Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • 27-07-2024 Stonehenge Festival

    27-07-2024 Stonehenge Festival

    Location: Steenwijk (Netherlands) Truly, one of the best things of Stonehenge festival is that no matter how early you come to the festival, there is always a decent amount of people around to see the earliest bands play. This shows that people appreciate these bands a lot and with a lot of volunteers working at…

  • Ghost – Rite Here Rite Now

    Ghost – Rite Here Rite Now

    Releasedate: 26-07-2024Label: Loma Vista Recordings The Swedish band “Ghost” formed in 2006 in Linköping and started their path to popularity with “Opus Eponymous” in 2010. Since then the Swedes packed with four full-lengths releases. The dark formation decided to stream The Original Motion Picture with outstanding soundtrack two years after the last album. That’s how…

  • Human Zoo – Echoes Beyond

    Human Zoo – Echoes Beyond

    Releasedate: 14-06-2024Label: Fastball Music Human Zoo has about twenty years of band history behind them. The German formation translates the sound of the 80s towards their own sound. It has been a while since we heard from, the last album was from 2016, but this year they released the album “Echoes Beyond”.

  • OneRepublic – Artificial Paradise

    OneRepublic – Artificial Paradise

    Releasedate: 12-07-2024Label: Interscope / Universal OneRepublic is back with a brand new album. Ever since their debut album “Dreaming Out Loud” in 2007, the US pop band seems to keep going and stays busy. And even if not as a whole band, the front man Ryan Tedder is keeping busy as songwriter. Since their international…

  • Bad Omens – Concrete Jungle [The OST]

    Bad Omens – Concrete Jungle [The OST]

    Releasedate: 31-05-2024Label: Sumerian Records Dystopian core kids Bad Omens are back with a new project called “Concrete Jungle [The OST]” which goes even deeper into the dark and messed up world they created for their comics. This album is like an extra level in a video game – it takes their previous work on “The…

  • 30-06-2024 Tuska

    30-06-2024 Tuska

    Location: Suvilahti, Helsinki (Finland)

  • 29-06-2024 Tuska

    29-06-2024 Tuska

    Location: Suvilahti, Helsinki (Finland)

  • 28-06-2024 Tuska

    28-06-2024 Tuska

    Location: Suvilahti, Helsinki (Finand) A new year of Tuska was ahead in Suvilahti and a surprising set of bands were brought to Helsinki to play one of the four stages this year.

  • GREENLEAF – The Head & The Habit

    GREENLEAF – The Head & The Habit

    Releasedate: 21-06-2024Label: Magnetic Eye Records The Swedish formation GREENLEAF scheduled the record release for Midsomer time. Not being “wheel of year” adepts or ecologic activists, the band dropped proto-rock stuff titled “The head & the habit” this June. Actually, this is the ninth record for the creature that started as side project.

  • 09-06-2024 Into The Grave

    09-06-2024 Into The Grave

    Location: Leeuwarden (Netherlands) The last day of Into The Grave promised to be a bit more dry. And with a bunch of names on the poster that could set things in motion it would not be hard to stay warm all day.

  • 08-06-2024 Into The Grave

    08-06-2024 Into The Grave

    Location: Leeuwarden (Netherlands) The Saturday of Into The Grave was a bit of a dreary one. A bit of rain and a cold wind made the day a bit darker, but darkness is upon us. With a steady line up it would be a good day to enjoy some metal.

  • 07-06-2024 Into The Grave

    07-06-2024 Into The Grave

    Location: Leeuwarden (Netherlands) Another edition of Into The Grave was about to start and when walking onto the festival area we think back to that first edition in 2011 where we ended up being soaked by rain during headliner Devin Townsend. The festival has grown a lot through the years, has now two stages for…