Markus' Heavy Music Blog

Swedish The Order Of Israfel will release their second album on May 27th. "The Red Robes" is the next strike after having published the well received debut a few month ago. Here is the tracklist: 1. Staff In The Sand 2. The Red Robes 3. In Thrall To The...

Swedish masters of doom Candlemass are celebrating their 30st annivesary and they'll do it with a new EP. "Death Thy Lover" is the name of this four-tracker that comes into the shops on June 3rd. The tracklist looks like this: 1. Death Thy Lover 2. Sleeping...

(8/10) Even though you might not have heard from Omnium Gatherum earlier I can tell you that the guys from Finland are in buisness already since 1996. This means that the sextet will celebrate their 20st anniversary this year and what would be a better...

The Guardian published a post that talks about Metallica, releasing a live album recorded in the Bataclan club. The show has been part of a promotion activity for the band's "St. Anger" album. All proceeds will go to the victims of the November 13th attacks....

Swedish classic doom rockers Avantarium posted a new video. It's done for "Pearls and Coffins", one of the highlights on the bands second album "The Girl With the Raven Mask" and it's by far the best one the band released so far. Great song, great video...

UK-based Asking Alexandria will release their next album called "The Black" on March 25th via Sumerian Records. The cover is reveald already and looks like this:

As already reported earlier Zakk Wylde will release a new acosutic album called "Book of Shadows II" which is, the title presages, the successor of "Book of Shadows". Here comes the tracklist: 1. Autumn Changes 2. Tears of December 3. Lay Me Down 4. Lost...

(7/10) Protector belongs to the first generation of German thrash metal, an era when Kreator, Sodom and Destruction gained momentum. Compared to these bands Protector stayed in the shadows, meaning that the guys didn't get a lot of attention outside their...

(8/10) It was May 13th 2012 when Trondr Nefas, singer and guitars of Urgehal, sadly passed away; something that was the end of Urgehal too. However, the Norwegians decided to pay respect to the creations of Nefas and completed the recording of the final...

(9/10) It feels like yesterday when Entombed A.D. released their "Back to the Front" album. However, time flies if you have fun and we are in the meantime two years further down the road. "Dead Dawn" is the second album of the 'new' Entombed. Since "Back...

(8/10) Inglorious' music is deeply connected to70's rock, a time when bands like Deep Purple, Whitesnake and Aerosmith had their first peak. Nathan James, singer of Inglorious, obviously takes a lot of inspiration from this period and that's one reason...

(8/10) It's hard to describe The New Black's sound. The guys describe themselfs as a mixture of the Black Label Society with some Nickelback and Pantera embedded. I think it describes the new album pretty well. "A Monster's Life" is the bands fourth album...

(9/10) Headspace are from England and the band exists since 2006, when keyboarder Adam Wakeman and Threshold singer Damian Wilson teamed-up to start this new prog band. With Pete Rinaldi on guitar and bassist Lee Pomery the two guys found some partners...

(8/10) Rotting Christ's "Ritual" isn't made for becoming the soundtrack of the coming sping season. This longplayer is black and dark, from beginning to end. Sakis, Themis, Van Ave and George found their old strength again and wrote an album that puts...