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
The new album of the Swedes follows the older albums seamlessly – the new album also has brilliant melodies, hymn-like power metal – with here and there rocky passages in a technically perfected production. „Secrets“ is a fast opening song, „Blood Bound“ is an almost hymnical, majestic rock song. The new album doesn’t have a lot of faults worth mentioning; instead, the Swedes actually present a powerful record and with „Never Ever“ an almost kitschy, beautiful ballad. The twelve minute song „Knights Of The 21st Century“ is an epic crusher, on which the gentlemen are supported by Venom’s Cronos. All in all, „Chapter V“ is a proper power/heavy metal album, which will definitely appeal to the die-hard fans.
