Ive been lucky enough to see Vortex perform at least a dozen times. Great shows with a lot of headbanging going around. During the live recording from the Holland Heavy Metal album, 20 attenders, the singer jumped on stage, split his pants in two, his dingdong peeped out, stopped the show, left the stage, propably didnt have a spare, everybody had to wait, somehow found a pant and continued the recordings. Great attitude while his wig was wiggling about. Sad Iron, whom also performed, had to do part of their set again due to the classic mistake that noone noticed they'd run out of tape while the band played on. I just love the old days....
killer guitar solo in the middle, this song seems to get better with every listen and I've listened to this song at least 500 times in the past couple months
this song was hunting me for over 30 years,first time i heard this back in Poland in mid 80s,then i came to usa and forgot the band name but remember the title,well i could not find it anywhere until today,thank you.
First verse according to Gary Barlow (Take That), Tony Wright (Terrorvision) and Phill Jupitus on the music-themed British comedy panel show _Never Mind the Buzzcocks_ (series 2 episode 2) A Ginster wall of a savoury low-fat cake We are the bag ladies of the sea Bright arse is a plan of beautiful bits Sometimes a donkey you will see. We've reached the land of Hull - bring mangoes from the boats And then talk Vortex student braille You know the feel and smell of chili from that night A lemon slice and savoury whale! Open the gate!
I remembers the fist Gigs by * Vortex * in Herrstein / Germany in 1985, it was a great Time. This Guys from the NL, let the Metalbats fly forever !!! \m/
I love vortex. This whole album is amazing especially the title track I wonder why they didn't get bigger than they are, because they had everything 🤔 Along with fellow countrymen 'Picture' they represented the Netherlands very well
Pure nostalgie, Heb deze clip ooit gezien op Sky channel zo'n 20 jaar geleden. zuivere en echte rock van Nederlandse bodem! Enn Dietslands6; het grunten kwam pas 25 jaar hierna..
Hey, funny, I was already at the HMM-weekend ! Awesome gig of Vortex ! First time I saw Vortex, also never heard material of' them before although I experienced the time they were successful.. Quite special to see that the clip was made in Bourtange while last weekend some drunk truckdriver destroyed a couple of bridges
Vortex are the best oldskool metal ever!!! Watch them Lie at Nachtacafe Gerolstein/Germany on December 12th !!! HEAVY METAL PARTY with VORTEX, MARTYR and POWERVICE
Open the Gate lyrics by Jurjen Tichelaar Here comes a war and we are sailing through the night We are the beggars of the sea We got a task, a plan, a duty to fulfill Something to conquer, you will see We reach the land and all brave men get off the boats It is our voyage to The Brill We know no fear, or something silly of that kind All men inside, them slay we will Open The Gate It's rather cold, but soon it will be much too hot Especially for the ones inside We'll hit the gate and metal cracks the massive wood Inside we will, we'll get inside We're called the Beggars and we are proud of such a name We're under Orange's command All that we ask for, is to open up that gate So we can get inside The Brill Open The Gate It's rather cold, but soon it will be much too hot Not only for the ones inside We'll have to get ourselves inside these heavy walls And sure we'll conquer all The Brill We're called the Beggars and we're proud of such a name We're under Orange's command All that we ask for is to open up that gate Inside we will, inside we will Open The Gate
Ohoh, nostalgia. We were special guests(Tomorrow) in de Westereen(Zwaagwesteinde) with another not Metal Band (later de Kast) Martjo when you read this Greetz (Berend)
@Doobie1975 The members at that time were Martjo Brongers - guitar Berend Stegeman - guitar Jan Klemens - bass John Roffel - drums Jurjen Tichelaar - voice The only remaining members are Martjo and Jurjen the rest of us our new! well i (Henk de Tank) am in the band for 11 years playing drums, Orion Roos Guitar is in the band for 6 years and René van Zonnefeld bass is playing for 4 years with us.
LOL :D Ahhhhhhhh those sweet memories. I even remember that guy who used to co for amanda reddington at sky's power hour? introducing this video. He said something of the likes that it was sent in by you guys ( dunno how they normally got their vids ) and that eventhough the quality of the video wasnt too good, they were gonna air it anyway :D I even remember being amazed at seeing those motorcycles with dutch plates on em. I was like... omg!? Theyre dutch!?!!?!? LOL! Thanx for uploading this.
@Doobie1975 We just recorded a new album what will come out end of may, the title will be "Drink Bat Blood" What the other guys are doing i don't know .
