Den Haag’s heavy-guitar calendar takes a useful two-step at Musicon during the upcoming Thursday-to-Sunday run of October 8–11. Friday brings Mantra Machine and Ditch; Sunday follows with BE N!CE and Bleedroot. The connection is local without becoming narrowly parochial: Ditch emerged from Den Haag’s stoner-rock circuit, while Bleedroot is a four-piece from the city. Around them, Amsterdam instrumental trio Mantra Machine and London punk band BE N!CE bring separate approaches to volume, repetition and riff-led momentum. It is a small route through the city’s continuing appetite for loud bands whose identities sit well beyond one fixed genre label.[1][2][3]

Friday: psychedelic weight and a homegrown groove

Mantra Machine arrives at Musicon on Friday, October 9, at 20:30 with Ditch. The bill places two versions of stoner-informed music in conversation. Musicon describes Mantra Machine as a Dutch instrumental psychedelic-rock trio built from driving guitars, fuzzed bass, dynamic drums and synthesizer atmosphere. Its 2026 album Echoes Forest is central to this date, with the group scheduled to play the record in full. That gives the evening a defined listening frame: an extended, cinematic instrumental set shaped around a single work.[1][3]

Ditch supplies the Den Haag side of the exchange. The venue traces the band’s beginnings to the city in 2010 and characterises its approach through old-school stoner rock, heavy riffs, dynamics and groove. Its 2025 album The Traveler sits behind the current chapter. Together, the pairing makes Friday a chance to hear how a shared weight of guitar sound can move in different directions: Mantra Machine toward immersive instrumental textures, Ditch toward a grounded, riff-first power-trio charge.[1]

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Sunday: punk friction meets Haagse grunge

At 19:30 on Sunday, October 11, Musicon switches the thread from psychedelic repetition to songs with sharper edges. BE N!CE comes through on the release-tour cycle for its EP IT’S GETTING HARDER. Musicon frames the London quartet through punk, absurdist humour and social observation, while also identifying nu-metal and alternative-rock elements in its newer material. The result is a bill whose urgency comes from concise impact and a more direct vocal centre.[2]

One room, two local entry points

Bleedroot makes Sunday’s local connection explicit. Musicon identifies the group as a Den Haag four-piece drawing on grunge’s raw energy alongside punk and feminist perspective. Paired with BE N!CE, it turns the night into a useful view of how the city’s guitar culture makes room for imported punk while keeping a local band at the heart of the bill. For a compact weekend plan, start with Mantra Machine and Ditch on Friday, then return for BE N!CE and Bleedroot on Sunday. Recheck Musicon’s official event pages before travelling, since door times, running orders and ticket availability can change.[1][2]

Concert details

Mantra Machine at Musicon
2026-10-09 · Den Haag
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Sources

  1. Mantra Machine + Ditch — Musicon
  2. Be N!ce + Bleedroot — Musicon
  3. Music — Mantra Machine on Bandcamp