Previously known as Lions Breed (which released the 1985 album „Damn The Night“ via the label Earthshaker), the group changed the vocalists and the drummer and became SCANNER in 1986, adopting an on stage sci-fi image. SCANNER appeared on the „Doomsday News“ compilation by Noise Records, Berlin, in 1987 with the track „Galactos“. The group’s debut […]
CARVING AN ICON The debut album of the Norwegian dark metal powerhouse VIPER SOLFA, featuring a stellar line-up of elite Norwegian names, including Trail Of Tears mastermind and founder Ronny Thorsen, Morfeus of Mayhem and Limbonic Art fame, Sphinx (Ram-Zet, Eternal Tears of Sorrow) as well as former Trail of Tears members Endre Moe and Bjørn Dugstad Rønnow. […]
IMPELLITTERI had one vision when creating the music for VENOM, which was to create a record that would excite and musically satisfy every metal fan, rock fan, and musician around the world. To add to their quest, they also wanted to create music that would take the listener on a musical journey thru different time […]
STORMWITCH was founded in the early 80’s by childhood friends Harald Spengler (Lee Tarot), Stefan Kauffmann (Steve Merchant) and Andy Mück. They started writing their first songs while they searched for the final pieces of the band to play live shows, including clubs and youth centers. The first line-up was completed by Peter Langer (Pete Lancer) […]
Timothy Allen was born in Tonbridge in the South East of England in 1971. At 22, after graduating from Leeds University with a BSc Zoology he left the UK and spent 3 years traveling through Indonesia which was the catalyst that sparked his passion for photography. In the nineties, after beginning a part-time diploma in photography, […]
Over the past decade, Flach’s work has increasingly focused on animals, ranging widely across species but united by a distinctive style that is derived from his concerns with anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism. His interests lie in the way humans shape animals, and shape their meaning. Whether genetically, as with the featherless chicken, or with the symbolism […]
Brooke Shaden was born in March of 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the “Amish Country” until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with bachelor degrees in film and English. She now resides in Arizona, USA with her husband and three cats. She began […]
As Daylight Breaks A new band – 6 members, 6 friends – all with huge experience and knowledge from many years in the business and being part of the most successful melodic metal bands: this is SERIOUS BLACK! The line-up consists of Roland Grapow (Masterplan, ex-Helloween), Thomen Stauch (ex-Blind Guardian), Mario Lochert (ex-Visions Of Atlantis), […]
RISE OF THE ANIMAL WOLFPAKK, the hard rock/melodic metal allstar-project, will release its third album ‘Rise Of The Animal’ on April 14th, 2015. Lovers of high-class traditional heavy sounds already praise the amazing project, led by Alpha Wolves Mark Sweeney (ex-Crystal Ball) and Michael Voss(Michael Schenker, Casanova, Mad Max) since day one. It’s not only […]
May 10th, 1966 Struggling singer Janis Joplin, back home in her native Texas, is invited back out to San Francisco by her friend Chet Helms, who invites her to audition with a group he’s managing called Big Brother and the Holding Company. Releases 1974: Elvis Presley, “If You Talk In Your Sleep” Recording 1940: Jimmy […]