German rock band LETZTE INSTANZ is one of the country’s most important ambassadors for ambitious artistic impression. Unlike groups such as Rammstein, LETZTE INSTANZ don’t rely on brute force, but give the listener food for thought wrapped in a tasteful environment of guitar, bass, drums, violin and cello. No matter if you call it rock,…
„There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.“ -Albert Camus Something is stirring in the shadows. Something is crawling to the surface: Schattenmann are here! Formed in the dying days of 2016, already now aiming for greater things: This young band from Nuremberg knows exactly what they want and…
Punk legends such as Rise Against or The Offspring can’t be all wrong: Templeton Pek are among the most exciting political melodic hardcore bands of our time. Following countless world tours as support act playing in front of tens of thousands of music fans, the trio are set to release their latest album “Watching The…
EKTOMORF was founded in 1993 in Mezökovacsháza, Hungary, a small city near the Romanian border, by Zoltán “Zoli” Farkas. In the actual line-up Zoli – songwriter and mastermind of the band – is the only remaining founding member. Due to his gipsy background Zoli saw himself confronted with racism and prejudices. But this didn’t hold…
More than ten years have passed since ASENBLUT came together. A lot has happened in the Göttingen based band’s camp since they caused quite the stir in the German Pagan Metal scene with their debut „AUFBRUCH“ back in 2009. Already then so much more as a Mead drinking, runes throwing band of pathos fools, they…
If you consider the songs on Voodoo Circle’s new album Raised On Rock to be an indicator of the current emotional condition their most important protagonists find themselves in, there seems to be no reason to worry about band founder, guitarist and main composer Alex Beyrodt in particular. Thanks to Beyrodt’s excellent songwriting – as…
Their home town of Hyvinkää is better known as Finland’s hotbed of black metal. Something of a deviation from the norm, power metal gunners THAUROROD have one by one felled every obstacle in their way, including a revolving door of members in their formative years. The trio of founders however; Pasi Tanskanen, Joonas Pykälä-aho and…
In 1982 when four longhaired metal-maniacs from Frankfurt am Main, Germany decided to found a band named TANKARD, nobody expected them to still be going three decades later. Not to mention being at the top of the German thrash metal scene! But they are still alive and kicking, and throughout these years there’s barely been…
The Viking sails have been set – 2018 will be under the sign of the dragonhead. Uncompromising, combative, epic – the new LEAVES’ EYES! One of the most successful bands in the symphonic metal genre returns with its seventh album, ready to live up to the public’s high expectations. Leaves‘ Eyes are the historians of…
Hamburg based power metal band IRON SAVIOR was facing a problem: what to do when your early albums are not available regularly anymore but a re-issue is not possible due to legal reasons? Well, the decision was made to use this situation to give the material a sonic upgrade. “We can’t re-release our albums from…
