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CD review FOREVER STILL ‘Breathe in Colours’
(8/10) Danish metal powerhouse Forever Still is still a rather new band in the fields of metal, although their foundation date was back in 2010. After some first EP’s the band premiered in 2016 with ‘Tied Down’. Already the debut made it clear, that these guys didn‘t came to be ‚forever still‘. Their mission is... Continue Reading →
KISS, ‘Kissworld – The Best of Kiss’ and the final tour
On March 29th Universal Music enterprises publishes 'Kissworld - Best of Kiss'. The compilation comes with 20 of the biggest Kiss hits, taken from some of their 44 records comprising discography. The album comes right in time to support Kiss' 'End of the Road tour. The moment the legendary quartet announced this tour through 'America's... Continue Reading →
CD review ROULETTE ‘Now!’
(8/10) Roulette is a band that might be known by some of the older readers of Markus’ Heavy Music Blog while the younger generation might not have heard of the band earlier. Roulette is a Swedish AOR band that is rooted in the ‘90s. The phenomena with Roulette is the fact that they release some... Continue Reading →
CD review L.A. GUNS ‘The Devil You Know’
(8/10) L.A. Guns are a forerunner of sleaze rock. The band was formed in 1983 and it was the moniker of this band and its guitarist that added the ‘Guns’ to Guns’n’Roses. Axl Rose and Tracii Guns worked together in various constellations and bands with the guitarist being a driving factor. While Guns’n’Roses took off... Continue Reading →
Exciting new from ARCH/MATHEOS
In progressive metal circles, the names of guitarist Jim Matheos and vocalist John Arch are spoken with due reverence. With the former having been a driving force in Fates Warning for thirty-five years, and the latter the original front-man of that band, they also have a single seminal work under the Arch / Matheos banner,... Continue Reading →
CD review THE END: machine ‘The End Machine’
(7/10) If ¾ of the iconic Dokken line-up of the ‘Under Lock and Key’ album reunites to work on a new album, the assumption of new Dokken-kind of longplayer isn’t totally off the radar. George Lynch, Jeff Pilson and Mick Brown, these are the three guys that regrouped to a project called ‘The End; machine’.... Continue Reading →
CD review HIGH REEPER ‘Higher Reeper’
(7/10) High Reeper is based in Philadelphia and plays doom and stoner rock. The band was formed in 2016 and the newest longplayer ‘Higher Reeper’ is their sophomore album after having premiered in 2016 with ‘High Reeper’. Although the title of the sophomore release is more kind of playing with words the new longplayer is... Continue Reading →
CD review DEVIN TOWNSEND ‘Empath’
(10/10) Canadian guitar wizard Devin Townsend is an extremely creative mind. Musical ideas and thoughts manifests themselves in a lot of songs, spread out over many longplayers and it's impossible to put a certain label on Townsend's music. The music is certainly rooted in heavy metal and progressive metal, but Townsend takes things much wider... Continue Reading →
CD review MÖTLEY CRÜE ‘The Dirt Soundtrack’
(*/10) Mötley Crüe belongs to the forerunners of sleaze rock. The quartet from LA, California released genre defining albums like 'Shout at the Devil', 'Dr. Feelgood' and 'Girls, Girls, Girls', longplayers that include timeless Hard Rock anthems that are still relevant in the here and now. It was especially during the '80s when the four-piece... Continue Reading →
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