Schlagwort: concert

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: Turmion Kätilöt & King Satan, Club Volta Cologne, 19 January 2025

Posted on admin

This concert was a long awaited one. I’ve been a fan of Turmion Kätilöt for about 16 years, roughly. Back then, a friend of mine sent me the first episode of an animated online series called Bunnykill. The background music struck me immediately: a heavy industrial metal song in Finnish. It was Turmion Kätilöt’s second single Verta Ja Lihaa, which then made me dig up more music of that band. I fell for Turmion Kätilöt and kept listening to them. I missed their last headline tour with stops in Germany, so this time I was lucky to squeeze one of the shows into my concert schedule. They came in tow with another Finnish band that combines heavy music with electronic sounds: King Satan were a perfect match for that evening. Here’s how it was in more detail.

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: Versengold, Schandmaul & Doppelbock, Winterlights Revierpark Dortmund, 13 December 2024

Posted on admin

When Versengold and Schandmaul were announced for 2024’s medieval Christmas market in Dortmund, I was super excited. Firstly, I had decided to stop seeing Versengold outside of „medieval“ settings at some point, so I was pleased to be offered another chance to see them. And secondly, I could give Schandmaul another chance, whom I had seen several years ago and didn’t enjoy the show very much (poor sound, boring crowd). There was an unexpected plot twist though when first the location changed from Fredenbaumpark to Revierpark in Dortmund and finally, a few weeks prior to the first concerts, the medieval Christmas market had to be cancelled. Very sad. There’ll be a few more details on that below the cut.

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: Erdling & Hand of Juno, Kulttempel Oberhausen, 8 November 2024

Posted on admin

Do you happen to have a band you don’t listen to very actively, but as soon as you have the chance to see them live you take the chance with great pleasure? For me, one such band is Erdling. I’ve seen them live for the first time at a small medieval festival in Merseburg and their stage energy blew me away. Yet, their music has never really made it into my playlists. I still went to see them at Summer Breeze this year and I did not hesitate to buy tickets for their anniversary tour. And I can tell you so much: It was worth it!

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: Self Deception, Eyes Wide Open & THECITYISOURS, Club Volta Cologne, 5 December 2024

Posted on admin

Once again I’ve been to two shows of Self Deception’s current headline tour with their new album Destroy The Art. And stuff’s getting a little complicated, because a) I took photos at both shows but b) only at the first show in Vechta I took photos of THECITYISOURS and Eyes Wide Open and c) I don’t have the best memory of the show in Vechta because I started feeling terribly unwell mid-show, which overshadowed large parts of the concert experience. So in my review, I’ll focus on the Cologne show, which I could enjoy to the fullest. I’ll most likely prepare a separate gallery post for my photos from Vechta.

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: One Morning Left & Lost in Hollywood, MTC Cologne, 31 October 2024

Posted on admin

Other people visit Halloween parties, I decided to attend a concert. It’s been two very long years since I last saw One Morning Left live at Escalation Fest in 2022. Unfortunately, they then had to cancel their European headline tour in the same year due to bad ticket sales. So it’s unsurprising that their tour this year was called „Buy tickets for this tour tour 2024“. Well, so I did – and I was hyped – and here’s a little spoiler: IT WAS WORTH IT. One Morning Left might have made rank 2 in the best concerts of 2024 (no one will get past Imminence).

Cat Links concert review

Concert Review: Equilibrium, Oceans & Scar of the Sun, Musikzentrum Hannover, 28 October 2024

Posted on admin

First of all: This concert was actually headlined by Septicflesh, but we left before the headliner, so they’re not included in this little recap of mine. I mostly went there for Oceans and Equilibrium and it was a fairly spontaneous decision to visit this show as well (I went to the same tour in Bochum but I’m not going to review Bochum out of personal reasons, I’ll only upload a photo gallery later) after Oceans released their new album HAPPY. So here’s my little report.

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: Illumishade & Seraina Telli, Turock Essen, 28 September 2024

Posted on admin

It’s been quiet for a while. I didn’t visit many concerts in summer – two more festivals (MPS Bückeburg & Summer Breeze), but due to some difficulties I didn’t feel much like blogging about them. And since I didn’t feel all to well during the show of Insomnium in Essen last month, I also skipped that one for blogging. So now I’m back with another Illumishade show. Actually the headliner was Visions of Atlantis, but out of multiple reasons I left before the headliner. That means I’ll focus on the opener Seraina Telli and Illumishade as special guest and I won’t say anything about Visions of Atlantis (I plan to see their show on Wednesday in Tilburg)

Cat Links concert review

Festival Review: Free for All Festival, Stapelmoor, 20 13 July 2024

Posted on admin

Festival number 2 this year – yet another one that took us roughly 2.5 hours of travel, this time towards the north. The main reason we decided to go there were Caliban, who I personally loved a lot at Full Force last year. Another big plus was that Maelføy were part of the line-up and we’d also seen Venues before (as support for Blind Channel), so all in all the line-up didn’t sound too bad given the price. Here’s my little festival report.

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: St Aurora (& The Night Flight Orchestra), Tavastia Helsinki, 17 May 2024

Posted on admin

This show was probably one of my most awaited shows in the past few years. St Aurora are one of my favourite Spotify discoveries. Their song They All Remember popped up in a Spotify mixtape of my girlfriend in September 2021 and since then, I lost my heart to this band. Players of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty might be familiar with their song Going To Heaven – which is an absolute banger. I was super excited when I found out that they play a support show in Helsinki during the time I would be there for a seminar, which gave me the opportunity to see them live for the very first time. Here’s how it went.

Cat Links concert review

Concert review: I Prevail, Set It Off & Kid Bookie, Mitsubishi Electric Halle Düsseldorf, 11 May 2024

Posted on admin

When I saw I Prevail in 2023, I was fairly unimpressed. To be fair, I was there for the support act (Blind Channel), and I got ill before the second show I saw of them. Considering this, I decided to give them a second chance and I got tickets for their tour this year almost as soon as they went on sale. I wasn’t too positive about the show when they announced shortly before the tour started that they would have to do it without Brian. So to be honest, even on the road there I was still almost convinced that the evening wouldn’t go too well. Let’s see if I was right.