Obtuse (NL) had the hard job to begin the second day of this festival as first band for a hardly filled club. Still they couldn’t get stopped by anything to give a decent gig. Their hard death/grind with thrash influences became the ideal way to get the sleep out of the head. Next to their own stuff they also gave a nice interpretation of Anthrax’s "Milk". A nice openings act.

On next the guys from Katafalk (NL). It became plug and play; cause 2 members from Obtuse are also in Katafalk. After plugging they definitely played a genius set of full anger modern death/thrash metal. The sound was hard, the playing diverse with great riffs and finger licking solos. It felt as a kick in the face! Luckily there were already some more visitors and song by song they got more heated and got swallowed by the aggressive tones and energetic stage act. Even their singer concluded that it would be a great day if the public progressed this way during the day. At the end of the show most of the people were head banging or enjoying a cool beer, but with full attention for the northern Dutchmen on stage.

After this the guys from Prostitute Disfigurement (NL) came on stage. They played a fuckin’ brutal set. Raging guitars, destroying drums and guttural grunts and screams made every living creature blown away. Their massive extreme gore death sounded solid and brutal, but also contained some groovy parts, which made it pure nectar. The speedometer went from ultra fast to sluggish slow, with eye for technical details and lots of variation. One of the highlights of the day.

Blasphemer (I) came all the way from Italy to be present at this festival. And it was worth it. Clothed as some terrorist the came on stage, once there they treated us on some dirty, raw and brutal death metal. A massive wall of sound was created and in front of the stage some fans were going completely insane. On stage the vocalist drank half a bottle of whiskey during the gig, which gave him probably a lot of adrenaline. Besides some drum problems the band was going like hell and were yelled back for an encore! These madmen had the times of their lives. The crowd watched it with pleasure and gave them a standing ovation.

After this Italian attack the Dutch grind thrashers of Blood I Bleed (ex-My Minds Mine) (NL) came tearing round the corner. Shrill crying screams, a devastating guitar, a monstrous bass and murderous drums went pretty rough inside. Their short songs went on in punishing tempo. A couple of die-hards were going insane in front of the stage, unfortunately most of the people couldn’t appreciate their shit. Probably they were too extreme for this bill.

Time for something different. Death metal from Algeria played by a band called Litham (veil of Mohammedan woman) (ALG). They got a very bad sound, still they were able to create a dark and heavy atmosphere to their brutal, still technical death metal. I was really surprised by them, because it’s not exactly commonplace to see a metal band from Algeria. Well Litham proved metal in a global thing and they got a warm welcome by the audience. Check them out when they play somewhere in you neighborhood.

Around eleven it was time for Polluted Inheritance to hit stage. From the first tones the public went insane on the technical death metal tunes of these veterans. On stage the band prepared the ultimate mid-tempo death metal to be fed at the hungry wolves in front of the stage. The awesome powerful sound gave the glorious riffs, masterly drums, brutal bass and great audible grunt a 100% overwhelming brutality. Their stage act was as always one of many windmills and angry faces. And when you weren’t head banging you could fully the impressive tight playing by these guys. Highlights of the set were "Broken", which flew over into the Death cover "Pull the Plug", and of course their own hymn "Faces" from their soon to be re-releases debut album "Ecocide". Polluted Inheritance still rulez and got what it deserved, recognition by a fully crowded club!

Talking about veterans, they probably exists as long as the band before, the mega bulldozers of Suhrim (B). An enormous wall of sound raise up when they began their set. They played their mid tempo death metal in a heavy and brutal way. The looks of the musicians were killing, the playing ponderous and dark and the sound was destructive and penetrated the lowest regions of your stomach. Suhrim on its best. After a couple of songs it was clear they played a winning match. Brutality prevailed in the finest.

So after two long days it was time for Bile (NL) to end up the first festival of the year. From the moment they entered the stage they walked all over the other performances. These bloodstained butchers got the still left audience wild on their fine tuned grind core sounds. Between every song they got an enormous applause and were treated as real Godz. When they announced the last song the public already began to scream for encores. They did about 5 of them, with even some Insult (!!!) work. This grinding madness became the crowning glory of the festival. A worthy end of 2 days of underground madness.