Berlin based rock band Kadavar released the music video for their single ‘I Just Want To Be A Sound’, the title track for their upcoming album, set for release in May via Clouds Hill!
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Belgian rockers Ramkot shared a brand-new video for the track ‘Nowhere To Go’, the opening track of their latest album ‘Rosa’, released last year with V2 Records!
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Autøne released their fabulous new single ‘Medusa’, an up-tempo rocker giving a taste of what is to come with their upcoming summer release!
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Modern rock powerhouse Pop Evil shared the new, dark track ‘Wishful Thinking’, another single from their upcoming new album ‘What Remains’, set for release in March via MNRK Heavy!
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Finnish progressive heavy psychedelic rockers Craneium signed with Majestic Mountain Records for their upcoming releases and shared the new single/video ‘Empty Palaces’ to celebrate!
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Italy’s cult heavy rock band Death SS unveiled the official video for their new single ‘Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde’, a track from their upcoming studio album ‘The Entity’, set for release early next year!
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Canadian heavy psychedelic rockers AAWKS unleashed ‘Celestial Magick’, the first single of their upcoming album ‘On Through The Sky Maze’, set for release in March 2025 via Black Throne Productions!
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Danish rock outfit Silvera released the new video and single ‘Lifeline’, a track from their upcoming album ‘World Behind Doors’, out in some weeks via Mighty Music!
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Swedish stoner rockers Greenleaf shared their latest single ‘Different Horses’ with a mockumentary video, the last track they’ll unveil before the release of their new album ‘The Head & The Habit’ on June 21 via Magnetic Eye Records!
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Swedish heavy rockers Greenleaf released the tongue-in-cheek video for the super catchy tune ‘Breathe, Breathe Out’, a first single of their upcoming album ‘The Head & The Habit’ set for release in June via Magnetic Eye Records!
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Album Reviews
Thundermother’s new album ‘Dirty & Divine’ is overall a fantastic and highly recommended hard rock album that is sure to thrill any true rock fan. A must-have addition to your record collection, filled with powerful and catchy songs, out this Friday February 7 via AFM Records!
Following the split of the band, where only founder and THUNDERMOTHER mastermind Filippa Nässil remained, new members joined with the return of Majsan Lindberg (bass), Linnéa Vikström (vocals), and Joan Massing (drums). Initially, the band continued touring with their previous material in this new lineup.
The new material for the album ‘Dirty & Divine’ came to fruition with the updated lineup.
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Black Stone Cherry have their eighth studio album, ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’, set for release on Friday 29th September via Mascot Records. After a rather not so hard and heavy styled album, we are happy to say that they’re back with 12 hard, heavy, blues-rock infused songs, the BSC we all fell in love with in the past!
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After 14 long years The Hellacopters have finally released their new long player called ‘Eyes Of Oblivion’. It was worth the wait – a fantastic hard rock album comes your way!
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Rock power trio RRRags delivers an album filled with vintage rockers that’ll get you going and dancing throughout the summer times. Good vibes on this one!
On March 6th, 2020, Blue Öyster Cult return with the remaster of their album ‘Heaven Forbid’, out via Frontiers Music!
Possibly the birth of the next big thing in “vintage rock” is to be found in Finland, check out their groovy, heavy rock now!
Photo Reports
Pop Evil and Bad Wolves joined forces on the “Animal Instinct Tour” touring through the US, bringing along Sierra Pilot and ONI for the ride! We caught them at their Thanksgiving eve show at Pierre’s in Ft. Wayne in Indiana!
Time to celebrate 35 years of psychedelic stoner rock: we caught MONSTER MAGNET at one of their stops on their anniversary tour, bringing us together with support DAILY THOMPSON a night full of psychedelic infused Stoner-Rock at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart, Germany! And they showed that they’re still an excellent live band and still the benchmark against which established and upcoming bands must measure themselves.
Pictures of the third day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Audrey Horne, Soil, Jinjer, Korpiklaani, Gene Simmons Band and Architects!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage Eternal Champion, Green Lung, Orange Goblin, Baroness, Danko Jones and Clutch!
Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
After a long break, Gluecifer, who are one of Norway’s finest rock exports, played 3 gigs on their ‘Kings of Rock Tour 2023’ in Germany. We were lucky enough to be able to catch one of these shows for you at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart! Power-rock trio The Demtones gave a solid support as opening act.
Today, they’re starting their extensive “Shake Your City” European tour at a sold out Tavastia in Helsinki, but earlier this year, to celebrate the release of their new album ‘Electric Sounds’, the Canadian rockers of Danko Jones dropped by in Helsinki. For a private rock party where only a select amount of fans and music professionals had a great time seeing them in a small club stage setting!
Pictures of the first night of Fall Fest 2023 with Blackwater Holylight and Iron Jinn!
Drowning Pool, Salive, Adelitas Way and Any Given Sin are touring the US with “The SNAFU tour” and we got to enjoy a great night of American metal/rock in Fort Wayne, Indiana!
