Sad news: The music world mourns the loss of Ray Manzarek (74), founding Member and keyboarder of The Doors, White Zombie drummer Phil Buerstatte (44) and Uriah Heep bassist Trevor Bolder (63). R.I.P.!
German Hardrockers BERSERKER will donate 18.000€ to the Berlin cancer charity for children on May 25. November 2011 BERSERKER front man Schröder was diagnosed with cancer, now he is cancer-free. In 2012 the band collected money for this charity at their concerts and will also continue to do so in the future. Slayer´s Jeff Hanneman is dead: he passed away at about 11AM on May 2nd near his Southern California home because of liver failure due to an infection after a spider bite. R.I.P. Jeff!
The Siberian Jay music video "I´m Holding" featuring Mikko Sirén from Apocalyptica on drums - we reported about the videoshoot in our "1h with" Special - can be watched here: http://youtu.be/C-hSNurZVcs
PAIN OF SALAVTION and their mastermind Daniel Gildenlöw have always been really unpredictable, therefore their new ouput is again a big surprise. Or, if you want to express it like that, this is therefore NO surprise.
The songs contained on this record fit into two categories: rock songs with an alternative touch on the one hand and acustic, sparsely arranged tracks on the other hand. The songs of the first categorie are all really difficult to get access to, whereas the songs of the 2nd categorie show all the class of PAIN OF SALVATION. Those songs (such like the title track or `Sisters`) have really beautiful, catchy melodies.
All in all I do have a two faced impression of ``Road Salt One``. If you want to understand the entire piece, you have to spend quite a lot of time.
