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
„Rock’n’Roll from the Dark Site“ stand on the flag of the horrorpunk band from the USA. Inspired from horror classics about the undead from Transs ylvanien or the hairy mondhowler they smartly rocking through almost 38 minutes. The gas pedal and level of aggression is hold up high but also interrupted with distraught midetemposongs liek “It’s Halloween” or Tombstone….Call From The Grave“. In fact that the former EP ”Monster Rock” was tending quite more in the silent spherical way thsi album is more astonishing. Absolutley highlights are “Dracula” and “Concrete Shoes” that heavily settle and make a good start respectively end of a great album.
