Rockville Festival June 14-15, Kirf, GER, Festival arena, features this year e.g. More Than A Thousand, The Sorrow, John Coffey, Superbutt, Stereo Dynamite, TOS, Electrified Soul etc. Infos: http://www.rockville-festival.de 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. More info: www.facebook.com/slayer
R.I.P. Jeff! Festivals cancelled: ROCK AM SEE (GER) takes a break in 2013 "lacking attractive headliners"; BURNING SEA in Croatia had to succumb to a new tax regulation; yet purchased BS-tickets can also be used to visit METALDAYS in Slowenia.
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
By now it's commonly known that Brainstorm plays high quality power metal. This is no different on their seventh album. Powerful drums, hard riffs and varied vocals are the trademarks of the Swabians. In spite of that they haven't had a big breakthrough as of yet. With a kick ass record like "Liquid Monster" they ... more/mehr
2005-05-04
Brainstorm
Downburst
Brainstorm have been around for more than a decade, and quite successfully. I might offend True/Power Metal fans here, but in my opinion the Germans should shake off their past completely and as fast as possible. I simply like them much better when they play more epic Prog Metal style – powerful, massive, rather mid-tempo, extremly ... more/mehr
2008-01-20
Breed 77
In My Blood – En Mi Sangre
The translation follows soon! The editors ... more/mehr
2006-12-07
Breitenbach
Ready When You Are
When you try to research the band Breitenbach from Frankfurt, you soon come to two things that earned a few years ago some attention. First, the "balcony-concert" 2009 over a busy Frankfurt market; and in 2010 the release of a barrier-free music video to the song "Waiting" for hearing impaired people. Much more is rather hard ... more/mehr
2012-10-04
Brendan Keeley
…at last!
According to the press release, Brendan Keeley is one of the most successful Irish singer/songwriter. In his home country, he collects gold and platinum records like other people collect stamps. It wouldn`t surprise me as "...at last!", his so far most successful record in Ireland, offers nothing but very ordinary Radio Pop Rock. ... more/mehr
