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My final big gig of this trip was another huge favourite of mine, the neofolk band ROME. The creative outlet of Luxembourgian Jerome Reuter, ROME covers a wide range of philosophical and political subjects albeit whilst being unpretentious and not being preachy, something that is so rare of “political” and “protest” bands. On this tour…
Last month I was in Berlin to see one of my favourite folk metal banks, Arkona, for the first time in over four years, back during Bloodstock 2019, and also meet up with several good friends in Berlin who I made during MetalDays last year. This was the first gig as part of a tour around…
Before I went to Rockharz 2023 (more on that to come) I spent the previous day in Berlin, and after I spent the afternoon getting various supplies for the festival, I set off to look at some more promising places. First place on my trip was Misfit Bar: As the name suggested, and as can…
First port of call of the evening was Paule’s Metal Eck, where there was plenty of the good end of mainstream metal there, including the Deftones and Trivium. They also sold their own branded beer, and the inside was pretty metal too: Paule himself (assuming that’s his actual name) was also pretty friendly too, and…
A previous arrangement to meet a friend in Brussels had fallen through, so I decided to break up my trip home and revisit Berlin for the first time in several years. So after an early start for the early morning train, I arrived in to Berlin Hauptbahnof at around 1pm, 52 minutes late since we…