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After releasing Shock in 2019, Tesla took their time before returning with a new studio album. Seven years after their last collection of original material, the band is back with Homage - an album that lives up to its name in every possible way. The title couldn't be more fitting. Homage is a tribute to the songs and artists that... Continue Reading →
Iconic Swedish heavy metallers Amon Amarth approach a new way of songwriting on their first-ever acoustic excursion "Upphaf". The song strips away the fury of modern melodic heavy metal to reveal the ancient, skeletal frame of a Norse epic. Reimagined for the gathering space of a longhouse hearth, the song features hypnotic melodies and mesmerising... Continue Reading →
Progressive metal veterans Vanden Plas made their debut in 1994 with the album “Colour Temple” followed by the acoustic EP “AcCult” which included acoustic covers of other artists' songs, plus some rearranged tunes from the debut album. Thirty years later, the German metal group has revived the spirit of the '90s with the release of... Continue Reading →
Siena Root, one of the most exciting rock bands from Sweden, will play an acoustic show at Lattenplatz Knust, Hamburg on June 6th, 2025. Siena Root is a band with a strong heritage and a great musical tradition. So what could be more exciting than listening to the band in a completely acoustic setting? This... Continue Reading →
Every end is also the beginning of something new. This is what happened when guitarist Jonathan Hultén left Tribulation to start a solo career and with "Eyes of the Living Night" the Swedish songwriter releases his second album with 12 new songs. As we know from the debut album "Chants from Another Place", Hultén has... Continue Reading →
Trading Boundaries is a special place in Sussex, England. It is a retail destination for furniture and handcrafted items, as well as a café/bar and boutique hotel. A place like this isn't exactly what you think of when you think of rock music. However, Trading Boundaries regularly hosts live events, and one of the artists... Continue Reading →
Almost 5 years ago, Duff McKagan was on the "Tenderness Tour 2019". One of the stops on this tour was the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The tour was to promote the Guns'n'Roses bassist's sophomore solo album and featured ten of the eleven songs from the album.The setlist also included songs from bands in... Continue Reading →
It was in early 2022 when three masters of progressive rock music came together to record an album called ‘Troika’. It was Nick D’Virgilio (Big Big Train), Neal Morse (Transatlantic, NMB) & Ross Jennings (Haken, Novena) who released beautiful songs and now the journey continues with ‘Sophomore’. Driven by the joy and appreciation of the... Continue Reading →
It was a great year for Undertow. The trade press celebrated the current album 'Bipolar' and the live concerts culminated at Metal Hammer Paradise festival. Therefore, at the end of the year, the "most underrated, best whatever metal band in the world" just says thank you and sends a thoughtful, calm video out into the... Continue Reading →
The Pretty Reckless have with 'Other Worlds ' a new album in the starting blocks. After the band released with 'Death by Rock and Roll' a regular full-length studio album last year, it is this time a somewhat different output of the four Americans. 'Other Worlds' is a release with well-known songs, be it newly... Continue Reading →
What started as a small project has developed into an almost standalone program. Finland's power metal outfit Sonata Arctica started to convert some of their songs into acoustic songs a few years ago and toured the home country. The band just wanted to challenge themselves and what came out of it is an amazing acoustic... Continue Reading →
Actually, the Finns of Sonata Arctica stand for melodic metal that they regularly package on records since 1999. For this reason it was rather unusual that the band decided to go on tour with an acoustic set in 2016. The background was to challenge themselves and to regroup. At first, the band played only at... Continue Reading →
The last months and years have been tough for the music industry. Pandemic and lockdowns have brought venues, artists and their professional community to their limits. But also fans had to suffer and could only experience their favorite artists 'live' in livestreams. Slowly the fog of the non-concert time seems to lift and the one... Continue Reading →
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 →
When Sonata Arctica started shortly before the new millennium, the signs were on melodic power metal, mostly also presented with higher pace. The Finns from Kemi remained true to this successful formula, which led to ten albums with which the band could establish itself in the scene. Of course, Sonata Arctica have always remained true... Continue Reading →
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