Kamelot (+Delain, Battle Beast) – The Shadow Tour North America (Silver Spring, New York City, Clifton Park)

I've been following various bands across Europe for many years now and have visited many different countries this way, most of them more than once. By doing so, I was never able to bring up the financial means to travel to another continent, since I spent every cent on European roads. At some point, I …

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Bloodbath – Dark Easter Metal Meeting 2018

Bloodbath, supergroup of Swedish death metal. Bloodbath, currently consisting of the founding members of Katatonia along with the drummer of Opeth and the singer of Paradise Lost. Not a band you'll catch live very often. Bloodbath playing a black/death metal festival in Munich, just one day before I was going to be in town for …

Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending (Mehr! Theater Hamburg, De Oosterpoort Groningen)

I don't like listening to the same kind of music over and over again. Especially I don't need tons of bands that all sound more or less the same. On the contrary, I'm always searching for new sounds and things I haven't heard before, bands that surprise and impress me. Which gets difficult after a …