Guitar shredder and string virtuoso Gus G releases his exceptional new single Fierce today. To round things up, Gus teamed up with film maker Panagiotis Kountouras to produce a videoclip that offers unequalled opportunities - a very special love story with corpsepaint included. Are you ready? Gus states on this video: "I came up with the concept of..
Arion – Vultures Die Alone (AFM Records)
Arion is a very fine progressive/power metal band from Helsinki in Finland and it is now some ten years since they formed with the impressive Vultures Die Alone being the bands third album to date. Arion is a developing and growing group and and each album has shown a remarkable progression in the quality of..
Herman Frank – Two For A Lie (AFM Records)
There are some bands that like to experiment and push the boundaries of music to the extremes and this can be as challenging as it is rewarding for their fans and then there are the bands that have hit on a style and format that works just so perfectly that you do not need to..
Bloodbound – Creatures Of The Dark Realm (AFM Records)
Stalwarts of the power metal scene, Sweden's Bloodbound has unleashed album number ten in typical fashion for their adoring fans and, as could only be expected, it is another in your face and totally over the top power metal delight as the band again indulges in epic and hard hitting songs that sum up hard..
Thundermother – Heat Wave (Deluxe Edition) (AFM Records)
I suppose the way you look at the Deluxe Edition, Bonus Edition or Tour Edition of an album depends on your circumstances and your approach to music. To some, it's damned annoying that you have spent your hard earned cash on an album only see an expanded version released shortly afterwards. There are those who..
DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG release new single & video ‘Every Heart Is Burning’, three track single ‘Arising’ will be released on 27th August on AFM Records.
It's not too very often that the names of the people involved alone are enough to document the great importance of a new project. DATOG - short for DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG - consists of Accept/U.D.O./ Dirkschneider frontman Udo Dirkschneider and his long time companions Peter Baltes (bass; ex-Accept), Stefan Kaufmann (guitar; ex-Accept, U.D.O.)..
Flotsam And Jetsam – Blood In The Water (AFM Records)
"Nothing lasts forever" is how the saying goes but since its renaissance at the dawn of the millennium, thrash metal appears pretty much invincible right now. It is certainly outliving the lifespan that the naysayers afforded it. What is incredible - and four decades on - is that the founding bands, the originators and pioneers..
Motorjesus – Hellbreaker (AFM Records)
Motorjesus is an uncompromising, hard and direct rock band from Germany which formed in 2006 (although they were operational as a unit as far back as 1992 under a different name) and I rather suspect that if Motörhead, fast cars, even faster motorcycles and Jack Daniels had never existed then neither would Motorjesus! Hailing from..
BRAINSTORM: new single ‘Escape The Silence’ out now on AFM Records.
BRAINSTORM will release their new album Wall Of Skulls on August 20th. While cover artwork has been revealed and pre-sale already started last week, the newest creation and first release from the album, Escape The Silence is out now. Tenacious double-bass drums and powering bass lines, groovy guitar shreds and the uncompromising and recognizable voice of Andy B...
HERMAN FRANK releases video for new single ‘Teutonic Order’, out now via AFM Records, new album ‘Two For A Lie’ due out 21st May
Herman Frank, best known as the guitarist of bands such as ACCEPT and VICTORY, has premiered a brand new song and video clip from his upcoming, fifth solo- album, Two For A Lie, which will be out on May 21, 2021 via AFM Records. Frank has been an integral part of the German metal scene since the early 80s...