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Published: 12 December 2005

WaterFront, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
December 2nd 2005
Combichrist and Embolus

Another cold and wet night in the Netherlands, luckily some of us could shelter in the WaterFront in Rotterdam and dance to the beats of Embolus and Combichrist. With his new album out it was of course time for Combichrist to come and visit us again and make us dance to his beats once more.

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Published: 12 December 2005

Tivoli, Utrecht, The Netherlands
December 4th 2005
Opeth and Burst

You can see from the mixture of people in the crowd that by now  standard metalfans are not the only ones attracted to Opeths’ music anymore. This time I see a mixture of long haired, next to short haired progmetalfans and also quite a lot of older fans.  I think this is where you can see a band has succefully made a name for themselves in the scene: when you see all different kinds of fans attending their shows.

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Published: 09 December 2005

T Paard, The Hague, The Netherlands
November 30th 2005
Apocalyptica

After playing at the Paradiso in Amsterdam the Sunday before, it was now time to hit the stage in The Hague. A freezing night, but luckily there were no lines outside. It seemed to be a quiet evening but the closer we got to the start of the show, the venue filled up more and more.

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Published: 09 December 2005

013, Tilburg, the Netherlands
December 7th 2005
Life of Agony & Green Lizard

Just another traffic jam packed day in the Netherlands, the endless boring roads full of cars can only be forgotten with a good glass of wine or one hell of a concert. Outside the cue was slowly decreasing, inside the venue was filling up with people who had all used up some more time than expected to get to Tilburg. Not because 013 is such a great venue (which it is by the way), but because that hell of a good concert would be provided by nothing less than Life of Agony.

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Published: 08 December 2005

Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany
24th November 2005
Epica, Flowing Tears, Xystus

Some concerts may have to start with a disaster and problems to turn out into a fantastic and great show. The part of the Kulturfabrik where the bands should play has a volume for 300 people, but only 83 tickets have been bought in advance booking offices. On that day, “Epica” came from Potsdam with a delay of 7 hours, because of the bad weather situation. So there wasn’t really time for anything and after the concert they still wanted to start the trip to Milan where they should play on the next day. So everything was in a hurry. The club with the small stage and with the little crowd made me feel like being in the band’s rehearsal room somehow. But also a small crowd (and there were also many Dutch Fans) can make a lot of noise and create a great atmosphere.

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