VELVET VIPER’s new album “Cosmic Healer” presents the band as you know them from their energetic live shows; this time with more compact songs, often hovering in the upper tempo range. The basics of the 10 tracks were recorded with a lot of live feeling in the well-ventilated Jangland Studio by the well-established and well-rehearsed…
“We Only Die Once” is an evolution of what started with the “Apocalyptic Rhymes”: Songwriting was rather a band-approach compared to the albums before. The new member Daniel fits right in and contributes with his own flavor of drumming. The songs on the album are a nice blend of thrash, “in-your-face”, speed, mid-tempo and atmospheric…
The ninth studio album of the Swedish hard rock institution. What do you do when the whole world stands still and everything suddenly comes to a sudden stop? For THE QUILL, the only option was to stay creative and keep working to keep a sane mind. Once again working with Erik Nilsson from 491 Studio…
It’s been more than two years now since Bonfire, following the outstanding debut of their current vocalist Alexx Stahl on Byte The Bullet (2017), were unanimously celebrated for their successor album Temple Of Lies (2018). Two years which saw the band rock countless stages at home and abroad before going on to set the bar…
There are certain events that put bands into the spotlight, even experienced musicians who have been in the business for over 40 years. This is one of those events, and happened on September 18, 2020 with U.D.O. U.D.O., the band featuring German rock icon Udo Dirkschneider (the original voice of Accept who had rock hits…
HELSTAR already gave you a first glimpse at this new release with the “Black Wings Of Solitude” 7″ which is available since October 2020 – but now it’s time for the HELSTAR to go for your throats! The digipak version of “Clad In Black” includes 2 CDs: The first CD includes both songs from the…
Gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated 12th album, Swedish progressive metal band EVERGREY is at a point in their career that many of their peers can only dream about. Since the release of “Hymns For The Broken” in 2014, EVERGREY has enjoyed increased notoriety and success with “The Storm Within” (2016) and…
The update for modern Power and Melodic Metal will be coming sooner as expected – with a new album called “A Virtual World” the Swedish Power Metal quintet METALITE returns to the metal dancefloor. Not even 1,5 years after they returned with their new singer Erica Ohlsson – who brought in a massive amount of…
Winter is coming, and with it something ominous. The new release from LAKE OF TEARS is the perfect soundtrack for short, grey days and long, cold, dark nights. After nearly a decade of silence, Daniel Brennare, head and heart of the Swedish pioneers of dark music, finally reveals his sinister world of thought. Out of…
• WIZARD present their new studio album “Metal In My Head”, the first one with the band’s new guitarist Tommy Hartung (No InnerLimits)! • The band went back to their roots in terms of the songwriting and deliver pure fucking heavy metal galore. • WIZARD teamed up with their old friend and producer Martin Buchwalter…
