(8/10) Retro is trendy. Bands who jump in the retro and classic rock train get more and more at the moment. If you haven't heard about Kamchatka so far you might say: "Just another one". But this is not correct. In fact "The search goes on" is album number...

(8/10) W.E.T. stands for Work Of Art, Eclipse and Talisman. Those are the bands of the three main heads behind W.E.T., Robert Säll, Erik Mårtensson and Jeff Scott Soto. The fruits of their cooperation are so far two excellent hardrock/AOR records. In...

(6/10) Battleaxe is back with a new album. Starting in the eighties as a part of the NWOBHM the band from England released two albums. But in the beginning of the ninties they split up. It took till 2010, when Battleaxe reunited, having still two original...

(8/10) Adrian Vandenberg is back. How great is that. I actually haven't thought that he will have a comeback in the music scene. The surprise was big when I got the first news regarding the Moonkings late summer 2013. After very successful years with...

(7/10) "Driven rise" is the debut of Riotgod, a new band formed by members of Monster Magnet. You might know them already from their 2012 Wacken show. It was Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino who had the idea to work on their own ideas in 2006. Completing...

Epic doom metal band Below from Sweden recorded their debut album "Across the dark river". The first song "Portal" is online. See also the interview from summer last year. Released date: April 11 Source: Metal Blade BELOW is a new band from Sweden. They...

Here comes the new video from Gotthard. The song's called "Feel what I feel" and comes from the next album "Bang!". Check it out. First single from the 2014 album "BANG". Album release 04.04.2014

Here are the dates: 28.02. Umea - House Of Metal Festival (Sweden) + HATEBREED 10.04. Tilburg - Roadburn Festival (Netherlands) 11.04. Pontoise - Observatoire (France) + HAMMERCULT 12.04. Creil - Grange a Musique (France) + HAMMERCULT 13.04. Nantes -...

Hatebreed are coming to Europe. Here are the dates: 28.02. Umea - House of Metal Festival (Sweden) + NAPALM DEATH 11.04. Copenhagen - Lille vega (Denmark) 12.04. Aarhus - Voxhall (Denmark) 13.04. Gothenburg - Brewhouse (Sweden) 14.04. Malmö - KB (Sweden)...

American crossover specialists Downset are on tour in Europe in summer 2014. Here are the dates (unfortunatly no Benelux date): 20.06. Clisson - Hellfest (France) 21.06. Oviedo - T.b.a. (Spain) 22.06. Malaga - Sala Trinchera (Spain) 23.06. Madrid - Sala...