The evening will be opened by A.A. Williams. Her impressive self-titled debut album was released in January, with a reissue, that also adds a cover of Dolly Parton’s Jolene and the stripped down rehearsal recordings of three of the four songs, that was released in September. That debut album contains four songs that all sound very nice and are definitely giving goosebumps. They are quite calm, but with a doomy vibe, beautiful and dark at the same time. So, this is very special, impressive music that is perfect for an evening like this to immediately get in the right mood. Be sure to not miss this, because this will be very special.

After A.A. Williams’ set the evening will become quite a bit heavier, to start with the Belgian band Brutus. This band plays immersive, heavy, but at the same time atmospheric and even a bit proggy music while vocalist/drummer Stefanie sings beautiful clean vocals as well as some more aggressive sounding shouts. Brutus already showed this on their debut album, titled Burst, that was released two years ago and they continue that very nicely with Burst‘s successor Nest, which was released last March. I am very curious how this will sound when played live. This almost has to be very crushing.

Last June I saw tonight’s headliner, Cult of Luna, perform for the first time. That was at the FortaRock festival in Nijmegen, you can read my live review of it here. Cult of Luna’s show was a very intense and immersive experience, that was very nice, despite the few technical problems they had to endure during that show. Hopefully this show will be just as intense, just as immersive and just as nice as that show, but without the technical problems. The difference between Cult of Luna now and back then is that they released their new album, A Dawn to Fear, in September. On this album we’ll again hear very nice immersive parts with an atmospheric vibe, such as in its title track, but also very heavily pounding parts such as in The Silent Man and Nightwalkers. This is a show that has to be experienced, a show that needs you to let yourself go. That’s what Cult of Luna’s music is perfect for and my expectation is that that will be how it’s going to be this evening.

There’s no doubt that this evening will be a very special, beautiful evening with three very immersive shows!

Who will we see there? If you don’t have tickets yet, you can buy them here.

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Thursday December the 12th (Warm-up party)

Matterhorn

Before the main festival of Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2019 is going to start there will be a warm-up party in the same venue, the Effenaar, on Thursday December the 12th. These four bands will be performing: the Swiss of Matterhorn, their fellow Swiss Bölzer, the Norwegians of Dødheimsgard and the Poles of Blaze of Perdition. The first band we will mention here is Matterhorn. This band was formed in 2012, but debut album Crass Cleansing is only released since last year. On this album, Matterhorn delivers a heavy, fast-paced and filthy sound, with death, speed and thrash metal influences. There is no doubt that this will be a very heavy, very headbangable and filthy show!

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Bölzer

There is nothing exaggerated when I say that this warm-up party will be very heavy. The next band, Bölzer, is also a band playing some very heavy tunes. They already deliver their heavy, very thought through death/black metal, including a lot of variation, for eleven years. In that period they released two EP’s, one full-length and one split. In addition to that great music it also stands out very much that guitarist/vocalist KzR vocally not only delivers deep grunts but also regularly very clean vocals that fit very well in their music. It’s not yet though, but Bölzer’s new, upcoming EP titled Lese Majesty, will be released before they are going to enter the stage here. This is going to be very nice!

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Blaze of Perdition

The Polish band Blaze of Perdition is playing black metal. In their black metal they regularly change between heavily, fast-paced parts and more atmospheric black metal parts. Blaze of Perdition’s latest album, Conscious Darkness, already dates back from 2017, but it still is worth checking out for sure, if you don’t know Blaze of Perdition yet. I am very curious to this show!

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Dødheimsgard

The latest album of the next band, Dødheimsgard, is titled A Umbra Omega and is already four years old. What is the case for Blaze of Perdition’s Conscious Darkness also applies on A Umbra Omega though. Don’t you know this yet? Don’t wait with checking this out! Are you in for some dark music, that’s changing between heavy and atmospheric, but above all is very progressive, avantgarde and special? Then be sure to not miss Dødheimsgard on this warm-up party! I am already looking forward to it!

