Nieuwjaarsgroet 2018 en de redactiejaarlijstjes!

Het jaar zit er weer op en dus moet er op Zware Metalen traditiegetrouw een nieuwjaarsgroet verschijnen. Deze wordt zoals gewoonlijk ook vergezeld door de jaarlijstjes van de betrokken redactieleden. Laten we er geen doekjes om winden: 2018 was het meest succesvolle jaar in het negentienjarige bestaan van Zware Metalen. Om dit toe te lichten, hebben we de volgende reeks getallen op een rij gezet:

  • Met meer dan een miljoen paginaweergaven en meer dan 200.000 unieke bezoekers is het leesverkeer ruim 15% hoger dan het vorige jaar.
  • De leestijd van alle bezoekers is uit te drukken als 2.88 mensen die iedere seconde van 2018 een artikel op Zware Metalen gelezen hebben.
  • We verkochten meer dan 150 exclusieve Zware Metalen-shirts met de opdruk van Immolation-zanger/gitarist Ross Dolan.
  • Zware Metalen stond in de programmaboekjes en spande haar bouwhekbanner uit op festivals als FortaRock, Pitfest, Baroeg Open Air, Alcatraz, Into The Grave, Antwerp Metal Fest en Dynamo Metalfest.
  • Er verschenen 964 albumrecensies, 278 liveverslagen, 815 nieuwsberichten en 69 interviews.
  • Er werd voor ruim 25.000 euro aan concertkaartjes via prijsvragen verloot.
  • Het redactieteam bevat inmiddels meer dan 50 leden.
  • Op onze nieuw gelanceerde Instagrampagina werden meer dan 1.500 volgers verzameld.
  • We verwelkomden ongeveer 2.000 nieuwe volgers op onze Facebookpagina.

Daarnaast lanceerden we op de valreep de opnieuw ingedeelde en vormgegeven voorpagina, waar we zelf zeer tevreden over zijn. Partnerschappen werden aangegaan met Doc Holliday Metal Productions, FortaRock, Pitfest, Masters Of Grind, Dood & Verderf, Paard, Baroeg, Baroeg Open Air, P60, Alcatraz, Bloodshed Fest, Black Earth Festival, Raw Skull Recordz, Schoonebeek Deathfest, Roest en Metal Front Coevoorden. Achter de schermen zijn een hoop administratieve vernieuwingen doorgevoerd die het functioneren van de monoliet die Zware Metalen geworden is zo behapbaar mogelijk houden.

Ondanks dat Zware Metalen in ieder opzicht groter is dan ooit tevoren, worden de grondbeginselen nog steeds nageleefd. Die zijn kort samen te vatten als #inbedding: het ondersteunen van alle facetten van de metalmuziek in Nederland en België, alsook het bevorderen van het saamhorigheidsgevoel tussen liefhebbers en musici. Daar is de hechte, vijftigkoppige redactie van Zware Metalen verantwoordelijk voor. Iedere dag weer. In deze nieuwjaarsgroet is het mij dus geboden om als mede-hoofdredacteur op de knietjes te gaan en de voeten te kussen van iedereen die actief betrokken is bij het draaiend houden van deze prachtige website.

Maar alle bestaansrecht van Zware Metalen gaat naar onze lezers. Want wie schrijft, wil gelezen worden. En dat doen jullie in steeds grotere getale. Althans, dat vertelt Google Analytics ons. Die waardering voor ons werk doet ons goed en samen zorgen we er voor dat we de wereldwijde en lokale metalscene niet alleen in leven houden, maar laten bruisen. Moge dat in 2019 weer het geval zijn!

Dan is het nu traditiegetrouw tijd voor de jaarlijstjes van de redactieleden. Zelf heb je nog even de tijd om je eigen jaarlijstje voor de ZM Jaarlijst 2018 in te dienen. Wellicht kun je uit de onderstaande lijstjes wat inspiratie putten!

 

Pim Kastelein

1. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
2. Against All Logic – 2012 – 2017
3. Vein – Errorzone
4. Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth
5. Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams
6. Pusha T – DAYTONA
7. Rival Consoles – Persona
8. J.I.D. – DiCaprio 2
9. Maribou State – Kingdoms In Colour
10. Nils Frahm – All Melody
11. GoGo Penguin – A Humdrum Star
12. BROCKHAMPTON – iridescence
13. Death Grips – Year Of The Snitch
14. WhoMadeWho – Through The Walls
15. Birds In Row – We Already Lost The World
16. JPEGMAFIA – VETERAN
17. Foxing – Nearer My God
18. Tomb Mold – Manor Of Infinite Forms
19. Slaves – Acts Of Fear And Love
20. Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile

Eervolle vermeldingen: KEN Mode, Drug Church, Jon Hopkins, Thrice, Bongripper, Basement, Sleep, Ondt Blod, Primal Rite, Mantar, Candy, Homewrecker.

