Markus' Heavy Music Blog

(9/10) "World Gone Mad" was Suicidal Tendencies latest album that has been released to date and there was chatter about the record being the last release from California-based skate punks. One and a half year later there is new stuff available from Mike...

(4/10) A well told joke doesn't get better by repeating it again and again and again. The same goes for J.B.O. and their fun metal. What was fun and a loud laugh at the end of the 90's sounds 20 years later more like deperate attempt to reviltalize the...

(7/10) Reading the bands name, Savage Hands, made me think of a powerful metal outfit, dressed in leather and denim. Wrong assumption I must conclude after having given this album a first spin. Savage Hands has nothing to do with traditional metal. The...

(7/10) Demonical, hailing from Avesta, Sweden, is a death metal outfit that was founded in 2006 by former Centinex members. The only remaining founding member is Martin Schulman and it was in 2017 when the band went through a massive change when it comes...

Markus Heavy Music Blog: How are you? Felipe Andreoli: I’m good. Everything is fine here and I hope you’re OK too. MHMB: Yes, thanks. "ØMNI" is the name of your new album and it's again a concept album. Can you tell us a bit more about the background...

(8/10) I guess it’s not necessary to introduce Myles Kennedy. The singer from Boston is well known as being the frontman of Slash as well as he is the singer of Alter Bridge. This time the singer with the iconic voice takes a slightly different musical...

From the mid-80s until last decade, DYNAMO OPEN AIR in Eindhoven, Netherlands was an iconic metal festival and the go-to-place for metal maniacs from all Europe. It all started in 1981, when André Verhuysen and a friend opened their Hard Rock Café (not...

(8/10) It's no secret that the last two Ministry longplayers didn't belong to the best things Al Jourgensen ever brought to table. "From Beer to Eternity" as well as "Relapse" sounded uninspired and bloodless. Creativity and energy were lacking; records...

(9/10) The moment that metal pioneers of Judas Priest announces a new album leads to excitement, expectations and guessing when it comes to sound and songs. All this also happened the moment when the Metal Gods announced their 18th studio album “Firepower”....

(9/10) Between The Buried And Me started in 2000 and since then the quintet released a few albums, featuring progressive metal that stretches the boarders. "Automata I" is the band's newest album, number eight on an impressive list of records that saw...

(7/10) Indianapolis-based doom passionistas of Apostle Of Solitude were founded in 2004 and debut in 2008 with “Sincerest Misery”. After having inked a deal with Cruz Del Sur it was “Of Woe and Wounds” that has been unveiled in 2014. 48 months later the...

(*/10) Introducing Finnish symphonic rockers of Nightwish feels like carrying sand to the beach. Tuomas Holopainen and band are more than 20 years in business, a good moment to look back on all the band's achievements of two decades. "Decades" is such...

(9/10) Multi-platinum certified Canadian alternative rockers Three Days Grace return with a new album, the first one since the 2015 release “Human”. The band’s sixth longplayer is entitled “Outsider” and features twelve new rock songs that easily live-up...

(8/10) Baltimore-based hardcore outfit Turnstile published their second album "Time & Space" a few days ago, a longplayer that releases energy with every song that ended up on the tracklist. Turnstile's sound is based on some hardcore roots, but it's...