petition of Liefde voor Muziek, fans can show the government how important (live)music is to them personally. Next month the people behind Liefde voor Muziek are going to hand the results of the petition to the responsible ministers.

DutchMetalManiac of course supports this and that’s why we already signed the petition.

Hopefully you’ll do so too! You can do so here.

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You don’t have to search any longer!

We just added a Venue list to DutchMetalManiac as a subpage of our Metal Agenda, you can find it here.

Want to see a venue added to our Venue list or you have updated information? Be sure to send an email to our Metal Agenda mail!

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As a thank you for these people Loud Noise is giving away free tickets for their three upcoming festivals, Dynamo Metalfest, Into the Grave and Das Oktober Metalfest. Everyone can tag their personal heroes who work in healthcare below the posts with the shared festival posters on social media.

DutchMetalManiac also thanks everyone working in healthcare, as well as everyone else helping each other through these times.

You can read our earlier live review of Dynamo Metalfest 2017 here, as well as the one of Dynamo Metalfest 2019 here (day 1) and here (day 2)

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Rosy Finch originally formed in Alicante (Spain) circa 2013, featuring Lluís Mas of Pyramidal, Mireia Porto of Hela and Elena García. Their take on the stoner genre is a furious and eclectic blend of influences ranging from Sonic Youth to the Melvins, showcasing brooding & atmospheric vocals laced with insidious and heavy riffs. Rosy Finch breaks out of the mould and takes the listeners on a completely different path than the one usually expected from a band of this genre.

After a year of composing the album, Mireia Porto was intent on creating a concept album with the colour red being the central theme. He said the following about this: “Scarlet is about aspiring to be more and to do more. It’s about the idea that nothing will remove the pain, but nothing can detain you. Red has always represented danger, lust, sin, guilt, blood…”

Each song on Scarlet has a red type colour in the title and represents different stories of different people (from fantasy to the real life), always ranging from love to violence.

Scarlet, the second full length album and the fourth release from the band was recorded and mixed at Red Records Studio and Surnia Records with mastering handled by scene legend Billy Anderson.

Although the album was recorded with the original line-up, 2019 did bring on a change with Oscar Soler (Domo, Pyramidal) and Juanjo Ufarte (Grajo, The Dry Mouths) taking over bass and drums duties for live shows and future recordings.

The album is heavier and sludgier than their previous releases and contains plenty of screams, melodic vocals, metal drums and dirty bass lines.

Scarlet is available now via Lay Bare Recordings, Discos Macarras, Larubia Producciones, Spinda Records, Bandcamp and all other digital platforms.

Today, one day before Scarlet‘s release, DutchMetalManiac is proud to give you the exclusive Dutch album premiere of Rosy Finch’ Scarlet below.

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Recently they released the second single off of The Annex of Ire. It’s a heavy pounder of a song titled Vision Loser and comes with a playthrough video.

DutchMetalManiac is proud to give you the exclusive Dutch video premiere of Vision Loser‘s playthrough video below.

You can preorder The Annex of Ire here.

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Now, they’ve released the first single off of Penumbra, titled Arc Eye, which is a very nice atmospheric track including some nice heavier touches.

Barrens said the following about Arc Eye: “Arc Eye was the first piece of music written for what would become Penumbra. The idea behind the album and the driving force behind Barrens were already in place; to embrace inner darkness and outer light, to focus in on our shadows and to explore that space. Arc Eye represents self immolation through creation. To work so hard and intensely on something that you catch fire. Catharsis.”

DutchMetalManiac is proud to give you the exclusive Dutch premiere of it below.

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Want to go there? Now you can! Just enter this giveaway for your chance to win 2 tickets for this show!

The only thing you have to do is fill in the form below.

We’ll pick a winner on Thursday January the 23rd.

Here you can read our review of Degenerate’s Demo 2016, while you can read our live review of Baroeg Open Air 2019, where Hallowed Fire also played, here.

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First I want to thank all of you for reading our articles and I hope you will also enjoy our upcoming posts!

I also want to thank DutchMetalManiac’s current writers Glenn, Julia, Henric, Martijn and Alessandro as well as our former writers.

