Fri 30 Apr – Neurotic Deathfest 2010While too many people went to Amsterdam on Queens Day, or tried to go there but never made it, a couple of thousand metalfans, including me, went to Tilburg for 2 days of extreme metal called the ‘Neurotic Deathfest’.
While open air metal festivals in The Netherlands are having a hard time (no Sonisphere and no Waldrock this year), indoor metal and hard rock festivals are doing better than ever. Roadburn sells out in no time each year. So did the Eindhoven Metal Meeting last December and the same goes for the Neurotic Deathfest. All three festivals are held in medium sized clubs that can accommodadte 2.000 to 3.000 people. Like Roadburn Neurotic Deathfest is held in 013 Tilburg. Fans come from all over Europe. Some of the languages I heard this weekend: English, German, French, Spanish, Finnish (I think) and a Scandinavian languae (I guess Swedish).
This year’s edition was dominated by old school British death metalbands. …