Overige:

  1. Maribou State – Nervous Tics (DJ Tennis Remix)
  2. Sufjan Stevens – Mystery Of Love
  3. The Nietzsche – The Parnassus
  4. Night Verses – Copper Wasp
  5. Converge – Beautiful Ruin

Optredens:

1. The National – Best Kept Secret Festival
2. Nils Frahm – Paradiso, Amsterdam
3. BROCKHAMPTON – Terminal 5, New York
4. Converge – Roadburn (You Fail Me)
5. Stephen Brodsky & Adam McGrath – Roadburn (Tribute to Caleb Scofield)

Missers:

1. A$AP Rocky – Testing
2. Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
3. YOB – Our Raw Heart
4. Conan – Existential Void Guardian
5. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse

Nieuwkomers:

1. The Nietzsche
2. Sectioned
3. Primal Rite
4. Candy
5. Jesus Piece

 

The Ghostwriter

1. Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering
2. Faal – Desolate Grief
3. Convocation – Scars Across
4. Wrekmeister Harmonies – The Alone Rush
5. Just Before Dawn – Tides of Blood
6. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkness
7. Mournful Congregation – The Incubus of Karma
8. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
9. A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
10. Summoning – With Doom We Come
11. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben het Goed III
12. Winterfylleth – The Hallowing of Heirdom
13. Judas Priest – Firepower
14. The Monolith Deathcult – V2 – Vergelding: Dawn of the Planet of the Ashes
15. Bloodbath – The Arrow of Satan is Drawn
16. Pestilence – Hadeon
17. Marduk – Viktoria
18. Create A Kill – Summoned to Rise
19. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
20. Avatar – Avatar Country

Nèt buiten de lijst gevallen: Shining, Watain, Anaal Nathrakh, Sinistro, Mangler, Bleeding Gods en Et Moriemur.

Overige:

1. Itnuveth – Pagan Martyrs
2. Kjeld – Banner fan Frisia
3. Dodecahedron – Live in Leiden
4. Officium Triste / Lapsus Dei – Broken Memories
5. Sodom – Partisan

Optredens:

1. Emperor – 013, Tilburg
2. Amenra – Gebr. De Nobel, Leiden
3. Mysticum – Neushoorn, Leeuwarden
4. Satyricon – Alcatraz, Kortrijk
5. Behemoth – Alcatraz, Kortrijk

Missers:

1. Machine Head – Catharsis
2. Ghost – Prequelle
3. Suicidal Tendencies – Still Cyco Punk After All These Years en Get Your Fight On!
4. Aankondiging van het einde van Slayer.
5. De ongefundeerde haatcampagne die is gestart tegen black metal en waar artiesten, zalen en bestuurders zo makkelijk in meegaan.

Nieuwkomers:

1. Convocation
2. Create A Kill
3. Mouflon

 

Yves Pelgrims

1. Wagakki Band – Otonoe
2. Zeal and Ardor – Stranger Fruit
3. A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
4. Band-Maid – World Domination
5. Paragon Impure – Sade
6. Thy Catafalque – Geometria
7. Radwimps – Anti Anti Generation
8. Perfume – Future pop
9. Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
10. Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
11. Arkona – Khram
12. Summoning – With Doom We Came
13. Panchrysia – Dogma
14. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
15. Shining – X – Varg Utan Flock
16. Ghost – Prequelle
17. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
18. Scandal – Honey
19. Twice – BDZ
20. Kyary pamyu pamyu – Japamyu

Optredens:

1. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – The Kantine, Keulen
2. Paragon Impure – JC Paddestoel, Groot-Bijgaarden
3. Zeal & Ardor – Graspop, Dessel
4. Behemoth – Alcatraz
5. Band-Maid – Melkweg, Amsterdam

Missers:

1. Het nieuwe concept van Babymetal
2. Ufomammut live
3. Korpiklaani – Kulkija
4. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
5. Start over van Band-maid

 

Clemens Schaap

1. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
2. Marduk – Viktoria
3. At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself
4. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
5. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
6. Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
7. Just Before Dawn – Tides Of Blood
8. Angantyr – Ulykke
9. Sathanas – Necrohymns
10. Judas Priest – Firepower
11. De Profundis – The Blinding Light Of Faith
12. Inquisitor – Stigmata Me, I’m In Misery
13. Saxon – Thunderbolt

 

Frank Geerligs

1. The Lion’s Daughter – Future Cult
2. Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
3. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
4. Order Ov Riven Cathedrals – Göbekli Tepe
5. Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog
6. Helrunar – Vanitas Vanitavm
7. Antimatter – Black Market Enlightenment
8. Schwarzer Engel – Kult Der Krähe
9. Zeal And Ardor – Stranger Fruit
10. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
11. Finnr’s Cane – Elegy
12. Crone – Godspeed
13. Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik – Hugsjá
14. Svartidauði – Revelations Of The Red Sword
15. Ancestors – Suspended In Reflection
16. Famyne – Famyne
17. Spurv – Myra
18. Carnation – The Chapel Of Abhorrence
19. Judas Priest – Firepower
20. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest

Eervolle vermeldingen: Satan, Wolfheart, Anaal Nathrakh, Marduk, Jaye Jayle, Fu Manchu, Drudkh, Long Distance Calling, A Storm Of Light, Hekate en Barst.

