Update
Welcome back music lovers, time for an update. We played our first show since the album release in November, our eleventh in total by the way, two Saturdays ago at dB’s in Utrecht. It was a DIY-deal, which basically means…
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Downloading available again
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Downloading temporarily unavailable
Due to an increased number of downloads, we’ve run out of the 200-free-per-month download credits provided by Bandcamp much faster than we had anticipated. That’s 200 in 1 week, quite a lot for a band like us. Additional downloads are…
Review, stats and a broken bone
The album got a fantastic review at zwaremetalen.com. It’s in Dutch, and for those of you who don’t speak it, a short summary: 95/100. To show you the immediate impact of the review, here’s an impression: There’s a review in…
Après-doom
We had a good time at Dutch Doom Days IX last weekend. The gig went really well, we had some difficulties with the vocals and there wasn’t any reverb on them but these are minor details. We played a 40-minute…
Duett & Doom Days
There’s a blog post from April that tells all about the album’s 5th song, Duett. Scroll down to find it or click here. Now that Duett is uploaded, the online album is complete. You can stream or download (in any…
Your shipment of awesome has arrived
To see that yellow DHL-truck appear down the street and come to a halt in front of the house was just lovely. Five hundred of these, no kidding. They look great, it’s everything that we want. They are available for…
Een droom in 6/8
We’ll let the music do the talking.
Song #3: De zwaarte
This song is arguably the heaviest of the bunch. Electric Wizard’s album We Live inspired to write the main riff, ’nuff said. There’s also a chorus of sorts, without singing. Maybe that doesn’t make much sense but it feels like…
Meer dan je ziet (and a word of advice)
The idea for this song started with a melody from almost 10 years ago. There is a crappy recording of a jam session with it that sometimes resurfaced while reorganising cd’s and files at home and it was always nice…
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