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CD review BURNING RAIN ‘Face the Music’
(9/10) If an album/band includes Doug Aldrich on guitar the result can‘t be anything else than a blistering rock record with excellent guitar play as a fundamental ingredient. Regardless if it is Aldrich’s contribution to The Dead Daisies or Revolution Saints, all good bands with great songs in their musical repertoire. Another outfit, with Aldrich... Continue Reading →
CD review LIK ‘Mass Funeral Evocation’ – re-issue
(8/10) Swedish death metal squad LIK have two two records registered in their track record up till now. The sophomore release 'Carnage' left the tomb in 2018 and was a successful strike with even entering the German charts. The album though that paved the way for LIK was the acclaimed debut 'Mass Funeral Evocation', which... Continue Reading →
CD review FATAL CURSE ‘Breaking the Trance’
(7/10) Fatal Curse is a new player in the fields of heavy metal and consists of singer Mike Bowen, drummer Chris Bowne and guitarist Dave Gruver. This trio debuts with ‘Breaking the Trance’ in April this year, an album that features seven song. With running time of less than 30 minutes the release is more... Continue Reading →
CD review ATTIKA ‘When Heroes Fall’ – re-issue
(7/10) A few days ago I posted a review of Ritual’s “Trails of Torment’ album, which is re-released by Pure Steel Records. Now it’s another band from the ‘90s that benefits from a re-issue of one of their albums. Attika is the name of the band, a quartet that released their ‘When Heroes Fall’ album... Continue Reading →
CD review 7 MILES TO PITTSBURGH ‘Revolution on Hold’
(8/10) Dutch hard rockers 7 Miles To Pittsburgh are a rather new band. Being rather new as a band doesn’t mean to be inexperienced. Actually 7 Miles To Pittsburgh consists out of veterans when it comes to rock music. Frontman Andrew Elf has a long track record, performing with Walter Trout for 18 years and... Continue Reading →
CD review TNT ‘Encore – Live in Milano’
(*/10) It’s not really a new business model, but it’s probably a good idea Frontiers had a while ago. Once a year the label organizes a two days festival with a line-up built on Frontiers Music's roster. Recording these shows is a next good idea since it allows the capturing of quite some live shows... Continue Reading →
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 →
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