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Lifelong

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Lifelong

nHailing from: Arnhem
nGenre: stoner
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Lifelong

nHailing from: ArnhemnGenre: stonern

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After years spent playing in hardcore bands, these 6 individuals decided to slow down their riffs and rip off their old skin. Riffs thick like smoke, slow, painful, heavy and steeped in filth. The band have been hard at work crafting their particular sound since late 2014. There is no image or a gimmick to uphold, only their discontent with convention from the very beginning. After the Eurotour with Cornered, the addition of guitarist EvB sparked a flame in LIFELONG, molding the band’s second offering of soul-crushing and noise-ridden claustrophobia. ‘SEUL CONTRE TOUS’ is 6 songs divided in 2 parts and 22+ minutes. These are hymns of outcasts, confessions of the addicted, a portrayel of crude reality from the backyard of a city’s daily life.

Influences both within and beyond metal abound, rounds out a thundering package of stoner, sludge, doom, rock, blues and metal. Prepare to be taken on a narrative musical journey through 6 acts each portraying a different picture but transcending into one moment where everything seems to fall into place perfectly.

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Sfeerverzieker

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Sfeerverzieker

nHailing from: Beverwijk
nGenre: doom, sludge
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Sfeerverzieker

nHailing from: BeverwijknGenre: doom, sludgen

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Results you didn’t ask for.

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Fatesealer

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Fatesealer

nHailing from:
nGenre: sludge
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Fatesealer

nHailing from: nGenre: sludgen

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Uncomprimising METAL with a taste of Sludgy Black and Death metal.

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Bismut

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Bismut

nHailing from: Nijmegen
nGenre: progressive, stoner, instrumental
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Bismut

nHailing from: NijmegennGenre: progressive, stoner, instrumentaln

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Bismut is a Psych stoner metal trio hailing from Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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Traanbaard

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Traanbaard

nHailing from: Amsterdam
nGenre: death, sludge
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Traanbaard

nHailing from: AmsterdamnGenre: death, sludgen

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Bloid – The Perfect Machine (EP)

Bloid, despite their name, play energetic Death Metal. Bloid is Frisian for ‘happy’, and judging by their album cover these guy are pretty ‘Bloid’. They’ve just released a new EP, ‘The Perfect Machine’ and I’ve been enjoying it for a few hours now. Their answer on facebook as to why there are geese on their album cover was ‘why not’. I guess the guys have been playing ‘untitled goose game’ too much during lockdown. That, or there is a pack of killer geese on the loose in Alkmaar that we don’t know about.

The Perfect Machine (EP)

The Perfect Machine is a 6-track EP released early July of 2022. The whole EP is recorded, mixed and mastered during one of many lockdowns by the band members themselves and we are glad they did. It makes this EP feel like you are with these guys in the studio and they are playing these tracks live.

Inspiration and breakdowns

The Perfect Machine is this EP’s title track and the band released a hilarious video to it, that shows these guys probably don’t take themselves too seriously. Severed is the fastest track and I can feel the circle pit building up in the first 15 seconds of the song. Leech is more on the heavier and slower side, and starts with a melodic bass intro that gives us a nice rest before the heaviness starts again with a typical death metal twin kick riff. However, there is some Gojira-like vibe to this track that makes me wonder what bands these guys are inspired by. Also; in line with the ‘Bloid’ theme, the breakdown that starts at 2:48 sounds like the Dutch kids song ‘alle eendjes zwemmen in het water’ would fit over that perfectly, so maybe the band needs to record a version of that to accompany the Geese video they made for the track ‘The Perfect Machine’ 🤣.

Rorschach is probably my favourite track of this EP and I imagine this being a crowd pleaser live. It has the best guitar solo of the EP as well. Speaking of solo’s, at the end of the next song ‘I Am’, there is a bass solo that almost makes the song feel like a rock ballad, which is a big contrast to the fast heavy riffs in the beginning of the song. The final song, Insomnia takes it right back to the heavier side of things, with the growls of frontman Mike in full force again.

One point of critique: of course they aren’t robots and it won’t be flawless all the time. There is a little stutter in the first track (ironically, called ‘The Perfect Machine’) and while normally this wouldn’t really bother me, because it’s the first track it really stood out to me. Luckily the rest of the tracks sound pretty solid.

Verdict

All in all: The Perfect Machine is overall an uptempo, headbangable circle-pit-in-the-living room kinda release, with blast beats, heavy riffs and death metal rage in the vocals. An enjoyable record to listen to, and a hilarious video that I would definitely recommend 🙂

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Terzij de Horde

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Terzij de Horde

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Terzij de Horde

nHailing from: nGenre: black, progressive, doom, hardcoren

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This is more than just music. This is a challenge. This is a calling out to those who know that knowledge is of more value than a pose. This is for those to whom questioning, criticising, reflecting are modes of expression. This is raging passion.
Terzij de Horde combine an amalgam of progressive black and doom metal with a rawness and live presence reminiscent of extreme hardcore or chaotic screamo. Throughout their existence, Terzij de Horde has been described as a mix between Khanate, Wolves in the Throne Room and Neil Perry. The band has received widespread international attention and many very positive reviews both of their recorded music and of their explosive live performances.
The 2015 album ‘Self’ focuses on the problem of self, with each track exploring different ways to live or fail to live with self and world, and the struggles these paths and strategies create: the blindness, suffering, desire for release, for the destruction of self and others, and the turning toward or away from life. Self as prison, self as a source of power, self as vessel for manipulation by outside forces, self as shield and as inner world, self as medium for Dionysian rapture, self as something to be overcome. Here, the rage of black metal is paired with a cathartic destruction as well as a contemplative melancholy. Instead of navel gazing or the worship of constructs, Self is analysis forced. A cerebral celebration of liberation at all costs and a requiem for spheres rendered apart.

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Bring on the Bloodshed

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Bring on the Bloodshed

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Bring on the Bloodshed

nHailing from: nGenre: metalcoren

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Nodfyr

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Nodfyr

nHailing from: Veluwe
nGenre: pagan
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Nodfyr

nHailing from: VeluwenGenre: pagann

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Foundations for :NODFYR: were laid by Joris and Niels in 2011, fueled by a desire to make heathen metal inspired by the folklore, mythology and nature of their native Gelderland. The term “nodfyr” refers to a pagan Germanic practice of fire making, mentioned in the 8th century Indiculus superstitionum et paganiarum. “Nodfyr” is one of the oldest (proto-) Dutch words.

Early versions of songs were recorded with the help of violin player Irma and after Niels went on to pursue other goals in 2014 Jasper and Mark joined in 2015. The “In een andere tijd” EP was released in 2017, followed by the “Eigenheid” full-length in 2021.

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The Unslain

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The Unslain

nHailing from: Nijmegen
nGenre: modern
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The Unslain

nHailing from: NijmegennGenre: modernn

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We are The Unslain, a four piece Modern Old-School Metal band based in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Our music consist of a combination between 80’s and modern heavy metal. Raw vocals supported by heavy riffs and a nasty groove with a polymetric flavor and maybe some breakdowns are characteristic for our songs. By taking inspiration out of the classic 80’ heavy metal and nowadays modern metal(core), The Unslain created a crushing new sound. Live we bring a dynamic show in which we play only self-written work. Songs from our debut album “We Will Battle” are played alongside newer material from our upcoming album called ‘Descending’. Together with our stage production we promise a highly energetic yet extremely tight performance. On the 20th of April 2019 we won the audience prize in the Dutch (Wacken) Metal Battle. Very proud of this result, new music is coming very soon!

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