Markus' Heavy Music Blog

(7/10) The album is named “SIX” and guess what, it’s Dream Evils’ sixth longplayer. Actually the album title could have been ‘seven’ as well, thinking about the seven long years of waiting between the last longplayer and the new strike of Fredrik Nordström...

(8/10) Slaughter was a band that was swinging a hot bat in the early 90’s. The guys supported Kiss and Cinderella on tour, all based on their successful first two long players “Stick it to Ya” and “The Wild Life”. Slaughter released three more records...

AVATAR: 04.06.2017 (CZ) Plzen, Metalfest 15.06.2017 (AT) Novarock Festival 16.06.2017 (FR) Hellfest 17.06.2017 (BE) Graspop Metal Meeting 22.06.2017 (DE) With Full Force 23.06.2017 (NO) Tons Of Rock Festival 24.06.2017 (ES) Download Festival Madrid CALIGULAS...

(9/10) One of last years newcomers is definitely Swedish rock/metal outfit Avatarium. I can remember the moment when "Moonhorse", the first song I heard from them, just blew me away. The combination of atmospheric moments in a context of doom metal and...

(8/10) New releases of 80’s glam metal bands are always a kind of musical surprise egg. Sometimes things end up in a less good way while some other bands surprise with excellent rock albums. The new release of Mark Slaughter is one of these examples scoring...

TAU CROSS, the multinational punk / heavy metal collective revolving around Amebix bassist / frontman Rob "The Baron" Miller, Voivod drummer Michel "Away" Langevin, and members of cult crust outfits Misery and War // Plague, have announced their second...

The Cavalera brothers are back! Max and Iggor Cavalera, who created some of the most influential metal records in music history with Sepultura and inspiring the heavy and extreme music scene over decades, are currently hard at work in the studio in Phoenix,...

(*/10) Rock dinosaurs Foreigner are one of these bands that are in business since so many many years and always had success with what they did. Regardless if it has been the rocking 70’s and 80’s, the for rock bands challenging 90’s or the new century,...

(9/10) One of the first bands that brought me to hard rock music and metal later on was Whitesnake. "Trouble" was their first album I bought and it was a jaw-dropping experience. That Whitesnake became that popular was something you could guess at that...

Markus’ Heavy Music Blog: „L.O.V.E“ is the new Bitch Queens album that will be released these days. Please tell us a bit about the album. What can fans expect? Melchior Quitt: First of all the album contains eleven songs which are interesting for everybody...

(8/10) In 2015 Bergen-based metal Vikings Enslaved embarked on a trip to The Netherlands. The purpose for this trip was the bands participation at Roadburn 2015 and even more – Enslaved guitarist Ivar Bjørnson curated this years festival edition. The...

German alternative metal outfit Black Space Riders will start recording their upcoming album in July this year. As singer/guitarist JE states, the band has enough songs, in various styles, to easily fill a double disc release. The album is planned to...

(10/10) Unfortunately I never made to Iceland. This place seems to be one of the most exciting ones with an impressive landscape of glaciers, volcanoes and hot springs. Almost like planet earth unveiling it’s full inside beauty, the island is a mystic...

(8/10) Below started in 2011 in Sweden and their focus was, and still is, on more epic, heavy and dark doom. The first release of this five-piece band was a 4-track EP, which came out end of 2012, creating some first excitement in the metal community....