Planet of NOPE
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Oh waw. This week was quite a depressing trip through Graspop's lineup. An entire week nothing but NOPE. These are the bands that fell into the NOPE pool. Some were noped after only 10 seconds, others were noped after 25min of "oh no"s... * Twisted Sister – (but there was an
Some good stuff
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Ankor. ⚡ Thursday 18 June Metal Dome Genre: Metalcore Spotify bio; ANKOR is an alternative metal band based in Catalonia (Spain) with singer Jessie Williams (Bristol, UK), drummer Eleni Nota (Athens, Greece), guitarists David Romeu/Fito Martinez and bassist Julio López (Tarragona, Catalonia) formed in 2003 in Els Pallaresos a village
#BLC2GMM - Ride 14 Friday 19 June South Stage Genre: Hardcore Spotify bio; One of the most remarkable aspects of Distant Populations— Quicksand's first album since 2017's Interiors—is how timely and prescient the themes running throughout its songs sound at this very moment. Thoughtful, driving, and powerful, like the
Catching up to do.
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Been sick for almost 2 weeks mid -january so that messed up my BLC2GMM-plan pretty big, then we went to Spain for a week so no rides either. But I'm back on my wheels since last week. 🚴♀️ So - in order of past weeks rides... Bloodywood. #BLC2GMM - Ride 8
#BLC2GMM - ride 7 Genre: Djent Date & location @ Graspop: Saturday - Metal Dome Spotify bio reads like this; On their fifth studio album, War Of Being, TesseracT return with a career-high release that is their most conceptual, dynamic and sonically complex to date. The story revolves around an inter- dimensional
#BLC2GMM - ride 6 Genre: Sludge Metal Date & location @ Graspop: Saturday - Metal Dome This is nice. ⚡ Spotify bio reads like this; Spawning from Los Angeles, Faetooth forges fairy-doom: an eclectic amalgamation of doom metal, sludge, and shoegaze. From spellbinding melodies to guttural shrieks, Faetooth's music conjures a looming atmosphere
#BLC2GMM - ride 4 Genre: Deathcore Date & location @ Graspop: Thursday - Marquee Spotify announces these guys as... a 4-piece crushing downtempo deathcore band, with members from the Netherlands & Slovakia. I'm pretty much sold on that line alone 😄 So everything else is just biased in favor for these guys. Good riffs
Three Days Grace. This one's still from Friday evening's ride. I vaguely know the band's name from somewhere. Graspop labels it as: Alternative. Starting track "Animal I Have Become" does not ring a bell, but then along came "I Hate Everything About You." And yeah... besides that one track, I
I'm back at Graspop Metal Meeting. During the week that the first names were dropped we were even in doubt if we would go again after a somewhat "meh" lineup last year. Headliners have never been our thing, so the north/south stages are generally not the place we hang
\\mellow