John B Roffel, fellow drummer, former Vortex, not performing in this video, which was even on MTV back then, and Martjo Brongers, guitar and backing-vocals, Rock In Peace, mates! 🤟🤨💥🌟
His name is Ebby Lee Gonzalez Here you can find all band members and former band members and a lot more about Vortex poparchiefgroningen.nl/zoeken?mivast=3590&mizig=247&miadt=5&miaet=14&micode=POPACTS&minr=11714934&milang=nl&misort=score%7Cdesc&mizk_alle=vortex&mif2=640
"The band Vortex were formed after the breakup of Werewolf and Thunderfox. We don't know a lot about Werewolf and Thunderfox, although with names like that they probably have shagged Ulrika Jonsson." -Mark Lamarr, _Never Mind the Buzzcocks_ (series 2, episode 2)
@Doobie1975 No but we want to record a new one for our new album Wat will come out the end of may. Most likely it will be the title track "Drink Bat Blood" . first ideas for a clip are being filtered by the band at the moment.
Hello Bobby, The Brill (den Briel in Dutch) Is a coast town in the western part of the Netherlands, and that is where our King landed in 1572 from Engeland to set our country free from the 80 years war against the Spanisch, that is also were the song is about. Here a wiki artikel en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brielle Greetings Vortex
@@bufdaman That is so cool he stayed at your house for a few weeks and that he used to be with your aunt, what was he like as a person? I can see him being a really fun, high energy driven guy to be around.
@@bufdaman I'm glad to hear he was a great guy to be around, he seemed to be having a great time performing in the video, are you still in touch with Jan today?
Ive been lucky enough to see Vortex perform at least a dozen times. Great shows with a lot of headbanging going around. During the live recording from the Holland Heavy Metal album, 20 attenders, the singer jumped on stage, split his pants in two, his dingdong peeped out, stopped the show, left the stage, propably didnt have a spare, everybody had to wait, somehow found a pant and continued the recordings. Great attitude while his wig was wiggling about. Sad Iron, whom also performed, had to do part of their set again due to the classic mistake that noone noticed they'd run out of tape while the band played on. I just love the old days....
Awesome story. 😀😀
killer guitar solo in the middle, this song seems to get better with every listen and I've listened to this song at least 500 times in the past couple months
amazing underrated band,i love so much old school heavy metal clip!! hailz from france!
this song was hunting me for over 30 years,first time i heard this back in Poland in mid 80s,then i came to usa and forgot the band name but remember the title,well i could not find it anywhere until today,thank you.
First verse according to Gary Barlow (Take That), Tony Wright (Terrorvision) and Phill Jupitus on the music-themed British comedy panel show _Never Mind the Buzzcocks_ (series 2 episode 2)
A Ginster wall of a savoury low-fat cake
We are the bag ladies of the sea
Bright arse is a plan of beautiful bits
Sometimes a donkey you will see.
We've reached the land of Hull - bring mangoes from the boats
And then talk Vortex student braille
You know the feel and smell of chili from that night
A lemon slice and savoury whale!
Open the gate!
hahaha brilliant!
Singer looks like a combination of Pete Burns (Dead Or Alive) and Fish (Marillion) singing into King Diamond's microphone.
+theylive23 Hahah nailed it.
Hahahah! Fair enough.
Jajaja
I remembers the fist Gigs by * Vortex * in Herrstein / Germany in 1985, it was a great Time. This Guys from the NL, let the Metalbats fly forever !!! \m/
yeahhhhhh. AWESOME........FROM COLOMBIA
LEGENDARY VIDEO! My band HAVE to cover this :D
I want this record so bad! 🤘🏼
A friend of me has worked in the Studio in Groningen, (Music Lyrics) for a couple of years, where this song has been recorded.
i love that guitar solo!
great old school metal
R.I.P. Martjo (leadgitarist)
Ja erg jammer heb vaak een biertje vroeger met hem gedronken in hardrock café de ster.
I love vortex. This whole album is amazing especially the title track
I wonder why they didn't get bigger than they are, because they had everything 🤔
Along with fellow countrymen 'Picture' they represented the Netherlands very well
I remember in their early days they got lot of bad press for being a bad Mercyyful Fate clone.
yeah great band, also picture's great. but nothing groundbreaking from either band.
Pure nostalgie, Heb deze clip ooit gezien op Sky channel zo'n 20 jaar geleden. zuivere en echte rock van Nederlandse bodem! Enn Dietslands6; het grunten kwam pas 25 jaar hierna..
