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40 Years of Böhse Onkelz
Time for some discussions in the German music scene – the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th February 2020. The controversal German rock giants look back to forty years of band history. Their corresponding album is nothing but self-titled.
Böhse Onkelz – About The Artists
The Böhsen Onkelz (derivation of “Böse Onkels” meaning “Evil uncles”) is a Rock and Hard Rock band from Frankfurt , Germany . They consist of Kevin Russel (vocals), Stephan Weidner (bass, vocals), Matthias Röhr (guitar) and Peter Schorowsky (drums). If you want to start an endless discussion about a German bad, the “Onkelz” are your candidate to go: originally a punk band, their first album Der nette Mann (“The kind man”) has been put on the German media index and was even seized after publication as it contains violent language. There were also nationalist thoughts around the band. The band renounced from these thoughts thereafter and even played shows against nationalist thoughts thereafter. Still there are just two thoughts about them: you may believe that they really changed their mind – or not.
Undoubtedly, the Onkelz are one of Germany’s most successful rock bands. Though the album did not top the German abum charts, the 1996 album E.I.N.S. is likely one of the best German rock albums of the 1990s. The ongoing discussions about the band worked as a perfect marketing for them – the folllowing album, the 1998 Viva los Tioz was the first one out of five albums in a row (closing with the 2016 Memento ) which topped the German album charts. Thereby, the band broke in 2007 re-united in 2014. In 2015, they sold old the Hockenheimring four times in a row, which were the most successful consecutive singular shows in the German concert history, according to their promoters, Wizard Promotion.
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Though the best single charts placements were in the 2000’s so far, the band wrote some very classic German rock songs, like Mexiko ( about the 1986 Soccer World Championship) or Auf gute Freunde (“To good friends”).
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Böhse Onkelz – Böhse Onkelz – Track by Track
The 13 new Onkelz tracks, which include one Intro, last 55 minutes:
1. Prolog
If you hate the band, this spoken prologue is giving you one of the key arguments in your discussions. They are said to be too pathetic and do not demarcate sufficiently from their dark past. I personally feel that this prologue is a bit too much. Forward button.
2. Kuchen und Bier
Kuchen und Bier (“Cake and Beer”) is looking back to the beginning of the band history, but also celebrating the forty year anniversary – 14,000 days of Böhse Onkelz are to be celebrated with cake and beer. Great beginning.
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3. Des Bruders Hüter
Another very rocking with a typical Onkelz sound. Great one, which reminds me of the 1990’s Onkelz sound. Wow!
4. Ein Hoch auf die Toten
“Come to the other side” – Ein Hoch auf die Toten . I don’t see the death as the end of life. A very direct discussion about death, but also praising of the people who died (too) young.
5. Prawda
The album has a lot of rock, a lot of power. The fifth song is about a complete truthfullness. Five great tracks so far.
6. Saufen ist wie Weinen
Saufen ist wie Weinen (“Drinking is like crying”) is the first song, which is a bit slower – at least at the beginning, before an instrumental part is changing back to the typical Onkelz sound. This song is a reference to drug abuse, alcohol. Some band members had problems with that in the past.
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7. Wie aus der Sage
The seventh track is the first really slower one. Combined with the guitar sounds, this track is one of the most intense ones of the album to me. “Fighting makes you strong, not the victory, but stand up after falling and repeat”. Again, there are also reference to death, paradise, staying alive – a very core topic of the album.
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8. Du hasst mich! Ich mag das!
Du hasst mich! Ich mag das! (“You hate me! I love it!”) is a fast song again, which however is not as powerful in the guitars as the first tracks of the album have been. The song has a break after about the middle of the it and changes to a much more rocking and guitar-powered track.
9. Rennt!
You are the rabbits, I am the snake – I am the fox, you are the goose – these are the first verses of the ninth song, which is very methaphoric (for example: Paradise Garden Eden cut down with chainsaws ). Cool track.
10. Wer schön sein will, muss lachen
5:41 minutes – the longest track of the album album (“Who wants to be beautiful, needs to smile”) is one of the most melodic – and best tracks of the album.
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11. Der Hund, den keiner will
This slower track (“You are the dog, that nobody wants”) is a typical Onkelz. A very catchy tracks with reggae elements.
12. Flügel für dich
Very melodic, one of the most catching songs (in a series of great songs) about not giving up, even in tough situations.
13. Die Erinnerung tanzt in meinem Kopf
The last song, a ballad, is recapturing the whole band history and states that the band keeps all the memories – good and bad ones – of the band history. The verse at the end of the chorus, Und wenn es mich nicht mehr gibt, es bleibt dieses Lied (“When I am gone, there is still this song”) sounds like a musical farewell. At least, it is a great finish of the album.
