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An introduction


Core Team

 

Daniela Vorndran

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Origin: Münster, Germany
Responsibilities: Editor-in-Chief and Owner / Contact and PR / Photography / Concert and CD reviews / News / Event Calender / Interviews
Personal interests: (Concert)photography, music, parties, literature, cinema, my cat, friends, cooking, travelling, http://www.black-cat-net.de
Fav. bands/artist: Depeche Mode, Covenant, Diary of Dreams, Diorama, Seabound, Nine Inch Nails, Filter, 30 Seconds to Mars, Edge of Dawn, The Editors, S.P.O.C.K, Oomph!, The Cure, Paradise Lost, Placebo, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, FLA, VNV Nation, Mesh, Type O Negative and many more...
Most memorable concert(s): Depeche Mode Berlin Waldbühne 2001 and 2006 as well as Stuttgart 2001 with a Meet&Greet and aftershow party on my birthday

 

Sebastian Huhn

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Origin: Herne, Germany
Responsibilities: Editor / PR / Concert & CD Reviews / Interviews / News
Personal interests: music, books, movies, series(Lost, House, Boston Legal etc)
Fav. bands/artist: Diorama, Diary of Dreams, Seabound, Mind.in.a.Box, Skinny Puppy, Paradise Lost, Destroid, Edge of Dawn , Fractured, Mesh, Dismantled, Deine Lakaien, Covenant
Most memorable concert(s): Leonard Cohen in Oberhausen (2008), Diorama @ D-Day IV in Reutlingen (2010)

 

Simon Hönscheid

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Origin: Bonn, Germany
Responsibilities: Server & Website Admin
Personal interests: -
Fav. bands/artist: -
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Germany

 

Dennis Eikenkötter

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Origin: Herne, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert & CD Reviews / Interviews / News
Personal interests: Music(mostly Rock and Metal in various forms and shades), Movies, Books, Comics, Cooking
Fav. bands/artist: Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Metallica(mostly old stuff),Judas Priest,Journey,Foreigner,Queen,Ayreon,Spocks Beard, Grand Magus,Kiss and much, much more...
Most memorable concert(s):Vicious Rumors on 25th August 2011 at Turock / Essen

 

Nadine Ginzel

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Origin: Berlin, Germany
Responsibilities: Photography and Concert Reviews
Personal interests: photography, artwork, graphic-design & layout, music, people, cinema, sports, literature
Fav. bands/artist: Zeraphine, Placebo, Korn, Incubus, U2, In Extremo, Schandmaul, Apocalyptica, VNV Nation, The Gathering, Garbage...
Most memorable concert(s): Depeche Mode, Exiter Tour, Frankfurt/ M.

 

Nicole Kizina

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Origin: Bochum, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert reviews / News
Personal interests: music, concerts, travelling, England, Scotland, vampyres, poems
Fav. bands/artist: Depeche Mode, Paradise Lost, GUN, Mesh, A-HA, Diary of Dreams, Type O Negative, The Cure, Oomph! and too many hard´n´heavy bands to mention
Most memorable concert(s): Depeche Mode 1998 in Cologne (with a meet and greet)

 

Erika Knepper

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Origin: Neufahrn/Ndb., Germany
Responsibilities: Photography / Concert reviews
Personal interests: Photography, music, travelling, my pets, nature, literature, cinema, astronomy and many more... :-)
Fav. bands/artist: Depeche Mode, Diary of Dreams, Elbow, Diorama, Muse, De/Vision, Placebo, Coldplay, Anathema, U2, Mesh, Deine Lakaien, IAMX and many more...
Most memorable concert(s): Depeche Mode - Olympiahalle, Munich 2006; Elbow - Backstage, Munich 2008; Coldplay - Olympiahalle, Munich 2008

 

Anne Kuhfuss

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Origin: Greifswald, Germany
Responsibilities: Photography / Concert/CD Reviews / Interviews
Personal interests: (concert)photography, music, art in general, poetry, cinema, travelling, concerts
Fav. bands/artist: Schandmaul, Subway to Sally, Nightwish, Amon Amarth, Nevermore, Combichrist, VnV Nation etc.
Most memorable concert(s): 2004 nightwish leipzig, 2005 rammstein leipzig, 2006 schandmaul magdeburg, Letzte Instanz

 

Peer Lebrecht

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Origin: Berlin, Germany
Responsibilities: CD Reviews
Personal interests: Music, Books, Writing, Graphics
Fav. bands/artist: Bowie, Psychedelic Furs, Joy Division, The National, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Sandow and others....
Most memorable concert(s): The Cure (1992), Bowie (2003), Bauhaus (2006)...

