(8/10) Surprise, surprise - sometimes it's the unexpected things that makes everyday life more colorful. On of these moments was for me personally when I listened to the new longplayer of In Extremo. The seven-piece band from Berlin, Germany is very well...

(7/10) Anthrax wrote a song called "Caught in a Mosh" and I had to think about this track when I was listening to the new album of Dust Bolt. On the one hand the guys from Landsberg am Lech, Germany continue with their thrash-/crossover melange and their...

(8/10) Normally it's Frontiers Music that brings together a well-known singer with an excellent guitar player. InsideOut did the same, just on a next level when it comes to creativity and technical capabilities. "Invention of Knowledge" combines two eras...

Australian hardrock powerhouse Airbourne annouced the name of their next album, which is their fourth: "Breakin' Outta Hell". The record will be released in autumn this year and it's the first Airbourne disc that comes via Spinefarm Records. The quartet...

Good news for all fans of hard rockers Tesla. The band did a live recording of their classic album "Mechanical Resonance" and will release this longplayer on August 26th via Frontiers Music. The album comes right in time for Tesla's North America tour...

One of the iconic prog rock dinosaurs, Kansas, will release a new album on September 23rd, 2016. The band, that has classics like "Carry on Wayward Son" in petto, wrote ten brand new songs that all found a spot on the tracklist of "The Prelude Implicit"....

(8/10) "Money, Sex and Power" was a bit of a downer a few years ago and fortunately things got better again on the successor "Megalomania". Now Swabian metal youngsters Kissin' Dynamite need to prove that this trend is a sustainable one. "Generation Goodbye"...

(10/10) Fortunately we haven't had to wait another nine years for a new album of Matheos &Co. as it was for "Darkness in a Different Light". It was in 2004 when prog metal masters Fates Warning released their "FWX" album and it took till 2013 before Jim...

(7/10) Grave Desecration started their death metal mission in the end of the 20st century. Rooted in Brazilian thrash-/death metal the four-piece from Rio de Janeiro made themselfs noticed in 2001 with a first demo tape, followed by an EP named "Cult...

(7/10) Old Fire is a project started by Texas based programmer John Mark Lapham who is known from The Earlies and The Late Cord. Mid June the first album of Old Fire will be released and it features thirteen songs that are kept silent and sphereful. Joining...

(6/10) I'm tempted to say that "One Step Over the Line" is a typical Frontiers Music album. Again we are facing a combination of musicians, brought together by label president Serafino Perugino, that started a project in melodic rock. In 2010 it was Dennis...

(7/10) It was a year ago when Dan Reed released with "Transmission" his third solo album. It wasn't the best release of the musician from Portland, Oregon. Too many average songs have found a spot on the tracklist which led to an hardrock album that doesn't...