Leprous – Tilburg, 013 – 7 February 2025

It’s Friday, it’s Tilburg again for Jase W, but it’s Leprous. There are bands that occupy the top five prog bands space for JW and Leprous occupies a huge space within that: our man on the continent doesn’t think he’s passed off a chance to see them any time in the last decade and today was no different.

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THE BIG ÜBER ROCK INTERVIEW – IAN ANDERSON (JETHRO TULL)

Folk prog legends Jethro Tull are about to release their 24th album in their six decade long career, so what better time to sit down with the band’s iconoclastic and erudite founder and frontman to share some curious ruminations about the release, its origins and the state of play with both the band and the state of the live scene for so-called “heritage” bands? There’s none really, so let’s dive in and get the conversation started…

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The Devil Wears Prada/Kingdom Of Giants/Ocean Grove/SENNA – Haarlem, Patronaat – 5 February 2025

Stacked, absolutely fucking stacked. There is legitimately no other way to describe this tour’s lineup. The Devil Wears Prada fully capitalise on their jumps in popularity with another headline stomp around Europe that arguably moves them out of the shadow of supporting Landmvrks last year and into similarly sized venues in their own right. Not only that but American synthy metalcore outfit Kingdom Of Giants, Aussies Ocean Grove and tied off with sparkly metal band, SENNA. What an unreal selection!

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Winterfylleth/Domhain – Belfast, Voodoo – 2 February 2025

Sure, what else would you be doing on a dark, blackened Sunday evening in the dark, blackened side streets of a dark, blackened city but sitting upstairs in a dark, blackened venue enjoying some dark, blackened heavy metal? Not much, really… which is why Monk uncurled himself from his sleeping bag under the bench in the corner – well, he did feel like he’d been living here for the weekend, as this was his third gig here in as many nights – dusted down his battered leather jacket, hit the bar to drain the remains of last night’s left over JD and adopted his usual pose beside the sound desk for what promised to be a special collision of black metal forces with one of the Celtic giants of the genre riding into battle with his English counterparts…

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