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Palladium, Cologne, Germany 22nd February 2006
The Bloodhound Gang, Rock Hard Power Spray, Montreal
After their last album more than five years ago, the band was touring excessively for two years with their also excessive live shows through the big venues of the world. After that they needed a break far away from publicity and then they started again recording a new album which was entitled “Hefty fine” and has been released last year. They came back for six German shows in November. But that wasn’t enough. Due to the huge demand they came to Germany again at the beginning of 2006. So we took our chance too to meet the band in Cologne for another big show in an even bigger venue than in November.
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Groene Engel, Oss, The NetherlandsJanuary 20th 2006
Epica & Auracle
The song ‘The Green Angel‘ from metal band Autumn is in my head when I walk to the venue. It is a typical cold winter night but inside the long queue with gothic people makes me forget my freezing hands. Tonight there is a special ‘battle’ between two gothic bands: one is already a big name, the other is here to prove that they can be a new Dutch talent: an interesting combination.
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Paard van Troje, The Hague, The Netherlands
January 27th 2006
Chicks on Speed & Kid Ginseng
It seemed like all of Den Haag's nouveaux art had run out of their safe houses into one of the oldest pop venues of the Netherlands. Somehow the fact that a band starts to create fashion with some local fashion students has dragged in people who would otherwise never go to these kind of concerts. Good promotion made sure that the venue was quite filled up for what could be something really special.
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Willemeen, Arnhem, The NetherlandsJanuary 19th 2006
Trail of Tears and Xystus
Due to lack of time I arrived at the Willemeen while Xsystus had already started. It had its advantages, no line for instance. Although it seemed there hadn’t been a line anyway for it was not all that busy inside. There was a crowd of some 30 people max. The ones who were there were having a good time though and during their performance more people came in. Both bands had their own audience, in between the bands there was a change between the back and the front of the audience.
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Paradiso, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsJanuary 27th 2006
Children of Bodom & Ectomorph
Children of Bodom, now that takes me back. Back to the days of special shows showing metal and hard rock videos on tv, where you could discover new bands you would instantly love. Such was also the case with Children Of Bodom. It was fast, it was heavy, and it contained a lot of technical tricks and licks. Who could not love that. Though I’m not a big fan anymore, I was excited to see them again. The band which caused the “melodic death metal” genre.
