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Category: Editorial

  • 24-09-2009 The Chelsea Smiles

    Supports: Moneybrother, Royal Bangs, Tiger City, Lady Sinatra; Venue: Viper Room, Los Angeles (USA) By: Nina Mende Another night at the Viper Room: same concept, different bands. It was a Thursday night, therefore a lot more people at Viper Room.

  • Defect Designer – Wax

    Releasedate: 07-09-2009; Label: My Kingdom Music By: Sabine van Gameren Defect Designer is a Death Metal band from Russia. They formed in 2005 and “Wax” is their debut album.

  • Leafblade – Beyond, Beyond

    Releasedate: 20-09-2009; Label: Angelic Recordings / Aftermath Music By: Lara Cappelli Leafblade is a project between vocalist/guitarist Sean Jude and Anathema guitarist Danny Cavanagh. The band is currently touring with Anathema to promote their first release “Beyond, Beyond”.

  • 22-09-2009 Middle Finger Mob

    Supports: Rival Sons, Me Talk Pretty, Tarsha, Sinner Sinners; Venue: Viper Room, Los Angeles (USA) By: Nina Mende Tonight I happened to be at Viper Room. Five bands were playing, no headliner and opening act, just five bands playing. The styles of the bands varied big time, so it was not even a genre night,…

  • Resonance Room – Unspoken

    Releasedate: 07-09-2009; Label: My Kingdom Music By: Sabine van Gameren Resonance Room is an Italian Gothic/Doom band. The band formed in 2003 and after two promo releases under the name of Fragment it is now time for a full length “Unspoken”.

  • 26-09-2009 Lastdayhere

    Venue: Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht (Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren Lastdayhere is a rock band from Slovenia. They were in The Netherlands to support Delain on two shows.

  • Porcupine Tree – The Incident

    Releasedate: 15-09-2009; Label: Roadrunner Records By: Lara Cappelli Porcupine Tree started their career back in 1987. This English band is one of the most important on the Alternative Rock scene, with the passing of time it has grown up and evolved its sound more and more throw ten great studio albums.

  • Revengine – Plan Your Escape

    Releasedate: 14-08-2009 By: Sabine van Gameren After receiving a promo from the Finnish band Revengine earlier this year (review) they now released an EP. It is called “Plan Your Escape”.

  • Das-Kollektiv.net – Eichenriegel

    Releasedate: 25-09-2009; Label: Danse Macabre By: Nina Mende Das-Kollektiv.net is an electro and dark wave project founded in Germany. The songs are sung in German and the music is very danceable and great for clubs. “Moment” is a little slower and thoughtful. The lyrics are deep and dark. Some songs remind of several other electro…

  • Rawkfist – Gardens of Elysia

    Releasedate: 25-09-2009; Label: Danse Macabre By: Nina Mende After the first work, “Stories” from the year 2007 now the second CD of Rawkfist appears and bears the title: “Gardens of Elysia”. The five young musicians from Southern Germany – to follow their one main goal, to offer the audience an experience of stage performance, sound…

  • Red Circuit – Homeland

    Releasedate: 28-08-2009; Label: LIMB Music By: Elvira Visser The band Red Circuit was formed in 2006 and is led by Markus Teske , who has won an excellent reputation as producer and sound engineer for different bands. The band got a new line-up in 2009 Markus together with singer Chity Somapala, Chris Moser, Thomas Schmitt…

  • 18-09-2009 Dragonforce

    Supports: Sonata Arctica, Taking Dawn; Venue: House of Blues, Los Angeles (USA) By: Nina Mende Tonight at House of Blues there were five bands playing, more or less metal bands. The audience’s average age was quite young, at least in the center of the venue. Everybody else lingered around the bars watching the show from…