PRESTIGE, one of Finland’s very first thrash metal bands return with a new album: “Reveal The Ravage” is full of straight to your face thrash metal and old school attitude! The band tried to create a harsh yet up-to-date sound with aggressive vocals, guitars, and lyrics with a meaning, often with some eyeopening lines. The…
Listening to the latest Brainstorm album ‘Wall Of Skulls’, you immediately realise how much the band surrounding vocalist Andy B. Franck has benefitted from the group’s impressive predecessor offering, ‘Midnight Ghost’ (2018). ‘Midnight Ghost’ was a musical turning point for the power metal act from southern Germany which saw the band members reach an even…
APOPHIS present their new album “Excess”, which includes a lot of the band’s trademarks: Songs set in the mid- and up-tempo rage with grooving drums, killer riffs with gloomy/emotional melodies, paired with technically sophisticated solos as well as growls and screams from hell! Vocalist Bernd has upped his ante and brings much more variety into…
Metal Forces! TRANCE, the legendary German band is back with their new album ‘Metal Forces’. Founded in 1974 from singer Lothar Antoni and guitarist Markus Berger as TRIBUT and changed the name into TRANCE in 1979. That’s when the journey began! They are one of the oldest Heavy Metal bands in Germany and established this…
Tri State Corner has done something that seemed impossible nowadays: they created a new and unique rock sound – the Bouzouki Rock. Their origins of three countries, Germany, Poland and Greece, are reflected in their name, but even more in their music style and lyric poetry. They mix hard-rock tunes with sensitive, melancholic sounds in…
It’s not too very often that the names of the people involved alone are enough to document the great importance of a new project. DATOG, short for DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG, consists of Accept / U.D.O. / Dirkschneider frontman Udo Dirkschneider and his longtime companions Peter Baltes (bass; ex- Accept), Stefan Kaufmann (guitar; ex-…
The upcoming album is an unusual one for REBELLION due to its clear political statement. REBELLION have once again put together a concept album, but this time they cover the time from the French Revolution until after World War II. The main message is that racism and nationalism are to be blamed for all the…
Heralding the new era… the precursor of a new album is here. Italian Symphonic Power Metal Masters RHAPSODY OF FIRE are returning with the EP “I’ll Be Your Hero” and a brand new single of the same title. Their trilogy, which they kicked off in 2019 with successfully releasing their last album “The Eighth Mountain”,…
Since 1997, or for roughly 25 years, REQUIEM is a constant, reliable underground death metal force known for their relentless, authentic, and classic approach in relation to their music and outspoken lyrics. Having spent countless hours together on European tours with bands like Dismember, Vader, Belphegor and Vital Remains, amongst many others, and festival shows…
Swedish-born Anders “LA” Rönnblom, best known as the founder / songwriter for Killer Bee and X-Romance, and a member of Wolfpakk, has launched a new project dubbed Social Disorder. Call it a labour of love, as it features Rönnblom opening up his heart and soul. The debut album, Love 2 Be Hated, takes the listener…
