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Concert review: Caliban, In Hearts Wake, Cabal & Assemble the Chariots, Dynamo Eindhoven, 6 May 2025
I bought the tickets for this show with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I was super excited to see Caliban again. On the other hand, I was a little worried since the last time I saw them was at Free For All and it wasn’t exactly my favourite gig in 2024. Then again, I got even more excited when they finally released their new album Back From Hell, because this album is amazing. But also I wasn’t super into the idea of four bands in one evening on a week day. The alternative would’ve been buying tickets for their show in Cologne, but a) I don’t really like the Essigfabrik…
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Concert Review: Samurai Pizza Cats & Enemy Inside, Club Volta Cologne, 1 May 2025
It’s been a while since I last saw the Samurai Pizza Cats, and I think I’ve never been to a headline show before, so I was pretty excited about this one. The excitement grew even more when they announced that people coming to the show in a super hero costume would get a goodie. While I didn’t plan to wear a super hero costume myself, I expected this show to be fun. And it was – although it was probably one of the hottest days of the year.
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Festival review: Rock for Tolerance Friday – 21 June 2024
Rock for Tolerance was my first festival in 2024. After seeing Oceans twice this year already, I was a bit in an Oceans-phase. When I read that they would headline Rock for Tolerance, which meant a longer set than we’d ever seen of them, and that the festival was only about 2-2.5 hours away, I bought tickets without thinking too much about it. Thankfully I was also allowed to take photos, lots of love to the RfT-staff. However, I only went there on Friday. The line-up on Saturday wasn’t my cup of tea and I felt a little ill anyway, so I really needed to rest and we didn’t go…
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Concert review: I Prevail, Set It Off & Kid Bookie, Mitsubishi Electric Halle Düsseldorf, 11 May 2024
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…
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Concert review: The Warning & Conquer Divide, Live Music Hall Cologne, 17 April 2024
Yet another concert I visited to see the support act. This tour was Conquer Divide’s first tour ever in Europe. I’m a big fan of their music since their feature in Electric Callboy’s Fuckboi, so I was super excited to hear that they would finally play shows in Germany. Only that those shows were sold out before they were even announced as support and I can tell that this was the most painful struggle for tickets ever, worse than Bad Omens or BMTH, because while in the latter cases, most resale tickets were just ridiculously overpriced, there were almost no resale tickets for this Cologne show at all. In the…
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Concert review: Normandie, As December Falls & Self Deception, Technikum Munich, 16 March 2024
How far do you go to see a band you love play a set of 30 minutes? In that case: a 6 hour train ride all the way to Munich. I know, there are people who travel with the band, but I’m sure none of those are full-time teachers. So for me and my circumstances, this is quite a distance to travel for only a concert – and I think so far this has been one of the furthest trips I’ve made for a concert exclusively. Anyway, this was the second show of this tour that I attended. I was also at their show in Cologne, but since I had…
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Concert review: Our Mirage, Oceans & Maelføy, Don’t Panic Essen, 9 March 2024
Second round of this tour. I can tell straight away that this will be less of a concert review – because this time I got a photo pass (for the first time – or second, somehow, if we count that one time Self Deception just allowed me to bring a better camera) and since I was very busy moving around to take photos I didn’t take much in of the concert. A pity, but also a great opportunity.
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Concert review: Bad Omens & Poppy, Stadthalle Offenbach, 2 February 2024 // Poppodium 013 Tilburg, 4 February
Here’s another round of Bad Omens. Yay. This review is split into two halves, one for each show, but since there isn’t that much difference to say I guess it’s not worth making two seperate posts
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Concert review: Architects, Spiritbox & Loathe, Halle Münsterland Münster, 27 January 2024
Sometimes you just buy concert tickets for the sake of going to a concert I guess. And this one wasn’t even a tactically clever choice. When we read that Architects would play their only show in Germany in Münster, which is not far from where we live, we decided to go there although none of us is that much of an Architects fan. I occasionally have them in my Spotify mixtapes and I honestly don’t know many of their songs, but we’d also seen Spiritbox at Full Force before and thought they were cool, so why not? So we bought the tickets and went for a surprise.
