cd review

(8/10) The master of shock rock Alice Cooper played at the mighty Wacken festival in 2013 and the gig is now released as CD/DVD. It was another moment when legends came together. Rock dinosaur Alice Cooper and the famous Wacken festival. The result is...

(9/10) It is World Series time right now. So baseball is something which is pretty much in focus (at least in some areas on this blue planet). Exactly in this period the masked men from Iowa, Slipknot, release their newest album called ".5: The gray chapter"...

(7/10) Hide The Knives is a Swedish alternative rock band that is based in Gothenburg. It was five years ago when the band started with their debut album called “Savior for sale”. Within Sweden the guys got quite some attention, but success isn’t a guarantee...

(7/10) A finch is actually a singing bird. It’s maybe the singing part that is the only commonality that the bird has with the band Finch. The rest is quite different. Finch, the band, comes from Temecula, California and they play post-hardcore music....

(8/10) Revocation from Boston has been in the studio to record a new album. It is number five in their history and follows "Revocation" from a year ago. Started in 2008 the band constantly improved and released now with "Deathless" their best record....

(*/10) The prince of darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, can look back on a long career, full of remarkable milestones. Most of them very positive, some of them more doubtable. But the guy from Birmingham managed always to keep on standing in the spotlight and when...

(6/10) That Sweden is a country with very successful melodic rock bands is a well known fact. like Treat, W.E.T., but especially Europe made the scene in the 80's - up till now. Dalton is another one of those bands. It was former Treat drummer Mats Dahlberg...

(8/10) William Michael Albert Broad is releasing a new album. Who? It's Billy Idol who has a new album in the starting box. Nine years after his latest record "Devil's playground" the blond singer presents a new album. The name is "Kings & queens of the...

(9/10) I can remember 1987 when I heard Exodus' "Pleasure of the flesh" for the first time. It was an album that blew me away. Of course it was the peak of the Bay Area thrash scene with bands like Metallica, Testament. Vio-lence... but Exodus had something...

(8/10) Vega is a British rockband, formed in the summer 2009. The band consists out of Nick Workman (v), Tom Martin (b), Daniel Chantray (d), James Martin (key) and Marcus Thurston (g). Vega are playing melodic (hard-)rock in the tradition of bands like...

(8/10) What do you expect when you hear that there is a new album from Allen/Lande on its way? Exactly - classic metal with pathos and melodies. And this also what you get. Actually I could stop writing here and now, but that would be a bit too easy....

(5/10) OK. That Paul Allender left the British death metal band Cradle Of Filth is known and nothing new. That he started his own band/project called White Empress is also known. What is new is the fact that we know since a few days how the band sounds...

(7/10) Another band from Finland. They are called Sleep Of Monsters and their debut album "Produces reason" is available in their homecountry since quite a while. Now the band wants to take the next step and release "Produces reason" also in other countries....

(6/10) That vinyl has a revival in this highly technical world isn't a secret. The Copenhagen-based band Vinvl Floor took this trend and used vinyl for their name. Eventhough they are Vinyl Floor which isn't really related to discs. However. The Danish...