{"id":108416,"date":"2026-06-15T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/108416\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:15:24","slug":"don-broco-amsterdam-melkweg-9-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/108416\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Broco – Amsterdam, Melkweg – 9 June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jase Walker<\/p>\n

\"DonFestival season is here but there\u2019s still time for a few shows to really kick things off before going off to a random field to have a few too many beers and see more bands than I\u2019ll probably remember. As for now, it\u2019s time to see Don Broco blow the roof off Melkweg in their Oude Zaal room along with Slay Squad.<\/p>\n

A slightly late interview with Don Broco sees me getting into the room just after Slay Squad<\/a> gets things going and they\u2019re clearly going down pretty well already. This is a pretty interesting combination of deathcore mixed with Compton-style rap, super aggressive bars and disgustingly heavy riffs and of course, absurd overuse of bass drops.<\/p>\n

Circle pits are already going at full speed, the band relentlessly gets stuck into people\u2019s faces, constant movement, these guys don\u2019t care in the slightest that they\u2019re the support act, this is their show. One of the singers at one point seems to be facetiming someone they know, which they then reveal to be their wife: fuck yeah dude.<\/p>\n

I think this is what really helps translate a show to a crowd who don\u2019t know you, just have a ton of fun doing it without much worry and it\u2019ll convince people eventually. Slay Squad lay down some tasty grooves as well as their litany of aggressive words which to an audience largely made up of people who likely have no idea who they are, have clearly connected very well. Slay Squad have made a real success story of their set, there\u2019s no other way to put it, a real class act from these.<\/p>\n

Don Broco<\/a> kicks off with \u2018Cellophane\u2019 and it\u2019s already causing the hype to go straight for the peak and we\u2019re going to be here for at least the next hour whether people like it or not! It speaks volumes about the fanbase for Don Broco considering the \u201cnew shit\u201d gets just as much movement as the \u201cold shit\u201d.<\/p>\n

The crowd are absolutely here for one reason and that\u2019s riffs to go fucking insane to. There\u2019s been zero build up with the crowd energy, straight in at 100 per cent and the only way from here is straight up to impossible heights.<\/p>\n

\u2018Night Tripping\u2019 is a fantastic example of this, everyone already knows the words so let\u2019s go! The crowd is fully chomping at the chance to get mad in another put and \u2018Come Out To LA\u2019 is the absolute perfect chance, you don\u2019t need a massively heavy break to provoke this, just a solid rhythm and song peak and that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m genuinely losing track of how far through we are already because I\u2019m way too absorbed in screaming all the words. I\u2019ve spent almost the entire last two months priming myself for all of the words of the most recent albums and it\u2019s definitely paid off. The one-two punch of \u2018Manchester Super Reds No. 1 Fan\u2019 followed by \u2018One True Prince\u2019 is a great call to break up the mania a bit with a slower paved sing-along.<\/p>\n

Inviting Slay Squad on stage to join in with \u2018True Believers\u2019 while diving into the crowd\u2019s circle pit and making their tour manager work hard as hell to keep the mic cable in the air to avoid tripping. Ending the main set on \u2018Everybody\u2019 was clearly the right medicine for tonight but everyone knows we\u2019ve got the big bangers left; what set would be complete without \u2018T-Shirt Song\u2019? Because of course this would be the next song on the encore because after this there is indeed one song left and of course I\u2019m going to oblige by taking my T-shirt off to swing around my head.<\/p>\n

And finally bringing the set to the close is \u2018Hype Man\u2019 which does an incredible job of closing off what has been a fantastic set that\u2019s shown off the latest songs from \u2018Nightmare Tripping<\/a>\u2018 while also hitting the biggest bangers of their recent back catalogue.<\/p>\n

Getting to witness Don Broco in an intimate setting like this is truly a special experience, as someone that\u2019s seen them play shows that range from this size to arena level, I can say without a doubt that they smash it at both sizes but this sort of show is really special. Absolutely mental, what a privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jase Walker Festival season is here but there\u2019s still time for a few shows to really kick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,54891,27854,27855,27856,200,6105,54892],"class_list":["post-108416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-don-broco","tag-gig-review","tag-live-review","tag-melkweg","tag-netherlands","tag-review","tag-slay-squad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116755256422902035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}