Overige:

1. Bâ’a /Verfallen/Hyrgal – Split
2. Witte Wieven/Reiziger – Vlucht (split)
3. Minsk/Zatokrev – Bigod (split)
4. Asylum – Domination (EP)
5. Candlemass – House Of Doom (EP)

Optredens:

1. Amenra – Stevenskerk & Doornroosje, Nijmegen
2. Iron Maiden – Waldbühne, Berlijn
3. Wiegedood – Roadburn 2018 – 013, Tilburg
4. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – Roadburn 2018 – 013, Tilburg
5. Exodus – Lido, Berlijn

Teleurstelling:

Ghost – Prequelle

Nieuwkomers:

1. Carnation
2. Vouna
3. Asylum

 

Bart ‘Hypnos’ Alfvoet

1. Ævangelist – Matricide in the Temple of Omega
2. Arkhtinn – 最初の災害
3. Servants Of The Apocalyptic Goat Rave – Queen Of Darkness
4. Reverorum ib Malacht – Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas innoble
5. Mahr – Antelux
6. Master Boot Record – Virus.DOS
7. Borgne – [∞]
8. Hardcore Anal Hydrogen – HyperCut
9. Stilla – Synviljor
10. The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
11. Pryapisme – Epic Loon OST
12. Clouds – Dor
13. Ov Shadows – The Darkness Between Stars
14. Amaranthe – Helix
15. Himelvaruwe – Hemelpoort
16. Convocation – Scars Across
17. Unreqvited – Stars Wept to the Sea
18. Knokkelklang – Jeg Begraver
19. Entropia – Vacuum
20. Solar Temple – Fertile Descent

Overige:

1. Arkhtinn – demo’s – allemaal!
2. Alle spul van Matron Thorn
3. Fluisteraars/Turia, wat een epische split!
4. Nederlandse black in de lift!
5. Imber Luminis, Whoredom Rife en Acathexis net niet in de lijst

Optredens:

1. Naglfar – Aalst
2. Hecate Enthroned – Roeselare
3. Behemoth – Alcatraz
4. The Wounded – St-Niklaas
5. Dodecahedron – St-Niklaas

Missers:

1. Ministry – Anti(?)fail
2. Metalsucks (Fuck’em) –
3. Limp Bizkit Live (zo mogelijk nog slechter dan ik verwachtte) –
4. Het einde van Fallen Empire Records –

Nieuwkomer:

Ars Magna Umbrae

 

Marleen van de Kerkhof

1. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
2. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned Coming Undone
3. The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough
4. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
5. The Vintage Caravan – Gateways
6. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
7. Møl – Jord
8. Lucifer’s Child – The Order
9. Avatar – Avatar Country
10. Vreid – Lifehunger
11. Sargeist – Unbound
12. Skeletonwitch – Devouring Radiant Sunlight
13. Marduk – Viktoria
14. Immortal – Nothern Chaos Gods
15. Ihsahn – Àmr
16. Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering
17. Archgoat – The Luciferian Crown
18. Shylmagoghnar – Transience
19. Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth
20. GosT – Possessor

Optredens:

1. Behemoth – Into the Grave, Leeuwarden
2. Rotting Christ – Tivoli De Helling, Utrecht
3. Satyricon – Patronaat, Haarlem
4. Ne Obliviscaris – Progressive Metal Alliance, Eindhoven
5. The Night Flight Orchestra – Willemeen, Arnhem

Misser:

Dimmu Borgir – Eonian

Nieuwkomer:

Khôrada

 

René de Jonge

1. The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes the World Ain’t Enough
2. Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth
3. Ace Frehley – Spaceman
4. Judas Priest – Firepower
5. Overruled – Hybris
6. Against Evil – All Hail the King
7. Christian Tolle Project – Point Blank
8. Gama Bomb – Speed Between the Lines
9. Alien Weaponry – Tū
10. Audrey Horne – Blackout
11. Hatesphere – Reduced to Flesh
12. Hatchet – Dying to Exist
13. Metal Church – Damned If You Do
14. Michael Romeo – War of the Worlds // Pt. 1
15. Objector – Social Intolerance
16. Ghost – Prequelle

Overige:

1. Maiden United – Empire of the Clouds (EP)
2. Burning – The P.I.D. Files (EP)
3. Sodom – Partisan (EP)

Optredens:

1. Prong – Vera, Groningen
2. Evil Invaders/Distillator/Overruled – Simplon, Groningen
3. G3 – Oosterpoort, Groningen

Missers:

1. Skull Fist – Way Of The Road
2. Het hele Arch Enemy/Fotograaf verhaal –

Nieuwkomers:

1. Overruled
2. Alien Weaponry

 

Black Swan

1. Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering
2. Svartidauði – Revelations of the Black Sword
3. Faal – Desolate Grief
4. Ihsahn – Ámr
5. Wardruna – Skald
6. Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik – Hugsjá
7. Wreckmeister Harmonies – The Alone Rush
8. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
9. A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
10. Mournful Congregation – The Incubus of Karma
11. Winterfylleth – The Hallowing of Heirdom
12. Behemoth – I Loved You at Your Darkest
13. Convocation – Scars Across
14. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
15. Unreqvited – Stars Wept to the Sea
16. Sinistro – Sangue Cassia
17. Wiegedood – De doden hebben het goed III
18. Avatar – Avatar Country
19. Archgoat – The Luciferian Crown
20. Theudo – De roep van het woud

Overige:

Kjeld – Barnier van Frysia

Optredens:

1. Amenra – Gebr. de Nobel te Leiden
2. Emperor – 013 te Tilburg
3. Amenra – Stadsschouwburg te Leiden
4. Bell Witch – Neushoorn te Leeuwarden
5. Winterfylleth – TivoliVredenburg te Utrecht

 

Niels Kreijveld

1. Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
2. The Armed – Only Love
3. Birds In Row – We Already Lost The World
4. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
5. Vein – Errorzone
6. Black Peaks – All That Divides
7. Khemmis – Desolation
8. mewithoutYou – (Untitled)
9. The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
10. Thrice – Palms
11. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
12. IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
13. Conjurer – Mire
14. Kontinuum – No Need To Reason
15. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
16. Tribulation – Down Below
17. Architects – Holy Hell
18. Ondt Blod – Natur
19. Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik – Hugsjá
20. Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind Of Horror

Eervolle vermeldingen: Sleep, High On Fire, Palm Reader, Foxing, Ghost, Master Boot Record, Emma Ruth Rundle, Uada, Møl, Baptists, Bongripper, Marijannah.

