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
Caddieshack STALKERs Fresh Act – August 2009 Hailing from Flensburg, Caddieshack is bulging its young muscles. Augusts fresh act of the month offers versatility, lively gigs and a good debut(review here ). The punk/emo-rock band holds promise of growing big, so one should keep an eye on them and sign the guys before someone else does. Morten Braendeskov, singer and drummer of the present trio (an additional guitar player is in search) talks about himself, his band und his hopes and dreams. >> more/mehr
2009-07-31
Charing Cross STALKERs Fresh Act – March 2008 The band name sounds sooo British, however, those guys are from Switzerland. So let´s have Charing Cross themselves tell the whole story... >> more/mehr
2008-03-01
Confession by Silence STALKERs Fresh Act May 2010 When the young lads from the small City of Gadebusch in northern Germany sent us their demo, no-one knew that as soon as the speakers blasted off the first track, it was clear that it would be sacriligous to not make Confession by Silence the fresh act of the month. The lads hit just the right spot with their melodic death metal and bring fresh blood into the genre. We, at least cannot wait for their debut album, on which the boys are working on and we would not be at all surprised when they get a record label. So, enough lobbying, here comes the band from singer, Steffen Falk, guitarist Clemens Burmeister and drummer Christoph Kuban to speak… >> more/mehr
2010-04-30
Contorsion STALKERs Fresh Act – November 2009 This month we have another Fresh Act from Switzerland for you and Contorsion are the living proof that this country is indeed home of one or the other awesome band. Singer Marc introduces the band from the Canton of Aargau to you. >> more/mehr
2009-11-01
Crib45 STALKERs Fresh Act – May 2009 It has never been that quick with a STALKER Fresh Act - only a few days after rounding up the interview with Crib45 Mastermind, guitarist and vocalist Teemu Mäntynen, the band managed to get a promotion/distribution deal with SYMBOLIC RECORDS FINLAND. Therefore chances are good that their self-produced debut album "Metamorphosis" might be available after May 15 also outside Finnish borders. But first let´s have Teemu introducing the band: >> more/mehr
2009-04-30
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Eläkeläiset – Pranks, Jesus and some serious shit
Eläkeläiset, the Kings of Humppa, musical vaudeville of Finland and our favourite pensioners are back >> more/mehr
2013-05-12
Heavy Tiger Fresh Act May 2013
It was just a birthday party with live bands I attended, unsuspectingly, and then the last act of this >> more/mehr
2013-05-01
Rockville Festival 2013 - Preview
It´s a quite familial festival in a small idyllic village named Kirf, near the border to Luxembourg, that started a few years ... more/mehr2013-05-19
CD: Airbourne
„Black Dog Barking“ is the triumphant third output of brothers O´Keeffe & Co., a brilliant expression of feeling alive in ... more/mehr2013-05-18
CD: Uncle Ho
Pretty wild, talented, diverse, direct, rough, a little dirty. Like themselves say, "The songs are very raw". Existing since ... more/mehr2013-05-16
CD: Gothminister
This band has really never let me down, neither with the previous records nor with the new fifth cd „Utopia“. The Norwegian ... more/mehr2013-05-16
CD: The Poodles
The rock elite releases their records this year, it will be hard to name the Number One, but for sure The Poodles and „Tour ... more/mehr2013-05-14
CD: Timo Tolkki’s Avalon
That by this time every artist tries to release their own Metal Opera kind of bugs me. Either it is horribly bad and just ... more/mehr2013-05-12
CONCERT: Eläkeläiset | Bruno Punani
„A Farewell to Humppa Tour 2013“, already the name of this tour makes fans quiet nervous. Will the crazy pensioners really ... more/mehr2013-05-06
CONCERT: Overkill | Lost Society
The young band Lost Society was lucky to open for Overkill for the Finnish dates; they released their debut album ... more/mehr2013-05-05
CONCERT: Amorphis
Today, Amorphis is back in the Finnish capital to promote the latest album “Circle”. The venue is actually pretty packed ... more/mehr2013-05-03
CONCERT: Meshuggah / Nicole
The last time Meshuggah played in Nosturi was in 2003, so basically 10 years ago. Finnish fans just couldn´t wait to see ... more/mehr2013-05-02
