(8/10) It's a l most a year ago when Spiders released their fantastic second album called "Shake Electric". This record brought the band quite some positive feedback and the guys from Gothenburg underlined it with shows played all over Europe. This autumn...
New York-based skull-crushers Overkill are coming to Europe in April for playing some headliner shows. Most of the concerts will be in the UK, after having started the tour in France. In addition also one show in The Netherlands and one gig in Germany...
(8/10) What can be better for a band called Witchbound than having the release party for a new album on Walpurgisnight? Exactly, nothing. Witchbound is a 'new' metal band from Germany, that isn't that new. For the ones of you being a bit older the words...
(6/10) Doom metal from the US. Rhode Island based Pilgrim released their new album "Void worship" which is their second release. The album opens with an intro before the first real songs starts. Slow riffs are the base for this 10 minutes long epical...
Anthrax six stringer Scott Ian will release a spoken words DVD in November this year. The musician tells stories about things he experienced in his unbelievable career. He packed all of those into a spoken words performance. The "Swearing words" show...
(8/10) If you're interested in metal music, and I guess that's what you are since you read Markus' Heavy Music Blog, the name of Alex Scholpp rings a bell. The German guitarist is guitarist of German metal outfit Farmer Boys as well as he worked together...
German dark metal outfit End Of Green has a new album in the starting blocks. "Void Estate" will see the light of day on August 8, and comes via Napalm Records. The first video is already online, a song called "The Door" which is part of the twelve songs...
Swiss based hardrocker Gotthard will be on tour in the beginning of 2017, promoting their upcoming album "Silver" which will be released on January 13th, 2017. Support act for this tour is nobody less than the iconic Pretty Maids, who recently released...
Finest blues rock. 70 years old, but he has the blues in his veins. Uploaded by cjkube on 2013-07-02. sixto rodriguez sugarman
(9/10) Oh man. Skid Row rocks. This is what the five guys from New Jersey prove again. It seems that the band is like wine - the older the better. Eventhough they had their biggest successes in the 80's I think, that they are even better today. Skid Row...
Emigrate is back with a new album called "Silent so long". And yes, true, it was silent around the project for a long time. The last album came out in 2007. But now the waiting has an end. The new disc is coming in November and here are already some first...
After having released their latest studio album "Tearing down the walls" H.E.A.T. has a new live record in the pipeline. "Live in London" is the name of the longplayer that will be released in February 2015. Here comes already the cover, the tracklist...
(8/10) Next To None is the band of four young guys that are from Lehigh Vallay in Pennsylvania. Their names? Max Portnoy (d), Thomas Cuce (key/v), Ryland Holland (g) and Kris Rank (b). Portnoy, Portnoy, Portnoy? Yes, Max is the son of Mike Portnoy who...
The Swiss Thrash Band Poltergeist from Liestal signed a worldwide deal with Pure Steel Records. The band which is active since the 80's (Depression, Behind My Mask, Nothing Lasts Forever), will release the new album "Back To Haunt" via Pure Steel Records...
Undertow is recording their next longplayer. Four years after "In Deepest Silence" the Swabian powerhouse has ten new songs and an intro in their portfolio which they are recording as we speak at the Studio141 in Schwäbisch Hall. MHBM had the chance to...
Here are some cool pics from the Death Angel show in the Baroeg in Rotterdam from 11.8.13. A concert review will follow soon on this blog. Photos: Markus Wiedenmann
Hardrock powerhouse The Dead Daisies announced a new longplayer, which will be released on April 6th via Spitfire/SPV. “Burn it Down” is the fourth longplayer of this extremely powerful rock outfit and it’s the first one with Deen Castronovo (Journey,...
From spitting, squirting, rolling around on stage to walking on stilts Marilyn Manson yet again put on a show that gets under your skin with aww. His vocals and energy were back in full force tonight. From the start he set expectations high with a brutal...
Volbeat is back in town. Amazing to see the rise of the band in the last years. I can remember when they played their first small club show in Holland, when they played Tilburg a few years later and the Heineken Music Hall. Now it was the time to go for...
Sepultura is coming to Europe this summer. It will be a great package since they will be accompanied by Legion Of The Damned, Flotsam & Jetsam and Mortillery. Here are the dates for the fantastic thrash package. 07.02.2014 DE – Bochum, Matrix 08.02.2014...
Shit The Cow, what a name for a band. Definitely it is a pretty unique name. Shit The Cow are 4 guys from Stockholm, Sweden and the released their new EP. It’s a four track record called “Salt of the earth”. The band plays a mix between Stoner Rock, Punk...
(9/10) A few months after German cowboy rockers The Bosshoss released their phantastic new album "Flames of fame" they are coming back with a new live CD/DVD called "Flames of fire - Live over Berlin". But maybe not everybody of you knows the band. So...
(8/10) While eveybody is waiting for the new album "Ruining lives" from Prong, the groove metal guys from New York released via Bandcamp a kind of "best of..." official bootleg which deserves to be mentioned. The band recorded this album in Berlin in...
(8/10) "Modern noise" is an album that isn't that usual for Metal Blade. Thomas Giles, also known as being the singer and keyboard from Between The Buried And Me, is also releasing solo material since 2004. Also on his solo journey Giles is into progressive...
(8/10) David Gilmour - you should know this name when you found the way to my blog. The guitarist, singer and songwriter has released several solo albums, but it was the mighty Pink Floyd that, decades ago, brought the 69 years old musicians into the...
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