First, the forced closure in response to Covid-19. The sound of live music, clinking glasses and chatter was replaced by deafening silence.

Second, a raging fire recently damaged the monumental building.

And on top of that, the aspirations by the city council and project developers to upgrade the neighbourhood with dB’s being left out of the equation. There is a growing concern that dB’s might not survive this threat.

Support needed

Sidney Simon, booker, festival organizer and one of the initiators, explains: ‘This venue has been an important meeting place at the heart of our community. So we owe it to ourselves and to dB’s, to support them in any way we can’.

Collectors item

The album features 17 diverse metal bands: Beyond the Pale, Shinigami, Wrang, Hordearii, Rites, Detonation, Gizåh, Grindpad, Lovell’s Blade, Grafjammer, Kutschurft, Black Silence, Terzij de Horde, Mary Fields, Disquiet, Stormram, and Wesenwille. The bands have one thing in common: they all have dB’s as their home base. The compilation includes exclusive live renditions and previously unreleased tracks. The cd is exclusively limited to 500 copies worldwide, each painstakingly numbered by hand.

Order your copy while they last via dB’s official website or dB’s Bandcamp. Price is Pay What You Want (PWYW), with a minimum set at € 10. All proceeds will go to dB’s.

About dB’s

The venue, which has been around for over 25 years, includes a stage, 17 rehearsal rooms, a recording studio, bar, expo space and a vegan fast-food kitchen. Additionally, it offers capacity for practical lessons for vocational training provider NPAC. No wonder dB’s has grown into a vital hang-out spot for musicians and music lovers alike.

Here you can read our live review of Wesenwille alongside Noctem and Evil Oath at dB’s, while you can read our live reviews of three other shows that took place at dB’s here (Violator, Nuclear Devastation and The Shining), here (Black Earth Festival’s Saturday with Fistula, Grime, Dirt Forge, Sūrya, Bethmoora and Prisa Mata) and here (Nervosa and Rezet). You can also read our 14th part of Promoting Bands, which includes Grafjammer, here.

dB’s Official Website
dB’s Facebook
dB’s Instagram
dB’s Twitter
Beyond the Pale Facebook
Beyond the Pale Instagram
Beyond the Pale Twitter
Shinigami Official Website
Shinigami Facebook
Shinigami Instagram
Wrang Facebook
Hordearii Official Website
Hordearii Facebook
Hordearii Instagram
Rites Facebook
Rites Instagram
Detonation Facebook
Gizåh Official Website
Gizåh Facebook
Gizåh Instagram
Grindpad Official Website
Grindpad Facebook
Lovell’s Blade Official Website
Lovell’s Blade Facebook
Grafjammer Facebook
Kutschurft Official Website
Kutschurft Facebook
Kutschurft Twitter
Black Silence Facebook
Terzij de Horde Facebook
Terzij de Horde Instagram
Terzij de Horde Twitter
Mary Fields Official Website
Mary Fields Facebook
Mary Fields Instagram
Disquiet Official Website
Disquiet Facebook
Disquiet Instagram
Disquiet Twitter
Stormram Official Website
Stormram Facebook
Stormram Instagram
Wesenwille Facebook

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The campaign of Liefde voor Muziek (“Love for Music”) is there to show the Dutch government how big and diverse the Dutch music industry is, along with its cultural and economic worth, as well as to show them how important (live)music is to the society. Not only for the people creating music and the people around them, but also for the people visiting live events: the countless concerts in venues as well as the 1100 yearly festivals. The goal is that the government takes the already made suggestions and proposals seriously and that they quickly present a good long-term plan to save our music industry.

With signing the petition of Liefde voor Muziek, fans can show the government how important (live)music is to them personally. Next month the people behind Liefde voor Muziek are going to hand the results of the petition to the responsible ministers.

DutchMetalManiac of course supports this and that’s why we already signed the petition.

Hopefully you’ll do so too! You can do so here.

Liefde voor Muziek Official Website
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Liefde voor Muziek Twitter

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You don’t have to search any longer!

We just added a Venue list to DutchMetalManiac as a subpage of our Metal Agenda, you can find it here.

Want to see a venue added to our Venue list or you have updated information? Be sure to send an email to our Metal Agenda mail!

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As a thank you for these people Loud Noise is giving away free tickets for their three upcoming festivals, Dynamo Metalfest, Into the Grave and Das Oktober Metalfest. Everyone can tag their personal heroes who work in healthcare below the posts with the shared festival posters on social media.

DutchMetalManiac also thanks everyone working in healthcare, as well as everyone else helping each other through these times.

You can read our earlier live review of Dynamo Metalfest 2017 here, as well as the one of Dynamo Metalfest 2019 here (day 1) and here (day 2)

Loud Noise Official Website
Loud Noise Facebook
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Dynamo Metalfest Official Website
Dynamo Metalfest Facebook
Dynamo Metalfest Instagram
Into The Grave Official Website
Into The Grave Facebook
Into The Grave Instagram
Das Oktober Metalfest Official Website
Das Oktober Metalfest Facebook

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A few days ago I published my new personal website here. It’s in Dutch though.

