Markus' Heavy Music Blog

Photo: Promotion Swedish hardrock unit Honeymoon Disease has a new album in the pipeline. It's entitled "Partly Human, Mostly Beast"and comes via The Sign/Cargo. Release date is October 27th, this year.

Swiss black metal pioneers Samael have already given fans a first glimpse of their upcoming album “Hegemony” in the form of a music video premiere for the track “Angel of Wrath”. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t miss out and watch it HERE ! “Hegemony”...

(8/10) After having release "Black Widow" former metalcore outfit In This Moment made another step away from their musical roots and continue their transformation towards modern metal. "Ritual" is the bands newest strike and features twelve new songs,...

(8/10) The Lurking Fear doesn't even try to bring much new to the table - and this is the joy of "Out of the Voiceless Grave". This album features raw and oldschool Swedish death metal that is captured in twelve brutal chapters. The Lurking Fear is chief...

(9/10) It was a while ago when I received an album done by a band I haven’t heard of before. The name of this metal gang was Attic, five young guys from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany whose debut hit the record stores and added quite some excitement...

( 8/10 ) 'Schafott' is the German word for 'scaffold'. Schafott is also the name of a fairly 'new' player in metal. The four guys from Desden, Germany started their metal journey some years ago with a demo named "Satan's Throne". This happened in 2014...

( 8/10 ) Basically all the ingredients for an album like "Rhapsodies in Black" are well known and still, this album offers fascinating songs that each of you heard earlier in their original set-up. Exit Eden is a new project, that's female-fronted. The...

(9/10) What looks on first sight as an EP is, even though containing not more than four songs, a full-length longplayer by Finnish epic metal unit Wintersun. The ones of you that had a chance to visit Finland have an idea where the inspiration for this...

(8/10) In case you haven’t heard of Bloodclot before at least the name Cro-Mags should ring a bell. And if you heard about Cro-Mags you’re also aware of their frontman John Joseph. Bloodclot is the new hardcore outfit of Joseph and can be seen as a ‘supergroup’....

(8/10) Switzerland brought many exciting rock and metal bands up to surface. There’s the melodic sector with Gotthard being the highly successful spearhead. Then there are the still rocking Krokus who can be seen as the trailblazer when it comes to rock...

(8/10) Fans of prog rocker The Tangent had to wait for three years before they can welcome a new longplayer of their favorite band. The quintet consists of bandleader Andy Tillison and also Jonas Reingold, Luke Machin and Theo Travis are again part of...

(8/10) Re-releases is one thing, but re-issueing an album that comes with the same drums and vocals while the rest sounds entirely different is an interesting and challenging approach. Guitar wizard David T. Chastain took the challenge and recorded “We...

The Cavalera brothers announced a new CAVALERA CONSPIRACY album. The longplayer will be released on November 17 via Napalm Records. Max CAVALERA in a recent interview with Metal Wani: "The album right now is finished. It was produced by Arthur Rizk, our...