Hey, funny, I was already at the HMM-weekend ! Awesome gig of Vortex !
First time I saw Vortex, also never heard material of' them before although I experienced the time they were successful..
Quite special to see that the clip was made in Bourtange while last weekend some drunk truckdriver destroyed a couple of bridges
All that we ask for, is to open up that gate!!
RIP my brother in metal!
RIP Martjo 1958-2019
Vortex are the best oldskool metal ever!!! Watch them Lie at Nachtacafe Gerolstein/Germany on December 12th !!! HEAVY METAL PARTY with VORTEX, MARTYR and POWERVICE
RIP Martjo, 't was moi jong
Masterpiece ❤
Vortex are the best band from Holland.Awesome video!
Best music video Ive ever seen. Cracking vocals an all.
The moment with the cannonshot at 2:09 really kicks ass
this is one the BEST METAL VIDEOS EVER !!! DANK U ZEER !
I love this song!!
Dit is Den Brielljant!!
Open the Gate lyrics by Jurjen Tichelaar
Here comes a war and we are sailing through the
night
We are the beggars of the sea
We got a task, a plan, a duty to fulfill
Something to conquer, you will see
We reach the land and all brave men get off the boats
It is our voyage to The Brill
We know no fear, or something silly of that kind
All men inside, them slay we will
Open The Gate
It's rather cold, but soon it will be much too hot
Especially for the ones inside
We'll hit the gate and metal cracks the massive wood
Inside we will, we'll get inside
We're called the Beggars and we are proud of such a name
We're under Orange's command
All that we ask for, is to open up that gate
So we can get inside The Brill
Open The Gate
It's rather cold, but soon it will be much too hot
Not only for the ones inside
We'll have to get ourselves inside these heavy walls
And sure we'll conquer all The Brill
We're called the Beggars and we're proud of such a name
We're under Orange's command
All that we ask for is to open up that gate
Inside we will, inside we will
Open The Gate
"Them slay we will". Alles voor de rijm, grammar be damned!
Ohoh, nostalgia. We were special guests(Tomorrow) in de Westereen(Zwaagwesteinde) with another not Metal Band (later de Kast) Martjo when you read this Greetz (Berend)
@Doobie1975
The members at that time were
Martjo Brongers - guitar
Berend Stegeman - guitar
Jan Klemens - bass
John Roffel - drums
Jurjen Tichelaar - voice
The only remaining members are Martjo and Jurjen the rest of us our new! well i (Henk de Tank) am in the band for 11 years playing drums, Orion Roos Guitar is in the band for 6 years and René van Zonnefeld bass is playing for 4 years with us.
Vortex, Heavy Metal I thought the drummer was Marco Foddis from Pestilence.
LOL :D Ahhhhhhhh those sweet memories. I even remember that guy who used to co for amanda reddington at sky's power hour? introducing this video. He said something of the likes that it was sent in by you guys ( dunno how they normally got their vids ) and that eventhough the quality of the video wasnt too good, they were gonna air it anyway :D I even remember being amazed at seeing those motorcycles with dutch plates on em. I was like... omg!? Theyre dutch!?!!?!? LOL! Thanx for uploading this.
@Doobie1975
We just recorded a new album what will come out end of may, the title will be "Drink Bat Blood"
What the other guys are doing i don't know .
John B Roffel, fellow drummer, former Vortex, not performing in this video, which was even on MTV back then, and Martjo Brongers, guitar and backing-vocals, Rock In Peace, mates! 🤟🤨💥🌟
zalige ontdekking! mooi van Nederland!
yes they are
Vortex rocks! :)
R.I.P.
ik heb jullie gezien op open air
egt vet man yeah heafy metal foar oltied !!!
meer concerten :D
This Is Great Bobobosma your Band ROCKS, The riff kind of Remainds me of Accept, Sounds Good, You have my Support...Hail Metal!
Sounds like a great way to go... Thanks!
These guys are a Dutch metal band am I correct?
Awesome video!
just amazing
@bobobosma Congrats on you guys coming out with a new album, I hope the album will be a big success :)
Campy cool 80's metal!☺
Bedankt Martjo \m/
Vet hoor. Allemaal herinneringen aan Vera komen boven :)
@Doobie1975 yeah seen them 3 years ago still so good as then :D
have 2 other dutch oldskool heavy metal bands if your intrested ?
Amazing!!!
omg zalige ontdekking!!!!!! nice van nederland :D
nice song. the most metal videos are like this but i like it
Classic!
