I had almost given up on my quest to find a club in Aachen that'd play decent music. While the "Apollo" offers "Rock, Grunge, Independent, X-Over" on Monday nights, and the "Club Nightlife" offers "Alternative, Crossover, Metal, Punk, Rock, Ska" on Thursday nights, they both only (pretend to) offer good music on weeknights, and then mostly play the softer side of things, always the same old "popular" songs, and if you're lucky to get one or two good songs that are a little more aggressive, next one will surely be some soft rock song (quite likely newly popular Brit-Rock or on a really bad night even "Surfin USA" by the "Beach Boys"). I don't know whether to blame the DJ ("DJ Manni" djs in both clubs) or whether the club owners force him to dj as badly as he does.
But a while ago some guys must've been as sick of all this as I am and started organizing an event called "Start The Fire" at the club "New Water", offering "Metal, Hardcore, Emo", happening every second Friday of the month. I've been there three times now and I must say it rocks. The music is excellent, the people are nice, you can ask the DJ to play a song you like and he'll play it for a change.
See you there: