Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • Heartbreak Engines – One Hour Hero

    Release date: 17-09-2007, Label: People Like You Records By: Nina Mende   Starting up in late 2002 by clashing some ideas in a dirty old rehearsal room   somewhere in Germany, quickly first songs shaped up, a band name was found and   stages entered. Half a year later their debut “Good Drinks, Good Butts,…

  • 14-09-2007 Uniklubi

    14-09-2007 Uniklubi

    Supports: Hollow Heart, Nitrokiss; venue: Tampere Talo, Tampere (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren One of the things which never happened to me before, was that I had to prove that I did not drink any alcohol before I enter a concert hall. And that while you try to enter it around 18.30. The evening is very…

  • The Generators – The Great Devine

    Release date: 17-09-2007, Label: People Like You Records By: Nina Mende   It has been nearly a decade since The Generators crashed themselves onto the   underground Los Angeles music scene. What started out to be just a side project   turned into a full time band that has six full-length releases under their belt,…

  • Traffic Island – Enough is Enough

    Release date: 25-04-2007, Label: Universal Music Oy By: Nina Mende   Formed in 2005 and with the eventual line-up properly cemented in place by 2006,   the sweetly aggressive Finnish rock band Traffic Island signed a deal with Universal   Music in November 2006. Traffic Island’s boundary stretching debut album,   “Enough Is Enough”, takes…

  • 14-09-2007 Xantossa

    Supports: Skeletor, Irritation; Venue: De peppel, Zeist (Netherlands)   By: Wouter   van de Kamp   This show was announced as Herrie met Harries (Noise with Harry’s) (see picture),   which I later found out was named that way because of a guy called Harry playing   in two of bands. Due to circumstances beyond…

  • ZänKoma – Promo

    Release date: 2007 By: Niina(guestwriter) The English have heart, Germans have angst, and Texans have the firepower – throw them together and you might get WWIII, or a highly explosive rock band, an international force of musicians from three countries and two continents. It was in L.A. that Adam Balogh (Vocals / Guitars), born in…

  • Hollow Heart – 14/09/2008

    By: Sabine van Gameren   Playing in the huge Tampere Talo on the 14th of September as a support of Uniklubi, Hollow heart took time for Tempelores for an interview. The complete band was there to answer our questions.

  • Amorphis – Silent Waters

    Release date: 2007 Label: Nuclear Blast By: Elvira Visser   The Finnish band Amorphis has been making music for quite some time, they have   released 8 albums and you can say that their music has always been developing.   From a more death metal band into a more melodic rock/metal band nowadays.

  • Psychostars – 11/09/2007

    Pinni & Miss Ellie� By: Sabine van Gameren   Psychostars, a female fronted punk rock band from Finland. While I just watched their gig, I just had to think of Beki Bondage from the in UK legendary band Vice Squad while seeing miss Ellie on-stage. Want to know more? Psychostars spoke to Tempelores about their…

  • 11-09-2007 Avoin Kirja

    11-09-2007 Avoin Kirja

    Venue: Virgin Oil, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren In Virgin Oil, Helsinki, was an sort of small festival with mostly punkish bands. Every band plays only 20 minutes so that means there were quite a lot of them. To keep it interesting, I just write about the bands which stand out.

  • 07-09-2007 Soulgrind

    07-09-2007 Soulgrind

    Supports: Evilion, Beautiful Betrayal; Venue: Hellä, Tampere (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren

  • 08-09-2007 The End

    Supports:  Fear Before the March of Flames, Heavy Heavy Low Low ; Venue: Waterfront By: Wouter van de Kamp