Photo Reports

Black and white photo of a concert shot from the right side of the stage. The left half of the image is darkened with the audience on the bottom left. Light streams in from the top right down to the middle center, illuminating the stage. The sihouette of a guitar player can be seen at the front of the stage, approaching the crowd.

After almost 30 years of rocking Flemish stages, the legendary Clement Peerens Explosition is calling it quits or as they would say “kuist zijn schup af”. A sad loss for Belgian music, but we were there to capture them going out with a blast at one of their farewell shows at De Roma in Antwerp.

Sabaton came all the way from Sweden with their theatrics and pyrotechnics to almost literally set Antwerps biggest venue on fire and brought Amaranthe and Apocalyptica to heat things up even more.

After bringing Danko Jones to Zappa last year, our friends from MCLX flew in some more Canadian power. This time they presented us the smooth southern rock of Monster Truck and as support they brought Royal Tusk.

We often talk about how heavy, technical or fancy music and live gigs can be, but in the end we’re all there to have a hell of a good time, right? Well, that’s what Rock ‘n; Load VZW and Dead Punks Society were thinking when they joined forces to get Mad Caddies over to Belgium. […]

Check out the pics of an awesome small venue show of Godsmack!

Check out the pictures of an amazing anniversary show by Belgian rockers Triggerfinger!

Twenty years. Two decades. Almost an entire generation. That’s how long long the Beglian rockers of Triggerfinger have been around. That calls for a celebration, right?

Darkness. Cold. Fire. Silence. A big crowd. Mistery. A missing band. And a climactic bang!
Sounds like an episode of Game of Thrones? Nope! I’m talking about Danko Jones passing through Zappa, Antwerp.

In October our friends from Bearded Punk Records managed to get Frenzal Rhomb all the way from Australia to Kavka, Antwerp. As if that wasn’t reason enough to rush out for a ticket they threw in some of the godfathers of Belgian punk rock F.O.D.! Before F.O.D. played You Nervous? shook the stage and as a warm up Bearded Punk’s own For I Am gave it their best.

On friday october fifth legendary indie rockers “The Fratellis” finally honored Belgium with another visit after so many years. Better yet, they played in one of the most beautiful venues Belgium has: De Casino. Opening for The Fratellis was a band called Mona from Nashville, Tennesee. Forty five minutes have seldom passed so quickly.

Gig Reports

Graham Gouldman - 10cc

Back in 1972 legendary British hit machine 10cc first took place in the spotlight and they never left. We were invited to witness what felt as a complete best of with all their greatest hits and enjoyed every single minute of it.

Twenty years. Two decades. Almost an entire generation. That’s how long long the Beglian rockers of Triggerfinger have been around. That calls for a celebration, right?

On friday october fifth The Fratellis finally honored Belgium with another visit after so many years. Better even, they came to one of the most beautiful venues Belgium has: De Casino. Opening for The Fratellis was a band called Mona from Nashville, Tennesee. Forty five minutes have seldom passed so quickly.

On the 31st of march, Black Label Society came to present their new album ‘Grimmest Hits’ at the Trix venue in Antwerp.

Some of the world’s finest doom metal bands got together at Amuz in Antwerp to play a very special show that will be remembered by every single person in the small audience.

On the 3rd of January, long-haired stoners gathered at Kavka, Antwerp to see Karma To Burn play!

On the 4th of November, the first edition of grindcore and noise festival Grind Waarpen took place at Kavka in (of course) the beautiful city of Antwaarpen!

De boodschap die August Burns Red ons meegaf, is dat Messengers na tien jaar nog steeds een relevant album is in het metalcoregenre!

An arena filled with fans shouting out the lyrics and you’ve got yourself a party

An arena filled with fans shouting out the lyrics and you’ve got yourself a party