The year 2014 comes closer to an end. Time to look back and reflect on the best records in this crazy year. It was not easy to chosen them since there have been quite some highlights. However I have chosen the ones that impressed me most. And here they...

It seemed that this Northern metal package also brought the winter to the Netherlands. After weeks of almost spring feeling the temperature went down and snow has covered the country. The snow is almost gone in the meantime and the temperature increased...

(8/10 Ten, the well known British hardrock band, faded a bit from the limelight in the last three years. After the excellent "Stromwarning" album it became more quite around the band. The band had to handle some changes in the line-up since Paul Hodson...

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News from the German metal machine Accept. Herman Frank and Stefan Schwarzmann are no longer part of the band and will focus in the future on Panzer; the new band (including Schmier from Destruction) that released recently their debut album. Here is the...

Norwegian quintet Dunderbiest has worked on a new album called "Hyklere" - which means "Hypocrites". The releases show will take place in Hamar, Norway on February 28th and the album comes via Indie Recordings. Stay tuned.

(7/10) Wayfarer is a four-piece band from Denver, Colorado. They are fairly new and started under the banner of Wayfarer in 2011. After a first demo in 2011 the band released their first album "Children of the iron age". The record was already published...

As already earlier announced, Savatage will perform on the coming Wacken festival. A few days ago Chris Caffery, guitarist of Savatage and TSO, mentioned that their meight be even some more shows of the mighty power metal band. Now also Jon Oliva mentioned...

Prog metal legend Fates Warning celebrates the 30th anniversary of the "Awaken the guardian" album. The band takes the opportunity to play a special show at the Keep It True festival in 2016. Fates Warning will perform there in the original "Awaken the...

(5/10) Hardrock from Australia is not unusual. AC/DC and Airbourne, just to mention two, are from down under and have proven that Australia rocks. Mystery are from Melbourne and they are enthusiastic about hardrock with a strong sleaze touch. Think about...

(7/10) Inlegend creates rock music without guitars. Is this possible? Yes, it is. The band, that opened a few shows for Van Canto, consists only out of vocals, keyboards, piano, bass and drums. This is a very brave setup, but I must say that it works...

Norwegian prog band Leprous are back in the studio. They are working on the new album that follows the 2013 release “Coal”. The still untitled new album is expected for a May 2015 release via InsideOutMusic. The band gave an update right from the studio:...

(9/10) Dan Swanö is a busy guy right now. The debut of Witherscape (OK, that was in 2013), the new album with Nightingale and a few productions are the result of some hard working month. And now, last but not least, a new EP with Witherscape. The fascinating...

Danko Jones will release a new album in February 2015. The name: "Fire music". It seems to become a hot one that will be supported by some live shows. Here are already some live dates in Germany, The Metherlands and Luxemburg: 06.02.2015 Dortmund, FZW...