Markus' Heavy Music Blog

Danish metal act Pretty Maids will release a new album called "Louder than ever" in spring 2014. 'New' is not totally correct, since it will be mainlt re-recordings from older song from the era between 1995 - 2006. That means unfortunatley no re-recordings...

(7/10) Have you heard already earlier from Angelica? I haven’t. She is Swedish and is/was singing in The Murder Of My Sweet. Now she has taken the step to record and release her first solo album. She got her inspiration from singers like e.g. Robin Beck...

(7/10) Danish melodic rockers Royal Hunt are back with a new album. “A life to die for” is already record number twelve in the bands long history. Actually next year will be the 25th anniversary (not considering the time when they played under the banner...

(8/10) Rob Dukes is not only the frontman of Exodus. He is also part of Generation Kill. And Rob was already the first surprise when I heard the album. Knowing him from Exodus I expected a lot of aggressive screaming. But no, this is different here. Rob...

(8/10) Eat The Gun was founded already in 2002 and released in the meantime four records. I wonder why I missed all of them :os But that changed now with the bands latest release. "Stripped to the bone" found its way in my CD player and I have to say...

(9/10) Hell released their second album a few days ago. It is the logical continuation of the the awesome debut "Human remains". After Hell had disbanded in 1987 after a few quite successless years they reunited in 2011. Three of the original members...

American thrashers Hatriot, the band of former Exodus frontman Zetro Souza, is working on their new album. The record will be called "Dawn of the new centurion". I'm happy that Markus' Heavy Music Blog can give already some first insights about the the...

(8/10) It was in 2004 when Gerben Klazinga started up Knight Area. At this time it was a solo project which led to the release of “The sun also rises”. In the meantime the band released 4 studio records. The latest one was released in 2011, was called...

Volbeat is back in town. Amazing to see the rise of the band in the last years. I can remember when they played their first small club show in Holland, when they played Tilburg a few years later and the Heineken Music Hall. Now it was the time to go for...

Adrian Vandenberg is back. The Dutch guitarist who had e.e.g major success with bands like Whitesnake in the 80's started with a new band called Adrain Vandenberg's Moonkings. This sounds like a great new band. Let's keep an eye on them. The band is working...

(8/10) When I heard that Saxon releases an album with band classics in an unplugged/orchestral version I was doubting if this experiment would work out. I have seen the band twice live within the last 12 month and they played extraordinary plugged-in...

A rainy, grey and cold November evening in Amsterdam. So a good day for having a hot rock show. That was almost the scenario on November 19th when Ugly Kid Joe and Skid Row played at the Melkweg in Holland’s biggest city. As opener “Dead City Ruins” joined...

(8/10) Lzzy and her guys are back. I few weeks ago they have been on tour with Alter Bridge and played several shows in Europe. In addition to that they also released a new EP with 6 songs. The thing is called "ReAniMate 2.0 - the CoVeRs" and contains...

(7/10) Benedictum's album number 4 is on it's way into the stores. The name is "Obey" and is a clear message to all fans - obey, buy the record and enjoy the listening session. Benedictum continues where they stopped 2 years ago with "Dominion". Also...