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Published: 07 April 2015

Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland
16th March 2015
Laibach

Slovenian industrial legend LAIBACH does not need much introduction, being around since 1980 and securing several conceptual works. 2014 was a touring year for Slovenian music collective LAIBACH after releasing their critically acclaimed album 'Spectre'. But also early 2015 will saw even more LAIBACH dates. For Finnish audience LAIBACH's appearance has an additional meaning: Finland is a birthplace of widely known movie ‘Iron Sky’.

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Published: 07 April 2015

Matrix, Bochum, Germany
26th March 2015
Devin Townsend Project, Periphery & Shining

Why DEVIN TOWNSEND had to perform in the narrow tube of the Matrix of all places will probably always remain a secret. I have never heard optimal sound there and especially for the epic wide screen sound of DEVIN TOWNSEND, this component is not that unimportant at all. But also the support bands PERIPHERY and SHINING had to fight with this that evening.

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Published: 06 April 2015

Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
28th March 2015
E-Tropolis Festival 2015: Centhron, Vomito Negro, Spetsnaz, Grendel, Leæther Strip, Laibach, Project Pitchfork, VNV Nation, Phosgore, Ambassador 21, Torul, Solitary Experiments, Frozen Plasma, De/Vision

With over 4,000 visitors, the E-Tropolis Festival at the Turbinenhalle Oberhausen set a new visitor record. The audience was diverse and all generations of the dark electronic scene celebrated peacefully or intentionally aggressive in the mosh pit next to each other. The review is going to follow now, separated by stages. Whereas Markus Lambertz took care of the main stage, Fee Wundersee was responsible for the second stage in the Turbinenhalle 2.

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Published: 03 April 2015

Das Bett, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
27th March 2015
Frozen Plasma & Torul

What is the best thing to do when it's weekend time? Tidy up the apartment, weekend shopping maybe, go out dancing could be an option, too. Or one simply gets seated in a bus to drive to Frankfurt when one's own car is defective in order to see TORUL and FROZEN PLASMA. That's what I did – and that even though I knew that I would drive to the E-Tropolis in Oberhausen on the next day and from there to the E-Werk Ost Festival in Dresden. Sounds like an exhausting weekend, right? It was indeed but I've got to say that it paid off. The festival reports will follow, by the way, but let me begin with my report on Friday at first.

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Published: 03 April 2015

The Fleece, Bristol, UK
8th March 2015
Covenant, Analog Angel, Naked Lunch & Sinestar

And so we were heading to the UK in order to see our favourite band COVENANT… As things didn’t work out the way it was planned I was not really keen to write a review. But then I would do the bands that came and did their best to entertain the people, do injustice. Thus I made up my mind and here is my very late review.

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