From The Archives: WTF is going on with Laura Broeck?

With the band currently wrapping up their last promotional tour for their album De Gulzigaard, in hindsight of the four part-documentary series Loudwire just aired about them, one question remains: What the hell is going on with Schijnheiligaards, most importantly frontwoman Laura Broeck?

Besides that those episodes slowly revealed a band at its most dysfunctional - bickering brothers over an amp, Titus Timmermans coming off as a highly controlling bandleader, etc. - the big climax came when we got exposed with the behaviour of miss. Broeck. Besides her alcohol consumption, she exposed a very aggressively defensive attitude towards the crew that came to interview her.

Now it seems like she has taken that exact same behaviour onto the road as well. We went to see the band at a show in Berlin, Germany - one of the first countries to embrace this band - only to get confronted with a total shit show, both on and behind the stage. Besides the fact that Laura Broeck kept drinking during the performance and even managed to curse out certain people in the crowd, she also got caught on camera while berating one of the members of her technical crew. Then she noticed she was being filmed. I think the images speak for themselves.

All this seems to have created a mayor backlash on how fans are perceiving the band. De Gulzigaard was a highly ambitious album and remains one of the biggest Metal-albums of the year, but miss Broeck's behaviour seems to have ruined all the momentum the band had been building up so far, causing a huge rift amongst their fanbase.