Yesterday Kreator played at Gasometer, Vienna. They are touring together with Nails, Exodus and Carcass.
I showed up way too late and missed Nails completely.
Five minutes after my arrival Exodus started to play. The played a nice set including some classics from their early albums. It was also very cool to hear “Blacklist” live for the first time. The material from their latest release is not overly exciting to be honest.
The stage decoration was rebuild behind a curtain for quite some time. Finally Kreator started their set at 9:40pm. They played five songs from their latest album “Krushers Of The World” (including “Tränenpalast” with a guest appearance by Hiraes vocalist Britta Goertz). For the rest of the set they basically picked single songs from various other albums of their impressive back catalogue. The band was great, the show was packed with pyrotechnics and the crowd obviously had a very good time. Very nice evening.
Two great nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London watching Belle and Sebastian play Tigermilk and If you’re feeling sinister in their entirety plus more songs and dancing with the band.
Support from The Loft and Martin Creed were fun too!
An unofficial Scotland World Cup anthem was played at the end!
Yesterday James McBain aka Hellripper (SCO) played at Arena, Vienna to promote his latest album “Coronach”. Hellripper was supported by Sarcator (SWE) and Schizophrenia (BEL).
Arena (Kleine Halle) was sold out which was quite cool on a monday evening.
Sarcator kicked things off. The young guys from Sweden released their third full length last year. Their blackened thrash has some progressive tendencies. Most of this gets lost in the live performance though. Nice set anyway.
After a short break Schizophrenia entered the stage. The place was pretty packed now. The band (which I never heard of before) started the set in a very explosive way and kept the high energy level until the bitter end. The crowd was responding with a pit occupying half of the venue. Awesome live act and great show including a Slayer cover at the end.
Hellripper was up next and it was hard to believe things could get more crazy but they did. The set started with “All Hail The Goat” and the band was taking absolutely no prisoners for the next 70 minutes. Fast as lightning riffing, huge pits, crowd-surfing, stage diving… unbelievable how much energy the crowd had. Great night.
Aristocrats in Malmö Sweden last night. Jazz, metal fusion and any genre really. Great intertaining show including small rubber animals for both story and sound effects. They managed to get a PG rating for an instrumental album which they were understabily rather proud of.
Femi Kuti & Positive Force, April 8 at Heimathafen, Berlin. Fun evening with lots of dancing to great Afrobeat and listening to inspiring thoughts with the legendary son of the ultimate legend, Fela Kuti.
Yesterday I enjoyed day #2 of the “Echoes Of Erebos” festival at Arena, Vienna. It’s the third edition of the festival which has a focus on neo-psych/heavy fuzz/stoner music.
I missed opening act “Lazer” but managed to arrive in time to see “Oh Hiroshima” from Sweden performing their set. The venue was not very crowded at this point.
The band Grandma’s Ashes (France) played their take on heavy rock music. Not exactly my cup of tea but the majority of the audience definitely liked it. The venue was already pretty crowded at this point.
Colour Haze from Germany was on my bucket list for quite some time and yesterday I finally managed it to catch the guys live. Their jam-band approach is very much to my liking and they delivered a fantastic and very danceable one hour set. The audience was great and everybody had a good time.
My Sleeping Karma were (co-)headlining the night. The guys absolutely delivered and the crowd was enjoying the gig as well as the band.
The appearance of both Colour Haze and My Sleeping Karma is part of their ongoing “The Karma Haze Tour” which includes appearances in Poland, Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy.
Snarky Puppy, last night, April 22, at Electric City in Buffalo, NY. Great show from a great band, can highly recommended catching them if you can, especially if you’re enjoying Somni. They’re playing the entire album and it holds up really well with the 10 of them, as opposed to the 72 musicians who recorded it!
Yesterday I went out mainly to catch Katla, a doom/sludge band hailing from Denmark. They are currently touring as support for 1914 on their “The War That Never Ends” tour.
The evening at a sold out Chelsea, Vienna started with Austrian Death Metal act Grimming. The band is performing in traditional suits/hats typical for the region they are coming from
1914 played an intense set with with some history lessons between the songs. The focus was on their most recent album “Viribus Unitis” which was released in late 2025.
Yesterday I saw the mighty King Buffalo kicking off their 2026 European tour in Vienna. Local support came from Monsters Of The Ordinary and Great Rift
Monsters Of The Ordinary celebrated their 20th anniversary and started their set at 7:45pm. Their music is a nice mix of heavy-rock/blues-rock.
Great Rift is an Austrian heavy psych/blues/stoner-rock band. They played a nice (sometimes very good) set but for some reason I am not connecting with the band live (saw them one time before and it also didn’t work out back then).
King Buffalo started their set at 9:30pm and the venue was pretty packed now. Unfortunately Sean McVay (vocals, guitar) broke his ankle three days before the tour started. Thankfully the band decided to do the tour anyway and they absolutely rocked the place with a great set featuring some classics and more recent material.
Saw Jethro Tull last night, at the London Palladium.
His voice is failing a little, but otherwise, excellent. Great choice of songs, from This Was in 1968, to Curious Ruminant. Band excellent, and Ian himself on great form, as ever, dancing around, and still sounding marvellous on guitar & flute.
No pics, sorry, owing to Ian’s dislike of cameras during the show, meaning all Tull pics posted are normally of the final Locomotive Breath.
Grimming, nice name 