 

Ricarda Menn

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Origin: Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert and CD Reviews, Interviews, Photography
Personal interests: Music, Friends, Literature, Concerts and Travelling
Fav. bands/artist: Bathory, Celtic Frost, Triptykon, Tsjuder, Urgehal, Venom, Hellhammer, Satyricon, Sodom, Carpathian Forest and too many others to mention
Most memorable concert(s): Triptykon at Summer Breeze 2010

 

Morticia

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Origin: Essen, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert and CD Reviews, Concert Previews
Personal interests: My son, my friends, animals, vegan living, music, concerts/ festivals, reading, sewing/ doing handcrafts, arts, travelling to the UK
Fav. bands/artist: Mesh, The Cure, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Covenant, Vic Anselmo, Apoptygma Berzerk, Placebo, Korn, Linking Park, Combichrist, The Human League, VNV Nation, The Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Tool, Garbage, The Sisters of Mercy, Nine Inch Nails, Antimatter, Filter, White Zombie/ Rob Zombie, Type o' Negative, The Smiths/ Morrissey, Stone Temple Pilots, Muse, Moby, Evanescence, Faith No More, Duran Duran, Suicide Commando, Wumpscut, Deine Lakaien, Dreadful Shadows/ Zeraphine, a lot of 80's stuff, and so much more
Most memorable concert(s): Too many to mention

 

Amrei Sander

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Origin: Berlin, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert Reviews
Personal interests: Literature, music, my beloved ones, nature and animals, travelling, writing, parties, cinema, opera, arts, cooking, environmental protection and social equality
Fav. bands/artist: Sopor Aeternus, Deine Lakaien, Cinema Strange, Placebo, Schneewittchen, Helium Vola, Bacio di Tosca, Lebanon Hanover, Canteca de Macao, Rome, System of a Down, Bach, Chopin and many others...
Most memorable concert(s): Cinema Strange at the old K 17 (2002), Deine Lakaien (2022, 2023)

 

Julienne Schrauder

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Origin: Mannheim, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert-, CD- Reviews, Interviews
Personal interests: Music, Literature, Computer, Theatre
Fav. bands/artist: Negative, Samsas Traum, Korn, Deathstars, Wednesday 13, Private Line
Most memorable concert(s): Negative in Stuttgart/ Die Röhre, 2005; Bloodpit in Ludwigshafen/ Climax and Samsas Traum in Ludwigsburg/ Rockfabrik

 

Florian Schürmann

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Origin: Berlin, Germany
Responsibilities: Photography / Concert and CD Reviews / Programming
Personal interests: Media design, photography, coding and programming, broadcasting and making music, board games, movies and tv series
Fav. bands/artist: Alcest, Draconian, Helrunar, Primordial, Vreid, Fjoergyn, Nocte Obducta, Agrypnie, Dornenreich, Dark Tranquillity, Nevermore, Charon, HIM, ASP, Nachtgeschrei, Zeraphine, Rainald Grebe, Bodo Wartke, Tim Minchin, …
Most memorable concert(s): Sentenced in Wacken, 2005

 

J. "Niggels" Uhlenbruch

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Origin: Münster, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert-, cd- Reviews
Personal interests: (all kinds of) music, deejaying, concerts, Tolkien, humanities (esp. history)
Fav. bands/artist: Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Covenant and the hottest Indie-Rock act of the week
Most memorable concert(s): following Depeche Mode and Nitzer Ebb on tour through Europe

 

Timo Wallbruch

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Origin: Bochum, Germany
Responsibilities: Concert/CD Reviews
Personal interests: Music (punk, metal, soundtracks and discovering some elctronic, songwriter, goth and rap), movies, comics, tabletop gaming, family and friends
Fav. bands/artist: Misfits, old Manowar, Darkthrone, GG Allin, Sodom, Kreator, Desaster, Master, Accept, and many other...
Most memorable concert(s): Metalucifer and Sabbat (J) Wacken 200X, so many others...

 
 
Netherlands & Belgium
 

Ruth Mampuys

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Origin: Amsterdam area, The Netherlands
Responsibilities: Photography / Concert reviews
Personal interests: Philosophy, Biotechnology, Photography
Fav. bands/artist: 36 Crazyfists, Parkway Drive, Emarosa, Deftones, Gwen Stacy, Killswitch Engage, In Flames, And So I Watch You From Afar, Of Mice&Men, Buckcherry, Opeth, Comeback Kid, Korn, Letlive, The Butterfly Effect, Incubus, Dead Letter Circus, Faith no More, Foo Fighters, Life of Agony, 30 Seconds to Mars ...and many more.
Most memorable concert(s): so far... 36 Crazyfists (Melkweg Amsterdam, 2005), Parkway Drive (013 Tilburg, 2010)

