How would our lives look like without this brilliant invention?
1. Would we all watch a lot less television (in hours) because we would be bored to easy without zapping?
2. Would we watch a lot worse television (in quality) because we would never zap and just watch what would be on at that time?
3. Would we [...]

Friday afternoon already counts as weekend right?

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg today and tomorrow, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
The pic above is of Behemoth. But since they get already enough attention, we focus on other bands. So just before it all starts two bands; one famous, one not yet: [...]

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg tomorrow, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
Whereas ZXZW 2009 has Impure Wilhelmina including ex-Knut members, Neurotic Deathfest has also an ex-knut members band. By the name of Mumakil these Swiss dudes try to destroy everything around them sonically. If [...]

The Caretaker is all about lost memories, amnesia and nostalgia to old times. Creating a deep beautiful, but sometimes sinister atmosphere he tries to take you back in your personal history through electronic ambient music. Pleasant memories, bad dreams, being alone in the dark, all these emotions overtake the listener. If you’ve seen the Kubrick [...]

This week’s indie favourites at the ZXZW offices are:

Deastro (Randolph Chabot Jr.)’s new album Moondagger is truly great. It combines a nice synthypop sound with great songs that get stuck in your head immediately. You could maybe compare it with acts like MGMT and School of Seven Bells. All the music is made in Randolph’s [...]

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg this weekend, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
Next: Order of Ennead, a progressive death metal band incorporating two members of the well-known Deicide (Kevin Quirion – Vocals & Rhythm Guitar and Steve Asheim – Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Piano).
What is [...]

Dyon Schlebos, the guy that does the street promotion for ZXZW has made a nice video report about Muzikantendag 2009 in Tilburg for 3voor12/Tilburg. Frank Kimenai can also be seen after he just heard a cool metal band. Anyway, check it out.
Sorry, but the video is in Dutch.

Since Neurotic Deathfest is taking place in our beloved Tilburg this weekend, we dedicate this week’s special to this very cool death metal festival!
The New Dominion was in 2007 one of the acts at ZXZW.
We wrote about in 2007 about them: What’s ZXZW without a band from hometown Tilburg? And what’s ZXZW without a band [...]