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
Chrome Division started out as a fun side project of Dimmu Borgir singer Shagrath, but the project grew in to a real band that has now recorded their first album Doomsday Rock ´n´ Roll. Even though you have Shagrath on guitar and additional members from bands like The Kovenant and Ashes To Ashes, you´re way off thinking this is a ... more/mehr
2006-06-13
Chrome Division
3rd Round Knockout
This album must be every rocker´s dream come true. Dimmu Borgir fronter Shagrath finally returns with his other band, Chrome Division, after three long years. And the band sounds better than ever before. While Shagrath plays the guitar with Chrome Division, he leaves the vocal duties to a new member. A certain Pĺl „Athera“ Mathiesen, ... more/mehr
2011-05-14
Chthonian
Of Beatings And The Silence In Between
The term Chthonian originally comes from the Chtulu Myth, and a Chthonian is according to that a giant squid with tortuous, slime coated worm like bodies. Similar to that the Finnish trio wind their way trough 8 songs somewhere between high speed Death Metal and Black Metal in less than half an hour. The band of the Finntroll singer ... more/mehr
2007-07-30
Chthonic
Takasago Army
One thing is clear – this is a band you either like, or not, there´s nothing in between. And I have to admit that I like this unusual combination of Folk (music and instruments) and Black / Death / Power Metal. „There´s nothing unusual about that“ you might think. Well, it is unusual/exotic, at least for European ears, when those ... more/mehr
2011-07-19
Chtonic
Seediq Bale
This is the re-release of a CD that had come out in 2005 already - yet not in Europe, so it seems. Chtonic from Taiwan have impressed Asian and US audiences exclusively so far, now they are on the best way to fame also in the old country over here. Their new album Takasago Army has impressed us already (here ... more/mehr
