The Office of Pieter Pelgrims

2018

I’ll leave out the personal misfortunes, you’re here for the lists.

Music

New albums

These were released in 2018 and that’s when I gave them a listen.

  1. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse (JAN 5, 2018)
  2. Sumac – WFMU (FEB 2, 2018)
  3. Harms Way – Posthuman (FEB 9, 2018)
  4. Turnstile – Time & Space (FEB 23, 2018)
  5. Trail of Lies - W.A.R. (FEB 28, 2018)
  6. Ilsa – Corpse Fortress (MAR 2, 2018)
  7. Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic (MAR 2, 2018)
  8. Between The Buried And Me – Automata I (MAR 9, 2018)
  9. Conjurer – Mire(MAR 9, 2018)
  10. Twitching Tongues – Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred (MAR 9, 2018)
  11. Wolfpack – Loath (MAR 16, 2018)
  12. Casey – Where I go when I am sleeping (MAR 16, 2018)
  13. Nightmarer – Cacophony of Terror (MAR 23, 2018)
  14. DVNE – Live At Nø Studio
  15. Gozu – Equilibrium (APR 13, 2018)
  16. Poison the Well – I/III II/III III/III (APR 18, 2018)
  17. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III (APR 20, 2018)
  18. Parkway Drive – Reverence (MAY 4, 2018)
  19. CHRCH – Unanswered Hymns (MAY 17, 2018)
  20. Burn The Priest – Legion: XX (MAY 18, 2018)
  21. The Baptists – Beacon of Faith (MAY 23, 2018)
  22. Svalbard – It’s hard to have hope (MAY 25, 2018)
  23. Ghost – Prequelle (JUN 1, 2018)
  24. Raum Kingdom – Everything & nothing (JUN 1, 2018)
  25. Snakehound – Imitation Crown (JUN 1, 2018)
  26. YOB – Our Raw Heart (JUN 8, 2018)
  27. Khemmis – Desolation (JUN 22, 2018)
  28. Converge – Beautiful Ruin (JUN 29, 2018)
  29. Bury Tomorrow – Black Flame (JUL 13, 2018)
  30. Between The Buried And Me – Automata II (JUL 13, 2018)
  31. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (JUL 13, 2018)
  32. Hopesfall – Arbiter (JUL 13, 2018)
  33. Regulate - In the Promise of Another Tomorrow (JUL 20, 2018)
  34. Radiant Knife – Science Fiction (AUG 8, 2018)
  35. Black Tusk – TCBT (AUG 17, 2018)
  36. Jesus Piece – Only Self (AUG 24, 2018)
  37. Counterparts – Private Room (SEP 7, 2018)
  38. Peace Of Mind – Penance (SEP 7, 2018)
  39. Downpour – Downpour (SEP 7, 2018)
  40. Stoned Jesus – Pilgrims (SEP 7, 2018)
  41. Aphex Twin – Collapse (SEP 14, 2018)
  42. Future Usses – The Existential Haunting (SEP 14, 2018)
  43. Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses (SEP 14, 2018)
  44. Bangladeafy – Ribboncutter (SEP 21, 2018)
  45. Therapy? – CLEAVE (SEP 21, 2018)
  46. Sumac – Love In Shadow (SEP 21, 2018)
  47. Terror – Total Retaliation (SEP 28, 2018)
  48. Poison the Well – Distance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (OCT 3, 2018)
  49. Whispering Sons – Image (OCT 16, 2018)
  50. Soulfly – Ritual (OCT 19, 2018)
  51. Daughters – You won’t get what you want (OCT 26, 2018)
  52. City Hunter – Deep Blood (OCT 26, 2018)
  53. Twitching Tongues – Disharmony Zero (OCT 30, 2018)
  54. Black Tongue – Nadir (OCT 31, 2018)
  55. Drug Chruch – Cheers (NOV 2, 2018)
  56. Elefant – Konark und Bonark (NOV 5, 2018)
  57. Cult Leader – A Patient Man (NOV 9, 2018)
  58. Ohhms – Exist (NOV 9, 2018)
  59. King Nine – Death Rattle (NOV 16, 2018)
  60. Unearth – Extinction(s) (OCT 23, 2018)
  61. MF DOOM x Cookin Soul - DOOM XMAS 🎄 (Full Album) (DEC 18, 2018)
  62. Cult Leader on Audiotree (youtube) (DEC 20, 2018)
  63. Lubbert Das – De Plagen (DEC 26, 2018)

Some favourites: Svalbard, Bury Tomorrow, Cult Leader, Black Tongue, Turnstile, Sumac (x2), and of course: Daughters