There I will post about my other activities aside from DutchMetalManiac. You can read some more info about that on the homepage.

I would like to invite you to visit my personal website and I am curious what you’ll think of it.

Sharing the website, its related social media channels or just this post would of course be very much appreciated.

Thank you!

Tim van Velthuysen’s personal website
Tim van Velthuysen’s personal website’s Facebook
Tim van Velthuysen’s personal website’s Twitter
Tim van Velthuysen’s LinkedIn

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Because of that anniversary I want to thank some people for the past years and hopefully for many years to come in the future: the people around me supporting me, current DutchMetalManiac writers Julia, Alessandro, Glenn, Henric en Martijn, all former writers, all bands, labels, promoters and venues we are working with and last but not least you, DutchMetalManiac’s readers, thank you!

Since this new website is now also online for its first year, it would be nice to hear what you think of it. So feel free to leave a comment, send us an email or message on Facebook or Twitter.

Again, thank you for supporting DutchMetalManiac!

\m/

Tim van Velthuysen

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Do you want to know which nice metal shows are happening nearby soon? Now you can with our new Metal Agenda!

In case you see that something is missing, let us know!

Hope to see you at a metal show soon! \m/

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Welcome on DutchMetalManiac’s new website!

Exactly four years ago, on July 27th, 2014, I started DutchMetalManiac and I want to thank some people for supporting DutchMetalManiac throughout those years (and hopefully also in the future).

First of all, I want to thank all of you, our readers!

I also want to thank DutchMetalManiac’s current writers Glenn, Henric, Martijn, Julia, Alessandro, Leon and all our former writers. Be sure to check our about-page in case you want to know more about them (and/or me).

Of course, I also want to thank all the bands, labels, promoters and venues, because without them DutchMetalManiac couldn’t exist.

Personally, I also want to thank the love of my life for supporting me and DutchMetalManiac.

I hope you like our new website, please let us know!

Thanks for supporting us and we hope that we can keep welcoming you on our site in the future! \m/

Of course, you can also follow us on our social media channels, which are in the top right corner.

\m/

Tim

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First of all, thanks for reading our articles and I hope you will also enjoy our upcoming articles!

At this moment I also want to thank DutchMetalManiac’s writers Glenn, Henric, Martijn, Julia, Alessandro and Joost as well as our former writers.

Of course, I also want to thank all the bands, labels, promoters, venues, because without them DutchMetalManiac couldn’t exist.

Personally, I also want to thank the love of my life for supporting me and DutchMetalManiac.

Below you can find our end of the year lists 2017, they are very diverse. There are only three bands that are mentioned twice.

We’ll have a short break from now on and we will be back on January 2nd for a very metal 2018! \m/

So, enjoy our end of the year lists and hopefully we’ll see you back in 2018.

Merry Xmas and a happy new year full of metal to you!

\m/

Tim van Velthuysen

End Of Year Lists 2017

Henric van Essen

1. Wintersun – The Forest Seasons
2. Chrysilia – Et In Arcadia Ego (review)
3. Nachtblut – Apostasie (interview)
4. Maglor – Asunder
5. Black Messiah – Walls Of Vanaheim
6. The Charm The Fury – The Sick, Dumb & Happy (live review Arnhem, review, interview, live review Amsterdam)
7. Vinegar Hill – Ghost Flowers (review)
8. Ex Deo – The Immortal Wars
9. Ithilien – Shaping The Soul (review, interview)
10. Borealis – World Of Silence MMXVII

Joost van der Leij

1. The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
2. Amenra – Mass VI
3. Navier Gene – Navier Gene (review)
4. While She Sleeps – You Are We
5. Fit For An Autopsy – The Great Collapse
6. Decapitated – Anticult
7. Wintersun – The Forest Seasons
8. The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers (review earlier album)
9. Destroyer Of Light – Chambers Of Horrors
10. Deez Nuts – Binge & Purgatory

Alessandro

1. Prismind – Disciples By Design (review, live review Toronto, interview, Promoting Bands)
2. Tribulance – Aftermath Of Lies (review, interview)
3. Charlie’s Frontier Fun Town – In Dust We Trust (review)
4. Haster – The Current Sea (review, interview)
5. Annihilator – For The Demented
6. Sepultura – Machine Messiah
7. Secret Sphere – The Nature Of Time
8. Kreator – Gods Of Violence
9. Accept – The Rise Of Chaos
10. Overkill – The Grinding Wheel (live review Utrecht)

Julia Obenauer

1. Katla – Modurastin (Promoting Bands, review, interview)
2. Skálmöld – Vögguvísur Yggdrasils (review, live review Munchen)
3. Mors Principium Est – Embers Of A Dying World (review)
4. Solstafir – Berdreyminn (live review Haarlem)
5. Alice Cooper – Paranormal
6. Kreator – Gods Of Violence
7. Dead End Finland – Slaves To The Greed (review)
8. Jotnar – Connected/Condemned (review, interview)
9. Nephren-Ka – La Grande Guerre De l’Epice (review)
10. NORD – Alpha (review)