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Friday December the 13th

Acrostichon

The amount of bands coming from own soil on this edition of the Eindhoven Metal Meeting is seven. Four of those Dutch bands are scheduled to play on Friday, three of them are going to play on Saturday. Acrostichon is one of those four bands playing on Friday. It’s already thirthy years ago that this death metal band was formed. From 1998 until 2009 they weren’t active though, but they’re back into action since 2009. Acrostichon pounds heavily with their old school death metal, with especially frontwoman Corinne van den Brand standing out with her very brutal vocals. This promises to be a very pounding show!

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Asagraum

Another, nowadays entirely, Dutch band that will perform on this Friday are the black metallers of Asagraum. In 2017 they released their heavily pounding debut full-length Potestas Magicum Diaboli. Since September there is a successor for that album released. This successor is titled Dawn of Infinite Fire. On this new album Asagraum again delivers a very filthy and misanthropic, but at moments also compelling, sound. It almost can’t be otherwise than that the audience will be completely blown away during this show.

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Bodyfarm

Ten years ago Bodyfarm was formed, since that time they bring fast-paced, heavily pounding old school death metal. However, they do also regularly include quite melodic sounding guitars, but not in such a way that they can be labeled as melodic death metal. Last September Bodyfarm’s fourth full-length album, titled Dreadlord, was released full of songs to which we can headbang very well during this brutal show.

You can read our review of Bodyfarm’s Battle Breed here, as well as our interview with them here.

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Lucifericon

The fourth Dutch band that will enter the stage on Friday is Lucifericon. They are playing death metal with quite a lot of black metal influences. Lucifericon’s latest album, Al-Khem-Me, was released last year and it’s very nice for sure. Lucifericon’s music is brutal, filthy and occult. That all promises to become a rough show!

Here you can read our review of Lucifericon’s Brimstone Altar EP.

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Burning Witches

So much for the Dutch bands that will perform on Friday. The next band is also partly Dutch though. Originally Burning Witches is a Swiss band, but last year the Dutch guitarist Sonia Nusselder joined them and this year she got Dutch company, because recently vocalist Laura Guldemond also became a member of Burning Witches. Burning Witches plays old school heavy metal that’s really catchy, but powerful to your ears, while also regularly including a bit of a raw, almost thrashy touch.

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The Committee

Another band performing today that is only partly Dutch is The Committee. Their bass player/backing vocalist Marc Abre – The Mediator is Dutch. This band, with members that each are from a different country, but is Belgium-based, plays atmospheric black metal. So, expect a dark, but also dreamy, mesmerizing show. A special show by the way, because, as can be read in their Facebookpage-biography: “The Committee is a live band, but does not play many times each season.” So, go to this show, this is a chance you won’t get that often!

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Alcest

One of The Committee’s members, guitarist/backing vocalist Aristo Crassade – The Trigger, is French, which creates a path to the next band: the French band Alcest. Where we were writing about a dreamy, mesmerizing show just above here, that’s of course also something Alcest delivers, they even might be one of the masters in that. Recently I saw them perform a fantastic show as one of the supports during Amenra’s 20th anniversary in Paradiso, Amsterdam. That was a show that definitely made me want to see more. So, it’s pretty obvious that I am very much looking forward to this show!

Here you can read our review of Alcest’s Kodama.

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Sodom

Writing about the bands that will be performing on Friday, we can’t go anymore southwards than France. Writing about the bands that will be performing on Friday and are neighboring countries to The Netherlands, we already wrote about the Belgium-based The Committee, so now we are going to our other neighboring country, Germany. On Friday three German bands will perform, the first of those three we are going to mention are the thrashers of Sodom. Of course, this is a band that’s already in the metal world for quite some time, 38 years to be more exact. From their original line-up in 1981 only bass player/vocalist Tom Angelripper is still part of Sodom. The rest of Sodom consists of the in 2018 joined drummer Husky and guitarist Yorck Segatz and the in 2018 re-joined guitarist Frank Blackfire, who also was a part of Sodom from 1987 until 1989. Sodom’s latest release, a EP titled Partisan, was released last year. However, their new, upcoming EP titled Out of the Frontline Trench, will be released before this show, on November the 22th.

You can read our reviews of Sodom’s Sacred Warpath and Decision Day here and here.

