Rhapsody Of Fire hold a special position in the exciting and multi-faceted world of heavy metal: Like few other acts, the band from Italy stands for anthemnic symphonic metal presented with lots of speed, great pathos and technical refinement. Another characteristic that the band’s fans love: At the beginning of their career in particular (at […]
REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS Contact: Dustin Hardman / AFM Records E-Mail: dh@afm-records.de Introducing Heavy Metal veteran HERMAN FRANK to the crowd is just meaningless like carry coals to Newcastle. The guitarist has been an integral part of the German metal scene since the early 80s. From ACCEPT to VICTORY to his solo project started in 2009 […]
The Heard was born somewhere between a subway station and a record fair in Stockholm 2016. Ida, Klara and Nicki formed The Heard after the break-up of their former band, Crucified Barbara. The void left a hunger to create new music and when Klara met longtime friend Skinny (Deathstars) at a record fair it was obvious […]
The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, are pleased to announce the first round of physical titles set for release as part of the ongoing and definitive Prince catalog project first announced in August. Three essential full-length Prince albums, Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth, will be available on CD and – for the first time ever – on […]
Keith Reid & Gary Brooker founded Procol Harum in 1967. In the same year A Whiter Shade Of Pale became a world hit. While Gary was the rockstar, the voice & face of Procol Harum, Keith was the poet and artworker who preferred to hide in the dark. At most, he flitted over a videoclip […]
DIAMORTE BIOGRAPHY Drake Mefestta – Lead vocals Giampaul Andrianopoulos – Male Opera Vocals Armenia Sarkissian (Soloist) – Female Opera Vocals Alina Gavrilenko (Snowmaiden) – Female Opera Vocals Markus Johansson – Lead / Rhythm Guitars Michael Lepond – Bass DiAmorte is more than music, it is an experience. Stories set to the picturesque sounds of savage […]
Throwing pretentiousness out the window and always ready with a collective middle finger to be waved at convention, Las Vegas’ WICKED GARDEN aren’t bad guys – they’re just not fond of mainstream ideals. “Who wants to play the same boring songs every other band in town is playing? It’s annoying”, says lead singer/guitarist Dominick Muzio […]
The Heard was born somewhere between a subway station and a record fair in Stockholm 2016. Ida, Klara and Nicki formed The Heard after the break-up of their former band, Crucified Barbara. The void left a hunger to create new music and when Klara met longtime friend Skinny (Deathstars) at a record fair it was obvious […]
If a band deseves to be referenced as „unique“, the US ProgRock phenom Pavlov’s Dog fits the bill. When Pavlov’s Dog signed its recording contract with ABC in ’74 for the unheard figure of $ 650.000,- they were the highest signed newcomer band ever since. Pavlov’s Dog’s 1975 debut album Pampered Menial was voted by Mojo Magazine into the Top 30 of the most important Prog-Rock releases […]
For the first time in her career, Snatam Kaur, who is a world renowned Sikh sacred chant singer, has received a Grammy nomination in the New Age category for her album Beloved in this year’s 61st Grammy Awards. Her career spans the last eighteen years in which she has released 18 albums, including Heart of the Universe, a duet […]