Markus' Heavy Music Blog

(7/10) Earlier this year former Kyuss (bass)guitarist Nick Oliveri released an album called “N.O. Hits as All – Volume 1” on which he published cover versions of songs that mean something to him. What the title of this EP already indicates is the fact...

(7/10) (9/10) (9/10) (8/10) To also repeat in this review the history of Noise Records would feel like a broken record. Many of my other posts around 'Noise Lebt!' address this topic but one thing I want to say here too. Today's metal would be different...

(9/10) End of June marks the return of Stone Sour, having a new album right in the starting blocks. The 15 songs containing longplayer is entitled “Hydrograd” and comes via Roadrunner Records. The bands achievements over the last 1,5 decades is pretty...

(8/10) Interested in some real heavy metal from the underground? Yes? In this case you shouldn’t miss Stallion’s sophomore release “From the Dead”. The guys from Baden-Wuerttemberg published their debut in 2014. “Rise and Ride” was a first wake-up call...

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"...

(8/10) Atlantean Kodex belongs to the group of younger bands that brought epic metal back to peoples attentions. Together with While Heaven Swept, Sorcerer and other, it's the Bavarian five -piece that blows some new life into a genre that had a first...

(9/10) Quite some years ago Anathema went through a meta(l)morphosis, moving step by step from being doom death outfit to one of Europe's finest alternative rock bands. Albums like "Alternative 4" and "A Natural disaster" belongs to the best the band...

(9/10) Tromsø is a small city in the Northern parts of Norway. It's an hours-long flight away from Oslo and getting there means crossing the Northern arctic circle. But if you take the effort to go there, which I did twice over the last two years, you...

German rock shooting stars The New Roses do have their next album in the pipline. "One More For the Road" will be published on August 25th via Napalm Records. Here comes already the artwork, the tracklist and some live dates. Don't miss the power of pure...

Taken from the upcoming album "Drift" out June 30th 2017. Order it now! http://smarturl.it/TuesdayTheSkyDRIFT TUESDAY THE SKY - Today The Sky (Album Track) InsideOutMusic 2017 Tuesday The Sky , the new Ambient Instrumental Rock project by Fates Warning...

(7/10) Guitarist Dario Mollo and singer Graham Bonnet united forces, working on an album entitled "Feeding the Beast". The guys, firming under the banner of EZoo, unveiled twelve new songs that can be found on this longplayer. 'New' is actually the wrong...

Greek metal masters Septicflesh will release their next album "Codex Omega" on September 1, via Season Of Mist. The longplayer will come with a 10-songs-tracklist, looking like this: Dante's Inferno 3rd Testament (Codex Omega) Portrait of a Headless Man...

Five Finger Death Punch announced that they will finish out their remaining European dates with Bad Wolves vocalist Tommy Vext filling in for Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody, whose struggles with substance abuse are widely known. Ivan Moody,...

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...