Bart Nijssen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am a freelance music journalist for
the Dutch/Belgian metal magazine Rock Tribune ( site ).
In the past, I used to write for the Dutch/Belgian e-zine Kindamuzk (www.kindamuzik.net) and the longest running metal magazine of the Netherlands Aardschok and I still have my own web-log . What's more interesting than discovering new bands? I'm always in search of cool, new music, so if you know some upcoming bands, feel free to contact me.Every now and then I'm the dj at venues like Effenaar in Eindhoven, mostly just to support the bands that are playing and to try to help the audiences having a good time. So far, I've been the dj at shows from different bands (e.g. Stone Sour, Ill Nino, Godhead, Society 1, Wednesday 13, (Hed)p.e., Kittie, Flaw, Soulfly, Raging Speedhorn, Saliva, Waterdown, Papa Roach, Prong, Chimaira, Spineshank, Evanescence, Still Remains, Atreyu, 3, Life Of Agony, Linea 77, ICP, Him, Breed 77 and Static-X) in different venues throughout the Netherlands, like Melkweg (Amsterdam), 013 (Tilburg), Effenaar (Eindhoven) and W2 (Den Bosch). Oh yeah, besides all this, I'm working my ass off at an advertising agency for 40 hours a week :)Here's the list of bands I interviewed for the above mentioned magazines:
3 Doors Down
3 Inches of Blood
36 Crazyfists
37 Stabwoundz
40 Below Summer
Adema (2x)
the Agony Scene
Agresion
Alien Ant Farm (2x)
Ambiossis
Among Thieves
Ampt
Atreyu (3x)
Audrey Horne
Auxitt
Avenged Sevenfold
Between The Buried And Me
Black Bomb A
Black Comedy
the Blacklist
Blind Sight (2x)
Blink-182
Bloodsimple
Boy Sets Fire
Brainshake
Breed 77 (2x)
Bring Me The Horizon
Bullet For My Valentine
Butterfly Effect
Caliban (2x)
Chimaira (2x)
Chevelle
Coal Chamber
Coheed And Cambria
Crazy Town
Crease
Darkest Hour
Dedicted
Deftones
Demon Hunter
Destiny Program
Devildriver(2x)
Dirty Americans
Disturbed
Divine Heresy
Dog Eat Dog
Dog Fashion Disco
Downset
Downthesun
Dredg
Dresden Dolls (2x)
Drowning Pool (2x)
Dry Kill Logic
End Of April
Epidemic
Evanescence
Fallen To
Fear Factory (3x)
Finger Eleven
Forcefeed (2x)
Frankenbok
From Autumn To Ashes
Ghost Brigade
Glassjaw
Green Lizard (2x)
Hatebreed
Hatesphere
Hawthorne Heights
(Hed) Planet Earth
Hoobastank (2x)
Ill Nino (3x)
Incubus
Insane Clown Posse
Khoma
Kill II This
Killswitch Engage
Kittie (2x)
Korn
Koroded
Liftid
Linea 77
Linear Sphere
Lost Prophets (3x)
Machine Head (2x)
Mad Capsule Markets
Marionette
Miami Golem
Mindless Self Indulgence (2x)
Monte Conner (Roadrunner A&R)
Motherfed
Mudvayne (2x)
Murderdolls
Mushroomhead
My Ruin
Nickelback
Nonpoint
Our Lady Peace
Paatos
Papa Roach (3x)
Parkway Drive
Payable On Death (2x)
Pleymo
Puddle Of Mudd
Raised Fist
Rapid Notion
Red Tape
Revis
The Revolution Smile
Rob GEE
Saliva
Sengaia
Sepultura
Serart
Serj Tankian (System of a Down-frontman; check his solo-record)
Sevendust (2x)
Shortie
Sincere
Sinch
Skindred
Slipknot (3x)
Smogus
Snapcase
Spineshank (3x)
Staind (2x)
Still Remains
The Step Kings
StoneSour
Stuck Mojo
Sybreed
System Of A Down (2x)
Taproot
Textures (2x studio report, 2x interview)
The MoreISee
The Spirit That Guides Us
Thursday
Transport League
Trivium (4x)
Twin Zero
Tub Ring
Unjust
The Used
Waik
Waterdown
Wednesday 13 (2x)
Winds Of Plague
Wowbeggar
Yellowcard
Zao (2x)
Zebrahead (2x)
Zico Chain
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My Interests

Music:

