Last Friday Wardruna launched their newest single called 'Hertan' and now the band announces the first part of their world tour., including shows at special locations like theaters and concert halls. The tour also includes six shows in Germany: 11.11.24 Hamburg, Laeiszhalle12.11.24 Berlin, Tempodrom15.11.24 Frankfurt am Main, Jahrhunderthalle16.11.24 Nürnberg, Meistersingerhalle20.11.24 Halle, Händelhalle26.11.24 Düsseldorf, Tonhalle
MYKRUR announce a new album and launch a first single
Myrkur announced a new album called 'Spine'. 'Spine' will be available on October 20th, 2023 and will come via Relapse Records. 'Spine' is a title with a host of potent connotations: growth, strength, defiance, a core of our being, and flexibility. It’s what holds a human up, and allows us to rebuild. It’s an album... Continue Reading →
LONG DISTANCE CALLING announced a new album and launched a new song
Münster-based post-rockers Long Distance Calling announced their new album ‚Eraser‘. Two years after having launched ‚How Do We Want to Live?‘ their next strike will hit the shelves on August 26th, 2022 and ‚Eraser‘ comes via earMUSIC. Right in time, on Earth Day 2022, the quartet released with ‚Kamilah‘ a first song, taken from the... 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 (DOLCH) ‘Nacht’
Not so much is known about (DOLCH) and the band finds pleasure in keeping things rather hidden. What has come to light, however, is that the band has some roots in Berlin, which is reflected in both the German band name and the album titles. When exactly (DOLCH) were brought to life is not passed... Continue Reading →
Review HEMELBESTORMER ‘Collide & Merge’
Hemelbestormer means ‘stormer of heaven’ and is the band name of a Belgium metal band that founded in 2012. The band premiered with ‘Portals’ in 2014 and released two additional longplayers to date. With having three records on their list of achievements, Hemelbestormer has finished work on ‘Collide & Merge’, the next step of the... Continue Reading →
Review TUESDAY THE SKY ‘The Blurred Horizon’
Jim Matheos' guitar play is a key asset of the Fates Warning sound. Next to the mothership, Matheos had some projects up and running in parallel. OSI is one of them and the Arch/Matheos collaboration led to exciting songs too. Another project that started accidentally is Tuesday The Sky. Sitting on some songs that didn’t... Continue Reading →
RPWL unleashed ‘God Has Failed – Live & Personal’
RPWL's debut 'God Has Failed' was released in September 2000 and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their entry to a journey to the top of German progressive rock, the band planned a special tour. The plan was to embark in November 2020, an idea that couldn't be realized due to circumstances we all know.... Continue Reading →
Review GOJIRA ‘Fortitude’
The quartet started in 2001 when they successfully completed a renaming from Godzilla to Gojira. The debut 'Terra Incognita' was released in the same year and since then the band has become essential.Gojira slowly and steadily built up a fanbase that is constantly growing. This can be recognized among other things by the chart entries,... Continue Reading →
CD review THE LION’S DAUGHTER ‘Skin Show’
I knew about The Lion's Daughter but never really made a bigger effort to explore their music in depth. This was before I received the new longplayer from the St. Louis-based trio. The Lion's Daughter started in 2007 and premiered in 2012 with 'Shame on Us All'. In the beginning it was blackened sludge that... Continue Reading →
LP review DROTT ‘DROTT’
Bergen-based metal pioneers Arve Isdal (Enslaved), Ivar Thormodsæter (Ulver) and Matias Monsen teamed-up under the banner of DROTT and it was a couple of weeks ago that the trio unleashed a first EP. The self-titled offer features four songs, all reflecting a wider range of sounds and musical influences. The EP begins with 'SHIKOBA', a songs... Continue Reading →
CD review NEÀNDER ‘eremit’
neànder is a rather new band, considering their start that dates back to 2017. Within these three years, the Berlin-based band was rather productive with a self-titled debut, shared with the world in 2019. A year later the sophomre release 'eremit' has left the studio and carries another six songs, penned by the German quartet.... Continue Reading →
CD review HEILUNG ‘Futha’
(*/10) Heilung is a band that's special. The German/Danish trio doesn't play Metal nor they are into Rock. Still Heilung found and finds many fans in the Metal scene and it's more than the unusual stage performance only, that creates an interest. Maybe it's the mystical vibe, the Nordic inheritance or the generally dark expression... Continue Reading →
CD review GOLD ‘Why Aren’t You Laughing?’
(8/10) The first time I got in touch with Gold and their music was when the band opened for Dool in Utrecht a while ago. I must say that the guys left me with some mixed feelings and listening to them wasn’t a bad experience at all. It was me that I couldn‘t position the... Continue Reading →
CD review SWALLOW THE SUN ‘Lumina Aurea’
(9/10) Swallow The Sun is a band that’s off the beaten tracks when it comes to their music. It was in 2015 when they published with ‘Songs From the North I, II & III’ a three discs comprising release that showed beautiful varity of doom, melancholy, grief and darkness. Sharp before Christmas the band unveiled... Continue Reading →