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Balinho

I have a plan, but not a clue....

About Me

My name is Sander van Baalen. I play drums in The Devil's Blood and Right Direction. I used to batter the drums in JudasVille , Violation Of Trust , The Spades , and Aura , and have been doing some shows with Dutch hardcore-outfit Backfire! ...

My Interests


Music, football (PSV Eindhoven), films, K1 & Pride/UFC MMA fighting, underground lifestyles...and of course collecting vinyl. I have a collection of 500+ mainly 70's-80's Hardrock&Metal, but with all kinds of other genres as well. Differing from Cloven Hoof to Duke Ellington to Sore Throat to Stevie Wonder to Wagner to DeathSpell Omega to Woven Hand to Katharsis, and everything in between...If any one of you ever considers selling their old albums, contact me, I'm always interested...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interesting enough...

Music:

Anything that has soul and has got heart put into it...

Movies:

Favorite directors: The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo, Barton Fink, etc.), David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, etc.), Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssee, etc.), John Carpenter (The Thing, In The Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness, Escape From NY, Halloween, etc.), Peter Jackson (LOTR, Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste, The Frighteners, etc.), Darren Aronovski (PI, Requiem For a Dream, etc.), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, etc.), Monty Python (Life of Brian, Quest For the Holy Grail, etc.), Martin Scorcese (Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear, etc.). Hammer House of Horror, TromaVille, Grind House, Russ Meyer, and a whole damn lot more I guess...

Television:

Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Rome, The Office (BBC), Extras, Bo' Selecta!, Wild Palms, The Sopranos, Stand Up Comedy, The Young Ones, Rembo & rembo, vKooten & De Bie, Jiskefet, Discovery & History Channel, sports & sports related stuff...

Books:

Tolkien, Bukowski, Michael Moore, Hunter S. Thompson, Edgar Allan Poe, Mario Puzo, Football en Music Mags, Occult, Religion & History, Sam Harris, Nietzsche, Goethe, Comics...

Heroes:

My family & friends.

My Blog

The Devils Blood 7" now available for pre-order!

Hail Children of the Cult!Pre - orders can now be placed over at our label’s website!So if you want to be sure you haven’t missed a very special and also very limited piece of devil worshi...
Posted by Balinho on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:28:00 PST

The Devils Blood has awakened! Cloth revealed!

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Posted by Balinho on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST

THE DEVILS BLOOD to play ROADBURN FESTIVAL on 17-04-2008

From The Roadburn Press Release:***Get there early 'coz Roadburn's also gonna celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rise Above Records.Lee Dorrian comments: "As Rise Above Records approaches it's 20th yea...
Posted by Balinho on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:14:00 PST

Some videos added

Uploaded some videos from my WestCoast trip.By the way, I also have my own YouTube Channel, which consists mostly of concert videos I shot. My YouTube username is ZeroTolerance77, so log on if you're ...
Posted by Balinho on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:46:00 PST

MySpace Online Photoalbum of my US Westcoast Roadtrip.

August 9th, 2007.Hi All!I updated the photoalbum of my roadtrip through the US Westcoast, which in 13 days took me through over 3500 miles and across 4 States (California, Nevada, Utah & Arizona)....
Posted by Balinho on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:55:00 PST

JudasVille confirmed for FuryFest!!!

Yesterday evening I received the confirmation that JudasVille will be playing the 2005 edition of the French FuryFest in LeMans. JudasVille will be playing on Sunday, together with bands like Motorhea...
Posted by Balinho on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Japan Tourreport

Japan tourreport 10.03.2005Laurens, our record label executive, told us in no unsure terms that we either be at the airport, Zaventem Brussels at 10.00 a clock or dont go to Japan at all. So of cours...
Posted by Balinho on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

No Sleep At All!!!

Last Thursday, JudasVille had a nice drive up North to Groningen (NL), where we played the infamous Vera club, supporting Texas legends Nine Pound Hammer. The crowd turn-up was great, we had a great s...
Posted by Balinho on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

JudasVille gigs with The Golden Earring!

Tonight will be the first show of JudasVille supporting Dutch rock-legends The Golden Earring (remember songs like "Radar Love", "Twilight Zone" and "When The Lady Smiles"?). Up to now 5 shows have be...
Posted by Balinho on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST