- September 9, 2025 - Having lived five years in Ecuador, I had the chance to witness and photograph many concerts, including several heavy metal festivals. It felt almost like fate, that I encountered a band from Ecuador after 
- September 6, 2025 - Metal Colonia Fest – A Newcomer’s Experience When the organizers of Metal Colonia Fest say “underground,” they mean: bands that aren’t mainstream, but deliver music of real quality. Most acts come from Cologne and 
- September 5, 2025 - Sant Anna Bay Coconuts is an Antwerp-based surf band. Photos from their live performance at Kult41, Bonn. 
- August 29, 2025 - Periotators live at the Gebaude 9, Cologne, Germany opening for the Kumbia Queers (ARG). 
- August 29, 2025 - Kumbia Queers (Buenos Aires, AR) lit up Gebäude 9 in Cologne. The band’s cumbia inspired tropi-punk rhythms filled the packed room and carried everyone into motion. Now here's a technical observation: how much stage 
- August 15, 2025 - Junkyard Drive (DK) pulled off a solid show opening for The Lazys at Gebäude 9, with good energy and sound what I would call something like 'heavy rock' and roll', balancing somewhere on the 
- August 15, 2025 - The Lazys (AUS) threw me back in time for a moment. I was 14 when The Angels converted me to rock music with their album Face to Face (1978). The connection? Both bands hail 
- July 15, 2025 - TOTAL CHAOS was formed in 1989 in California, in their words 'to save the dying genre of punk and to express their social and political view'. Over the years the band stuck to their 
- July 15, 2025 - The hardcore punk band Agrotóxico emerged from the outskirts of the city of São Paulo. In the 7 albums released, the band deals with topics such as anarchy, violence, self-management, wars and political issues 
- July 11, 2025 - Empty Bones, a German garage band, is heavily inspired by '60s rock 'n' roll and lo-fi bands, which is reflected in their songs. Caught them live at Kult41, Bonn. 
- June 28, 2025 - There was absolutely nothing to complain about the Melissa Etheridge concert last night at the Palladium, Cologne. Everything was perfect, the sound quality, the lights quality and of course the music itself. The touring 
- June 18, 2025 - Daily Havoc is an alternative rock quartet from Germany, which combines melodic sounds as known from classic rock with hard rock-like riffs and the unpolished energy of grunge and stoner rock. Caught them on 
- June 6, 2025 - Vomito Negro is a Belgian electronic band formed in 1983. The name is Spanish and Portuguese for "black vomit", a phenomenon that arises in the last stage of the disease yellow fever. In February 
- May 27, 2025 - La Brigade du Kif was born in 2015 and shook up the music scene with their electrifying blend of ska, rock, swing, and punk. If you've never danced like a madman, get ready, because 
- May 25, 2025 - Marley's Ghost always brings along the good vibes in their live sets. People 'get together and feel all right'. 
- May 21, 2025 - KOZA MOSTRA was founded in 2012 by Ilias Kozas in Greece. With their unique blend of Ska, Rock, Balkan, Punk, and Rebetiko (a traditional Greek music genre), they quickly captured audiences’ attention. In 2013, 
- May 3, 2025 - As We Go is a punk band from Cologne. I caught them live at Kult41, Bonn. The band spared no energy to raise the ceiling in front of a decently sold out room 
- May 2, 2025 - "Fragile Figures like to play with the rhythms, laying anxiety-inducing guitars over dance-inducing beats, without making it comfortable." What you witness at the show is pre-recorded drums and synths playing from laptop and the 
- May 2, 2025 - According to the band: "Cinematic electronic music. Ruthless drums, intense basslines, soulful synthesizer symphonies." And basically that's what I saw and heard. One band member playing real drums, the other switching back and forth 































