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About Reinier de Vries

Once a metal head, always a metalhead. My parents thought it would only be a period, but they were wrong. I quit to explain the beauty of metal music to others that are not into metal, because it is something you can't tell in words... It is like explaining to a teetotaller why a cold beer is so nice on a hot day... I started with bands like Accept, Metal Church, Iron Maiden and Metallica in the eighties and I think I will still listen to them when I'm stone deaf and old...

Epica – The Solace System

28th August 2017 Reinier de Vries

For many bands, an EP is a quick release in between albums to keep the fans satisfied in the long wait for a new album. This is not the case for Epica with The Solace System. Not [Read »]

Paradise Lost – Medusa

28th August 2017 Reinier de Vries

After Paradise Lost’s fifth album, Draconian Times, my interest in the band faded. Their music got less extreme album after album, and One Second for me was the straw that broke the camel’s back. It was with [Read »]

Portrait – Burn the World

19th August 2017 Reinier de Vries

No idea if the band name has something to do with the King Diamond album Fatal Portrait, but a big part of the music certainly has big influences from King Diamond and Mercyful Fate. The line [Read »]

Byzantine – The Cicade Tree

28th July 2017 Reinier de Vries

July and August are the months with the lowest number of new releases. Because of that, they are also not the most interesting or best releases in a year. However, this time the new Byzantine [Read »]

Prong – Zero Days

28th July 2017 Reinier de Vries

There are not a lot of bands with an unique sound in the thrash scene. Prong however is a band you recognize immediately. Their typical combination of thrash, hardcore and a squeeze of industrial is [Read »]

Adagio – Life

27th July 2017 Reinier de Vries

More than seven years after the release of Archangels in Black, the new album of Stéphan Forté and his band Adagio is done. The band again has many new members, of which Kelly Sundown Carpenter is [Read »]

Thalamus – Hiding From Daylight

7th July 2017 Reinier de Vries

I have to be honest; I never listened to a song (as far as I can remember) from the band Thalamus before. Hiding From Daylight is their fourth album and they don’t play a style I [Read »]

Rancid – Troublemaker

5th July 2017 Reinier de Vries

Every now and then, I get out of my comfort zone, to review something other than thrash, power, death, or progressive metal. I have a soft spot for Rancid, their punk based music is something I [Read »]

Burning Hatred – Carnage

29th June 2017 Reinier de Vries

If you would like some history about Burning Hatred, I advise you to click on the band’s name above. I am going to immediately talk about the new album Carnage! This is not a completely new [Read »]

Dead Head – Swine Plague

21st June 2017 Reinier de Vries

BOOOOOOMMMMM! Right in your face! If you regularly listen to albums at maximum volume, you had better turn it down, otherwise your speakers will explode. This is how Slayer, Kreator, and Exodus were in their [Read »]