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Bandname: Blo.torchTitle: Volatile
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Release Date: Autumn 2004
Record Company / Label: Self Financed
The Netherlands have been well-known for their huge supply of excellent death- and thrash-metal bands throughout the years. But lately it seems like the well has slightly dried up. Hence Blo.torch. These 5 men residing from The Hague know what a killer record needs. A talent that was already well recognized by Earache spin-off label Wicked World in the latter half of the nineties. The band released their debut and the future looked great. But somewhere the plans came to a full stop and they found themselves back at the beginning with no label to support them. Despite this set-back they didn’t give up and several years later the band is back with a slightly different line-up and a whole bunch of experience. Against all odds they even managed to win the prestigious “Grote Prijs van Zuid Holland” talent prize in the year 2004. This band is flaming red hot. Ready to burn the town down.
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Bandname: Kari RueslåttenTitle: Other people’s Stories
Genre: Ethereal / Pop Noir / Pop
Release Date: December 2004
Record Company / Label: GMR Music Group / Peach Music
Some of you might remember Kari’s name and wonder. Let me help you. Kari used to be the lead vocalist with Norway’s avant-garde Gothic/Doom metal band Third & the Mortal. A cult band that has never been the same since Kari left after 2 CD’s in 1994. In the late nineties this Norwegian lady released solo-albums through Sony Music Norway, but in the year 2000 she left Sony and her home-country and settled in London. She signed a recording deal with GMR and released the album “Pilot” in 2002. With her typical voice (resembling the likes of Tori Amos), her Norwegian accent, her love for nature and her ability to write surprisingly beautiful songs, she now has returned with a brand new album, “Other People’s Stories”. Not really metal or gothic, but I do believe that there are a lot of gothic metal fans that might like the works of this attractive lady.
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Bandname: The EntityTitle: Salt
Genre: Melancholic Rock/Metal
Release Date: Autumn 2002
Record Company / Label: Rage of Achilles
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Bandname: Tristania Genre: Gothic
Release Date: 24 January 2005
Record Company / Label: SPV /Steamhammer
These are turbulent times in the gothmetal scène; it’s over populated and one band does things even bigger and more bombastic than the other. Tristiania is, to me, one of the bands which have been around for a while and doesn’t get caught in this madness.
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Bandname: RorschachGenre: (Industrial) Metal
Release Date: Autumn 2004
Record Company / Label: Self-Financed
Rorschach. I bet no-one has ever heard of these 4 Dutch contestants to the Rammstein throne. The biography (or “Autopsy Report” as the A4 tells me) doesn’t give much away about the history of the band besides the fact that they met in 1892 at a gig organized by Jack the Ripper. Followed by a long lasting stay at mental institutions and the endurance of all kind of tests, after which they disappeared from the public eye until now. Though it doesn’t say in the bio or on the cover, I can give away that this band exists of experienced musicians.