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The Ruins of Beverast

Another German band that will be performing on this day is the one man band of Alexander von Meilenwald, The Ruins of Beverast. Of course during this show Alexander will be on stage together with live musicians. It’s already two years ago that the latest album of this band, Exuvia, was released. On Exuvia you can hear an atmospheric and dark-ambient like mix of black and doom metal that’s very dark, mysterious and at some moments even feels paranoid and disorientating. Exuvia is an album that surely is a very intense experience, hopefully that’s also what this show will bring.

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The Vision Bleak

The other German band playing today is The Vision Bleak. This band calls their musical style horror metal which, in my opinion, is more based on the lyrics than the music itself. It surely doesn’t sound as frightening as The Ruins of Beverast. The Vision Bleak’s latest album, The Unknown, already dates back to 2016. On that album The Vision Bleak delivers melodic, symphonic, melancholic and doomy music, at some moments  a bit heavier and faster in which the low, clean vocals are sometimes making some room for a bit rawer screams. I am curious to see how this will turn out live!

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Bloodbath

From Germany we are going a bit more northwards, to continue with Sweden. This weekend there will be three Swedish bands performing here, with one of them performing on this Friday. That band is the death metal band Bloodbath. As you maybe know not entirely Swedish, because vocalist Nick Holmes is coming from the UK. We will see him again later by the way. Earlier this year I already saw Bloodbath perform on Fortarock in Nijmegen. You can read my live review of that show here. Before Fortarock I was really looking forward to that show and live it seems to be even more intense than I expected. This is going to be very brutal, intense and heavy as fuck, I am already looking forward to this show very much!

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Nocturnal Breed

West of Sweden is Norway, the country that brings four bands to this edition of Eindhoven Metal Meeting, five if you’re already counting the Norwegian band playing on the warm-up party, Dødheimsgard. Three of those bands are going to perform on Friday, with the first one  mentioned being Nocturnal Breed. This band already plays their black/thrash metal for 23 years. In June they released their sixth album, titled We Only Came for the Violence. That album has quite a nice old school vibe, while Nocturnal Breed also delivers their music in a heavily pounding way with the filthy-sounding black/thrash metal.

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Tsjuder

The other two Norwegian bands that will enter today’s stage are two, it almost couldn’t be otherwise since they’re coming from Norway, black metal bands. The first of those two bands I am going to mention is Tsjuder. Tsjuder’s latest studio-album, Antiliv, already dates back to 2015. You can read our review of that album here. Since that time the band only released a live-album, titled Norwegian Apocalypse: Oslo vs Sandnes. Heavy drums, high guitars and terrifying screams, that’s what Tsjuder delivers and this sounds as a very nice basis for an overwhelming show.

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Kampfar

Where Tsjuder delivers pounding, but quite straightforward black metal on Antiliv, fellow Norwegians Kampfar play their black metal a bit different. Their black metal regularly sounds a bit more epic-like and Kampfar uses a bit more variation and rhythm-changes in their music. Kampfar also delivers that in a very nice way on their newest album, Ofidians Manifest, which was released in May. That made me curious to this show as well.

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Hellfire Deathcult

Writing about the bands performing on Friday there’s one band left to mention, which is the only non-European band of this day, the American band Hellfire Deathcult. Hellfire Deathcult brings us, as they called it themselves on their Facebookpage, militant raw death worshipping bestial chaos. After listening to their music, to me that seems to be a pretty accurate description. Hellfire Deathcult clearly is playing another style of black metal than Tsjuder and Kampfar are doing. These Americans deliver a very raw, gritty and chaotic wall of sound. I am wondering what this will be like live.

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Saturday December the 14th

Rectal Smegma

As I already mentioned before there will also be three bands coming from own soil playing on Saturday. The first one I am going to mention is Rectal Smegma. As you probably already thought while reading the band name this band is playing goregrind. Heavily pumping drums, gory lyrics and deep, low vocals at some moments interchanged with higher, filthy shouts. All the ingredients for a heavy goregrind show are present!

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Graceless

Graceless is the Dutch death metal formation formed in 2016 by former DutchMetalManiac writer Remco Kreft. In 2017 Graceless released their debut album, titled Shadowlands. On Shadowlands they bring nice sounding, powerful death metal that is very headbangable. Later this month a new split between Graceless and the Russian death metallers of Grond will be released via Raw Skull Recordz, a split that also sounds very strong. There probably is going to be a lot of headbanging during this hopefully very powerful show.

