It took them a while but now good news reaches Dool fans. Dutch Dark Rock shooting star Dool is working on the sophomore album with a planned release date in April 2020. Furthermore Dool announce some tour dates for spring 2020 and here are the ones for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Last but not least... Continue Reading →
CD review THE 69 EYES ‚West End‘
(7/10) ‘West End’, that’s album number 12 in The 69 Eyes’ so far three decades lasting band history. Finlands gritty rocker No.1 recorded eleven new song, all dark Rock tunes. Sometimes it’s a bit of Billy Idol that shimmers through (‘27 & Done’) while the sound of the mighty Sisters Of Mercy is present too... Continue Reading →
CD review LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT ‘Martyr’
(8/10) Canadian musician Lindsay Schoolcraft is known by many of you as being the keyboarder of UK metallers Cradle Of Filth. Next to her contribution the Cradle Of Filth, Schoolcraft also teamed-up with former Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray, both working on Schoolcraft’s solo debut. The outcome of this cooperation is entitled ‘Maryr’, an album that... Continue Reading →
CD review STERLING SERPENT ‘Sterling Serpent’ – EP
(7/10) Sterling Serpent is a band with roots that go back to the year 2015. Members of King Dude, Bell Witch, Serpent and Terminal Fuzz Terror started the outfit that has with this elf-titled EP a first recording ready to be shipped to the record stores. The band, hailing from Seattle, Washington, recorded four tracks,... Continue Reading →
CD review LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE ‘Bleeding the Stars’
(8/10) Chaos leads to creativity and it’s both being the driving force of Lacrimas Profundere, a band the never stood still. The guys started in 1993 with some Death Doom Metal before moving their sound towards Gothic. They weren’t the only band that followed such an approach, but they are a band that sticked to... Continue Reading →
CD review PER WIBERG ‘Head Without Eyes’
(8/10) Swedish musician Per Wiberg is a well-known name in rock and metal. He was part of Opeth, is a member of hard rockers Spiritual Beggars and also Kamchatka is a band he's part of. Wiberg can be described as multi-instrumentalist with a focus on guitar, bass and keyboards. The Swede describes himself as a... 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 A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH ‘When the World Becomes Undone’
(8/10) Slowly but steady A Pale Horse Named Death isgaining momentum. It was in 2011 when the quintet from NYC began theirsuccessful journey and it was the debut ‘And Hell Will Follow Me’ that gave afirst boost. After a critically acclaimed second album the band went on a fiveyears break, a period in which frontman... Continue Reading →
CD review CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX ‘Great Escape’
(8/10) Crippled Black Phoenix is a rock outfit, hailing from Bristol, UK. The band has its beginning in 2004 when Justin Greaves started to outline some first musical ideas which have been the base for Crippled Black Phoenix. The start was more with a project thinking but things evolved and six studio albums saw the... Continue Reading →
CD review STONEMAN ‘Geil und elektrisch’
(5/10) Stoneman started in 2004 and released five longplayers from then till now. The band started with in the fields of dark rock before they shifted their music towards Neue Deutsche Härte - which is actually not that new anymore. Their newest album ‘Geil und elektrisch’ marks another leg on this journey, featuring 12 new... Continue Reading →
CD review FOSCOR ‘Les irreals versions’
(8/10) In case you stumble over Foscor’s new release by coincident you might wonder why this longplayer gets a review on MHMB. Digging a bit deeper into the background of the release as well as of the band reveals the roots of this metal band from Catalonia. Foscor started in 1997 as a black metal... Continue Reading →
CD review PARADISE LOST ‘Believe in Nothing’ – re-issue
(8/10) A few months ago, Nuclear Blast re-issued Paradise Lost's 'Host' album. The next re-worked album that hits the shelves for a second time is 'Believe in Nothing', originally released in 2001. As with the predecessor, the album reflects the band's flirt with gothic rock and metal, which also includes electronica. It's a continuation of... Continue Reading →
CD review JONATHAN DAVIS ‘Black Labyrinth’
(8/10) What came a bit of leftfield last week was the new album of Korn frontman Jonathan Davis. At least I haven’t had it on my list and the more I was excited to listen to the newest delivery of the charismatic Korn-frontman. Next to all his years with Korn, Davis also has a longer... Continue Reading →









