Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • 26-02-2010 Cult of Luna

    Venue: Tavastia, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren The Swedish band Cult of Luna was about to play this evening in tavastia, Helsinki (Finland). The band had released an audiobook recently.

  • Year Long Distance – Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed

    Releasedate: 05-03-2010; Label: Volcom Entertainment/Rough Trade By: Sabine van Gameren The American band Year Long Distance is up for its second release. Three years after their debut came “Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed”.

  • Metsatöll – Äio

    Releasedate: 03-03-2010; Label: Spinefarm By: Elvira Visser Metsatöll is an Estonian band that was founded back in 1999 by three members. The name Metsatöll is an ancient Estonian euphemism for wolf. It took some years for the band to found the current line up as the band is now performing on stage. It was in…

  • 25-02-2010 Dead By Sunrise

    Supports: The Delta Fiasco; Venue: E-werk, Cologne (Germany) By: Nina Mende Tonight I went to Cologne, for an interview with a band, but seeing two different bands live on stage. Well, almost. The interview was with Julien-K. The members of Julien-K also happen to play in a band called Dead By Sunrise. And Dead By…

  • 24-02-2010 Volbeat

    Supports: The Bulletmonks; Venue: 013, Tilburg (The Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser The first band this Wednesday evening kept the audience a little waiting. Later than announced they presented themselves on stage. But as soon as the first snare was hit….they were ready to explode.

  • Tutankamon – Tutankamon

    Releasedate: 01-03-2010; Label: Playground Music By: Lara Cappelli Swedish rock band Tutankamon registered their first demo and sent it to Playground Music in the fall of 2008. After that, they got the chance to register the other half of the album in the February of 2009 and release the whole work under the name of…

  • Brothers of End – The End

    Releasedate: 01-03-2010; Label: Playground Music By: Nina Mende Brothers of End are Mattias Areskog, Bengt Lagerberg and Lars-Olof Johansson Ståle. They have known each other since they were about 15, when they grew up in the town of Jönköping and taught each other how to play music.

  • Echoes – Nature/Existence

    Releasedate: 08-02-2010; Label: ProgRock Records By: Lara Cappelli Formed in 2004, Echoes decided to dedicate themselves to Progressive music. On their way to this first release, they had the chance to gain some consent in Venezuela, their homeland, winning at the national “Alma Mater” Rock Festival.

  • Night By Night – 21-02-2010

    Interview with: Iain Frisk By: Sabine van Gameren Just only a few days to go before Night By Night will appear on Trashfest festival in Helsinki. Tempelores mailed some questions for them to get into the Trashfest mood.

  • Bloodlights – Simple Pleasures

    Releasedate: 26-02-2010; Label: Silversonic (H’art) By: Nina Mende Bloodlights is a hard rock/melodic rock 4-piece hailing from Oslo, Norway, formed by Captain Poon, ex. Gluecifer. Guitarist Captain Poon formed Bloodlights in 2006, after his hard rock outfit Gluecifer broke up in 2005.

  • Engrained – Anger, Roots & Rock n Roll

    Releasedate: 26-02-2010; Label: Steamhammer/SPV By: Sabine van Gameren The German formation Engrained have been around for quite some years. Even thought the band have started in the 90’s they recently got their first release out via a recordlabel. SPV/Steamhammer to be exact.

  • Rick Springfield / Jeff Silverman – From The Vault

    Releasedate: 26-02-2010; Label: Frontiers Records By: Nina Mende Rick Springfield (born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on 23 August 1949 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian-American songwriter, musician and actor. As a musician, he is most famous for the 1981 #1 single “Jessie’s Girl”, which became a Grammy Award-winning landmark of 1980s pop-rock and helped establish the…