Swedish doom legend Candlemass is working on a new EP to celebrate the 30st anniversary of the genre icons. The recordong takes place currently in the Ghost Ward studios in Stockholm and the EP will include four new tunes. Those tracks are reported to...

(8/10) You could that this is the right review for Halloween - a band called Zombi. No, seriously, Zombi is from Pittsburgh and the guys stand for progressive rock music that comes with many electronic features and synthesizers. Zombi was inspired by...

(8/10) There is a lot trouble and defiency out there in the world that delivers enough topics for lyrics for a new Killing Joke album. So it's not a surprise that the legendary post-punk band was in the studio again and worked on their sixteenth longplayer...

(9/10) This autumn seems to become a sophisticated season when it comes to progressive metal music. There have been already some quite exciting records that have been published; like the new album from Gazpacho and now there are two German prog bands...

(8/10) What a blast in 1984 when I heard the first songs from David T. Chastain. It was the second full-length album he released under the header of Chastain, with Leather Leone taking over the vocal duties. This album was a real highlight at that time,...

(8/10) To mention each of the important musical mielstones of Midge Ure would be a very long list of bands and projects the iconic musicians was involved in. I don't think that such an outstanding career was to foresee when Ure started in 1976 with Silk,...

(7/10) You could make life easy for yourself and label '77 as the Spanish AC/DC. But this would be far too easy, even though the five-piece from Australia can be seen as a major inspiration for '77's sound. But the four-guys from Barcelona are more than...

(9/10) After having played a fantastic show in union with the mighty Savatage the Trans-Siberian Orchestra releases a new album called "Letters From the Labyrinth". The success story of TSO started in 1996 with "Christmas Eve and Other Stories". The record...

(8/10) There are some records that you listen to for the first time and you're caught by their sound. "The Sheltering Day" from Dead Soul is such a longplayer. In case you haven't from the band earlier, it is a musical collaboration of Anders Landelius...

(6/10) Heavy Metal and Japan is for me: Loudness. Those guys left more than a footprint in metal coming from the land of the rising sun. But that was decades ago and the next generation took over. If the result is what you like is something you have to...

(9/10) Molok is the biblical demon in whose jaws children were sactificed. Molok is the name of a machine that can predict the future, based on a rational relation of action and reaction in the past. "Molok" is also the title of Gazpacho's new studio...

German prog metal band Vanden Plas will soon release part 2 of the 'Netherworld' saga. "Chronicles of the Immortals" Netherworlds II" will be published on November 6 and another song of the upcoming album is already revealed on YouTube. "Godmaker's Temptation"...

(8/10) A few months after having published their debut Deadheads are around with "Loadead". The second album picks it up where "This is Deadheads First Album" stops. Ten new songs will be a serious option for your next party. Ten new songs that are kicking...

(9/10) Wohoo. Where do those guys all of a sudden come from? The trio is from Landstuhl in Germany and they are playing in the current line-up since end of December last year. Lord Vigo wasn't on my list and I obviously missed their demo EP a few month...