cd review

Eden’s Curse is a band which is already quite some years in the business. They started already in 2007 and released good albums. This autumn their new album “Symphony of sin” will be released. The band plays a mix out of hardrock and melodic metal combined...

Glamour Of The Kill is maybe not that known yet, Eventhough the release with "Savages" their second album. The four-piece UK band from York is active already since quite some years. They started in 2007 and their demo "Through the dark they march" was...

Spiral Arms are probably not that well known in Europe. The band, which was founded already in 2004, is from the US and plays modern (hard-)rock with classic rock patterns and a bit of blues. The inspiration of Spiral Arms comes from bands like Black...

Paul Speckman, one of the founding fathers of death metal, is back. One year after the latest release of Master the band comes back with their new album called “The witchhunt”. Paul, who is playing the bass and doing the vocals, is supported by Alex Nejezchleba...

The Winery Dogs is a new project by drum mastermind Mike Portnoy. I don’t want to use the name ‘supergroup’ in this context, since this name is used very inflationary in the last years. But The Winery Dogs is definitely a band with highly experienced...

Ugly Kid Jow is back. After they were very successful in the beginning of the 90's, when they had hits like "Cats in the cradle" and "Everything about you" the band stopped in 1996. Than it took 16 years till the band came back with some new stuff. It...

Switzerland is in the meantime known for quite some hardrock bands. Just think about Krokus, Gotthard, Crystal Ball and Shakra. Fox is the band of the former Shakra leadsinger Marc Fox. "Lucifer" is his second release after the the 2012 released called...

The desert is not dead – the desert is ALIVE! Kyuss is back. Of course under a new name (Vista Chino), but with the same sound. After years of Garcia Plays Kyuss and Kyuss Live John Garcia started a band with new name – Vista Chino. This was mainly due...

Imagine the situation. You’re standing in a hurricane and the wind tries to blow you away. You don’t really know what’s coming next but you enjoy it. This is almost the feeling when you put the new album of Speedtrap into your CD player. The band is from...

It's a long story with Trouble. The band haven't had a lot of good luck in their career. Founded already in 1979 they went through a lot of ups and even more downs. In the past they released great records like "Psalm 9", but also "Manic frustration" in...

The circumstances under which “Wild card” was created weren’t the best ones. You could almost say that “Wild card” wasn’t a wild card at all. After the split up of After Forever, in which Floor was singing for years, she started with ReVamp in 2010. She...

After Grave released their last full-length album a year ago they are releasing now a new EP. The album contains 5-tracks which are a logical next step after the “Endless procession of souls” album in 2012. The tracks are well chosen. There are two new...

Dez Fafara is a busy man. After he toured with the reactivated Coal Chamber earlier this year through Europe he releases now with his second band Devildriver a new album called "Winter kills". I have to admit that I was never the biggest fan of the band,...

Bombus is a new Swedish band from Gothenburg. But they are nit playing death metal, as we could assume. They go into a different direction. They are playing a great mix between different styles. The songs has the rock'n'roll from Motörhead, some stoner...