It all began with a furious set from local heroes Deification (E.H.B.O.). This was a perfect warming-up round. Front man aka grunter Willem is the big man in this band and his vocal imitation of a grizzly bear is almost perfect. Their music however is of a lower level than the other two bands, but still they’ve got some classic songs like “Kill the concept of god” and “Beaten to pulp” (if I recall it correctly).

Gorerotted
Pfff, and then Gorerotted. This is death metal mach three. This show was pulverizing, grinding and not human anymore. I don’t know where they make such drummers, but give me one too! I haven’t got the faintest idea what they’ve played (I’d never heard anything by them), and even if I would know, there are no words for such a band. Blasting, blasting, blasting, blasting and blasting in such a technical manor, this has only one purpose: DESTROY! Gorerotted is definitely on of the best bands around these days. I hope they come back soon again.

Pungent Stench
After a break Pungent Stench’s intro began and in their tradition they entered the stage in minister-clothes. In my personal tradition this evening I don’t know anything about this band, although this band was one of the elite early 90’s in this genre. Shame on me (yeah I know). Their music guaranteed a massively, violent pit from begin ‘till the end, which says enough about the public response. After a few songs their clothes flew aside and so they continued in their boxer shorts (ganz geil!...). This was just a hell of a show, all the way to their last two songs “La Bamba” (I heard they do this one every time) and another one. This one I missed due to our friends of the railways, who didn’t want to wait for me, so I had to run for the train. Anyway, this was finally a good evening again.

(Review: Roelof Buis
Pics: Marcia Gransbergen)