Markus' Heavy Music Blog

Fans always wanted Udo Dirkschneider doing Accept songs as being part of the regular U.D.O. shows. And of course, these old classic are awesome and milestones in metal music. But U.D.O. is not Accept and therefore Udo Dirkschneider decided to do a tour...

(7/10) If Crematory's new album is a real 'monument' is something you need to answer for yourself, but one thing is for sure a given: Crematory is a steady part of the goth metal scene. The guys from Mannheim, Germany started in 1991, with a first demo...

(7/10) Asking Alexandria's new album became a pretty dark one, at least the artwork doesn't express a very positive atmosphere and naming the disc "The Black" doesn't sound like flower-power either. The UK-based five piece uses the album as an outlet...

Greece Rotting Christ will be touring through Europe in autumn this year. They will be accompanied by Inquisition, Mystifier and Schammach. Here are the dates:

German thrash dinosaur Paradox will release a new album on June 3rd and the longplayer will come via AFM. It's the first album of Charly Steinhauer and his gang since four years and it will provide you with 60 minutes of excellent German thrash metal....

For all my Dutch and Belgium readers - don't forget that Udo Dirkschneider, together with his band, will play a show in Tilburg tomorrow night. It will become an evening full of Accept songs, which sounds very exciting.

(8/10) Cult Of Luna's new album comes with only five song, but these pack a punch. In the end this record provides you with 55 minutes of confusion, experiments, intensity and depth, unveiling a new approach to post-metal. The guys from Cult Of Luna slightly...

(8/10) A new Black Stone Cherry album is like walking on a slagline. If the sound of a new record moves a bit too much towards the left it will become too much mainstream and too little rock. And if the movement is a bit too much to the right it gets...

(*/10) André Andersen and his gang are at the start with a new live album. After having published the quite good "Devil's Dozen" album Royal Hunt joined a few festivals around the globe. The guys have been part of the billing of ProgPower(USA), Loud Park...

(8/10) The only walls I can accept nowadays are walls of sound. Actually I love them. This time it's Finnish pagan powerhouse that builds those walls on their new longplayer "Jumalten Aika". The guys from Helsinki, Finland do not need a lot of songs to...

Muenster-based Black Space Riders provide fans with some more songs from the "Refugeeum"-session. The band releases an EP that's called "Beyong Refugeeum". The disc will be availbale from May 13th onwards and will come with the following tracklist: Willkommen...

(6/10) Good and bad news from Lita Ford. The good news is that Lita's new album is far away from the very strange "Wicked Wonderland" release. The bad news is that "Time Capsule" can't live up to the successful 80's releases either. It doesn't even get...

(9/10) Guitar master Joe Bonamassa released so far eleven studio records and number twelve has seen the light of day a few days ago. "Blues of Desperation" is the title and the longplayer contains eleven brand new tracks of the blues guitarist. Bonamassa...

(8/10) Thunderstone is one of these bands which proves that Finland has also a very solid melodic metal scene. The band, founded in 2002, always stood partly in the shadow of genre kings like Stratovarious and Sonata Arctica. But knowing the ups and downs...