6 September 2014 Dynamo; Eindhoven, The Netherlands Finally, a small folk-metal event with an super awesome line-up full of young, talented bands that’s not 7 hours away from here. Indeed, this year The Netherlands have one of these amazing festivals too, Into the Forest is it’s name. In the city … Continue reading →
ToDo Best, The Netherlands19 April 2014 On Saturday evening the 19th of April I travel to Best to see the performance of Druantia, Encorion and Grimner. For a meagre five euros these bands can be seen live in the youth centre Todo. Plenty of reasons to get into the car … Continue reading →
Roxy Music, Rotterdam After I’d written a very positive review about Encorion from Rotterdam it’s time to visit the official releaseparty of these men and lady. They haven’t posted much about the gig and the location was a little bit odd as well, it was at a garage. Once I … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 5 April 2013 Label: Sleazy Records It’s been a while since Encorion gave us an album, fortunately that’s about to change now. In 2010 Facing History and Ourselves was released, somewhat later I was allowed to write a review. Now the time has come that Encorion throws … Continue reading →
Wolfstijd Festival 2012 De Kroepoekfabriek, Vlaardingen 7 January 2012 Photography: Dorien The Netherlands have gained a new festival! On the first Saturday of this brand new year, it was the first time for Wolfstijd festival, a festival with power-, folk- and blackmetalbands. Wolfstijd itself was well-organized, drink were cheap, location … Continue reading →
I have to congratulate you with your album first, it has become a real success after a year. It must have opened a lot of doors for you?
It sure has, we have the opportunity now to spread our work through a label with which we can reach a large audience. It opened door to ourselves as well as for the band in a musical sense. We have grown and we’re proud of it. We’re more than ready for the future!
Rating: 8/10 Release: 7 March 2011 Label: Sleaszy Rider Records A request came to us, the Dutch band Encorion wanted us (even though the album was already released for a while) to review their “Facing history and ourselves” album. The album they released it in late 2010. And as representatives … Continue reading →
