Huntress @ Stage 1 (013 Tilburg, The Netherlands)
June 8, 2013

Between playing on the big stages of the Sweden Rock Festival and the Download Festival in the UK, Huntress is doing a number of additional club shows in Europe. The first one was at 013 Poppodium in Tilburg (013 is the dialing code for Tilburg), a big difference in setting compared to Sweden Rock. Of course now they were the headliner, but still. Huntress played at Stage 1, the small but cozy second stage in 013. The nice thing of the venue is that interaction with the audience is easy, because you can almost touch the bands. But it’s not the best for photographers; the lightning is not that good and space to move is limited. And in sync with what was announced as occult metal, the lightning was quite dark with strong colors.

Lana Del Rey Live in Paris
April 27, 2013

I took a break from metal for one night to see Lana Del Rey in concert, and I’m going to deviate from Sonic Cathedral’s core mission to write about it here because I think many other female-fronted metal fans are likely to appreciate her as much as do.