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Officium Triste

The Dutch band I didn’t yet mention is Officium Triste. They also play death metal, but combined with doom metal, death/doom. That’s why the pace of Officium Triste’s music is a bit slower compared to the that of the two aforementioned bands. This doesn’t mean that Officium Triste is playing music that’s less brutal though. Their music might be quite slow, but it’s also very heavy. So, this band probably is going to give a show that’s very mesmerizing as well as very intense.

You can read our earlier live review of Officium Triste here.

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Bütcher

When going a bit more southwards we’ll arrive at the only Belgian band of today. They are the heavy blackened speed metallers of Bütcher. This band formed in 2002 to, after releasing two demo’s, stop in 2007. However, since 2014 Bütcher is active again and in 2017 they released their debut full-length Bestial Fükkin’ Warmachine, Bütcher’s latest release so far. However, they just recently announced that they will be releasing their second album, titled 666 Goats Carry My Chariot, on January the 31st, next year. Bütcher’s musical style is speed metal, something you’ll probably hear quite fast when you’re hearing this band for the first time. Their music indeed is very fast-paced, something that undoubtly is going to make this show very energetic!

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Undead Prophecies

A little bit more southwards is France, the country the next band, Undead Prophecies, is coming from. The members of this band all are anonymous and they’re only known by their aliases. Undead Prophecies is playing heavily pummeling old school death metal. In March of this year they released their second full-length album, titled Sempiternal Void, as well as a cover-EP, titled Origins. You can read our review of Sempiternal Void here. Live Batscum, Drauhr, Zörk, Necros and King Oscuro, the aliases of the band members, perform in grim reaper costumes.

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Haemorrhage

Even more going southwards we will arrive in Spain, where the next band is coming from: Rectal Smegma’s fellow goregrinders Haemorrhage. Haemorrhage already released quite a lot of material: seven full-lengths, one split VHS, one live DVD, two live albums, four EP’s, four compilations and no less than twenty-two splits. So, there’s enough material for a heavy, pummeling, crushing and gory show from these Spanish goregrinders!

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Hour of Penance

Then we are travelling a bit more towards the East, to Italy. That’s the homecountry of the technical brutal death metallers of Hour of Penance. This band already exists for 20 years, but none of the current band members were already part of the band back in 1999. In those 20 years Hour of Penance released seven full-lengths, with the latest one being Cast the First Stone, which was released in 2017. Later this month these Italians will add an eighth full-length album to that though. That album will be titled Misotheism and last month they already released a first single off of that album, titled Flames of Merciless Gods. It’s a very promising song for this new, upcoming album and nice material for a very nice show as well.

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Darkfall

Going a bit northwards coming from Italy, we’ll arrive in Austria, the next band’s home country. That next band is Darkfall, who are playing a very brutal but at the same time quite melodic way of death/thrash metal since their formation in 1995. Their latest, second full-length album, titled At the End of Times, is already two years old. It’s still worth checking out though and sounds very powerful. I hope Darkfall’s show will be just as powerful as they sound on the album.

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Malokarpatan

A bit eastwards is the country the next band, Malokarpatan, hails from: Slovakia. In their five year existence Malokarpatan released two full-length album, two splits and one EP, which is a re-release of Malokarpatan’s part of the 2017 split titled Samhain Celebration MMXVII. Malokarpatan plays black metal, but their music clearly also includes quite a lot of traditional heavy metal influences, just as some folklore-influences at some moments. Malokarpatan’s black metal definitely isn’t only playing very fast and straightforward, but also contains a lot of variation, without losing the dark atmosphere of their music.

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1914

Even more eastwards is Ukraine, where the next band, 1914, hails from. 1914 was formed 100 years after that year, in 2014. One year later they released their debut full-length Eschatology of War, which was later followed by one split, one compilation, one EP and one other full-length, 1914’s latest release titled The Blind Leading the Blind. 1914’s music mainly is a very slow, but at the same time very brutal, heavy and intense combination of death/doom metal with a few influences coming from black and sludge metal. This band already is on my list of bands I want to see live for quite some time, so I am really looking forward to this show. On their studio-material 1914 sounds bone-crushing, hopefully that’s also the case when they play live.

