Interview with: Søren Hartvig By: Sabine van Gameren Late Night Venture is on their European tour. As the weather was very nice, me and the singer of the band, Søren Hartvig, went outside to do this interview.
Releasedate: 30-05-2008; Label: Napalm Records By: Elvira Visser To understand what Týr is about you should know a little history. “In 999 A.D. The Christianization of the small Faeroe Islands began casting a veil of oblivion over the ancient Scandinavian gods leaving only buried relics. 999 years later the metal band Týr was founded, remembering…
Supports: Stoneman; Venue: Nachtleben, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende With their new album „Skeletons“ they were now on tour all over and also stopped by in Frankfurt/Germany. That was the very show I went to and had a blast seeing Wednesday 13 (ex-Murderdolls) again.
Releasedate: 30-05-2008; Label: Universal Music By: Nina Mende Morten Harket is the singer of the Norwegian band AHA who also has several solo albums released. “Letter From Egypt” is his fourth solo album. I don’t really think I have to tell much more about him…
Releasedate: 21-05-2008; Label: Self release/Club Inferno promotions By: Sabine van Gameren
Releasedate: May 2008 By: Sabine van Gameren From Major to Minor is a rock act by Arndt Jansen. He comes from Germany and his album “Hands and Feet” is out right now. This is not the debut album though, in 2007 “Digital Love” was released.
Venue: Melkweg, Amsterdam (Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren Many, many bands participated in this year’s Emergenza band contest in the Netherlands. Some of them made it through all those rounds to be in the finals. For today there were 14 bands scheduled, which means an early start at 18.00 and a tight schedule.
Releasedate: 25-04-2008; Label: Napalm Records By: Elvira Visser Power Quest was formed back in 2001 when two musicians from “Dragon Heart”, now known as “Dragonforce”, had left their band to start with something new. In these seven years since the beginning they have released three albums under on different labels. Now they signed with Napalm…
Releasedate: 28-04-2008; Label: Napalm By: Elvira Visser “Edenbridge” was founded in 1998 as a studio project. Luckily for us they are still around. With their fourth record they were aiming for a darker and new sound with choir arrangements which made the album more varied and fluent. When singing with Napalm Records “Edenbridge” knows exactly…
Releasedate: 21-05-2008; Label: Hype Records By: Nina Mende The Finnish band The Winyls started in 2000. After they released “Rock Motors” in 2005 which you can also download from their page, they now released “Honey and Lime” at Hype Records.
Releasedate: January 2008; Label: EMI Finland By: Elvira Visser Wiidakko is a very energetic band from Finland that plays alternative rock. I first got to know this band back in spring 2006 when their single “980 Ongelmaa” hit the charts in Finland.
Supports: Synthetic Sex; Venue: RAW Tempel, Berlin (Germany) By: Stefanie Weisheit Berlin’s glam scene is relatively small so it’s no wonder that once again I ran into Synthetic Sex. This time the little over a year old quintet shared a gig with Skulls’n’Bones from Stuttgart in south west Germany. The concert was at the RAW-Tempel…