Sins of Omission has the well-known Swedish Death Metal sound; aggressive yet melodic. The set consisted mainly of songs from their latest album “Flesh on your bones”, like “Pound for Pound”, “A Wicked Slaughterhouse Tale” and “The Grinder”.

Their performance wasn’t that bad at all, but after a few songs the band had some trouble keeping the attention of the audience. Fortunately they had some nice musical tricks up their sleeves, like the groove in the last song they played; “Sinners Redemption” from their debut “The Creation”.

Callenish Circle
Limburgian Metallers Callenish Circle kicked off with “For What It’s Good For”. The audience was warming up to the band, and with the cover of Death’s “Pull the Plug”, dedicated to Chuck, they instigated the first moshpit of the evening.

Most of the songs they played were from “Flesh_Power_Dominion”, their more catchy album released early this year. Live the songs work well as they are good mosh-material. Their cover of “When The Lady Smiles” by the legendary Dutch rockband marked the end of a professional and convincing performance.

Vomitory
Vomitory brings you True Swedish Old School Death Metal the way it supposed to be. They have made a name for themselves in the scene and have been active for over a decade now.

The set was quite varied, as they played at least one song from every album. Songs like “Forty Seconds Bloodbath”, “Raped In Their Own Blood” and the great “The Voyage” made the crowd mosh around, not surprising as Oemta (Dutch word referring to the drum- pattern in Old School Death Metal) is loved by the local crowd.

Although the band played really convincing, the sound was a bit disappointing. The guitars were rather shrill, making the performance less powerful. Nevertheless Vomitory knows how to captivate the audience.

Amon Amarth
If you didn’t know it already, Amon Amarth made it clear with their sword-stroking intro that they offer Viking Metal. The rest of the evening made it clear they have a firm fan base that came to see them ‘til the end although it was getting pretty late.

Amon Amarth also had a varied set, playing songs of the albums “Once Sent From A Golden Hall”, “The Avenger” and their latest “The Crusher”. One of these songs (“The Last With Pagan Blood”) was dedicated to Tobias, the drummer of Vomitory, because it was his birthday.

It was hard to stay gripped the whole set as the songs sound much alike, but their appearance was very energetic. Luckily the last few songs kept you awake and on one of them, “Victorious March”, there even was a moshpit. The enthusiastic fans wanted more and got “Legend of a Banished Man” for an encore.

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(Review & Pics: Wilfred de Zoete)