The Pineapple Thief had to postpone their tour and announced the new dates: 23.2.22 Trezzo sull'Adda (Milan) (IT) - Live Club24.2.22 Roncade (Treviso) (IT) - New Age25.2.22 Roma (IT) - Auditorium "Parco della Musica"26.2.22 Firenze (IT) - Viper Theatre27.2.22 Aarau (CH) - KIFF1.3.22 Barcelona (ES) - La Nau2.3.22 Madrid (ES) - Caracol3.3.22 Toulouse (FR) -... Continue Reading →
ELBRIOT announce first bands
Elbriot, the legendary one-day festival at Grossmarkt, Hamburg is back after a pandemic-based two years pause. The 2022 edition of the festival will take place on August 20th, 2022 and first bands are announced. So far confirmed are: BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE ACCEPTFEVER 333JINJERALESTORM CALIBANKISSIN‘ DYNAMITE ...and there are more to come. More information and... Continue Reading →
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM re-issue the first two demos
Metal veterans Flotsam And Jetsam re-issue the first to demo via Vic Records on March 25th, 2022. 'Iron Tears' and 'Metal Shock' have been released in 1985 and paved the way for a deal with Metal Blade Records, followed by the release of the legendary debut 'Doomsday For the Deceiver'. 'Iron Tears & Metal Shock'... Continue Reading →
Review IMMOLATION ‘Acts of God’
New York-based Immolation isn’t a band that floods the market with new releases. Their release pattern entails a new longplayer every 3-5 years and considering the fact of ‘Atonement’ having been unveiled in 2017 the time was right in early 2022 to launch a next smashing metal album. Immolation is still driven by the two... Continue Reading →
Review BLOOD INCANTATION ‘Timewave Zero’
Blood Incantation released ‘Hidden History of the Human Race’ an album that combined the brutality of death metal and the math of metal in a pretty good fashion. Being harsh on the one side a multi-layered too created extra tension which benefited the album. Three years later the quartet from Denver, Colorado returns with ‘Timewave... Continue Reading →
Review MORTUARY DRAPE ‘Wisdom – Vibration – Repent’ – EP
Italian metal outfit Mortuary Drape might have been ahead of the curve when they started their journey into extreme metal in the mid ‘80s. At least they belong to the pioneers when it comes to European death- and black metal. Driven by main man Wildness Perversion the band premiered in 1994 with ‘All the Witches... Continue Reading →
Review D’VIRGILIO, MORSE, JENNINGS ‘Troika’
It seems like the pandemic hasn’t had an impact on the musical creativity of Neal Morse. The musician from California has various outlets for his creative flow and with D’Virgilio, Morse, Jennings a next project was started by the singer and multi-instrumentalist in 2020. Sometime during the pandemic and lockdown, Morse wrote songs that in... Continue Reading →
Review SERIOUS BLACK ‘Vengeance is Mine’
Serious Black is the brainchild of bassist Mario Lochert and the early days of the band included well-sounding names like Thomen Strauch, Roland Grapow and Urban Breed, to mention just some. That was in 2014 and there have been some line-up changes along the time with the good news, that the quality never suffered. Two... Continue Reading →
Review RECKLESS LOVE ‘Turborider’
The ones of you who thought that Judas Priest’s ‘Turbo Lover’ included far too many keyboards should not even consider pressing the ‘Start’-button of ‘Turborider’. This album can be seen as dentist’s delight since it includes so much musical sugar that it’s hard to swallow. Reckless Love always appreciated a catchy melody and although the... Continue Reading →
HELLOWEEN postpone the major part of their UNITED FORCES tour and announce new tour dates 2022/2023
United Forces Tour, that's the header for an exciting metal package that unfortunately has to adjust the touring schedule again. The updated schedule for Helloween and Hammerfall looks like this:
CHILDREN OF THE SÜN share a new song
Swedish rocker Children Of The Sün share a song, taken from the upcoming album 'Roots'. 'Leaves' is the name of the song and acts as a real appetizer for the entire album. 'Roots' mis the second album from the Swedish rockers and will be released on March 18th, 2022 via The Sign records. Children Of... Continue Reading →
Review BETH HART ‘A Tribute to Led Zeppelin’
Working on a cover album with songs of one of the most iconic bands in rock is a challenge not everyone is willing to take. Too high is the risk of failure, regardless of if one sticks closer to the original or starts to push some classics into a totally new sound costume. Beth Hart... Continue Reading →
Review ANNIHILATOR ‘Metal II’
Annihilator stands for excellent metal since 1984 the year when guitarist Jeff Waters founded the Canadian powerhouse. The remarkable debut ‘Alice in Hell’ brought the band some immediate attention and since then, Waters and band are a very constant factor in metal with 17 longplayers under their belt. These days it is earMUSIC that start... Continue Reading →
Review JONAS LINDBERG & THE OTHER SIDE ‘Miles From Nowhere’
Jonas Lindberg is a Swedish musician and the founder of Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side. The start of this musical undertaking goes back to 2008 when an EP called ‘In Secret Pace’ saw the light of day. The work piece was recorded as an exam-project at the Music Academy in Piteå, Sweden. After moving... Continue Reading →
SAVAGE GRACE albums will be re-released in February 2022
Awkward artwork, excellent music. That is how the two Savage Grace albums can be described in a very short and crisp way. Savage Grace founded in 1981 in Los Angeles before later re-locating to the East coast. At the time, the singer of the band was Kelly Rhoads, the brother of the legendary axe-wizard Randy... Continue Reading →









