Gabber is the kind of brain-battering music you’d use to beat state secrets out of a captured spy. It ranges from 150 to 190 BPM and is maybe some of the most extreme music on the planet.
Which is a little at odds with where it’s most popular: the “Bible Belt” of the Netherlands’ provinces, whose take on Christianity isn’t dissimilar to that of fundamentalists in America’s deep south.
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The photos below are from a ridiculously rowdy night at Club Rodenburg in Beesd, a quiet little town in the east of the country.
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