Newly Discovered

  1. Backtrack – Bad to my world (2017)
  2. Cursed Earth – Cycles of Grief (2017)
  3. SubRosa
  4. Svalbard
  5. The Clearing Path – Watershed Between Firmament And The Realm Of Hyperborea (2017)
  6. Cloudkicker – Live with Intronaut (2014)
  7. Poison the Well – The Tropic Rot (2009)
  8. Smallman, Yvan Shopov – Inner Oceans (2016)
  9. Juan Bond – Juan Bond EP (DEC 30, 2017)
  10. Catharsis – Samsara (1997)
  11. Harakiri for the sky – Aokigahara (2014)
  12. Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory And Injury (2013)
  13. Morrow – Covenant Of Teeth (2016)
  14. Bacchus – Self titled (2011)
  15. Trap Them
  16. His Hero is Gone – Fifteen Counts of Arson (1996)
  17. Tragedy – Nerve Damage (2006)
  18. Queensway – Swift Minds of the Darkside (2017)
  19. We Are Heathens – The Blood Behind the Dam (2016)
  20. The Hope Conspiracy – Death Knows Your Name (2006)
  21. Bathsheba – Servus (2017)
  22. Only Living Witness – Prone Mortal Form (2010)
  23. Diapsiquir — A.n.T.I
  24. Origin – Antithesis (2008)
  25. Immortal – Pure Holocaust (1993)
  26. Year of the Goat
  27. The Carrier
  28. Black Mare – Death Magick Mother (2017)
  29. Body Count – Bloodlust (2017)
  30. Callisto – True Nature Unfolds (2004)
  31. Itra
  32. Gaza
  33. Envy
  34. Fit For An Autopsy
  35. Black Anvil

I also thought this was amazing:

Back from never being away

  1. Kickback
  2. Congress
  3. Ancient Rites
  4. Liar
  5. Rise And Fall

Gigs

  1. St John Passion (J.S. Bach) – deChorale, Saint Carolus Borromeus church Antwerp
  2. AYS (de), Blacklisted (us) – Kavka, Antwerp
  3. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night live soundtrack (The Black Heart Rebellion) – deStudio, Antwerp
  4. Terror (us) – Jh De Klinker, Aarschot
  5. Loma Prieta (us), Every Stranger Looks Like You, JH Zenith, Dendermonde
  6. Harm’s Way (us), Merauder (us), Kavka, Antwerp
  7. Carmen – Frank Van Laecke (George Bizet Opera), Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp
  8. Desertfest – Trix, Antwerp
  9. Killing Joke (uk) – De Roma, Antwerp
  10. Steak Number Eight – Vooruit, Ghent
  11. Emma Ruth Rundle (us) – Trix, Antwerp
  12. Pettersson, Schumann, Berlioz – Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding – Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp
  13. Counterparts (ca), Stick to Your Guns (us) – Trix, Antwerp

Theater

  1. Gonzo – Abbatoir Fermé, Monty, Antwerp

Movies

Movies I’ve seen in 2018

I reckon I watch over 200 movies per year, these were new to me:

  1. Haute Cuisine
  2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  3. No Strings Attached
  4. Belgica
  5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  6. Focus
  7. Frank
  8. BlacKkKlansman
  9. Apostle
  10. The House That Jack Built
  11. Meeting Evil
  12. The Bad Batch
  13. The Nice Guys
  14. Mute
  15. Marina
  16. Deadpool 2
  17. The Gambler
  18. Bone Tomahawk
  19. Sabotage
  20. The Revenant
  21. Pusher
  22. Hart’s War
  23. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  24. Contempt
  25. Murder on the Orient Express
  26. The Invention of Lying
  27. Red Sparrow
  28. Be Kind Rewind
  29. Shot Caller
  30. Paterson
  31. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  32. Het Tweede Gelaat
  33. Isle of Dogs
  34. The Siege
  35. The Prince
  36. 7 Seconds
  37. Dead Man’s Burden
  38. Atomic Blonde
  39. John Wick: Chapter 2
  40. Spider-Man: Homecoming
  41. Justice League
  42. The Happening
  43. The Pacifier
  44. Black Panther
  45. Horrible Bosses
  46. Frits & Franky
  47. The Pyramid
  48. Out of the Furnace
  49. Broken City
  50. D’Ardennen
  51. Three to Tango
  52. Darkest Hour
  53. Bowling Balls
  54. Batman vs. Two-Face
  55. Blade Runner 2049

Favourite movie of this year, by far: The House That Jack Built.

Most people don’t realize that the man at the beginning of the movie is Virgil from Dante’s Inferno. Seeing that this masterpiece more or less shaped our current idea of heaven and hell: read some world literature every once in a while, you dimwit.

Books

I excluded most comic books (things like XIII, XIII Mystery, Largo Winch, and Storm).

  1. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  2. Ibicus – Pascal Rabaté
  3. Echt – Guillaume Van der Stighelen
  4. The Peripheral – William Gibson
  5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror – Robert Louis Stevenson
  6. Domain Driven Design Quickly – Floyd Marinescu
  7. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley

Really looking foward to Willam Gibson’s new book Agency.

2019

I already planned to go to three plays.

Gigs

  1. La Muerte + Dool + Hangman’s Chair: Love-Sex-Fear-Death
  2. Clckws / Defined By Nature / Rain
  3. Modeselektor
  4. Whispering Sons
  5. Dylan Carlson
  6. Roadburn
    • Anna Von Hausswolff
    • Daughters
    • Emma Ruth Rundle
    • Old Man Gloom
    • …
  7. Zimerman
  8. Tool
  9. Ieperfest
  10. Antwerp Metal Fest
  11. Desertfest

Albums

  1. I’m rooting for a new Tool album
03 January 2019