In The Pit · 21/07/2024
Klash Of The Ruhrpott - For nearly a year, I've had the tickets for this legendary event sitting neatly sealed on my desk. Announced in August 2023 (remember, when I DIDN'T go to Wacken), it was sold out within days. The Teutonic Four of Thrash Metal planned a show together. The chance to see Tankard, Destructrion, Sodom and Kreator the same day - well, there was not much to think about. I had immensely high expectations and a lot of anticipation for this event. What I didn’t count on was:...
In The Pit · 06/03/2023
For three years the State of Unrest tour of Lamb of God and Blind Guardian had been postponed. Originally planned for 14.03.2020 in Hamburg the concert has been rescheduled seven times in total until this finally happened. We haven't been holding on to our tickets since 2020, we only bought them in September 2022, but many loyal fans were there yesterday, who had been waiting for the whole three years and the atmosphere was awesome. My first concert in 2023, again in the edel-optics.de-Arena in...
Keepers · 27/03/2022
With Pantera's album Cowboys from Hell I am crossing over into the next metal subgenre: groove metal. Cowboys from Hell was Pantera's fifth studio album, released in 1990 and is said to be the first groove metal album there was. Pantera - yet another band I had not heard of before embarking on my blog project. And this is quite extraordinary as Pantera has its fair shair of history in heavy metal. Pantera was originally founded as Gemini, then renamed to Eternity and finally Pantera in 1981 in...
Keepers · 27/03/2022
I was about to give up on thrash metal. After Metallica's debut album and the various Anthrax albums I liked there was nothing that I really enjoyed. I went through the early 80s and 90s releases of Slayer, Megadeath, Overkill, Testament, Exodus, Sodom and also Kreator. And while I can enjoy the music itself with all those bands, the style of "singing" is what makes it difficult for me. As gruff voices and shouting are a distinguishing feature in thrash metal this is not surprising and I was...
Genre Tourism · 20/03/2022
I started my journey into heavy metal with the goal to explore all of the niches and to look into bands and styles I did not know - fully aware that there might be some that are not quite my cup of tea. So far I've been positively surprised as I liked nearly all the bands I've researched so far and I've been playing their songs on a daily basis for fun. Today's blog article features a band that I will very likely not listen to on a daily basis as it is a bit too aggressive and stressful for my...
Genre Tourism · 04/03/2022
Although glam metal was the most popular subgenre of metal during the 80s, there was another movement that started in the underground in the early 80s and became commercially successful in the mid 80s: Thrash metal. While glam metal was all about show and the looks and making music to please the masses there were still those guys who did not care about that. In thrash metal the music was more important than the looks and the bands took metal to a more extreme direction. Thrash metal is...