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
Midwinter provide a Black Metal output of higher quality. Hot Riffs meet atmospheric keyboards and a good mixture of clean and distorted vocals. And the result is amazing!
Sound as well as compositions are totally convincing. Only one point is the slight overdose of keyboard bombast added sometimes to their riffs.
Vocalist Mignon Baer´s career began in 2002 when she toured with none other than infamous Canadian performance artist Peaches - and the two are still working together to-date. In 2003 the “bad girl from Berlin” launched her solo career but her debut album titled Bad Evil Wicked and Mean was released under the monicker Mignon only ... more/mehr
2011-07-21
MIKE PATTON
Mondo Cane
Do you like Italian pop, Sir or Madam? Yes, notice the polite salutation, because here we are with this album inside of the cultivated 50s and 60s Italian Pop area. Regardless of the flower-power pop-presentation of the colorful cover, we still slip into realms of... HARDCORE.
Do you know Mike Patton? Yes, indeed, ... more/mehr
2011-08-10
Millencolin
Kingwood
Punkrock fans, that album was worth waiting for. Kingwood isn’t the first output by Millencolin and also the ideas are not quite that new, but in that case it doesn’t matter. Because what the guys created this time with Producer Chips Kiesbye (also producer of several Hellacopters-albums) will enrich some of our future days.
Rock´n´ Roll Baby. Million Dollar Reload bring back good old Rock´n´Roll music. The vocalist reminds of of big stars like e.g. Steven Tyler. This band won´t have to wait for too long for having huge success with this record. As the band already toured with bands like Alice Cooper and Thin Lizzy they definitely know how to Rock the ... more/mehr
