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Tour: Bloodred Hourglass announce special guests for their European tour 2025
News from Bloodred Hourglass: The Finnish Melodic Death Metal band finally announced the special guests for their upcoming European tour this autumn. They will be joined by the Finnish Modern Metal band Luna Kills. After supporting The Halo Effect on their tour in January, Bloodred Hourglass return as headliners this time – with a new album. In October, the two Finnish bands will play 16 shows in a variety of countries: All tour dates: 09.10.25 🇩🇪 Berlin, Cassiopeia 10.10.25 🇨🇿 Zlin, Masters Of Rock Café 11.10.25 🇭🇺 Budapest, Analog Music Hall 13.10.25 🇦🇹 Vienna, Chelsea 14.10.25 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Hellraiser 15.10.25 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Bahnhof Pauli 16.10.25 🇩🇰 Esbjerg, Tobakken 18.10.25 🇩🇪…
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Album review: Eluveitie – ÀNV
It took me a while to finally find the time to review this album, but here we go. I could not not review it, as Eluveitie’s been one of my favourite bands since … I don’t know, 2008 at least. I was waiting for this album with mixed feelings – excitement on the one hand, but also a little worried. Worried because after their decision to continue without a hurdy-gurdy player, I did not know what to expect from the new album. Also worried because when The Prodigal Ones was released, I didn’t quite feel like it sounded much like an Eluveitie song during the first listening. So let’s dive deeper into my final…
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Tour: Annisokay announce Special Guests & Support for the Abyss Pt II Europe Tour
It’s been a while since Annisokay announced their Abyss Pt II Europe tour. Yesterday there finally was a great update: Besides adding two more shows to the schedule, special guests and supports were announced. The entire tour will be supported by The Narrator. The special guest for the first leg of the tour (from 10 October to 25 October) as well as the UK dates in January will be Heart of a Coward. For the second part of the tour (20 November until 6 December), Annisokay will be joined by Our Promise. The two shows added are in Eindhoven (18 October) and Zlin (5 December). All dates: 10.10.25 FI, Tampere: Olympia 11.10.25 FI,…
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Shorts: Release Friday – 16 May 2025
Straight from my personal release radar, and put very briefly: Here are my favourite releases this week Fall of Mankind is a new project by Eluveitie’s Rafael Fella and Alain Ackermann. Portent in the Dark is their first release featuring Adrienne Cowan of Seven Spires. For their new single Break These Chains, The Rasmus have teamed up with Niko Vilhelm of Blind Channel (which is, basically, the first musical sign of life of a Blind Channel member since they went on ther break) Lorna Shore released a new single called Oblivion today, which is the first release from their upcoming album I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me, announced for 12 September 2025. Saltatio Mortis…
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Album review: Annisokay – Abyss Pt II
Strictly spoken, this is not an album, just an EP – but I don’t care. This EP has been one of my most awaited EPs this year (maybe not only this year, I’ve been waiting for this since Abyss Pt I was published). And it was worth the wait.
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Shorts: Release Friday – 14 & 21 March 2025
Haha I’ve already failed by skipping last Friday, but I really didn’t have mental capacities. And while I didn’t have time yesterday, I found the time now, so here’s a collection of my fave releases the last two weeks: Bloodred Hourglass, one of my beloved Melodic Death Metal bands from Finland, released a new song called We Should Be Buried Like This Our Mirage teamed up with Christopher Kristensen of Dead By April for their new single Don’t Talk And we’ve got some new album releases: My personal favourite Dark Rock / Neue Deutsche Härte band from Germany, Eisbrecher, finally released their new album Kaltfront. It includes features with Sotiria (Germans – especially millennials and older – might…
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Shorts: Release Friday – 7 March 2025
Time for a new … category? Not sure if I’ll be able to keep up with this, but as some kind of „short news“ stuff I thought I might share my favourite releases of the week. Maybe it’ll turn into favourite releases of the month at some point, I’ll see. (Yes, just like everything on this blog this is just yet another fun project and I don’t think anybody but me gives a flying fuck :D)
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Concert review: Versengold, Schandmaul & Doppelbock, Winterlights Revierpark Dortmund, 13 December 2024
When Versengold and Schandmaul were announced for 2024’s medieval Christmas market in Dortmund, I was super excited. Firstly, I had decided to stop seeing Versengold outside of „medieval“ settings at some point, so I was pleased to be offered another chance to see them. And secondly, I could give Schandmaul another chance, whom I had seen several years ago and didn’t enjoy the show very much (poor sound, boring crowd). There was an unexpected plot twist though when first the location changed from Fredenbaumpark to Revierpark in Dortmund and finally, a few weeks prior to the first concerts, the medieval Christmas market had to be cancelled. Very sad. There’ll be…
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Concert Review: Hardcore Superstar, Wednesday 13 & South of Salem, Essigfabrik Cologne, 21 November 2024
This concert was a chance for me to kill two birds with one stone (I am absolutely NOT a fan of this idiom, what the heck). I’ve been a massive Wednesday 13 fan since my teenage days and when they announced that they would finally (been waiting for this long enough) return to Germany AND bring along their Wednesday 13 playing Murderdolls set, I was more than excited. And I was even more pleased to find out that they were touring with Hardcore Superstar, which is another band I’ve been listening to a lot as a teenager (not as much as Wednesday 13 though).
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Concert review: Erdling & Hand of Juno, Kulttempel Oberhausen, 8 November 2024
Do you happen to have a band you don’t listen to very actively, but as soon as you have the chance to see them live you take the chance with great pleasure? For me, one such band is Erdling. I’ve seen them live for the first time at a small medieval festival in Merseburg and their stage energy blew me away. Yet, their music has never really made it into my playlists. I still went to see them at Summer Breeze this year and I did not hesitate to buy tickets for their anniversary tour. And I can tell you: It was worth it!