Overige:

1. The Nietzsche – The Parnassus
2. Minsk & Zatokrev – Bigod
3. Converge – Beautiful Ruin
4. mewithoutYou – (Untitled) e.p.
5. Modern Life Is War – Tribulation Worksongs, Vol. 1 & 2
6. Touché Amoré – 10 Years / 1000 Shows – Live at the Regent Theater

Optredens:

  1. Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas – Mariner integraal – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg
  2. Stephen Brodsky & Adam McGrath – Tribute to Caleb Scofield – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg
  3. Converge – You Fail Me integraal – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg
  4. YOB – Soulcrusher Festival, Nijmegen
  5. Sleep – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
  6. Ghost – Dynamo Metal Fest, Eindhoven

Missers:

  1. Maar 20 albums mogen kiezen voor deze lijst
  2. YOB – Our Raw Heart
  3. Alice In Chains – Ranier Fog
  4. De steeds erger wordende clashes in het blokkenschema van Roadburn
  5. Interpol – Marauder

Nieuwkomers:

1. Vein
2. Conjurer
3. Marijannah
4. The Nietzsche

 

Wouter Kooy

1. A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
2. Borgne – [∞]
3. Svartidaudi – Revelations of the Black Sword
4. Drudkh – Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring)
5. Abigor – Höllenzwang
6. Mournful Congregation – The Incubus of Karma
7. Mahr – Antelux
8. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben het Goed III
9. Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering
10. Craft – White Noise and Black Metal
11. Kriegsmaschine – Apocalypticists
12. Ævangelist – Matricide in the Temple of Omega
13. Yob – Our Raw Heart
14. Of Feather And Bone – Bestial Hymns of Perversion
15. Cult Of Occult – Anti Life
16. The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
17. Funeral Mist – Hekatomb
18. Spaceslug – Eye The Tide
19. Panopticon – The Scars of Man of the Once Nameless Wilderness
20. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods

Overige:

1. Fluisteraars/Turia – De Oord
2. Primitive Man/Unearthly Trance – Split

Optredens:

1. Waste Of Space Orchestra – 013, Tilburg
2. Roger Waters – Ziggo Dome
3. Yob – Doornroosje, Nijmegen
4. Amenra – Stevenskerk, Nijmegen

Misser:

Marduk – Viktoria

Nieuwkomer:

Invunche

 

Vitus Frank

1. Witchsorrow – Hexenhammer
2. Messa – Feast for Water
3. Apostle of Solitude – From Gold to Ash
4. Famyne – Famyne
5. King Heavy – Guardian Demons
6. Evangelist – Deus Vult
7. Acolytes of Moros – The Wellspring
8. High Reeper – High Reeper
9. High Priestess – High Priestess
10. Iron Void – Excalibur
11. Khemmis – Desolation
12. Dead Sisters – Dead Sisters
13. Mist – Free me of the Sun
14. Cruthu – The Angle of Eternity
15. Haunted – Dayburner
16. Windhand – Eternal Return
17. The Skull – The Endless Road Turns Dark
18. Witch Mountain – Witch Mountain
19. Deathbell – With the Beyond
20. Anguish – Magna est vis Suignah

Overige:

1. Alunah – Amber & Gold
2. Witchcult 71 – Blessings in Black
3. Funeral Sun – The Dragging
4. Godthrymm – A Grand Reclamation

Optredens:

1. Famyne – Little Devil, Tilburg
2. Witchsorrow – Little Devil, Tilburg
3. While Heaven Wept – Baoeg, Rotterdam
4. Apostle of Solitude – Viper Room, Wenen
5. Serpent Venom – The Old England, Bristol

Missers:

1. Mansion – First Death of the Lutheran
2. Solstice – White Horse Hill

Nieuwkomers:

1. Solemn Ceremony
2. Thronehammer

 

Kris Hadermann

1. Ost+Front – Adrenalin
2. XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX – Gore 2.0
3. Kalmah – Palo
4. Born To Murder The World – The Infinite Mirror Of Millenial Narcissism
5. Stillbirth – Annihilation Of Mankind
6. Ingested – The Level Above Human
7. Eskhaton – Omegalitheos
8. Gorod – Aethra
9. Taina – Seelenfresser
10. Jungle Rot – Jungle Rot
11. Dysmorphic – An Illusisve Progress
12. Schattenmann – Licht An
13. Alien Weaponry – Tū
14. Megaherz – Komet
15. Aborted – TerrorVision
16. Burden Of Grief – Eye Of The Storm
17. The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom
18. Necroexophilia – Intergalactic Armageddon
19. Hate Eternal – Upon Desolate Sands
20. Pig Destroyer – Head Cage

Overige:

1. Benighted – Dogs Always Bite Harder Than Their Master
2. Marche Funèbre – Death Wish Woman
3. Hudič – Ne Ergo Dimitas

Optredens:

1. Eisbrecher – Summer Breeze, Dinkelsbühl
2. Solstafir – Summer Breeze, Dinkelsbühl
3. Gutalax – Death Feast Open Air, Andernach
4. Megaherz – Summer Breeze, Dinkelsbühl
5. XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX – Death Feast Open Air, Andernach