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Candlemass

From Ukraine we go a bit northwards and westwards, to Sweden. On this Saturday two Swedish bands will perform. The first one we are going to mention of those two are the epic doom metallers of Candlemass. This isn’t about just an epic doom metal band though, it’s about the founders of it. This band already exists for quite a long time, it’s 35 years ago that this band was formed. In those years Candlemass released quite a lot of material, with this year’s twelfth full-length album The Door to Doom, being their latest release. This is also is the first Candlemass album on which the in 2018 joined vocalist Johan Längquist can be heard. In my opinion that’s a very good combination, I am curious if that will also be the case when they are playing live.

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Mörk Gryning

The other Swedish band that is going to perform on this Saturday is the black metal band Mörk Gryning. Mörk Gryning was formed in 1993 and released five full-length albums until they stopped in 2005. Since 2016 Mörk Gryning is active again, but the self-titled album they released in 2005 still is their latest studio-material. They released a live album, titled Live at Kraken, in 2018 though. On their 2005-released self-titled album as well as on that live album Mörk Gryning sounds furious, dark and raw, which is very promising for their show.

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Taake

That the people in Sweden’s neighboring country Norway also know how to play black metal might be clear. One of the bands that’s doing so since 1995 is Taake. In 2015 I watched Taake perform for the first time. Back then they delivered a very intense, powerful show that overwhelmed as fuck. You can read my live review about that show here. I can’t wait to experience this again!

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Paradise Lost

When writing about the European bands that will be performing on this Saturday there’s only one band left to mention. That’s the band in which we will, again, see Nick Holmes perform, the British band Paradise Lost. Just as Taake, I saw this band perform for the first time in that same year with a very convincing show. You can read my live review about that show here. So, I am also very much looking forward to Paradise Lost’s show for sure. This is going to be a very nice show without any doubt!

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Dying Fetus

That brings us to the last three bands left to mention, all three coming from the USA. I am going to start with Dying Fetus, the death metallers that are already playing their bone-crushing music for 28 years. On their studio-material, with 2017-released Wrong One to Fuck With being their latest full-length album and the 2018-released Contamination Tour 2018 split being their latest overall release, Dying Fetus really pounds very heavily with their brutal death metal that also sounds very technical giving it all an even more crushing effect. This is going to be heavy!

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Spectral Voice

Dying Fetus’ fellow Americans of Spectral Voice are playing their music on quite a slower pace. Spectral Voice plays a dark, at moments even haunting and ritualistic-like form of death/doom metal. At some moments they speed things up a bit, while the guitars are bringing a bit more of a black metal vibe at those moments, but they probably aren’t going to play as fast as Dying Fetus does.

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M.O.D.

Then there’s one band left to mention and that’s the American crossover thrash metal band Method of Destruction, shortly M.O.D.. With their raw, bone-breaking songs including Billy “Mosh” Milano’s hardcore vocals and lyrics that regularly include a lot of humor, this promises to be a heavily pounding show that probably is going to have a vibe that isn’t all too serious.

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I am really looking forward to these three days full of metal. Who are we going to see there? If you want to go, but you don’t have tickets yet, you can buy those here.

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Doc Holliday Metal Productions is founded by Alwin Roes, bassist of the Dutch band Dead End. In a pretty short time, Doc Holliday Metal Productions’ activities were extended and so did their crew with Dave Blummel and Meindert Meinsma being the main men besides Alwin. Nowadays Doc Holliday Metal Productions is an agency for twenty bands, for example the Dutch band Altar and the Belgian guys of Moker. Besides being an agency, they also got their own record-label and -shop. Last but not least, they organize gigs. They do DocFest Metal Meetings at different locations, they have the regularly returning Veghel Deathfest and now they got their first edition of Veghel Blackfest lined up. Besides Veghel Blackfest, the following gigs are already confirmed coming from the Doc Holliday Metal Productions camp:

Death From Within IIat Studio Gonz, Gouda, The Netherlands, March 24th, 2018
Doc’s Metal Massacreat De Reunie, Geleen, The Netherlands, May 12th, 2018
Veghel Deathfest IV atDynamo, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 26th, 2018

However, first of all: Veghel Blackfest!

