Markus' Heavy Music Blog

(8/10) (7/10) (7/10) (8/10) German thrash metal pioneers Kreator recently delighted fans with re-releases of the band’s first four classics - “Endless Pain”, Pleasure to Kill”, “Terrible Certainty” and “Extreme Aggression”. These four albums were not...

(8/10) American Oceans Of Slumber do have already two longplayers on the list of releases up to date. The debut “Aetherial” was published in 2013 followed by “Winter”, the band’s debut for Century Media. After turbulent years in which love, loss, struggle...

(8/10) If you didn’t live under a rock for the last decades the name Michael Schenker isn’t something new to you. The iconic guitarist has a long history in metal with many ups and some down. Michael started, together with his brother Rudolf Schenker,...

It was an ice cold February evening when British metal icons Saxon had a stop at 013 in Tilburg to warm up the city with some hot metal riffs. No less than the legendary Diamond Head joined Saxon on their European tour and it was Brazilian metal newcomers...

(7/10) Relapse Records has a split release in the pipeline that sees the light of day beginning of March. Crossover thrashers Iron Reagan share an album with death metal powerhouse Gatecreeper. The latter added three songs to the total while Iron Reagan...

(8/10) Sacred Leather hails from Indianapolis, Indiana and is a metal powerhouse that was formed some years ago. A can’t tell you the exact date, but the first release dates back to 2014 when a single entitled “Hunger in the Night” hit the scene. Since...

(8/10) Old Mother Hell? Never heard of them earlier and maybe it‘s the same on your side. Therefor let’s have a quick look into who these guys are. Old Mother Hell is a trio, hailing from Mannheim, Germany. The band was founded in 2015 and formed from...

(7/10) The older ones of you are still familiar with the name of Jutta Weinhold. The charismatic singer was the founder of Zed Yago, a German metal outfit that had huge success in the 80's with their debut From Over Yonder". The sophomore record "Pilgrimage"...

Cradle Of Filth and Moonspell played the Patronaat in Haarlem, The Netherlands early February and here are some photos of this excellent show.

(*/10) Swiss rock outfit Gotthard belongs to the spearhead of European hardrock, celebrating big success with longplayers that went right into the charts. While step by step gaining a lot of new fans, Gotthard’s sound also shifted in parallel more towards...

(8/10) Very often it’s the pairing of singer and guitarist that leads to a new band or project. Here things are slightly different since Duke Of The Orient is the banner for a collaboration of singer and keyboarder. Vocalist John Payne, known from his...

(9/10) The Temperance Movement is a British rock outfit that was founded in 2011 by singer Phil Campbell, guitarist Luke Potashnik and Paul Sayer. The band faced a stellar ascent and it was the debut that went right into the top 12 of the UK charts. The...

(8/10) If you're interested in metal music, and I guess that's what you are since you read Markus' Heavy Music Blog, the name of Alex Scholpp rings a bell. The German guitarist is guitarist of German metal outfit Farmer Boys as well as he worked together...

(8/10) Metal horde Deströyer 666 worked on a new and evil EP entitled "Call of the Wild". As the earlier releases also this 4-track disc doesn't contain any compromises nor it features songs that are heading for the mainstream. "Call of the Wild" is a...