Reviews

Reeperbahn Festival, one of Europe’s biggest showcase festivals and a vibrant fusion of live performances, conferences, and art exhibits, pulled off yet another amazing edition, the third weekend in September, and offered us another exhilarating festival experience. Heaps of performances across dozens of venues create an atmosphere where you’ll likely stumble upon the next big act before they hit mainstream …

Today’s show was Originally planned to take place at Große Freiheit which surprised me, as I had seen Melvins before quite a few times – but always at the much much smaller Logo. A few days before the show I realised it had been moved to Markthalle (size-wise a happy medium between the cramped sweatbox of Logo and the biggish …

The second day at the Way Out West Festival was the least interesting day for me, but if you’d ask our hip hop photographer, he would probably have a different opinion. I only had two bands/artists on the schedule – but they delivered amazing shows. Three years ago, I strolled around the festival area at the Roskilde Festival, sipping on …

18 years ago, the Way Out West Festival opened its gates for the first time with two days of amazing weather and bands like Woven Hands, The Pogues, and Juliette & The Licks. Seven rainy festivals later, some of them with torrential rain, I gave up, moved to Germany to never return again – until this year. Well, we didn’t …

Can a pioneering industrial metal band, releasing the best albums between 1986 and 1992, still be relevant in 2025? A band that made me more than disappointed last time I watched them live at a festival in Sweden back in 2003? Yes, yes, and frecking yes! Growing up on synthpop and punk music in my young years, I came across …

Once again, Dong Open Air called our resident metalhead Christian from our home base in Hamburg down to his sleepy little hometown of Neulirchen-Vluyn. And as always, Mount Moshmore offered up an interesting experience. From sleaze rock to Death Metal to saxophones, from rainbow pits to neck-breaking thrash, it was a rollercoaster ride in the clouds. Here’s our recap of …