Ernia – How To Deal With Life And Fail (Review)
Real Grind, Fake Grind Grindcore has come a long way. Once a genre that was pushing the boundaries...
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KiaRa – Archangel (album review)
KiaRa is one of Imperial Age’s two female vocalists – beside Jane Odintsova. She released her first solo album “Storyteller” in 2020. In her own words, “the sound on this album [Archangel] is much higher quality and professional than on the first one album ‘Storyteller’. The music is also more mature.” I personally liked Storyteller for its roughness quite a lot, let’s see and hear about the progress now.
Zoom into the Ultima Ratio Fest 2022 (in Geiselwind)
The Ultima Ratio Fest caravan delivers a set of gems, no, actually of most exquisite crown jewels of harsh metal to our door-step venues in Europe these days. Finnish melancholic metal wizards, Insomnium and the Portuguese gothic metalists of Moonspell share their co-headlining tour in the finest company of Borkagar, Wolfheart and Hinanyana.
Meet Northern Genocide – a band of super heroes [interview]
Northern Genocide is an industrial melodic death metal band from Lahti/Finland. The interview reveals their band’s heart and soul, tormented by the “shitty condition of the world” but fuelled by mutually inspired creative energy.
Tuomas Saukkonen’s Wolf Heart [interview]
Intimate interview portrait of Tuomas Saukkonen (Wolfheart, Dawn Of Solace, Before The Dawn) on his bands, his passion for forests and his view on Ukraine.
Into the mystic metal heart of the Black Forrest – Metalacker Tennenbronn Open Air 2022
When the Metalacker started back in 2012 it was still a small local festival. Ten times as large by now, it keeps providing us with a fantastic lineup...
Rock & Metal Day’z – Behind the Curtain
While most visitors to concerts and festivals concentrate on the obvious only, the bands on stage, I often like to take a closer look behind. Who are the people working hard for it since we know, Pink is not there for our entertainment? What goes on backstage, who is in charge? How much work is behind a three days’ event? At least, who are those people who seem to play a role in front of stage as part of the audience? Here is a little insight from the Rock and Metal Day'z, Whitsun 2022.
Lord Of The Lost – Killer Filler
Between the dates of the Iron Maiden Tour playing in front of 50.000 metal heads, Lord of The Lord find the time for some Killer Filler shows. Venues smaller than the stage only of the named tour but their own headliner shows. They play a few well-chosen smaller festivals as the Castle Rock at Mühlheim. Today they are hosted by legendary Colos Saal at Aschaffenburg/Lower Franconia. The capacity is 500 and the show is sold out.
Rock Harz Festival 2022 – finally
There is only one festival embedded in such a wonderful, picturesque landscape as the Rock Harz Festival from 6th to 9th July, one day longer than usual as a bit of a compensation. With its up to 22,000 visitors it is a middle sized festival nearby the town of Ballenstedt. Let’s see how everything worked out this year because it is a constantly growing festival.
Dark River Festival – We’re coming!
The Dark River Festival will oce more be special: 2022 marks the first three-days-Dark-River program kicking off on Thursday August 11th. Be sure to come!