Album Reviews
Crowbar – The Serpent Only Lies
Crowbar has been going for 27 years already which is quite a long time in the music business. How did they manage this? Not by compromising too much, if at all. At least not in [Read »]
Album Reviews
Bulletrain – What You Fear The Most
Bulletrain’s “What You Fear The Most” seems like a perfect case study concerning the similarities and differences between Sleaze Metal and Glam Metal. Both are very similar in respect to their music, but Sleaze Metal [Read »]
Live Reviews
Sebastian Krüger Exhibition: Caricatura Museum (Frankfurt, Germany)
Heavy Metal is – obviously – mostly about the music, but like with any other musical genre there is also a visual aspect to it. Long hair, leather jackets, tattoos, wild stage shows, Metal Shirts [Read »]
Album Reviews
Martyrion – Our Dystopia
Death Metal meets Fallout. Sounds simple, right? And yes, their idea to place their music in an obviously fictive post-apocalyptic future sounds like a gimmick, but why not? It is not as if they were [Read »]
Album Reviews
Enigma – Stars Misaligned
Many fans would likely agree that Melodic Technical Death Metal is one of the most challenging sub-genres for any Metal band. You want the growling, you want melody, you want to show off with your [Read »]
Album Reviews
J.B.O. – 11
I have no idea how much Metal fans outside of Germany know about J.B.O., but over here many people perceive them as a kind of German “Tenacious D”, or maybe as a (only slightly) tamer [Read »]
News
We Are All Out There To Live
Most of our readers are likely not all that much into pop music, but there is still a shared bond between all dedicated fans and all dedicated musicians. We go to clubs, we are out [Read »]
Album Reviews
Wings of Destiny – Kings of Terror
Some albums show their beauty right from the beginning, other albums must be listened to from the beginning to the end before you can truly appreciate them. Wings of Destiny’s “Kings of Terror” belongs to [Read »]
Album Reviews
D.A.M – Premonitions
Melodic Death Metal is definitely one of the trickier Metal subgenres. There is supposed to be some form of melody that is not too well hidden and there is supposed to be Death Metal. Two [Read »]
Album Reviews
Statement – Heaven Will Burn
Statement’s “Heaven Will Burn” walks the line between Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. That is its strength and its weakness, because it will likely neither make Hard Rock fans, nor Heavy Metal fans truly happy. [Read »]