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Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • Autere – Being Dead Is A Place

    Releasedate: 22-10-2009 By: Sabine van Gameren The heavy metal formation Autere started back in 2002 in the Finnish city Turku. “Being Dead Is A Place” is the third EP the band released.

  • Innercity Grid Records – Volume 1

    Releasedate: 14-09-2009; Label: Inner City Grit Records By: Sabine van Gameren InnerCity Grit records is a quite young company from Bristol, UK. The label started in 2008 to break free from “the current dinosaur operations that are in motion in the music industry at the moment”. The label has band signed from UK as well…

  • Faith and The Muse – :ankoku butoh:

    Releasedate: 30-10-2009/ CD+ DVD Box 4.12.2009; Label: Macabre / Metropolis By: Nina Mende Faith and the Muse is an underground gothic/darkwave band composed of two musicians, Monica Richards and William Faith. They are well-regarded in the gothic music scene as innovators and icons.

  • Avacate – Ghost Of A Former Self

    Releasedate: 2008; Label: Inner City Grid By: Sabine van Gameren Avacate is a Brittish alternative rock band from Bristol. Last year the band released their debut full length album: “Ghost Of A Former Self”

  • 24-11-2009 Placebo

    Supports: Expatriate; Venue: SAP Arena, Mannheim (Germany) By: Nina Mende This time we went to another arena, to the SAP arena in Mannheim. Placebo was playing there today. Their support was Expatriate.

  • 84 Day Syndrome vs Gluefactory – Antonio Villaraigosa Golden Expressway

    Releasedate: 27-11-2009; Label: Long Beach Records By: Nina Mende 84 Day Syndrome is a solo project by Randy Bradbury of Pennywise. He wrote all songs himself and also recorded each instrument himself. Gluefactory is another side project by Randy, but with an actual band founded long time ago. This album is a split CD of…

  • 25-11-2009 Sonata Arctica

    Supports: Winterborn, Delain; Venue: Palasharp, Milan (Italy) By: Lara Cappelli It is just one year from the end of Sonata Arctica’s Unia tour, and they are already back with a new album and tour that will take them in 15 countries. Tonight the show was supposed to be at Alcatraz, but because of the huge…

  • Shadow Minds – Extend The Line (Rebuild)

    Releasedate: 21-11-2009; Label: Danse Macabre By: Nina Mende Founded in 2003 in Northern-Germany, Shadow Minds play something between Synth-Pop and EBM.

  • The Rasmus – The Best Of 2001 – 2009

    Releasedate: 27-11-2009 By: Nina Mende The Rasmus is a Finnish rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were still in upper comprehensive school. The original band members were Lauri Ylönen (lead singer/songwriter), Eero Heinonen (bass), Pauli Rantasalmi (guitar) and Janne Heiskanen (drums). Heiskanen quit the band in 1998 and was…

  • 12-11-2009 Syren

    Venue: Bibelot, Dordrecht (The Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser On a Thursday evening the female band Syren came to Dordrecht to rock. The band exists of three girls and bring powerful songs with meaning. The band was founded as a collaboration between singer/guitarist Erin Bennett, bassist Amanda Smith-Skinner (former Rockbitch and MT-TV) and drummer Jo Heeley.…

  • Aetherius Obscuritas – Black Medicine

    Releasedate: 27-10-2009; Label: Paragon Records By: Sabine van Gameren Aetherius Obscuritas is a band from Hungary formed in 2002. This started as an one-man-formation released four album before coming to the their latest release “Black Medicine”.

  • 23-11-2009 Daniel Wirtz

    Venue: Batschkapp, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende Half the price but more than twice as long as the show the night before, was tonight’s show. Daniel Wirtz was performing on stage tonight. Daniel Wirtz is a German musician who began playing music when he was 15 years old and did it since then. With Sub7even…