Today five additional bands have been confirmed for the 2020 edition of Rock Hard Festival. Legendary Blue Öyster Cult will play at Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen as well as Finnish Punk’n’Roll icon Michael Monroe is confirmed too. Suicidal Angels will be a treat for Thrash Metal fans while Neck Cemetery and Harlott take over the opening... Continue Reading →
BRKN LOVE will release self-titled album tomorrow
BRKN Love is the brainchild of Toronto singer and guitarist Justin Benlolo. At the age of 16 Belolo left school with a clear ambition to play music and be on stage. Via New York City he moved on to Los Angeles and step by step a BRKN Love silhouette started to shimmer. Tomorrow the self-titled... Continue Reading →
CD review DISBELIEF ‘The Ground Collapses’
Serious things must happen to make the ground collapse and one of the forces that can make this happen is Disbelief's new album. 'The Ground Collapses' is the title of Disbelief's eleventh album and two years after the earthshaking 'The Symbol of Death' was unveiled, it's the new longplayer being the next smashing release that... Continue Reading →
THE DEAD DAISIES reveal summer tour dates for 2020
The Dead Daisies announce tour dates for 2020 and with them on the road is Glenn Hughes as the bands new singer and bassplayer. The fourpiece band, completed by Dough Aldrich, Deen Castronovo and Dacid Lowy, will start into the tour with club show at Turock in Essen, Germany on May 29th. Next to it... Continue Reading →
ENSLAVED and a white lady wandering through the woods of Bergen
A white lady wandering through the woods of Bergen? No, this is not a ghost haunting the most beautiful city in Norway but Enslaved shooting a new video for their upcoming release. Ivar Bjørnson on the video shoot in Bergen:"We had an great weekend filming with the Icelandic video magician Gaui H - this time in our hometown Bergen.... Continue Reading →
CD review BLACK SWAN ‘Shake the World’
Black Swan, that's vocalist Robin McAuley (McAuley Schenker Group), guitarist Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake), bassist Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, The End Machine, ex-Dokken), and drummer Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Mr. Big). These well-known guys found together and started a colleboration under the banner of Black Swan. The fruitful work now leads to a first album of... Continue Reading →
CD review DEMONS & WIZARDS ‘III’
If you read some of my earlier reviews you noticed that I sometimes refer to the eye-level cooperation between singer and guitarist, being a decisive factor for an album becoming just good or even great. Demons & Wizards build exactly on this collaboration. Blind Guardian frontman Hansi Kürsch and Iced Earth mainman Jon Schaffer are... Continue Reading →
‘Tired of Tears’ – the new lyric video from MY DYING BRIDE
The cold fingers of ‚The Ghost Of Orion‘ reach out for the world to wrap it in desperate misery, heavy melodies and hopeless misery: My Dying Bride release their new album on March 6th via Nuclear Blast. Today, the British kings of doom death metal release a lyric video for their new single 'Tired Of... Continue Reading →
New song from THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA unveiled
Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seat and fasten your seatbelt. While waiting for the official departure of 'Aeromantic, the new album of Swedish AOR super stars The Night Flight Orchestra on February 28th, the band has released the new single and music video for 'Transmissions'. The single was produced and recorded by The Night Flight Orchestra and Thomas Plec Johansson, featuring... Continue Reading →
CD review ASSASSIN ‘Bestia Immundis’
Over the last years some German Trash Metal bands revitalized what started in the '80s and was put to sleep for some years. Assassin is one of these bands. The guys premiered with 'The Upcoming Terror' album in 1987 before the parted ways in 1989 after having pushed to sophomore album to the market. Since... Continue Reading →
CD review SLAUGHTER MESSIAH ‘Cursed to the Pyre’
Are you a fan of the early Kreator? Yes? Then you should check out Slaughter Messiah from Belgium. The quartet (L. Sabathan, Rod Iron Bitch, T. Exhumator, J.B.) listened and still listens to bands like Kreator and Sodom too, at least where it seems the inspiration comes from. 'Cursed to the Pyre' is the debut... Continue Reading →
CD review VINNIE MOORE ‘Soul Shifter’
Vinnie Moore belongs to a generation of shredding guitarist that boomed in the second half of the '80s. Especially 'Mind's Eye' and 'Time Odyssey' are great instrumental records to date, exciting longplayers for guitar heroes and jaw-dropping music for non-musicians. During his career, Moore contributed also to records of Alice Cooper and Vicious Rumors, next... Continue Reading →
CD review SEPULTURA ‘Quadra’
In more than 3 decades Thrash Metal veterans Sepultura celebrated many victories but had to go through some periods of renewal also. The first big cut happened in 1986 when Max Cavalera left the band and it was twenty years later when his brother Igor parted ways with Sepultura too. The band had no other... Continue Reading →









