(5/10) After their final 'Farewell' world tour the Scorpions are still in business. In cooperation with MTV they went to Athens and played an acoustic show in the Lycabettus theatre. The question is: Why? Christmas is coming closer, another "Best of..."...

Swedish metal band Avatarium released another video from their fantastic debut. The songs called "Boneflower". Lay back and enjoy. Source: Nuclear Blast Records

(7/10) I didn' know Hammer Fight before I got this CD and I haven't had any idea what to expect. The cover, with the axe and the tankard looks a bit like thrash and that assumption was also right. The band is from New Jersey, released already an untitled...

(8/10) If you listen to Imperial State Electric than you can’t imagine that Nicke Andersson started Entombed many years ago. And that he is busy with Death Breath. Imperial State Electric has nothing to do with death metal and it also has nothing to do...

(8/10) Fate is back. And they came back surprisingly loud and heavy. When I heard that the band will release a new record I was thinking about another American hardrock oriented album with some AOR elements. Of course the new disc “If not for the devil”...

Who has thought about seeing Black Sabbath in almost the original line-up on stage again? This was honestly beyond my imagination. But after the band released earlier this year the fantastic "13" album there was hope. And they are back - with Ozzy, Tony...

Undertow will release their new album "In deepest silence" in December. Via rockhard.de you can already listen to the songs, which are fantastic. UNDERTOW statten euch am 6. Dezember mit dem perfekten Nikolausgeschenk aus und wuchten ihr neues Album "In...

Black Sabbath played in Amsterdam on 28.11.. Here comes "Children of the grave". Source: Markus Wiedenmann The concert review will be soon on Markus' Heavy Music Blog: http://mwiemetalblog.over-blog.com

Saxon released a video from "Frozen rainbow" in an unplugged version. Sounds great. Source: UDRmusic

Danish metal act Pretty Maids will release a new album called "Louder than ever" in spring 2014. 'New' is not totally correct, since it will be mainlt re-recordings from older song from the era between 1995 - 2006. That means unfortunatley no re-recordings...

(7/10) Have you heard already earlier from Angelica? I haven’t. She is Swedish and is/was singing in The Murder Of My Sweet. Now she has taken the step to record and release her first solo album. She got her inspiration from singers like e.g. Robin Beck...

(7/10) Danish melodic rockers Royal Hunt are back with a new album. “A life to die for” is already record number twelve in the bands long history. Actually next year will be the 25th anniversary (not considering the time when they played under the banner...

(8/10) Rob Dukes is not only the frontman of Exodus. He is also part of Generation Kill. And Rob was already the first surprise when I heard the album. Knowing him from Exodus I expected a lot of aggressive screaming. But no, this is different here. Rob...

(8/10) Eat The Gun was founded already in 2002 and released in the meantime four records. I wonder why I missed all of them :os But that changed now with the bands latest release. "Stripped to the bone" found its way in my CD player and I have to say...