 

Edwin van der Ende

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Origin: Delfgauw, Netherlands
Responsibilities: CURRENTLY NOT ACTIVE
Personal interests: (Concert)photography, Track and Field, Garfield
Fav. bands/artist: Epica, After Forever, Orphanage, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Marillion, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music
Most memorable concert(s): Red Hot Chili Peppers - Ahoy, Rotterdam 2003

 
 
Other Countries
 

Ray Dunkle

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Origin: North Dorset, UK
Responsibilities: CD Reviews, Interviews
Personal interests: Literature, poetry, journalism, theatre, cinema and art
Fav. bands/artist: Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Rolling Stones, Eloy, Pink Floyd, Queen, Twisted Sister, Manowar, Sisters of Mercy, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, Soulfly, Combichrist, Rammstein, Diary of Dreams, Suicide Commando, Manilla Road, Omen, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Omega Tribe, Alphaville, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Grendel, Red Sparrowes, Subway to Sally, E Nomine, Goethes Erben, Bauhaus, Clan of Xymox, Swans, Dead Can Dance, Sex Gang Children, The Danse Society, The Cassandra Complex, Nick Cave, Marilyn Manson, etc...
Most memorable concert(s): Metallica and The Cult 1993 Athens, Saxon and Slayer - Rock of Gods in Athens, Rammstein 2010 Athens, The Cramps, Screamin' Jay Hawkins Athens

 

Askar Ibragimov

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Origin: Helsinki, Finland
Responsibilities: Photography and Concert Reviews, CD Reviews
Personal interests: photography, programming
Fav. bands/artist: Before the Dawn, Orgia Pravednikov, melodic death metal, industrial, folk-rock, some EBM.
Most memorable concert(s): Eisbrecher at Amphi 2010, Fields of the Nephilim @ Tuska 2008


 

JeeJay

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Origin: Liverpool / UK
Responsibilities: Concert and CD reviews / Interviews
Personal interests: Music, parties, cinema, friends, cooking, travelling
Fav. bands/artist: Gary Numan, De/Vision, Mesh, Simple Minds, Duran Duran, OMD, Marsheaux, Wolfsheim, Waiting For Words, Covenant, Camouflage and many more...
Most memorable concert(s): Too many to mention :)

 

Kira Kalinina

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Origin: Moscow, Russia
Responsibilities: CD & Concert Reviews, Interviews
Personal interests: Music, Germany, journalism, literature, languages, psycho-logic, natural science
Fav. bands/artist: Björk, Jeff Buckley, Crosses, Dead Combo, Diary of Dreams, Emilie Autumn, IAMX, Irrepressibles, Kamelot, OOMPH!, Rob Dougan, Spiritual Front, Torul, World Within and many more...
Most memorable concert(s): OOMPH! in Moscow (2007), Spiritual Front (all of them), Torul in Moscow (2014)

 

Stephen Kennedy

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Origin: London, UK
Responsibilities: CD & Concert Reviews, Interviews
Personal interests: Going to gigs, travel, reading, eating-out, wildlife photography, real-ale pubs
Fav. bands/artist: Swans, Sopor Aeternus, Anaal Nathrakh, Gnaw Their Tongues, The Chameleons, The Beauty of Gemina, The Spiritual Bat, Dead Can Dance, Fields of the Nephilim, Gary Numan, Angels of Light, Anathema, The Fall, Sex Gang Children
Most memorable concert(s): Swans at London's Koko. Unbelievably loud and raw

 

Nikos Konstantinou

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Origin: Megara Attikis Greece
Responsibilties: CD reviews
Personal Interests: music(listening and DJing), concerts, parties.
Fav. bands/artists: Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, Inxs, Duran Duran, VNV Nation, Diary of Dreams, Deine Lakaien, De/Vision, Schiller and many more
Most memorable concerts:Depeche Mode (Malakasa 2006), Simple Minds (Athens 2006), Angra(Athens 1997), Wolfsheim (Athens 2004), Thievery Corporation (Thessaloniki 2003), Page/Plant (Bucharest 1998), Lowe (Athens 2011), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Athens 2012)

 

Colin McNamara

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Origin: USA
Responsibilities: Concert and CD reviews / Interviews
Personal interests: Metal, dogs, tennis, theme parks, thai tea, D&D
Fav. bands/artist: It changes every day so to update this would drive me mad
Most memorable concert(s): Fear Factory campaign 2010 (where I fell in love with Prong's sound after disliking them for two years.)