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Böhse Onkelz – Böhse Onkelz – Spotify
Here is the Spotify link to the album:
Böhse Onkelz – Böhse Onkelz – My View
Love them or hate them – the “Onkelz” again proof that if you want to hear great German rock’n’roll, they are top candidates. The album has different sounds, different stories, but is always straight. It is close to their best 1990s productions. The songs make you want to sing and shout to the songs, some want to make you head-banging, Maybe this is the final roar of the band? Nobody knows. 40 years after, they still do what they can do best – great rock music! Top Pick!
Böhse Onkelz – 40 Jahre Concerts
In order to celebrate their 40th band anniversary, the band will not take a proper tour, but give six shows in their home town Frankfurt in different venues, from the very intimate “Das Bett” to two shows in the Waldstadion, Frankfurt’s soccer stadium. There is also a 2020 tour through Germany, which sold out in minutes – so getting tickets for these events will be a matter of luck. Ticket sales start on 5th March 2020, 16:00 German time.
Fr 28.08.2020
Frankfurt, Das Bett
Sa 29.08.2020
Frankfurt, Das Bett
Tu 01.09.2020
Frankfurt, Hugenottenhalle
We 02.09.2020
Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle
Fr 04.09.2020
Frankfurt, Waldstadion
Sa 05.09.2020
Frankfurt, Waldstadion
Note: The Waldstadion is currently branded as Commerzbank-Arena, but the naming rights conclude after the 2019/20 soccer season.
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Hard Rock & Metal Album Reviews on Flyctory.com
Here are all Media Reviews of the Hard Rock and Metal genres:
The German magazine Rock Hard wrote about Traitor, that the band "is playing the most persuading new-old-school-thrash, which I have ...
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The album preview of the week this time is a bit of darker than the beautiful melodies of A Smell of ...
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A debut album from the United Kingdom: I received Living Without Death's Permission from a promotion agency. The band is named RXPTRS, ...
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Rock from Germany: on 17th June, the German rock band April Art releases their second album, P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E.. I ran into the ...
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Just one week after I featured Motionless In White in my weekly edition of Songs of the Week, the band is ...
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Der W does an easy job in naming his albums. Since the third album, he is simply numbering his major ...
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They gave us songs like Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard are truly hard rock and glam metal legends ...
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"Magic Hard Rock from The Krauts" - that's the key slogan the German band Wucan puts on her Facebook profile ...
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I typically love glam rock - and thus, the German band Shameless had a rather easy time to get into ...
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Sophomore album by the doom metal band Famyne: on 13th May 2022, they release The Ground Below. I already had a ...
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J.B.O. are one of the key players in the German fun metal scene. Over the last decades, they steadily grew ...
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I really enjoyed running into the music of the Swiss band Silver Dust again. I already seen the rockers on ...
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Axel Rudi Pell is definitely one of the most well-known hard rock and metal acts from Germany. On 15th April ...
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The different genres of metal are becoming a significant part of my Flyctory.com music coverage. This posting is about the ...
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Askara is a melodic dark metal band from Switzerland. They grew steadily over the last years and are now ready ...
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Papa Roach are on the final straight to complete their (first?) thirty years of band history in 2023. On 8th ...
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Some two years after I reviewed his album Shapeshifting, Joe Satriani is back with a new album, Elephants of Mars. I was ...
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You are not running in too many French artists on Flyctory.com. The more, I was glad to receive the promo ...
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The Garden by Circle of Friends is a very special album I happened to get access to on an online ...
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Paleface is naming themselves to be the best beatdown band of their home country, Switzerland. With Fear & Dagger, the band is ...
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Der To is a German rock artist, who is active since 2010. On 11th March 2022, he is releasing his ...
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Sunrunner call their music "heavy prog-rock". Thus, this review of their 2022 album Sacred Arts of Navigation feels to be a ...
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Doom metal from Italy: Messa means nothing but (religious) mass. On 11th March 2022, they will release a new album, ...
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About a year ago, I reviewed Dream in Motion by Crowbar's singer Kirk Windstein. On 4th March 2022, it has been ...
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Some hard sounds from Germany: Gutrectomy are doing brutal deathcore. I was really curious if their music is as scary ...
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Thunderor are a relatively new band from Canada. They have been founded during the pandemic. On 25th February 2022, they ...
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Corey Taylor does not really feel to be sufficiently busy. Being the lead singer of two major bands in the ...
