heavy metal

It was Blackie Lawless and band that stopped at 013 in Tilburg for celebrating the 25th anniversary of W.A.S.P.'s classic "The Crimson Idol" album. Before the four guys began with telling the 'story of Jonathan' is was up to Italian rock outfit Rain to...

2017 is coming closer to an end, a year that had many highlights with one announcement that was sticking out - the Pumpkins United tour. Actually the first news came out in 2016 with things getting more concrete in spring this year. Helloween's 'Pumpkins...

Actually 'the end' happened already some months ago. Black Sabbath, the iconic four-piece band that influenced metal and rock music as much as probably no one else, said goodbye after almost 50 years in rock. After half of a century the band returned...

(8/10) After having received Witchery's latest longplayer "In His Infernal Majesty's Service" in late November last year I actually expected a successor for 2022. Not that there was any specific reason more than looking on the frequency of Witchery albums...

It was a grey weekend in October when Epica embarked on a short three leg journey through The Netherlands to bring 'The Dutch Principles' closer to people. It was October 21st when the symphonic metal outfit stopped at the Patronaat, Haarlem for celebrating...

(8/10) To introduce death metal legend Cannibal Corpse feels like carrying sand to the beach. The quintet belongs to spearhead of a genre that started to grow in the early 90’s. Death metal was almost a kind of counter movement to the upcoming grunge...

The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter will premiere on YouTube on 11th November - as a thank you to all our loyal fans around the world we're streaming the entire concert film for free. Grab...

Japanese metal pioneers Loudness started very succesful into metal back in 1981. Records like "Thunder in the East" and "Lightning Strikes" are part of every seriously meant metal collection. Fortunatelly the following years could connect to these successful...

Metal pioneers Saxon announced a new longplayer that’s supposed to be in the record stores on February 2nd, 2018. “Thunderbolt” is already record number 22 in the bands long and rich history in metal. The new studio longplayer features eleven songs and...

(*/10) Besides the fact that Primal Fear belongs to the most important German metal acts and not thinking for a moment about all the great songs that made it on this 'best of...' album the questions remains when it comes to the purpose of such a release....

(7/10) Even though it’s only Michael Sweet and George Lynch being the name giver of this band/project it’s each of the involved musicians that can look back on a long track record in rock music. Next to Sweet and Lynch it is James Lorenzo on bass, known...

(8/10) German melodic metal without Pink Cream 69 is something that’s hard to imagine. The quintet’s foundation took place in 1987 and since then the guys released longplayers that were all equally good. Even a change of singers couldn’t stop the powerhouse...