Missers:

1. Lindemann ft. Haftbefehl – Mathematik
2. Emigrate – A Million Degrees
3. Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind Of Horror
4. Cardiac Arrest – A Parallel Universe Of Despair
5. Powerstroke – Omissa

Nieuwkomers:

1. Born To Murder The World
2. Schattenmann
3. Alien Weaponry
4. Hudič
5. Cuttermess

 

Michel Peeters

1. Myles Kennedy – Year Of The Tiger
2. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
3. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
4. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben het Goed III
5. Winterfylleth – The Hallowing of Heirdom
6. Saxon – Thunderbolt
7. Judas Priest – Firepower
8. Marduk – Viktoria
9. Metal Church – Damned If You Do
10. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
11. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
12. Ghost – Prequelle
13. At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself
14. Skeletonwitch – Devouring Radiant Light
15. Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
16. Just Before Dawn – Tides Of Blood

Optredens:

1. Myles Kennedy – Biebob Vosselaar
2. Limp Bizkit – 013
3. Zeal & Ardor – 013
4. Monolord – Helldorado, Eindhoven
5. Judas Priest – Graspop & Lokerse Feesten
6. Channel Zero – Biebob Vosselaar

Misser:

In This Moment – 013, wegens alles op tape, YUK!

 

Marco Paasman

1. The Sea Within – The Sea Within
2. Oceans Of Slumber – The Banished Heart
3. Riverside – Wasteland
4. Ghost – Prequelle
5. Haken – Vector
6. MaYaN – Dhyana
7. Judas Priest – Firepower
8. Antimatter – Black Market Enlightenment
9. Amorphis – Queen Of Time
10. Between The Buried And Me – Automata I & II
11. Therion – Beloved Antichrist
12. The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
13. Myles Kennedy – Year Of The Tiger
14. Orango – Evergreens
15. Voivod – The Wake
16. Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog
17. A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
18. Witherfall – A Prelude To Sorrow
19. Subsignal – La Muerte
20. Madder Mortem – Marrow

Overige:

1. Ayreon – Best Of Ayreon Live
2. Big Big Train – Merchants Of Light
3. Steven Wilson – Home Invasion
4. Devin Townsend Project – Ocean Machine: Live At The Ancient Roman Theater Plovdiv
5. Motorpsycho – Roadwork Vol. 5

Optredens:

1. Roger Waters – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
2. Death Alley – Fortarock, Nijmegen
3. Riverside – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
4. Anciients – Innocent, Hengelo
5. Ghost – Dynamo Metal Fest, Eindhoven

Missers:

1. Spock’s Beard – Noise Floor
2. Pestilence – Hadeon

Nieuwkomer:

The Sea Within

 

Willem Migom

1. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
2. Wiegedood – De Doden hebben het goed III
3. Behemoth – I love you at your darkest
4. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
5. 1914 – The Blind Leading the Blind

Optredens:

1. Zeal & Ardor – Zappa, Antwerpen
2. Gojira – Lokerse Feesten, Lokeren
3. Deafheaven – Trix, Antwerpen

Misser:

Bloodbath – The Arrow of Satan is Drawn

 

Cor Vos

1. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
2. Wolfheart – Constellation Of The Black Light
3. Vreid – Lifehunger
4. Amorphis – Queen Of Time
5. Firtan – Okeanos
6. Wormlight – Wrath Of The Wilds
7. The Spirit – Sounds From The Vortex
8. Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
9. Loneshore – From Presence To Silence
10. Lucifers Child – The Order
11. Ihsahn – Àmr
12. Mob Rules – Beast Reborn
13. Monstrosity – The Passage Of Existence
14. Revocation – The Outer Ones
15. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
16. Obscura – Diluvium
17. MaYan – Dhyana
18. Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
19. Wallachia – Monumental Heresy
20. Necrophobic – Mark Of The Necrogram

Overige:

1. Anomalie – Integra (EP)
2. Myrkur – Juniper (EP)
3. Bodyfarm – Into Battle (re-release)
4. Cast The Stone – Empyrean Atrophy (EP)
5. Night Crowned – Humanity Will Echo Out (EP)

Optredens:

1. Wintersun – Fluor, Amersfoort
2. The Progressive Alliance – Effenaar, Eindhoven
3. MaYan – Tivoli De Helling, Utrecht
4. Kalmah, Vreid & Slegest – Neushoorn, Leeuwarden
5. Nightwish – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam

Missers:

1. Marduk – Viktoria
2. Délétère – De Horae Leprae
3. Enemy Inside – Phoenix
4. Machine Head – Catharsis
5. Disturbed – Evolution

Nieuwkomers:

1. Hellevaerder
2. Dallian
3. Loneshore
4. Night Crowned

 

Michiel Jorissen

1. Boss Keloid – Melted On The Inch
2. Dance Gavin Dance – Artificial Selection
3. Turnstile – Time & Space
4. Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
5. VOLA – Applause of a Distant Crowd
6. Black Peaks – All That Divides
7. Parius – The Eldritch Realm
8. TesseracT – Sonder
9. Thrice – Palms
10. The Ocean – Phanerozoic I:Palaeozoic
11. Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth
12. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
13. Hail The Sun – Mental Knife
14. Shht – Love Love Love
15. The Reign of Kindo – Happy However After

Overige:

1. Jamie Lenman – Long Gone
2. The Cat Empire – Stolen Diamonds
3. Royal Coda – Breathe Correct

Optredens:

1. Glassjaw – Arctangent, Bristol
2. Dillinger Escape Plan – AB, Brussel
3. TesseracT – Graspop, Dessel
4. Leprous – Arctangent, Bristol
5. Will Haven – Groezrock Indoor, Hasselt

 

Michiel Hoogkamer

1. The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
2. A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
3. Alkaloid – Liquid Anatomy
4. Dirge – Lost Empyrean
5. Revocation – The Outer Ones
6. Gorod – Aethra
7. Obscura – Diluvium
8. Warrel Dane – Shadow Work
9. Oceans Of Slumber – The Banished Heart
10. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
11. Obliteration – Cenotaph Obscure
12. Necrophobic – Mark Of The Necrogram
13. The Skull – The Endless Road Turns Dark
14. Crone – Godspeed
15. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
16. Myles Kennedy – Year Of The Tiger
17. Amorphis – Queen Of Time
18. Pestilence – Hadeon
19. Terrorizer – Caustic Attack
20. Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn

Overige:

1. Ayreon Universe – Best Of Ayreon Live
2. Steven Wilson – Home Invasion In Concert In The Royal Albert Hall
3. Alter Bridge – Live At The Royal Albert Hall
4. Little Steven And The Disciples Of Soul – Soulfire Live
5. Gary Numan – Live At Brixton Academy

Optredens:

1. A Perfect Circle – AFAS, Amsterdam
2. Janelle Monáe – Paradiso, Amsterdam
3. Steven Wilson – AFAS, Amsterdam
4. The Ocean – Progressive Alliance, Effenaar, Eindhoven
5. Thanatos – Stonehenge Festival, Steenwijk
6. Triptykon – Eindhoven Metal Meeting, Effenaar, Eindhoven
7. Amenra – Leidse Schouwburg, Leiden

 

Marko Bok

1. MZ. 412 – Svartmyrkr
2. Shylmagoghnar – Transience
3. Elderwind – The Colder the Night
4. Marduk – Viktoria
5. A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
6. Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind of Horror
7. Necrophobic – Mark of the Necrogram
8. Mesarthim – The Density Parameter
9. Funeral Mist – Hekatomb
10. Violet Cold – Sommermorgen

Optredens:

1. Igorrr – Fortarock
2. Mantar – Fortarock
3. Anaal Nathrakh – Baroeg
4. Alestorm – Fortarock
5. Nightwish – Fortarock

 

Alwin Voets

1. Bongripper – Terminal
2. Thou – Magus
3. Conan – Existential Void Guardian
4. Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik – Hugsjá
5. Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses
6. The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
7. Sleep – The Sciences
8. Wardruna – Skald
9. MASTER BOOT RECORD – Virus.Dos
10. Cult of Occult – Anti Life

Overige:

1. Thou – Rhea Sylvia
2. Zola Jesus/Johnny Jewel – Wiseblood (Johnny Jewel Remixes)
3. Myrkur – Juniper
4. Converge – Beautiful Ruin
5. Vampillia – Happiness Brought by Endless Sorrow

Optredens:

1. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg
2. Vampillia – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg
3. Une Misère – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg
4. Conan – Stroomhuis, Eindhoven
5. Phantom Winter – Soulcrusher III, Nijmegen

 

Joost Aarts

1. Infestus – Thrypsis
2. Evoken – Hypnagogia
3. Oceans of Slumber – The Banished Heart
4. Mournful Congregation – The Incubus Of Karma
5. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
6. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
7. YOB – Our Raw Heart
8. Funeral Mist – Hekatomb
9. Sinistro – Sangue Cássia
10. Hyperdontia – Nexus of Teeth
11. An Autumn For Crippled Children – The Light Of September
12. Clouds – Dor
13. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
14. Paara – Riitti
15. 1914 – The Blind Leading The Blind
16. Black Lotus – Sons of Saturn
17. Marduk – Viktoria
18. Talsur – Tormented
19. Omit – Medusa Part II
20. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

Overige:

1. Kjeld – Banier Fan Frisia (EP)
2. Spectrum Mortis – Kadosh (EP)
3. Night Crowned – Humanity Will Echo Out (EP)

Optredens:

1. Yob – Doornroosje, Soulcrusher III, Nijmegen
2. Oceans Of Slumber – 013, Tilburg
3. Emperor – 013, Netherlands Deathfest, Tilburg
4. Evoken – 013, Netherlands Deathfest, Tilburg
5. Watain – Doornroosje, Nijmegen
6. Impaled Nazarene – Eindhoven Metal Meeting, Effenaar, Eindhoven
7. Paradise Lost – 013, Tilburg
8. Behemoth – Into The Grave, Leeuwarden
9. Dying Fetus – Into The Grave, Leeuwarden
10. Cytotoxin – Masters Of Grind, Sint-Niklaas
11. Benighted – Masters Of Grind, Sint-Niklaas
12. Firespawn – Stonehenge Festival, Steenwijk
13. Vader – De Cacaofabriek, Helmond

Teleurstelling:

Tribulation – Down Below

Nieuwkomers:

1. Valhöll-Dûm
2. Night Crowned

 

