News 28/04/00
Some new pictures of Salacious Gods, as well as Callenish Circle.27/04/00
That was quite an update! After quite a while in which happened nothing at all (well, not cosidering this site), there finally is some live again in brothers of metal.
New pictures: Sonata Arctica, Rhapsody, Stratovarius, Kamelot, Crimson Glory and Reviver. New piccies of the Salacious Gods are comming up this weekend, and so are Callenish Circle and Vanize.
Other additions: new background, more user friendly interface and bigger pictures. Plus a new menu has been added, as the old one was getting to long. From now on every band gets a small introduction on the site, and if I feel like it a live review.
01/03/99
UDO rules, udo rules, udo rules! I am sorry, but I can't repeat it enough: this man is god. His gig last friday, was easily the best heavy metal performance I have seen in the last twelve months. With a setlist filled with classics taken from the UDO and Accept lp's the show couldn't go wrong, and it didn't. For some strange reason the whole party ended up with me drowning meself with alcohol in the town of Zutphen at two AM, but don't ask me to get further in on that :-). UDO... thanks for all those great years of heavy metal. You fucking rule.
The pictures I took have been added today, along with those of the opening act, the pretty ace band Trinity. I hope that is enough to keep you happy again for a while, as I haven't got a cluye as when the next update will take place.... Hey, after you get to see Udo live, everything else stinks :-).25/02/99
My sincere apologies if you have been experiencing troubles with accessing my site the last 24 hours. Some slight changes where made to the navigationbar, which is now placed within a seperate frame. This allows me to update the site easier, while granting the visitor complete controle over where to go.During the process of changing this, you may have experienced problems making it impossible to navigate, let alone view the pictures. Everything's well right now, and you should be alble to enjoy the pictures like you are used to.
Nex update will no doubt be next wednesday, as I am going to check out mr Udo Dirkschneider tonite. Accept rules!!! Anyway, I am off now to the recordstore, to see if they have the new Stratovarius in stock or not. C-ya!10/2/99
Last updates include Within Temptation, Orphanage and some extra pictures for Liar of Golgotha. Altar, My dying and Blo.Torch unfortunately didn't make it to the lens of my camera, so to speak. I know I promised pictures of them at the Metalfest 2000, but I missed out on Blo.Torch, ran out of pictures before Altar, and didn't see My dying as they suck more enthousiastically than Pammy Anderson did on that videotape. So, there you know... Altar WILL however play within two months at the Podium again, during the Chuck Schuldiner beneficial party. Regular service will, as they say, recommence then...19/01/2000
To start with the bad stuff, I am feeling mightily sick today. When i woke up this morning with my stomach next to my bed i assumed i was just at the hands of one terrible hang-over. Twelve hours later i am still feeling sick, which can only mean one thing: i got the flue, goddamnit. I am feeling like every minute i can collapse, and are tired as hell. I am longing to grab a beer out of the fridge, but i am affraid that the otherwise wonderfull alcoholic substance may be the last thing to push me over the edge of throwing up. Hell, this is torture! Anyway, whenever i am feeling this terrible, there is only one way to forget about it: a lot of hard work.
Made a new picture shrine for Kreator and Witchery. Especially that last one played an mightily impressive gig. Good old fashioned black thrash from Sweden, not quite unlike similar bands that the youthcenter Vera in Groningen likes to throw parties with.
In an attempt to give the page a new look, i changed the logo and the navigation bar. Like it? I am also doing some banner stuff, so if there is anybody out there willing to exchange links, please mail me. Should you been wondering by the way, why Moonspell didn't make in unto this page... Well therein lies a short story.
With a lot of anticipation the crowd was expecting the Moonpell show last friday. With three classic records released, Moonspell was quite an audience fave, even tough their last record sucked. When the curtains in front of the stage disappeared everyone was expecting some Fullmoon Madness and a good bash of Midnight Rites. Well, when the band started playing nothing but Marilynn Manson and Rammstein-like songs, you could almost smell the dissapointment in the public. The teutonic bashes on the drumkit accompanied by dancebeat by the keyboards where awfull, and made even worse by the new industrial metal image of the band: army pants, bare chests smeared in mud and short grey hair for all but the singer. When after two songs Fernando announced they where mostly gonna play the new cd, me and my girlfriend decided that we wouldn't spend another MINUTE listening to this offence to all that is metal. What a rip of, what a scam! Without taking any pictures we left the building; angry and pissed of, but most of all disappointed...12/01/2000
I am still phisically recovering from the Noorderslag festival in Groningen last weekend. Saw a lot of good bands performing there, and havent headbanged like I did on Altar and God Dethroned for a long time. Added the best pictures of the bands to this site.
New bands on brothers of metal: Altar, God Dethroned, Blo.Torch, Cirith Gorgor and Liar of Golgotha. Moonspell and Kreator will be added within seven days. Also added some pictures to the "various" department.2/1/2000
Decided to change the navigationbar after all. Made a completely new one using Paint Shop Pro 6 and CuteMAP. That's ought to do it! After that I sat down with a cold beer looking at the finished page. I am glad that is over, and i sit and wonder what kind of page i am going to do next...
1/1/2000
Worked late to get the page up and running. Made some final adjustments and sorted out the missing links that always slip into pages. After that I uploaded the whole site while chatting with my girlfriend -who'se on vakation to Denmark- thru icq. God, how have i ever been able to live without a computer and a modem? Beats me! After checking the page, some dead links seemed to have slipped in after all, so i fixed them. Registered the page to webcounter.com, come.to and to 21 search engines. Went to sleep somewhere after three AM.
Christmass '99
The idea caught fire of doing this picture page. In the past i had taken quite some pictures that are now properly hanging on my wall. Wouldn't it be a good idea to post them on the net? Probably not, but i went to work after all. Most of this page was written in notepad html, the finer touches and java where done with an html editor.