Keepers · 03/02/2024
Hellripper aka James McBain is currently touring with Abbath and Toxic Holocaust. He was in Hamburg just a couple of days ago. Had I listened to this album a bit earlier, I might have gone and bought myself a ticket just to see the support act. Hellripper is a one-man band from Scotland formed in 2014. Since 2014 McBain has released three studio albums, two EPs and various splits. His third and latest studio album Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags was released in February 2023 and met with...
In The Pit · 15/10/2022
On 13.10.2022 Blind Guardian played in Hamburg within their Somewhere Far Beyond-Tour. Whereas the tickets to the Samael concert in Berlin had been my birthday present to Chris this year, the tickets to Blind Guardian were his birthday present for me. So, for the third time in 2022, we went off together to see Blind Guardian live at the edel-optics.de-Arena in Hamburg, Wilhemsburg. (Quick side note: the McDonald's close to the arena has been THE WORST branch I've ever been in. Seriously, don't...
Roots & Riffs · 10/06/2022
Venom’s 1981 debut didn’t just make noise—it started a movement. From Satanic shock tactics to proto-thrash mayhem, Welcome to Hell kicked the gates open for extreme metal.
Genre Tourism · 01/05/2022
It's funny how all those metal bands are somehow connected. Some names just keep popping up with several bands. Remember Kai Hansen from my last blog article? Vocalist of Helloween till 1988? Well, he is also present on Blind Guardian's second studio album Follow the Blind, joining vocalist Hansi Kürsch on THE iconic Blind Guardian song Valhalla. This song is literally drifing me crazy, it's been stuck in my head for days now. Sudden erruptions of "VALHAAAALLA" from various family members...