Records I like were written and recorded by a.o. 10 Years, 3rd Strike, 3 Inches Of Blood, 30 Seconds To Mars, 36 Crazyfists, 311, 40 Below Summer, 4Lyn, the Abominable Iron Sloth, The Acacia Strain, Accident Experiment, Adema, Aerosmith, Afghan Whigs, AFI, Agents Of Man, Agony Scene, Alchemist, Alexisonfire, Alice Cooper, Alien Ant Farm, A Life Once Lost, Alkaline Trio, Allele, All That Remains, Alter Boys, American Head Charge, Amen, Amplifier, Anthrax, Apartment 26, A Perfect Circle, Apex Theory, Architects, Army of Anyone, Arsonists Get All The Girls, Ascension of the Watchers, As I Lay Dying, At The Drive-in, Atreyu, At The Gates, Audioslave, Audiovent, Audrey Horne, Autonomy, The Autumn Offering, Auxitt, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion, Baroness, Battles, Beecher, Between The Buried And Me, Bierbuikduivels, Billy Talent, Biohazard, Black Bomb A, Black Comedy, Black Dahlia Murder, Black Light Burns, Black Sabbath, The Bled, Bleeding Through, Blood Brothers, Blood Has Been Shed, Bloodsimple, Blue October, Blueprint, Bobaflex, Boiler Room, Body Count, Boysetsfire, Boy Hits Car, Breaking Benjamin, Breed 77, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine, Bury Your Dead, Byzantine, Caliban, Candiria, Car Bomb, the Cavalera Conspiracy, Celldweller, Chevelle, Chimaira, Clawfinger, Clutch, Coal Chamber, Cold, Comeback Kid, Contra, Corporate Avenger, Cradle Of Thorns, Crazy Town, Crossbreed, Crossfade, Cutting Pink With Knives, Cypress Hill, Daath, Darkest Hour, Dark New Day, Darwin's Waiting Room, Dead Kennedy's, Deadsy, Death From Above 1979, Dedicted, Default, Deftones, Demia, Demon Hunter, Depswa, Destiny Program, Destroy The Runner, Devildriver, Diecast, Dillinger Escape Plan, Disco Ensemble, Dislocated Styles, Disturbed, Divine Heresy, Dog Eat Dog, Dog Fashion Disco, Dope, Doors, Down, Downset, Downthesun, Dreadlock Pussy, Dresden Dolls, Droid, Dropping Daylight, Drown, Drowning Pool, Dry Kill Logic, Dub War, Duct Tape Mustache, Earshot, Earthtone9, Ekotren, Eighteen Visions, Element Eighty, The End, Endo, End Of April, Enter Shikari, Epidemic, E-Town Concrete, Evanescence, Evergreen Terrace, Every Time I Die, Face Tomorrow, Factory 81, Fair To Midland, Faith No More, Fear Before The March Of Flames, Fear Factory, Filter, Finch, Finger Eleven, Fingertight, Five.Bolt.Main, Five Finger Death Punch, Five Foot Thick, Flashpoint, Flattbush, Flyleaf, Flaw, Fony, Forcefeed, Foxy Shazam, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, From Zero, Funeral For A Friend, Future Leaders Of The World, Genghis Tron, Ghost Brigade, Gilo, Gizmachi, Glassjaw, God Forbid, Godhead, Godsmack, Gojira, Grade 8, Guns 'n Roses, Gwar, Hacride, Haste The Day, Hatebreed, Hatesphere, Haunted Garage, Hawthorne Heights, Hazen Street, Head Automatica, Headstrong, Headplate, Heaven Shall Burn, (Hed)p.e., He Is Legend, Hell Is For Heroes, Hellyeah, Helmet, Hermano, Himsa, the Hold Steady, Hoobastank, Hopesfall, Hourcast, Human Waste Project, Hundred Reasons, The Hurt Process, I Am The Avalanche, Ill Nino, In Flames, Incubus, Index Case, Insane Clown Posse, Insolence, In This Moment, Iron Maiden, Jane's Addiction, Jaya The Cat, Jeroan Drive, Job For A Cowboy, Johnny Cash, JR Ewing, Karnivool, Kilgore, Killswitch Engage, Klone, Korn, Koroded, Kottonmouth Kings, Lamb Of God, Led Zeppelin, Leftrights, Life Of Agony, Lifer, Linea 77, Lingua, Linkin Park, Lollipop Lust Kill, Look What I Did, Lo-Pro, Lost Prophets, Lucky Nine, Machine Head, Mad at Gravity, Madball, Made Out Of Babies, Madina Lake, MagnaCult, Malkovich, Manhole, Marionette, Maroon, Mars Volta, Mastodon, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Medication, Merauder, Mercy Fall, Meshuggah, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mindstab, Mnemic, Moneen, Monster In The Machine, Moonspell, Motley Crue, Motograter, Motorhead, Mower, Mr. Bungle, Mucky Pup, Mudvayne, Municipal Waste, Mushroomhead, MuteMath, My Chemical Romance, My Ruin, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, No One, Non-Phixion, Nonpoint, Norma Jean, Nothingface, Number One Son, The O, Obsidian, October File, One Minute Silence, Onesidezero, Open Hand, Orange 9mm, Orgy, Orphanage, Otep, Out, Oysterhead, POD, Pantera, Papa Roach, Parkway Drive, Paatos, Pitchshifter, Pearl Jam, Pleymo, Poison The Well, Polkadot Cadaver, Powerman 5000, Pressure 4-5, Priestess, Primer 55, Primitive Reason, Primus, Professional Murder Music, Project 86, Prong, Pro-Pain, Protest The Hero, Psycore, Pulkas, Pulse Ultra, Puscifer, Puya, Quarash RATM, Raging Speedhorn, Raised Fist, Raunchy, Red, Red Tape, RHCP, Reflux, Refused, Relative Ash, Richard Cheese, Rikets, Ringworm, Rise Against, Rob Zombie, Saliva, Sanctity, Saosin, Scarlet, Seether, Senser, Sepultura, Sevendust, Shadows Fall, Shenoah, Shinedown, Shootyz Groove, Shortie, Sick of it All, Sikth, Silverstein, Sinch, Six, Skinlab, Skindred, Skip The Rush, Skrape, Slaves On Dope, Slayer, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Snapcase, Snot, Snub, Social Distortion, Soil, Sona Fariq, Sonic Youth, Soulfly, Speakers For The Dead, Speak No Evil, Speedking, Spineshank, The Spirit That Guides Us, Spoil Engine, Spoken, Sprung Monkey, Staind, The Start, Static-X, Stereomud, Still Remains, Stone Sour, Stone Temple Pilots, The Stooges, Story of the Year, Stuck Mojo, Strata, Sunblime, Sugar Ray, Suicide Silence, Sullen, Sunset Black, Superheist, Switched, Sybreed, Systematic, System Of A Down, Taproot, Tenacious D, Terror, Testament, Textures, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Therapy, Thine Eyes Bleed, Threat Signal, Three Days Grace, Thrice, Throwdown, Thumb, Thursday, Tomahawk, Tool, Toy Dolls, Transmission 0, Transport League, Trapt, Trik Turner, Trivium, Trust Company, Tub Ring, Twelve Tribes, Twinzero, Twisted Method, Type O Negative, Ultraspank, Unearth, Union Underground, Unjust, Unloco, Urban Dance Squad, The Used, Vacant Stare, Vanilla Ice, Vaux, Velvet Revolver, Vendetta Red, Videodrone, Volbeat, Watcha, Waterdown, Wednesday 13, Welle Erdball, White Zombie, Will Haven, Winds Of Plague, With Passion, Wonderland Dementation Department, Workhorse Movement, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Yakuza, Zao, Zebrahead and Zico Chain.