Ha Berend "the steeg" Stegeman en Jan "the beast" Klemens laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang geleden.
Who is the guy that was playing drums in this video? I know he didn't play on the album.
His name is Ebby Lee Gonzalez
Here you can find all band members and former band members and a lot more about Vortex poparchiefgroningen.nl/zoeken?mivast=3590&mizig=247&miadt=5&miaet=14&micode=POPACTS&minr=11714934&milang=nl&misort=score%7Cdesc&mizk_alle=vortex&mif2=640
Geweldig!
Did this band ever do any other music videos?
@bobobosma thanks for your info, how is the band doing nowadays and what are the former members up to nowadays?
Mooi die inzet van Henk de Tank, de drummer die het langste bij Vortex op de drumkruk zit :)
:) good stuff
cool
This is Rokkin!
⚡⚡💪⚡⚡
been coming back to this song here for more than 10 years ... great banger!
"The band Vortex were formed after the breakup of Werewolf and Thunderfox. We don't know a lot about Werewolf and Thunderfox, although with names like that they probably have shagged Ulrika Jonsson."
-Mark Lamarr, _Never Mind the Buzzcocks_ (series 2, episode 2)
With names like that they were probably good!
@@Bravilor At what? Heavy metal or shagging Ulrika Jonsson? Or _both?_ 😏
This is fucking amazing!
Yes something like that, its something the producer wanted to do They told me.
Nice one!
Looks like lieve Nederland!
@Doobie1975
No but we want to record a new one for our new album Wat will come out the end of may. Most likely it will be the title track "Drink Bat Blood" . first ideas for a clip are being filtered by the band at the moment.
and in the end, the gate opens, and a voice is heard: 'who da fuck is, its passed midnight!'
If one concentrates hard enough, one can almost Smell The Glove.
what were the names of the members who appeared in the music video and what instruments did they play?
F**k me, I remember this being on Never Mind The Buzzcocks. An underrated piece of classic European metal with huge Maiden influenced audible
@@daveattrill2712 you mean this clip Dave…. Thnx for the your comment!
ruclips.net/video/HHgdjB0EsZ0/видео.htmlsi=G4NwnPHY-MkjC18z
This version is alot different than the album version, was this the single version?
WOW!!
Cult Hoor Hollanders!!! \m/
it on the dutch steel II vinyl
Crazy Shit....... with a terrific Guitar solo....
ohhhhhh! ok
This is too fucking metal to exist in this dimension!!!
oh man, i laughed so fucking hard i burst a lung xD
Laugh again so your other will burst to.
What's the future of mankind, how do I know I got left behind.....
Those were the f*kking dayz!
This is fucking cool.i dig this.
Does he realize hes singing into a bone?
"It's not the first badly dubbed Dutch video I've seen with a bone in someone's hand."
-Phill Jupitus, _Never Mind the Buzzcocks_ (series 2 episode 2)
Is this the band where Peter de Bluts was a drummer back in '79?
I was just thinking the same thing.
@antster1983
lol you got that from buzzcocks
Love the siouxsie Sioux thing the singer has going on
ONLY❤
Haha, ace..!
If anybody has the Open The Gate LP for sale/trade let me know.
Fucking greatest video ever!
🍻
On drums: WWF SUPERSTAR VIRGIL
Wha-? How do you even...What.
You do know Virgil was black?
SPOILER
They open the gates
What kind of metal did Vortex perform? They remind me of the heavier NWOBHM bands of the early 1980s
look at his teeht :P
What is a brill?
Hello Bobby,
The Brill (den Briel in Dutch) Is a coast town in the western part of the Netherlands, and that is where our King landed in 1572 from Engeland to set our country free from the 80 years war against the Spanisch, that is also were the song is about.
Here a wiki artikel
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brielle
Greetings Vortex
And here is an wiki articel about the capture of The Brill
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Brielle
And here you can find the lyrics
www.metal-archives.com/albums/Vortex/Open_the_Gate/5188
got a midi file for this song?
What's the bass players name in this video.
Jan Klemens
@@Doobie1975 I thought it was, he stayed at my house for a few weeks in the late 80s I think, he used to be with my aunt from Holland.
@@bufdaman That is so cool he stayed at your house for a few weeks and that he used to be with your aunt, what was he like as a person? I can see him being a really fun, high energy driven guy to be around.
@@Doobie1975 yeah just that, very chill too, really cool.
@@bufdaman I'm glad to hear he was a great guy to be around, he seemed to be having a great time performing in the video, are you still in touch with Jan today?