Location De Baroeg, Rotterdam
Date: 3-3-2012
Photography: Dorien

Into the Forest
This festival has his debut last year, and is back again for another night of folk-metal. Into the Forest has four Dutch bands lined up for us, all of them responsible for a great evening.

Viatora
The Limburgian band Viatora kicked off these evening with a nice act of fierce traditional folk-metal. The beginning of the act was not very smooth, which was also due to the bad sound. The first two songs didn’t made any impression, and the band was a little lost at the stage. This changed during their set. At about the third song the sound improved, Viatora had decided it should be a party. Although the sound remained bad until the end of the show (the vocals and flutes by Thijs couldn’t hardly be heard), their songs came out rather well. Viator has clearly excellent songwriter skills, because their songs sound all very catchy!
It was good to see, they reached the whole audience with their enthusiasm, the audience became so to, a nice achievement for the first band of the evening. Top of the bill!
Score: 4/5