Tim van Velthuysen

1. The Charm The Fury – The Sick, Dumb & Happy (live review Arnhem, review, interview, live review Amsterdam)
2. Striker – Striker (review, interview)
3. Hallatar – No Stars Upon The Bridge (Promoting Bands)
4. Myrkur – Mareridt (Promoting Bands, live review Amsterdam, review)
5. Vuur – In This Moment We Are Free – Cities (interview, Promoting Bands, Promoting Bands, live review Eindhoven, review, interview)
6. Kobra And The Lotus – Prevail I (review, interview)
7. Prong – Zero Days (live review Eindhoven)
8. Odradek Room – A Man Of Silt
9. Akercocke – Renaissance In Extremis
10. F.K.Ü. – 1981

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But, before I post the lists of top albums released in 2016 chosen by our writers, I want to thank some people.

I want to thank the readers of DutchMetalManiac for reading and sharing our stuff, our writers Julia, Joost, Glenn, Alessandro, Martijn, Henric, Nikola, Don and all former writers for contributing to DutchMetalManiac, and the metalscene for keeping the metal alive, because without metal there wouldn’t be DutchMetalManiac.

Below are our lists! \m/

Have a great last week of 2016 and have a heavy New Year’s Eve!

\m/

Tim van Velthuysen

Our lists:

Julia Obenauer:

1. Be’Lakor – Vessels
2. Omnium Gatherum – Grey Heavens
3. Amon Amarth – Jomsviking
4. Insomnium – Winter’s Gate
5. Across the Burning Sky – The End is Near
6. Dark Tranquillity – Atoma
7. Gojira – Magma
8. Nothing Lies Beyond – Fragile Reality
9. Aborted – Retrogore
10. Destruction – Under Attack

Joost van der Leij:

1. Black Mountain – IV
2. Car Bomb – Meta
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
4. Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
5. Periphery – The Price Is Wrong
6. Gojira – Magma
7. Lost Society – Braindead
8. Devin Townsend Project – Transcendance
9. Death Angel – The Evil Divide
10. Alcest – Kodama

Glenn van der Heijden:

1. Delain – Moonbathers
2. Nightwish – Vehicle of spirit
3. Ayreon – The Theater Equation
4. The Gathering – TG25: Live In Doornroosje
5. Epica – The Holographic Principle
6. Delain – Lucidity 10th anniversary edition

Non metal from metallers:

1. Marcela Bovio – Unprecedented
2. Anneke van Giersbergen & Árstíðir – Verloren Verleden

Alessandro:

1. Primal Fear – Rulebreaker
2. Pretty Maids – Kingmaker
3. The Curse Within – Seeking Vengeance
4. Megadeth – Dystopia
5. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self Destruct
6. Andi the Wicked – Freak on Frets
7. Pikes Edge – All Of Our Beauty
8. Anvil – Anvil is Anvil
9. Rob Zombie – The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
10. Dog n Style – Pubs Calling

Martijn Bakker:

1. Sig Ar Tyr – Northen
2. Madder Mortem – Red in Tooth and Claw
3. Whelm – A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun
4. Ayreon – The Theatre Equinox
5. Textures – Phenotype
6. Epica – The Holographic Principle
7. Nine Inch Nails – Not the Actual Events (EP)

Henric van Essen:

1. Grotesque Orchestra – Delusions of Grandeur
2. Abbath – Abbath
3. Sirenia – Dim Days of Dolor
4. Totenmond – Der letzte Mond vor dem Beil
5. Christian Epidemic – Destiny Search
6. Wolfhorde – Towards the Gate of North
7. Neoheresy – Potop
8. Yeti On Horseback – The Great Dying
9. Reliquiae – Winter
10. Mourning Beloveth – Rust & Bone

Special mention:

1. Ghost Of Mary – Oblivaeon

Nikola Milošević:

1. Brain Drill – Boundless Obscenety
2. Aborted – Retrogore
3. Obscura – Akroasis
4. Rotting Christ – Rituals
5. Amon Amarth – Jomsviking
6. Vektor – Termination Redux
7. Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder
8. Fleshgod Apocalypse – King
9. Rotten Sound – Abuse to Suffer
10. Abbath – Abbath

Don Anelli:

1. Inquisition – Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
2. Wormed – Krighsu
3. Maze of Terror – Ready to Kill
4. Untimely Demise – Black Widow
5. Decimated Humans – Dismantling the Decomposed Entities
6. Surgikill – Sanguinary Revelations
7. Blood Red Throne – Union of Flesh and Machine
8. Elderblood – Messiah
9. Paradox – Pangea
10. Demon Bitch – Hellfriends

Tim van Velthuysen:

1. Varg – Das Ende aller Lügen
2. Lody Kong – Dreams And Visions
3. Chiral – Gazing Light Eternity
4. In Extremo – Quid Pro Quo
5. Trap Them – Crown Feral
6. Delain – Moonbathers
7. Korn – The Serenity Of Suffering
8. Izegrim – The Ferryman’s End
9. Vulvodynia – Psychosadistic Design
10. Sirenia – Dim Days Of Dolor

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