rock

Music is, first of all, about sound; something rather for your ears than for your eyes. But I guess we all made the experience earlier about the importance of the artwork. Each of you that was part of the journey from vinyl to CD to mp3 knows about the...

(8/10) Actually I have to admit that Haken came pretty late to my attention. It was the third album "The Mountain" that made me curious about the band from the UK and their prog rock. After having heard the album I was regreting not having heard of the...

Metal siren Jorn will release his new album "Heavy Rock Radio" on June 3rd. The longplayer will contain twelve songs, all cover versions from rock and metal songs, from Frida to Maiden. The first tune that sees the light of day is "I Know There's Something...

(9/10) Münster, Germany is a city that has a rich cultural scene that generated bands like Black Space Riders, Eat The Gun and ... Long Distance Calling. All these bands have in common that they found their own style with their own trademarks. It's hard...

Not only that after many years Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley can be heard playing together one song, now they also released a video for "Fire and Water". I think, it's an interesting title, since it seems very much like 'fire and water' can go together....

(8/10) I grew up with bands like Mötley Crüe and "Shout at the Devil" is still one of the best Glam metal songs that has ever been written. And I must admit that there was a kind of felt sadness when the band announced their final world tour. They might...

(8/10) To start with the really bad thing means, talking about the artwork of The Defiants debut. I don't know if this Western style cover work should be cool or if it should reflect a kind of outlaw thing. In the end it doesn't support the music at all...

(8/10) Actually it's quite impressive what Massive delivers on their new album "Destination Somewhere". The guys from Australia scored already with their debut "Full Throttle", an album that was very well received by fans and media. Now it's time for...

(6/10) I would have loved a situation where I could have told you that STAM1NA made a huge step forward and that they might become the next big thing. Starting in such a way shows you, that there aren't big steps forward. "Elokuutio" is the next release...

(8/10) Prog rockers Messenger (not to the German thrashers) releases their first album for Inside Out Music, which is actually the second longplayer in the band's history. "Threnodies" is the name of record from the London-based band that features seven...

(8/10) It happened in the wake of Europe success with "The Final Countdown" that some more Scandinavian melodic rock bands got extra attention too. Treat was one of these bands, celebrating with "Dreamhunter" from 1987 one of their biggest hits. But things...

(7/10) Brutal Beyond Belief - what a band name. The guys that are sailing under this flag are Annika, Elin and Filip. This trio is based in Stockholm, Sweden and they started to do some music together back in 2012. A year later, in 2013, they officially...

(7/10) Knifeworld pick-it up where the guys from the UK stopped with their earlier "The Unravelling" album. The guys focus again on pretty complex music that demands quite some skills and musical craftmanship. Knifeworld has embedded all this as a fix...

(7/10) Stockholm based Dynazty gave me a hard time for writing a review. Why? I'm sitting on the fence when it comes to their newest album "Titanic Mass". The quintet has in the meantime their fifth album out there in the record shops and it actually...