Furthermore I also want to thank all the bands, labels, promoters and venues that we’ve worked with or will work with in the future, because without them there would be no DutchMetalManiac.

Personally I also want to thank everybody around me for supporting me and DutchMetalManiac.

As always around the end of the year you’ll find our end of the year lists of 2019 below.

We’ll have a short break from now on and we will be back on January 7th for a very heavy 2020! \m/

I hope you enjoy our end of the year lists and I hope to see you back next year.

Merry Xmas and a happy new year with a lot of metal to all of you!

\m/

Tim van Velthuysen

End of the Year Lists 2019

Julia Obenauer

1. Eluveitie – Live at Masters of Rock (review, live review Utrecht, live review Eindhoven)
2. Soilwork – Verkligheten
3. Insomnium – Heart like a Grave (live review Utrecht, end of year lists 2016, review other album)
4. Eluveitie – Ategnatos (review other album, live review Utrecht, live review Eindhoven)
5. Andy Gillion – Neverafter
6. Amon Amarth – Berserker (live review Nijmegen, live review Pratteln, end of year lists 2016)
7. Odyssey – The Swarm (review, review other album)
8. Children of Bodom – Hexed (live review Nijmegen, end of year lists 2015, live review Tilburg)
9. Phil Campbell – Old Lions Still Roar
10. Lacuna Coil – Black Anima (live review Utrecht, review other album, review other album)
    
    Honorable mention: Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites (review, end of year lists 2015)

Henric van Essen

1. Aephanemer – Prokopton (review)
2. Apotheus – The Far Star (review)
3. Lacrimas Profundere – Bleeding the Stars (review)
4. Officium Triste – The Death of Gaia (preview Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2019, live review Arnhem)
5. Steinbock – Till the Limit (interview, review)
6. Eluveitie – Ategnatos (review, live review Utrecht, live review Eindhoven)
7. Hanzel und Gretyl – Hexennacht
8. Baldrs Draumar – Magnus
9. Carcariass – Planet Chaos
10. Totenwache – Der schwarze Hort

Martijn Bakker

1. Ulver – Drone Activity
2. Nightwish – Decades – Live in Buenos Aires (live review Nijmegen, end of year lists 2016, end of year lists 2015, live review Amsterdam)
3. Albez Duz – Enigmatic Rites (review, review other album)
4. Rammstein – Rammstein (live review Werchter, live review Landgraaf)
5. Tool – Fear Inoculum
6. Soen – Lotus
7. Opeth – In Cauda Venenum (live review Nijmegen)
8. The Lumberjack Feedback – Mere Mortals (review, review other album)
9. Avantasia – Moonglow
10. Grave Robbert – The Nightmare Begins

Alessandro

1. The Ferrymen – A New Evil
2. Airbourne – Boneshaker (live review Eindhoven)
3. Dream Theater – Distance over Time (live review Toronto)
4. Overkill – The Wings of War (end of year lists 2017, live review Utrecht)
5. Whitesnake – Flesh and Blood
6. Edge of Paradise – Universe
7. Amon Amarth – Berserker (live review Nijmegen, live review Pratteln, end of year lists 2016)
8. Allegaeon – Apoptosis
9. Sabaton – The Great War
10. Sepultura – Isolation (single), album Quadra is slated for February 2020 but it’s my favourite now! Because you know, it’s Sepultura! (end of year lists 2017)

Tim van Velthuysen

1. Porselain – Duende (live review Arnhem, interview, review, Promoting Bands)
2. Lingua Ignota – Caligula (Promoting Bands)
3. Eluveitie – Ategnatos (review, live review Utrecht, live review Eindhoven)
4. Alcest – Spiritual Instinct (preview Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2019, end of year lists 2016, review other album)
5. ISON – Inner – Space (review)
6. Rammstein – Rammstein (live review Werchter, live review Landgraaf)
7. Gaahls Wyrd – GastiR – Ghosts Invited (live review Nijmegen)
8. Une Misère – Sermon (live review Rotterdam, interview, live review Tilburg)
9. The Fifth Alliance – The Depth of the Darkness (interview, Promoting Bands, Promoting Bands, end of year lists 2015)
10. Infected Rain – Endorphin (interview, live review Utrecht, Promoting Bands)

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