Meindert Meinsma

1. Powerstroke – Omissa
2. Silverdust – House 21
3. The Invict – A Sun That Never Sets
4. Aborted – Terrorvision
5. Billy Bio – Feed the Fire
6. Powerwolf – The Sacrament of Sin
7. Omgeving – Wijde Wijdte
8. Bleeding Gods – Dodekathlon
9. Bullet for my Valentine – Gravity
10. Judas Priest – Firepower
11. Burning Witches – Hexenhammer
12. Dead End – The Mind’s Asylum
13. Behemoth – I Loved You at Your Darkest
14. Mayan – Dhyana
15. Amanda Sommerville’s Trillium – Tectonic
16. Kamelot – The Shadow Theory
17. Disabuse – Death Machines
18. Avatar – Avatar Country
19. Soulline – The Deep

Optredens:

1. Decapitated – Into the Grave, Leeuwarden
2. Silver Dust – P60, Amstelveen
3. Michael Schenker Fest – Melkweg, Amsterdam
4. Life of Agony – Neushoorn, Leeuwarden
5. Phantom Elite – “t Ukien, Kampen

 

Joris Meeuwissen

1. Deathwhite – For a Black Tomorrow
2. Glorior Belli – The Apostates
3. Ice Nine Kills – The Silver Scream
4. Shining – X Varg Utan Flock
5. Uada – Cult of a Dying Sun
6. Behemoth – I loved you at Your Darkest
7. Onrust (Be) – De Oogst
8. Marduk – Viktoria
9. Embers of Oblivion – Widdershins path
10. Wiegedood – De Doden hebben het Goed III

Optredens:

1. Batushka – Graspop, Dessel
2. Onrust – JH De Klinker, Aarschot
3. Ice Nine Kills – Biebob, Vosselaar

Missers:

1. Shining – Graspop 2018
2. Hudic – JH De Klinker
3. Memphis May Fire – Broken

Nieuwkomers:

1. Deathwhite
2. Onrust (Be)
3. In the Woods…

 

Henri Rietberg

1. Summoning – With Doom We Come
2. Marduk – Viktoria
3. Nekrogoblikon – Welcome To Bonkers
4. Alghazanth – Eight Coffin Nails
5. Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind Of Horror
6. Funeral Mist – Hekatomb
7. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
8. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
9. Father John Misty – God’s Favourite Customer
10. Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
11. The Struts – Young & Dangerous
12. 6ix9ine – DUMMY BOY
13. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
14. Cor Scorpii – Ruin
15. Infernal Execrator – Obsolete Ordinance
16. Atrament – Scum Sect
17. Primordial – Exile Amongst The Ruins
18. Kings of the Beach – Super Awkward, Fucking Awesome
19. Sargeist – Unbound
20. Svartidauði – Revelations of the Red Sword

Misser:

Wardruna – Skald

 

Jurgen van Hest

1. Crippled Black Phoenix – Great Escape
2. Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering
3. Barst – The Endavour
4. LLNN – Deads
5. Eyes – Eyes
6. Palm – To live is to die, to die is to live
7. Phantom Winter – Into Dark Science
8. Body Void – I live inside a burning house
9. Funeral Mist – Hektabomb
10. Pijn – Loss
11. A Perfect Circle – The Doomed
12. Conjurer – Mire
13. Secret Cutter – Quantum Eraser
14. Marduk – Viktoria
15. Wolvennest – Void
16. War Anyway – Lords of War
17. Solar Temple – Fertile Descent
18. Anaal Nathrakh – A New kind of horror
19. Frontierer – Unloved
20. Cult Leader – A Patient Man

Overige:

1. Variuos Artists – Servants of Chaos II
2. Ultha – Dismal Ruins pt. II
3. Kurokuma – Dope Rider
4. Deus Vermin – Monument of decay

Optredens:

1. Waste of Space Orchestra – Roadburn festival, 013, Tilburg
2. YOB – Soulcrusher III, Doornroosje Nijmegen
3. Monolord – Helldorado, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven
4. Dragged into Sunlight – Netherlands Deathfest, 013 Tilburg
5. Palm – Bloodshed Festival, Effenaar Eindhoven
6. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Bloodshed Festival, Effenaar Eindhoven
7. Ghost – Dynamo Metalfest, Eindhoven

Missers:

1. Live show In This Moment
2. Live show Darvaza

 

Koen de Gussem

1. Sectioned – Annihilated
2. Sleep – The Sciences
3. Birds In Row – We Already Lost The World
4. Wolvennest – Void
5. Terror – Total Retaliaton
6. Zeke – Hellbender
7. Cypress Hill – Elephants On Acid (fuck de haters)
8. The Flesh – Dweller
9. Turbonegro – Rock N Roll Machine
10. Raw Peace – Total Death

Optredens:

1. Iggy Pop – Paaspop, Schijndel
2. SECT – JC den Eglantier, Antwerpen
3. The Gaslight Anthem – 013, Tilburg
4. Modern Life Is War – Jera On Air, Ysselsteyn
5. Converge – Roadburn, Tilburg (You Fail Me set)

Misser:

The Menzingers – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

Nieuwkomers:

1. Sectioned
2. Pressure Pact
3. The Flesh
4. Raw Peace
5. Haemers

 

