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…
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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…
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Op woensdag 24 januari 2018 komt Geoff Tate met zijn Operation: Mindcrime naar poppodium NIEUWE NOR in het kader van het 30-jarig jubileum van ‘Operation Mindcrime’, het derde studioalbum van de progressieve heavy metal band Queensrÿche. Dit concert vindt plaats i.s.m. The Rock Online en Parkstad Limburg Theaters. ‘Operation Mindcrime’ is het derde studioalbum…
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Dik tien jaar geleden waren ze al eens te gast in Parkstad (17.10.07 poppodium NIEUWE NOR – Heerlen), nu 7 studio cd’s, een live CD en vele optredens, tours en festivals later, zijn ze zaterdag 17 Maart 2018 te gast in de oefenbunker te Landgraaf, ter ere van hun tour voor hun nieuwste CD “Prisma”. De band ontstond…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Two late 90’s classic albums by Swedish premier metallers EVERGREY are about to be reissued on November 24th 2017: ‘The Dark Discovery’ – the debut album – originally released in 1998 and ‘Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy’, which was its first launch in 1999, already showcase the unique EVERGREY sound which merges power-, progressive- and dark melodic…
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The Dutch Disciples is een project van Praying Mantis & Ayreon zanger John Jaycee Cuijpers. Hij zingt in meerdere tribute bands, maar zijn hart ligt nog steeds bij een van zijn grootse voorbeelden ; Ronnie James Dio (10.07.42 – 16.05.10) De band zelf werd pas medio 2017 opgericht en willen jullie ervan overtuigen dat de…
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IRON MASK & Special Guest(s) De Belgische Melodische power metal band Iron Mask is de laatste jaren wat meer actiever geworden. Waar in 2002 hun debuut CD “Revenge is my name” nog released werd door Lion Music, zijn tot op de dag van vandaag 6 cd’s uitgebracht. Waarvan Black As Death (2011), Fifth son of…
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