A band needs plenty of exceptional compositional talent to record an album that sounds monolithic despite the fact that the individual songs ooze a wide range of different details and special features. Since its foundation in 2001, Manimal from Gothenburg have successfully mastered this feat for the third time. Despite their loyalty to traditional influences…
HELION PRIME and their mascot – the mighty Saibot – return with their sophomore effort ‘Terror Of The Cybernetic Space Monster’ on August 31st, 2018. The album consists of nine brand new tracks – with the seventeen minute monster title song marking a stunning finale. The Sacramento (California) based power metal band’s new piece of…
After more than 40 years in the business and with a renowned breakthrough in the early 80’s with ACCEPT behind him, as well as several million records sold worldwide, Udo Dirkschneider from Solingen/Wuppertal, Germany, is one of the biggest rock legends in the business. U.D.O. has enjoyed well over two decades in the spotlight. Regardless…
The sixth studio album of the exceptional guitarist born on September 9, 1967 in Suffern, New York. Chris Caffery started playing the guitar at the age of eleven. As a first reminder, however, he gives a performance at the kindergarten where he performed the Beatles song “Help! After only 13 months he was so bored with…
ATROCITY is back! The new album, “OKKULT II” is a dark, brutal and bombastic masterpiece! This killer album will be released on July 6th, 2018 – and it is packed with vicious death metal gems! Fans of heavier ATROCITY albums, like “OKKULT” or their death metal classics like “Hallucinations”, “Todessehnsucht”, “Blut” and “Atlantis” will get…
MOTORJESUS – Start the engines, please! At the very latest the 2014 chart entry of their most recent album “Electric Revelation” saw MOTORJESUS conquer the pole position of the German heavy rock scene. Countless festivals (such as the Summer Breeze and the Rock Hard Open Air) and various tours have earned these full-throttle rock musicians…
Luca Princiotta, longtime guitarist of the band of DORO, with his first solo album. “Rough Blue” is an intense rock album. Blues riffs, breathtaking solos and melodies, catchy and energetic drum and bass grooves, and a raw and bluesy great voice are the ingredients for a powerful mix of passion and musical genius. Luca Princiotta played in the…
Nils Patrik Johansson (Astral Doors, Lion’s Share, Civil War) with his very first solo album. Especially with the Astral Doors Patrik Johansson sets since 2003 always new highlights in Classic Rock and Heavy Metal. The ideas for the songs on “Evil Deluxe” were created over a period of more than ten years. Not least with the help of Nils…
For this new work, the band relies on trademarks of the “The League Of Shadows” phase as well as on new elements that make the quintet more melodic and harder at the same time. “(R) Evolution” turns out to be more diverse in terms of music compared to its predecessor, not least with Titta’s range…
Lordi is a Finnish hard rock and melodic heavy metal band, originally formed in 1992 by the band’s lead singer, songwriter, visual art designer and costume maker, Mr Lordi. Lordi took part in the Eurovision song contest and won the whole competition as the first and only winner from Finland, with all-time record breaking points…