 

Nataly Night

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Origin: Tula, Russia
Responsibilities: Concert-, CD Reviews, Interviews
Personal interests: music, anime/manga, mythology, martial arts, Japan, literature, theatre, swords/katana, travelling, foreign languages
Fav. bands/artist: Blackmore's Night, Diary of Dreams, Diorama, Eisbrecher, In Extremo, Megaherz, Megumi Hayashibara, Nickelback, Nightmare, Nirvana, OOMPH!, Opeth, Origa, Poisonblack, Savage Garden, Sentenced, Three Days Grace, To Destination
Most memorable concert(s): in the future

 

Christopher Nosnibor

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Origin: UK
Responsibilities: CD Reviews
Personal interests: Creating and consuming far-out fiction; strong coffee; strong ales; astral projection; all things music.
Fav. bands/artist: The Sisters of Mercy, Foetus, Godflesh, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Joy Division, The Cure, Swans, Big Black, Killing Joke, Whitehouse, Bauhaus, The Twilight Sad, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana. So many bands, so little time....
Most memorable concert(s): The Sisters of Mercy – Leeds University, 16.02.1991; Foetus – The Leadmill, Sheffield, May 1996; Sunn O))) – The Sage, Gateshead, December 2009; Pulled Apart by Horses – The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, June 2010; A Place to Bury Strangers – The Cockpit, Leeds, May 2012.

 
Craig Podmore

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Origin: Manchester, UK
Responsibilities: CD Reviews
Personal interests: Reading/writing prose & poetry, literature, cinema, music, art, photography, philosophy and going to gigs.
Fav. bands/artist: Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Joy Division, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, The Horrors, iLIKETRAINS, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Joy Formidable plus so much more!
Most memorable concert(s): PJ Harvey, Manchester Apollo, September 2011
 

Petra Whiteley

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Origin: North Dorset, UK
Responsibilities: CD reviews, Interviews
Personal interests: Reading/writing poetry, literature, music, art, independent cinema, studying philosophy and history
Fav. bands/artist: Diary of Dreams, Rammstein, My Dying Bride, Diorama, Laibach, Tool, Isis, Combichrist, Tactical Sekt, Apocalyptica, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Unheilig, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, The Fields of the Nephilim and many more
Most memorable concert(s): Rammstein/Combichrist London and Athens 2010

 
 

Freelance

Kai Bimber - Germany
Phil Blackmarquis - Belgium
Holger Bücker - Germany
Björn Butzen - Germany
Ruth Gräbeldinger - Germany
Maddi Isaacs - Germany
Madlen Köhn - Germany
Thomas Köhn - Germany
Pia Krah - Germany
Carsten Leopold - Germany
Marcin Majewski - Poland
Hemi Malkki - Netherlands
Marcus Nathofer - Germany
Kat Newman - Sweden
Julia Nuys - Estonia
Holm Pajung - Germany
Vera "Elsa" Petrij - Ukraine
Kathrin Renner - Germany
Natalia Stupnikova - Russia
Janine Szakacs - Germany
Daria Szegeda - Ukraine / Germany
Jan Termath - Germany
Susan Thorsen - USA
Erik Tomren - USA
Thomas Winter - Germany
Lisa Young In - Germany

 
 

Past Members

Natalie van Aalst - Netherlands
Linda Aarts - Netherlands
Kira Appelt - Germany
Thomas Adorff - Germany
Ilona B. - Netherlands
Gema Bate - UK
Alex Blyg - Germany
Joyce van den Borst - Netherlands
Eva Brem - Norway
Cristel Brouwer - Netherlands
Jolijn Calle - Netherlands
Samantha Collins - USA
Silvia Deurwaarder - Netherlands
Monica Duffels - Netherlands
Christos Doukakis - Greece
Myrna Fraters - Netherlands
Oliver Garrandt - Germany
Roos Glastra - Netherlands
Sam Grant - UK
Eric Hazebroek - Netherlands
Hendrik Hedlund - Sweden
Edward John Kreissl - Germany
Lars Krüger - Germany
Josie Leopold - Germany
Fabien Mahaut - France
Stephan Mehrer - Netherlands
Karolina Moszkowicz - Poland
Cathy Nähring - USA
Cathie Niemann - Germany
Rebekka Nietzke - Germany
Mattias Nordgren - Sweden
Stephane Odent - Belgium
Sean M. Palfrey - UK
Natalie Perez - USA
Steffy Rebou - Germany
Diletta Siagianni - Greece
Carolin Schulten - Germany
Marcus Siegel - Germany
Evelyne Steenberghe - Netherlands
Martina Törnemyr - Sweden
Helena Torstensson - Sweden
Liuba "Era Gray" Usacheva - Russia
Eric Jan Visser - Netherlands
Wolfgang Volk - Germany
Sandra Wendeborn - Germany
Dana Wernicke - Germany
Elsabijn van der Valk - Netherlands
Dirk Zimmerschied - Germany

 

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