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Interview with information about Stormwitch, the tribute concert and the future will be on Markus' Heavy Music Blog tomorrow.

Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan & Richie Kotzen formed a new band called The Winery Dogs. Their debut album will be released end of August and the first tracks sound great. They are also playing quite some shows during July, August and September. One of those...

Paradise Lost announced extra dates of their 25th anniversary "Tragic illusion" tour with some European dates. The band will be supported by Lacuna Coil and Katatonia. Katatonia will play during those shows their entire "Viva emptiness" album. PARADISE...

Orchid is coming to Europe in November this year. They will be supported by Blues Pills and Scorpion Child.

German band Stormwitch, which was quite well known in the end of the 80's, announced a unique show in Giengen ( Germany) on October 5. The show will be deficated to Harald Spengler, who died a few month ago. It will be a one time show together with Stefan...

Interview - Markus' Heavy Music Blog 7/13/13 Markus: Hej Chris. How are you? Chris Lee: Markus, we’re good! Hope all is well is Holland! Hey! I think I smell some… Oh never mind. Markus: Who is in the current line-up? CL: As of right now it’s Rogelio...

I heard this band the other day. It seems to be an unkown band from the Ruhrgebiet. But the songs sounds actually pretty good. It reminds me to the old Kreator, Sodom and Deathrow times. Give it a try. And if someone knows if they have an album out,......

Korn will release their 11th studio album in autum this year. The album will available on Otober 1. The name of the album will be "The paradim shift". Brain "Head" Welch will play guitar on this album, which is the first time since 2003's album "Take...

Stay tune... Photo: Glen Wexler

Swiss hardrock band Gotthard published a new video clip for the song "Yippie Aye Yay" from their latest album "Firebirth". The band produced the video themselves and Nic Maeder was the director of the clip. Yippie Aye Yay´ Taken from their current album...

Sammy Hagar informed that he will release an album called "Sammy Hagar & friends". Hagar worked in a collaboration with Toby Keith, Mickey Hart and Taj Mahal. In addition he got support from e.g. Neal Schon, Michael Anthony and Joe Satriani. The album...

This week I had the chance to have an interview with Tim from The New Roses. It was great talking to him and we got some new insides about the new band with the great debut album. So read the interview... Markus Heavy Music Blog: Hej Tim, how are you?...

Carcass released their first trailer for the new album. They are working on their 6th studio album which is called "Surgical steel" and the release date for Europe will be September 13. This will be the first album since "Swansong" in 1996! 10.07.2013...

The Black Star Rider will play a show in De Boerderij in Zoetermeer on November 3. Great. Other dates are: 17.10. F Paris - Trabendo 23.10. D München - Backstage 24.10. D Ludwigsburg - Rockfabrik 25.10. A Telfs - Rathaussaal 26.10. D Nürnberg - Hirsch...