Ruben Verheul

1. Wiegedood – De doden hebben het goed III
2. Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic
3. Sleep – The Sciences
4. Kriegsmaschine – Apocalypticists
5. Svartidaudi – Revelations of the Red Sword
6. Yob – Our Raw Heart
7. Judas Priest – Firepower
8. High on Fire – Electric Messiah
9. Windhand – Eternal Return
10. Wrekmeister Harmonies – The Alone Rush
11. Craft – White Noise and Black Metal
12. Funeral Mist – Hekatomb
13. Grafjammer – Schalm & schabauw
14. Sulphur Aeon – The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos
15. Necrophobic – Mark of the Necrogram
16. Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering
17. Uada – Cult of a Dying Sun
18. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
19. Khemmis – Desolation
20. Winterfylleth – The Hallowing of Heirdom

Optredens:

1. Waste of Space Orchestra (Oranssi Pazuzu & Dark Buddha Rising) – 013, Tilburg (Roadburn)
2. Anna von Hausswolff – Paard, Den Haag
3. Laster – dB’s, Utrecht
4. Terzij de Horde – Ekko, Utrecht
5. Dodecahedron – Baroeg, Rotterdam

 

Markus Wiedenmann

1. Heir Apparent – The View from Below
2. Fifth Angel – The Thrid Secret
3. Metal Church – Damned If You Do
4. Judas Priest – Firepower
5. Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering
6. Undertow – Reap the Storm
7. The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes the World Ain’t Enough
8. Flight – A Leap Through Matter
9. Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog
10. Sick Of It All – Wake the Sleeping Dragon
11. Voivod – The Wake
12. Cancer – Shadow Gripped
13. Marduk – Victoria
14. Skull Pit – Skull Pit
15. Venom – Storm the Gates
16. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
17. Amorphis – Queen of Time
18. Long Distance Calling – Boundless
19. Warrel Dane – Shadow Work
20. The Wizards – Rise of the serpents

Overige:

1. Sodom – Partisan (EP)
2. Myrkur – Juniper (EP)

Optredens:

1. Coroner – Rock Hard Festival 2018
2. Judas Priest – 013, Tilburg
3. Within Tempation – AFAS Live, Amsterdam

Missers:

1. Follow The Cipher – Follow The Cipher
2. Lizzy Borden – My Midnight Things
3. All the “Final Tour”s that usually aren’t the final tour at all
4. No new Hittman album

Nieuwkomer:

Flight

 

Christel Janssen

1. At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself
2. Carbonized – Demo Collection
3. Final Cry – Zombique
4. Gravestone – Sickening
5. Just Before Dawn – Tides of Blood
6. LIK – Carnage
7. Marduk – Viktoria
8. Mork Gryning – Kive at Kraken
9. Necrophobic – Mark of the Necrogram
10. Night In Gales – The Last Sunsets
11. Primordial – Exile Amongst The Ruins
12. Skeletal Remains – Devouring Mortality
13. The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom
14. The Spirit – Sounds From the Vortex
15. Thunderwar – Wolfpack
16. Trial of Death – Exorcism of the Goatman
17. Unanimated – Annihilation
18. Wombbath – The Great Desolation

 

Frido Stolte

1. At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself
2. Vein – Errorzone
3. Ghost – Prequelle
4. Outre-Tombe – Nécrovortex
5. Just Before Dawn – Tides of Blood
6. An Evening With Knives – Serrated
7. Tomb Mold – Manor Of Infinite Forms
8. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
9. No Fun At All – Grit
10. Mortuous – Through Wilderness
11. Höstblod – Mörkrets Intåg
12. Turnstile – Time & Space
13. Pennywise – Never Gonna Die
14. Crawl – Rituals
15. Suffering Quota – Life in Disgust
16. Master – Vindictive Miscreant
17. Incinerator – Concept of Cruelty
18. Deitus – Via Dolorosa
19. Fredag Den 13e – Dystopisk Utsikt
20. Dark Wizard – Close In The Dark

Overige:

1. Petbrick – Petbrick
2. Crows Over Bravéllir – 12″ EP
3. Tragedy – Fury
4. Atone – S/T
5. Anarchos – Invocation of Moribund Spirits

Optredens:

1. Dag Nasty – The Sound Of Revolution, Eindhoven
2. Catharsis – Bloodshed Festival, Eindhoven
3. Evil Invaders – Pitfest, Erica
4. Dead Loyalty – Jagersonic, Vera, Groningen
5. Deafheaven – Paradiso, Amsterdam
6. Dead Will Walk – Anti Cover Fest, Geesteren (ov.)

Missers:

1. Todd Youth RIP –
2. Tribulation – Down Below
4. Geen Graveland Festival in 2018
5. Get The Shot gemist op Jera
6. Waar blijft de cassette-release van At The Gates – To Drink With The Night Itself?

Nieuwkomers:

1. Overruled
2. Sons Of A Wanted Man
3. Jesus Piece
4. Precious
5. Grim Fate

 

Lars Hoekstra

1. Architects – Holy Hell
2. Aborted – Terrorvision
3. A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
4. Bloodbath – The Arrow of Satan is Drawn
5. Ghost – Prequelle
6. Bury Tomorrow – Black Flame
7. Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
8. Caliban – Elements
9. Chthonic – Battlefields of Asura
10. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest

Overige:

1. Dance With the Dead – Loved the Death
2. Juno Reactor – The Mutant Theatre
3. My Indigo – My Indigo
4. Huntr – Higher / Survive / Failsafe
5. Infected Mushroom – Bliss on Mushroom

Optredens:

1. Arch Enemy – 013, Tilburg
2. Bring Me The Horizon – AFAS, Amsterdam
3. Behemoth – Into the Grave, Leeuwarden
4. Thy Art is Murder – Fortarock
5. Within Temptation – Martiniplaza, Groningen