Category Archives: Metal

Korpiklaani © 2013 Peter Troest. All rights reserved.

Korpiklaani @ Pumpehuset 15 April 2013

Finnish Korpiklaani, Metsatöll from Latvia and Danish Heidra made a great triangle in Pumpehusets big folk-metal-monday. Beer in plenty, kilts – a Finnish sauna WITH a giant wood bath-tub and a relaxed attitude towards the old drinking horns made from … Continue reading

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Bonecrusher Fest 2013 – Pumpehuset 29 March 2013

Bonecrusher Fest… Just about as metal as it gets. A six-band tour across Europe with metalcore, technical death metal, death metal and just pure niceness in Pumpehuset this easter Friday – the six great bands in the line up were: … Continue reading

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Halestorm @ Pumpehuset 26 March 2013

Halestorm – the Grammy winning hard rock band from Pennsylvania, USA – visited Copenhagen and an almost sold out Pumpehuset this Monday. Lead singer Elizabeth “Lzzy” Hale and her brother exceptional drummer Arejay Hale are the backbone of Halestorm and … Continue reading

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Mitch Lucker dead – Suicide Silence (pics from Roskilde Festival 2012)

      [Edit: November 1st, 2012] In a message on Suicide Silences page on Facebook under an hour ago, the band just announced that lead singer Mitch Lucker died after motorcycle accident. Mitch Luckers death is a complete surprise … Continue reading

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Converge – Loppen Copenhagen December 11

What do you do, when Jacob Bannon from Converge stops his on-stage pacing just before the show, looks at your camera and says: ‘Please don’t shoot with flash – It blinds me completely.’ I was at Loppen – a quite … Continue reading

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Gojira @ Pumpehuset November 2012

Pure awesomeness – Pumpehuset (an old water pumping station in the heart of Copenhagen) was fully packed for the show Friday 3rd of November 2012. Gojira from France was going to show why they’re called the future of metal – … Continue reading

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Devin Townsend Project + Fear Factory @ Amager Bio November 11th 2012

My first time with Devin Townsend Project – and was he a metal entertainer. Great gig and a great and  happy crowd on a dark November Sunday. Fear Factory played first and went all out. They too seemed like they … Continue reading

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Roskilde Festival 2012 – Trash Talk

Was that fucking awesome or what – Stagediving, crowdsurfing, weedsmoking on stage and generally going completely nuts – best concert this year IMHO. The band played 27 songs in an hour (a critic wrote) and the band and lead singer, … Continue reading

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Roskilde Festival 2012 – Warbringer

Warbringer – what a nice surprise – Good old thrash metal with charm and edge. I saw battle hardned metal photographers heads going from “work-mode” to banging-mode. A half filled tent during Bruce Springsteen was bad odds, but they made … Continue reading