Blues Pills, the electrifying rock sensation, has spellbound the world with their energetic live shows with the front woman Elin Larsson taking the lead. Their new album Birthday is out 2nd August 2024, an album to celebrate life and music. The celebration will continue all year long, and they are now happy to announce the... Continue Reading →
HARDCORE SUPERSTAR will come to Hamburg
Swedish hard rockers Hardcore Superstar will play a warm-up show at Bahnhof Pauli on November 4th, 2024 and HERE is where you can get a ticket.
Review ALLIGATOAH ‘off’
Alligatoah is an artist some of you might have heard of but maybe not have listened to. One of the reasons might be the fact, that the singer is more connected to rap and pop than rock and metal. Even more, one of the songs on the latest studio album is entitled ‘Fuck Rock’n’Roll’. The... Continue Reading →
Review NONEXISTER ‘Demons’
‚Demons‘, that’s the title of Nonexister’s debut album that hits the shelves these days. The band is the brainchild of Marco Neeser and Nik Leuthold. Both guys have a different musical imprint that goes from electronic sounds to punk rock and after running into each other on several occasions, the duo decided to start a... Continue Reading →
MARILLION announce a live album
‘An Hour Before It’s Dark’ was a pretty successful Marillion album, entering e.g. the German charts and climbing up to position 2. On June 21st, 2024 the band will release with ‘An Hour Before It’s Dark: Live in Port Zélande 2023’ the connected live album which will come via earMUSIC. The live release was recorded... Continue Reading →
Review ABORTED ‘Vault of Horrors’
One of the most established extreme metal bands from Belgium, that is Aborted. Although the origins of the band are rooted in East Flanders, Aborted became more and more a multi-national band and it is frontman Sven de Caluwé who keeps things up and running. The band premiered in 1999 with an album called ‘The... Continue Reading →
Review SCORCHED OAK ‘Perception’
Linda, Ben and Freed are back. The three joined forces in 2016 and have been on the go as Scorched Oak ever since. The debut album 'Withering Earth' followed a few years down the line, in 2020 to be precise. For well-known reasons, this was a difficult time for the entire industry, but Scorched Oak... Continue Reading →
Review LUTHARO ‘Chasing Euphoria’
Hamilton, Ontario, that’s the homebase of Lutharo. The band started in 2014 and it took a few years before the guys could launch a debut album. ‘Hiraeth’ is the title of this first full-length release which helped the band to get the attention Atomic Fire Records. With ‘Chasing Euphoria’ the sophomore album waits in the... Continue Reading →
Live report MESHUGGAH, THE HALO EFFECT & MANTAR, Große Freiheit 36, Hamburg – March 12th, 2024
It's not easy to get from A to B in Germany these days. Permanent strikes make it difficult for people who rely on public transport to get to their destination. Today is no exception. Deutsche Bahn is on strike again, which is also severely affecting S-Bahn services. Nevertheless, many metalheads manage to get to Große... Continue Reading →
Review MR. IRISH BASTARD ‘Battle Songs of the Damned’
The mixture of Irish roots and punk music is nothing new, and here is a band from Germany that puts together what belongs together. Mr. Irish Bastard is a group from Münster, Germany that was founded in 2006. Their first release, an EP called "St. Mary's School of Drinking", was launched in 2008 and along... Continue Reading →
Review NECROPHOBIC ‘In the Twilight Grey’
‘In the Twilight Grey’ is Necrophobic’s tenth studio album and it took the band a bit longer than usual to finish work on this longplayer. To blame is the pandemic as the predecessor ‘Dawn of the Damned’ has been released in 2020 and moment to promote the release have been very rare. Therefor a lot... Continue Reading →
Review WHOM GODS DESTROY ‘Insanium’
Whom Gods Destroy is a new group with well-known protagonists. Derek Sherinian and Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal are part of this outfit and with Dino Jelusick, a talented singer takes over the vocal parts, while Yas Nomura and Bruno Valverde form the rhythm section of Whom Gods Destroy. Sherinian and Thal initiated the group, both having... Continue Reading →
Review SKELETAL REMAINS ‘Fragments of the Ageless’
Portland is the home base of a four-piece band that embarked on a journey through the realms of death metal in 2011. The name of the band: Skeletal Remains. The group released their debut album in 2012, followed by three additional full-lengths over the past few years. Now, 'Fragments of the Ageless' marks the next... Continue Reading →
Review ATROPHY ‘Asylum’
More than just a few veteran thrash metal bands returned during the last years and here is another one. Atrophy have with ‘Asylum’ a new longplayer in the starting blocks and what will reach us from Tuscon, Arizona is a thundering thrash metal release. Atrophy belong to the fwave of thrash metal bands with roots... Continue Reading →
SLASH announce new album and new video
Slash announced a new album. ‘Orgy of the Damned’ will be released on May 17th, 2024 and will come via Seven.One Starwatch. The album is a homage to blues with the guitarist interpreting twelve blues classics. ‘Killing Floor’ provides a first idea about what this means. Slash, together with no less than AC/DC frontman Brian... Continue Reading →









