Markus' Heavy Music Blog

(7/10) Jessie Wagner is a singer from Norfolk, Virginia. She teamed up with Envy; a New York based rock band. Both together released an album called "Army of underdogs". It's actually an EP with seven songs. The first two songs are outstanding. The title...

(5/10) The Shanks are from Canada. To be more precise, they are from Toronto, ON and the play rock'n'roll combined with some surf sound. The band was founded in 2005 in Ontario. The duo released so far a few records and did some tours in Canad and the...

(7/10) I want to focus with this review on Ted Nugent's music since it is a CD review. All the other controverse discussed topics around the guy from Detroit can be read on other places and can be discussed in other forums. From a musical standpoint Ted...

(8/10) If you're too young to experience the NWOBHM you get the chance to catch up by listening to the new record of Black Trip. The band is from Sweden and the mainman behind Black Trip is fromer Entombed and Nifelheim drummer Peter Stjärnvind. He had...

(8/10) God Macabre is one of those bands which never made it to the top. The band from Valberg, Sweden actually disbanded already after a very short period. Under the name God Macabre they released just one album. The name of this quite good death metal...

(6/10) I have to say that I like the voice of Ronny Munroe. Esp.his contribution to the latest Metal Church records had a positive inmpact on the legendary power metal band. Next to Metal Church Ronny Muroe is also on regularly base working on solo material....

(8/10) What started in 1967 as The Big Thing actually became a real big thing. Changing the name into Chocago Transit Authority the band was forced to adjust the name again. This time into Chicago. With Robert Lamm (keys), Lee Loughnane (Trumpet), James...

(8/10) Rise Against can already look back on a 15 years long history. It was esp. during the last years when the guys from Chicogo, Illinois became one of the most important bands of American punk rock. "The black market" is their 7th album and it will...

(5/10) Count's 77 is the band is singer Danny "Count" Koker, who is part of the US TV series "Counting cars" too. You might know the series: I have to admit that I haven't heard about it yet. The same goes for Count's 77. So, I was very curious about...

(9/10) I can remember when I came in touch with Saga for the very first time. Actually it was a Saga album which was one of the first records I bought. It was in 1982 when the band released "In transit" - the famous live album. Songs like "Humble stands"...

(8/10) Tim Bowness, a name you might have hears already. The singer from England has a good relation with Steve Wilson from Porcupine Tree and Bowness is also primerily known as vovalist and co-songwriter of No-Man. Now it was time for Bowness to focus...

(8/10) Jonny Two Bags aka Jonny Wickerham is probabaly a familiar name for each of you. The Californian guitarist is ten years a crucial part of Social Distortion, the band of mainman Mike Ness. Next to that Jonny played with The Cadillac Tramps for many...

(8/10) Seether from South Africa (they live in the US since a few years already) worked on a new album and the result got the name "Isolate and medicate". It's the sixth record of the trio and it contains the alternative rock which the band is known for....

(7/10) Nothing new at Illdisposed. The death metal guys around founder and growler Bo Summer released another solid death metal record. Founded in the beginning of the 90's in Aarhus, Denmark, Illdisposed started to release records on a regularly base...