Markus' Heavy Music Blog

German thrash metal powerhouse Destruction started a PledgeMusic campaign for the upcoming "Thrash Anthems II" album. After the successful first part the trio decided to go for a second round, focusing on classics "The Ritual" and many more.

All dates on: http://www.epica.nl/tour

(9/10) Now, Infernäl Mäjesty isn’t one of these bands overloading the scene with new releases. Even though the band started back in 1986, the guys from Toronto, Ontario didn’t manage to release more than three longplayer up till now. However, the band...

(8/10) "Follow Me" is the first release of Liv Jagrell, former singer of Sister Sin. The band broke up end of 2015 even though the announcement kept the door open for a later comeback. Besides that Liv Jagrell didn't want to wait and started with Liv...

(8/10) The Bay Area isn't located in Australia but it's the Bay Area metal sound that crossed the ocean. Thrash metal stranded at the Australian East coats and has been picked up by a four-piece band called Harlott. Harlott are Andrew Hudson, Ryan Butler,...

(7/10) And if there aren’t enough style in metal alreadt, there’s a new one around since quite a while – ‘Alfapocalyptic Rock’. Created by Swedish rock outfit Alfahanne, the style combines different variations of metal and rock. There are some black metal...

(8/10) Nightrage belongs to the group of bands that, with a high level of motivation, is releasing records on a constant base. In 2003 the debut “Sweet Vengeance” hit the surface, an album that remains as being the reference record for everything that...

(8/10) Normally this kind of records have a street date that's a few weeks before Christmas because they can act as nice presents for people that don’t want to do something wrong. Longplayers, filled with ballads, are a safe bet since this kind of songs...

(8/10) Actually what happened over the last five years was the opposite of 'darkness remains'. It was in 2011 when the trio from Ventura, California started in darkness with a smaller fan base. The first ray of spotlight hit the band when they unveiled...

(8/10) 2 years after having published their latest longplayer “Armageddon”, Swedish melodic metal outfit Eclipse has a new records in the blocks. Erik Maårtensson, Magnus Henriksson, Philip Crunser and Magnus Ulfstedt wrote eleven new songs, at least...

(9/10) I think that there's no one who doesn’t know Deep Purple. And even the ones that lived under a rock for the last 4 decades of rock at least heard a classic rock song called “Smoke on the Water”. Ian Gillan and Co. are belonging to the generation...

(7/10) Vancouver, British Colambia is the hometown of this death metal powerhouse that comes up with oldschool metal. Death metal roots and thrash influences are blended, leading to ten songs that all made it on the band's debut. After having published...

Hardrock dinosaurs Foreigner will celebrate the bands 40th anniversary with a collection of remastered classics. The album that comes via Rhino/WMG will include 40 songs (23 tracks on the vinyl edition) and it goes without saying that hits like “Cold...

(9/10) It's hard to keep track of all the bands and releases being the brainchild of Swedish master of doom Leif Edling. The iconic bass player became famous with Candlemass, a band that heavily influenced doom bands all over the world. Next to this metal...