Movies:

Saw, Silence of the Lambs, Legends Of The Fall and Boondock Saints.

Books:

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, and everything by Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence o/t Lambs, Hannibal, a.o.).

Heroes:

He-Man, Lynn Strait (Snot), Scott Weiland and Alice Cooper. Now that's a combination!

My Blog

UPDATE DECEMBER 16

*** UPDATE DECEMBER 16 *** So me and Aardschok have split up. We had a difference of opinion and I didn't want to lose my freedom as a freelance writer. We couldn't work things out, s...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:14:00 PST

Freelancer

Besides Aardschok, I started writing for Rock Tribune again recently. It feels good to be back again. Sometimes it's soooooooo good to take some distance from the things you love to do and start all&n...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:26:00 PST

NEWS - First interview in 8 months...Divine Heresy and Drowning Pool!

So I started writing again... :-) This week I'll do my first interview since I quit writing 8 months ago! The band? Well, first there's Divine Heresy (with Dino Cazares of Fear Factory-fame) an...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:39:00 PST

Blood is thicker than water...

After I quit writing for Rock Tribune Magazine and the e-zine KindaMuzik, I've started to enjoy music again like I used to in the past. So I can honestly admit that it feels good that I quit after wri...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Tue, 08 May 2007 02:31:00 PST

IMPORTANT MESSAGE! October 24 2006

After 8 years, 700 reviews and over 150 interviews I've decided to retire from the music business. This may come as a surprise to most of you, but the thing is: I want to enjoy music again like I used...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:57:00 PST

Update September 17

*** UPDATE SEPTEMBER 17: *** I finally found out why the Mushroomhead-guys didn't call me for an interview last Monday: drummer Skinny had some family issues. Hope all is well with him and his ...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:56:00 PST

Trivium in London (UK), March 15, 2006

Anyone attending the Trivium show (with God Forbid and Bloodsimple) in London (UK) at March 15? Well, I am (in order to write an article about this great band), so if you're planning on...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:02:00 PST

Exclusive Korn show in Germany! February 14, 2006.

Okay, last Friday EMI Records asked me to fly to Berlin (Germany) tomorrow for an exclusive Korn-show. Only 150 people will be able to attend this special Valentine show! Of course, I agreed to go wit...
Posted by Bart Nijssen on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:49:00 PST