eluveitie + others @ Alphen aan den Rijn

Hi, just wanted to make you aware of this fine swiss folk metal band that goes by the name Eluveitie.

I had the chance yesterday to attend the Fear Dark Festivals concert at Alphen aan den Rijn where I could see them. It was my first contact with them and they are really impressive. Their variant of folk metal with death metal influences is really great and something quite refreshing in this scene. Of the other three bands that are in the list we did only see Drottnar and Thy Majestie. The problem I had with these two bands is that they abuse their own style. The Majestie plays a variant of power metal that is too bombastic and pretentious. I got really tired in the end. But then, power metal is not my fav metal stly. I've heard Drottnar labeled as christian black metal. Since I don't understand the lyrics I will not say anything about the christian thingy. But black metal? The only black that this band has is the singer style. The music itself is more closer to prog-technical death reminding me quite a bit to Cephalic Carnage, but less consistent in my view. I did not like the shrieking voice style and the on-stage presence of the band. Anyway, this style of music is difficult to get used to in the first listening, so give them a try also.

My neck hurts from headbanging today :-) Good sign!!
Anyway, anybody knows where the name eluveitie comes from??

btw, I'm listening right now to lucid interval by cephalic carnage (there are some live performances at youtube :) ) just... impressive

keepalive update... (with photos)

Hi!! No post for some weeks, eh?
well.. don't think I'm dead. I'm just incredibly busy! but still having enough fun.. things are moving on :-)

Thought that I'd put a couple of photos that I took as of late

First, here are some photos of the Koninginnedag.
This one is from Delft



And these two are from Amsterdam



This one in the Museumplein in Amsterdam



Complete change. This is a minilepel (minispoon) that I bought. The model name happens to be "Barcelona" (you can see it)! It seems to be fashionable these days to use the barcelona name. Now that AMD also did that for their new series of quad-cores :D



Again, complete change. Now some photos from my day-trip to Rotterdam last week.
The first two are just overviews from the Euromast






This is a rare building at the port whose function is unknown to me



And this is the Montevideo building (note the large 'M' on top), Netherlands' highest residential building at around 140m



And here we have a rarity: a real expresso in the netherlands ;-)



Last week we went to the Marius Escher musem in Den Haag. It was a short trip and we went back right afterwards. I only took this photo of the Hoftoren, the tallest building in The Hague (142m) and the home of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.



thats all for today I guess..
I should return to work now

see you soon!!