Was it the Icelandic football team last year gaining many people's sympathy by their unusual and straightforward team approach, it is Icelandic rock music that adds quality to this years summer. Sólstafir recently released their new album "Berdreyminn"...
Annihilator will publish a new album in January, a release that comes as a package featuring the three discs. "Triple Thread" is its name and Markus' Heavy Music Blog had the chance to get some more insights from bandleader Jeff Waters. Markus’ Heavy...
The title of Deep Purple’s fantastic new album “inFinite” leaves quite some space for speculation and interpretation, especially considering the capital ‘F’ as part of the album name. Does this mean that the iconic pioneers in rock will come closer to...
Markus’ Heavy Music Blog: We are here at the Dynamo Metal Fest in Eindhoven. When you hear these two words ‚Dynamo‘ and ‚Eindhoven‘, what comes to mind? Toschie: There is a club here in Eindhoven called Dynamo and we played that club Of course, I have...
It was a surprisingly cold Friday night in Zoetermeer. This might have been the reason for some metal maniacs to stay at home instead of going to De Boerderij for a rock'n'roll show from Wolf. Announced for the bigger hall of the venue the concert was...
It was a quite nice and sunny November day in Köln, Germany when End Of Green played their show in the Undergound, a small club in city of Karneval. Support for this show, as already for some other shows earlier on this tour was Undertow. So it was a...
When the mighty Queen is coming to your town than it is a MUST to go there. Finally the band came to Europe with Adam Lambert as singer and frontman. After having read the pretty good feedback from concerts in North America and Asia I was very curious...
(8/10) It's always a pleasure to listen to a new album from Swabian power metal institution Brainstorm. This has for me mainly two reasons. First of all the band released always excellent records with straight forward heavy metal tracks. Secondly Brainstorm...
(*/10) Time is flying. It was already four years ago when one of the biggest voices in heavy metal lost the fight against f**king cancer. A sad day for all real metal fans and friends. Dio was not only a singer with an awesome and unique voice, he was...
UK-based alternative metal gang Sanguine releases their newest longplayer "Black Sheep" in January and Markus Heavy Music Blog took the chance to let bandleader Tarin and guitarist Nick explain a few interesting details. Markus Heavy Music Blog: "Black...
Flood Of Red is a not that very well known band from Scotland. But since they make really abitious and good music it is worth to find out more about the band and the background of the six guys. Therefore Markus' Heavy Music Blog was very glad to have...
On Friday this week the new album from Kiske/Somerville will see the light of day. The right moment to contact singer Michael Kiske for getting some more insights about the record. I got a pretty relaxed Michael Kiske on the phone, being at home in the...
Dream Theater belongs to the group of that had and have a major impact on an entire music genre. In their case it's progressive metal that wouldn't be where it is today without the quintet from North America. Starting their journey in the second half...
(9/10) Album number two of 'Gotthard 2.0', or in other words: the second record with Nic Maeder as singer of the well known Swiss hardrock band. The question was, how the new album will sound. Will it be a continuation of "Firebirth" or will it sound...
German metal dinosaurs Bonfire gaining momentum again. The latest studio album "Glörious" got very good feedback from media and fans, followed by the new album "Pearls" which contains the band's highlights, all re-recorded and party arranged in a different...
(9/10) The pre-conditions for the new Gamma Ray album haven't been really good. You all heard about the disaster which happened in Hamburg. In November last year a fire destroyed the entire Hammer Studios in Hamburg. What a shock. And I guess it was even...
Norwegian Dunderbeist released their newest album "Hyklare" a few weeks ago. The five-piece from Hamar put ten songs on the album that are a great mix of different styles - all in Norwegian. Furthemore the band has planned already some shows in Norway...
A pretty interesting package of musicians and bands stopped at the 013 in Tilburg on this sunny summer evening in May. German post-rockers, or is it more prog rock, Long Distance Calling are on tour to promote their fabulous new album "Trips". After having...
(*/10) As you know, it is Pink Floyd Records that re-issues milestone records of the iconic progressive rock band in vinyl. This cycle of re-releases comes now closer to an end. On January 20st the last two vinyl versions will hit the record shops and...
This is the second time I've seen Magnum within a few days period. After having had the pleasure of joining their show in Zoetermeer last week it's now The Waterfront venue in Norwich UK that hosts the five-piece tonight. Actually it's the first time...
Markus Heavy Music Blog: How are you? Felipe Andreoli: I’m good. Everything is fine here and I hope you’re OK too. MHMB: Yes, thanks. "ØMNI" is the name of your new album and it's again a concept album. Can you tell us a bit more about the background...
(8/10) Female fronted metal is popular and gets quite some attention in these days. Bands like The Gathering, Nightwish and Within Temptation can probabaly be seen as the godfathers of this genre. But in the last 1-2 years its more and more the second...
The Schollenpop festival is a beautiful smaller event that takes place each summer in The Hague. It is the unique location on the Zuiderstrand, which is The Hague's beach, that makes the festival to a really nice one. On top of that it is a 'free entry'...
(9/10) Triptykon is back. The band of Tom G. Warrior released their second album. It's called "Melana chasmata" and contains nine songs. The metal community looked very much forward to this record, which is now finally released. If one of the main reasons...
"Into the Dark Past" (8/10) You might have missed the eighties for whatever reason? No Remorse Records can help you since the label provides you with some metal stuff out of this great period. The newst re-releases of the label are the first two longplayers...
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