Markus' Heavy Music Blog

The Schollenpop festival is a beautiful smaller event that takes place each summer in The Hague. It is the unique location on the Zuiderstrand, which is The Hague's beach, that makes the festival to a really nice one. On top of that it is a 'free entry'...

(8/10) New Light Choir is a duo. It's John Niffenegger (v, g, b, m-tron) and Chris Dalton (d) that founded the band in 2010 and New Light Choir is so far a pure studio project without having live activities planned yet. The title of the album leads to...

Cesena is a 100.000 inhabitant city in Northern Italy. It was eighteen years ago when the Foo Fighters played a show in the Italian city for the last time and it was a big wish of initiator Fabio Zaffagnini to make them come to Cesena again. Therefore...

Udo Dirkschneider, one of the most influencial German metal frontmen, will play a tour in 2016 where he will perform old Accept songs from his era with the German metal institution. This is what Udo posted on the U.D.O. Facebook side. For more details...

Also Saxon comes with a first new song called "Battering ram" which is the title track from the upcoming album - the 21st studio album of the NWoBHM legends. And as "Sacrifice", also the new longplayer seems to become a very good one. Stay tuned. Source:...

The mighty Motörhead give us more inside into their coming longplayer. "Electricity" is taken from the new album "Bad magic" that will be released end of August. Motörhead - stronger than ever. Source: YouTube

Right in time for their Wacken show Annihilator released the first video for the upcoming album "Suicide society". Here comes the title track: Source: YouTube

(8/10) Biters stands for pure rock'n'roll from Atlanta. The four-piece signed a contract with Earache Records which enables them to release their new upcoming album "Electric blood" worldwide. The four guys, Tuk (v/g), Matt (g/v), Philip (b/v) and Joey...

(*/10) That death metal can go together with a high technical level of playing is something Atheist has proven with their "Unquestionable presence" album. Originally released in 1991 the album came with eight songs that are aggressive death metal with...

Stratovarius has been in the studio to record their new longplayer "Eternal that will be released on September 11 via earMUSIC. The first song has been posted on YouTube and here is the link: Source: YouTube

Iron Maiden posted a very first teaser from the upcoming "The book of souls" album on YouTube. I would say - Yes; it's Iron Maiden :) Source: YouTube

(8/10) Hamburg Rock City. Linie is another band that proves the truth of this statement. The five-piece from the Hansestadt in the Northern parts of Germany released an EP in 2014. The name of the disc was "Negative enthusiasm" which is followed now by...

Geoff Tate posted a new song from the comong Operation Mindcrime album. "Re-inventing the future" is taken from the upcoming album "The key" that comes in September via Frontiers. The songs is a step towards the older Queensryche stuff, but let's see...

Prog rockers posted a new song called "Minion". The track is taken from the upcoming album "The oblivion particle" that will be released end of August this year. SPOCK'S BEARD - Minion (Lyric Video). Taken from the album, 'The Oblivion Particle', Inside...