As you can probably now by its name, Veghel Blackfest will be a festival for people who dig black metal. However, within black metal there are many differences and Doc Holliday Metal Productions have got that perfectly balanced with this line-up of Veghel Blackfest.

Rotting Christ

Headliner of this first edition is the Greek band Rotting Christ. These Greeks are already playing black metal for a while now and while doing so they regularly use ancient Greek influences in their music. Last year this band existed for 30 years, so they have enough experience to give you a phenomenal show. Curious!

We also reviewed their Rituals album (here) and their Lucifer Over Athens live-album (here).

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Arkhangelsk

The other band coming from Greece performing today is Arkhangelsk. In contrast with fellow Greeks Rotting Christ, this is a fairly new band. They just formed in 2015 and released their debut EP in 2016. Last year, Arkhangelsk also played their first shows and made the announcement that they are writing new material. The tracks on their debut EP sound great, so I really look forward to their new material and their performance at Veghel Blackfest.

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Carach Angren

Doc Holliday Metal Productions also makes sure you can support your local scene. They got six bands playing on Veghel Blackfest that are Dutch. The biggest name of these six bands is Carach Angren. This horror metal band plays dark, theatrical music based on concept stories. I already saw them live twice and I also really look forward to seeing them perform again at Veghel Blackfest.

Read our interview with Carach Angren’s keyboard-player Clemens ‘Ardek’ Weijers here.

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Misanthropia

One of the other Dutch bands is Misanthropia. They play a melodic form of black metal, sometimes even in epic proportions. The in 2016 released album Omerta is a fantastic album with sometimes even some prog-elements shine through. Seeing this live must be amazing!

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Ceremony

The band who is probably the most divergent music-wise today is Ceremony. This, also Dutch, band plays music being more death metal than black metal. However, this offers a variation for the audience. This way, Ceremony can shake the audience’s heads while they are headbanging before they go back in black metal modus.

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Dystopia

Dystopia, another Dutch band, play their black metal mixed with some psychedelic doom influences. To do this they use two instruments that can be called unconventional in metal: the trumpet and the trombone. This gives a very nice touch to Dystopia’s music and if their show will be as nice as their latest album Chaos Philosophorum, which is released in April, I can’t do anything other than looking forward to it.

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Yaotzin

Yaotzin is a Dutch band playing fast black metal, already existing for quite some time. Other than a hiatus between 2009 and 2013 they are going strong in the black metal world since 1995. Based on their music this will be a crushing show!

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Noctambulist

The last Dutch band to mention is Noctambulist. This band is formed a short time ago and as far as I know they haven’t released any music yet. However, the members of Noctambulist are no strangers in the metal scene. Bassist/backing vocalist Sam C.A. used to sing in progressive metalcore band Discreator. Guitarist Stef Heesakkers also plays guitar in doom metal band Treurwilg, which is also where the band’s drummer Mitchell Scheerder plays in. Last but not least, their vocalist/guitarist J.D. Kay also sings in the modern death metal band Purest of Pain. Based on their Facebook page Noctambulist plays atmospheric post-black metal. Curious to hear their music and see the show!

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Svart Crown

Svart Crown hails from France and plays blackened death metal. In March last year they released their fourth album, titled Abreaction, which is a great album. The music on Abreaction is very intense and this promises a very nice and intense performance!

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Thyrgrim

There is only one more band I haven’t mentioned and that is the German band Thyrgrim. Personally, this is the band on Veghel Blackfest I am mostly looking forward to. The first time I heard Thyrgrim’s music, which was on their 2015 album Dekaden, I was immediately blown away. What an album! The successor of Dekaden, Vermächtnis (released September last year), is also definitely worth listening. Really looking forward to their show at Veghel Blackfest!

Read our review about Thyrgrim’s Dekaden album here as well as a Promoting Bands including Thyrgrim here.

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This promises to be a very nice afternoon/evening full of black metal, do we see you there at Veghel Blackfest?

Haven’t got tickets yet? Buy them here.

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