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The promotion package I received for Matt Pike's album Pike vs. the Automaton states "Matt Pike wrote new rules for the ...
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Six tracks, 43 minutes - that's already telling you that Take Up My Bones by the English band Ard is not ...
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Nashville is Music City - not Country Music City. Even though there is a dominating genre, the city attracts many ...
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Time for the hard guitar sounds: Once Human is releasing their third album Scar Weaver on 11th Feburary 2022. Five years after ...
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SMKC is a magical abbreviation in rock music business. It merges guitar giant slash, legendary Myles Kennedy and band member ...
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Rolo Tomassi are already releasing their sixth studio album. It is very hard to define their exact style of music ...
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Album #23: Saxon is truly a band, which you have to name being legends in the heavy metal business. 45 ...
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It's quite a while ago since I presented some Greek metal to you. Time to change that with this posting. Full ...
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Metalcore from Germany: already before Christmas 2021, I received the album Radiant from The Sleeper. A good opportunity to rock with Santa ...
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The Scorpions are definitely one of Germany's finest international rock music acts. Herman Rarebell has been part of the band ...
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Claus Trophobia is calling his music space rock - or Solid Rock - Drifiting Through Outer Space, as the Austrian is ...
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According to the press kit, the metal magazine Metal Injection named Great American Ghost and their music "Always hateful, always ...
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New tunes from Magnum: almost exactly two years after The Serpent Rings, the hard rockers are back with The Monster ...
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Hard rock from Tennessee: the band Skillet is releasing their eleventh studio album on 14th January 2022. Here is my ...
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Quite some artists used the Covid-19 limitation for some additional creativity. Tristan Harders, for example, invested the time during which ...
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I always enjoy to listen to bands I haven't heard of before. One of them is the German band Fuer ...
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New tunes from Volbeat: the successful Danish rockers are back in the record stores from 3rd December 2021. Their new ...
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Hämatom feels to be a truly active band: just some eight months after I reviewed - and enjoyed their album ...
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It's been a lot of work - but it has also been a lot of fun. The "monster weekend" on ...
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Lordiversity completed: the seventh and thus last album of the album compilation Lordiversity is Spooky Sextravaganza Spectacular. Last, but not least, the band ...
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Abracadaver is the sixth episode of the Lordiversity. This time, the album feature twelve songs around thrash metal and groove metal, ...
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The fifth Lordiversity album Humanimals is showing Lordi in their comfort zone: the album is dedicated to glam rock, hard rock and ...
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Not only because there will be a Lordi-featured ghost train ride on Finnish fun fairs in 2021, Abusement Park feels to be ...
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The third album from the Lordiversity septuplet is The Masterbeast From The Moon. The album cover feels a lot like scary stories - ...
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The second album by Lordi from the Lordiversity box is SuperFlyTrap. It comes with another ten songs, but is significantly longer ...
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The Finnish monsters do it in extra large - on 26th November 2021 Lordi are releasing their new latest CD ...
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What are you doing when you are making new friends at the party celebrating your recent Bachelor graduation in contemporary ...
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Seventeen studio albums so far - #17 on 29th October 2021 - the German band Running Wild has quite an ...
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It is hard to describe the sound of Hulkoff, which is the solo project of songwriter and composer Pär Hulkoff ...
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Rock from Germany: On 15th October 2021, the Western German band Bodyguerra will release their second album Fire & Soul ...
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Alcatrazz had a couple of break-ups and hiatuses during their song history. Since their founding in 1983, they were active ...
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"We just want to be heavy and create fun" - that's how Creeping Death describe themselves in the press information ...
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Some metal on Flyctory.com (again): on 8th October 2021, the French metal band Naraka release their debut album, In Tenebris ...
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Some new guitar riffs made in Germany: it is hard to think about the German metal music scene without thinking ...
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Big name - big album? When Iron Maiden stated that they will release Senjutsuon 3rd September 2021, this release had ...
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Hard riffs from Canada: Danko Jones is active since a quarter of a century already and have fans worldwide. Their ...
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A tribute band growing to an album with seven very own songs and two covers: Freakstorm from Gummersbach near Cologne ...
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A new album from All Good Things after some four years of absence in the record store with a very ...
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Mentalist is definitely an interesting German metal band. Even though A Journey Into The Unknown is just their second album, ...
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Like quite likely many of you, I ran into the Austrian metal / metalcore band CueStack due to a Crowdfunding ...
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Some German rock to be released on 23rd July 2021: I ran into the music of the band Existent and ...
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Cool hard rock with Californian roots: via promotion agencies, I ran into Hellbound by the band Buckcherry. The band is ...
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Time to bang your head again: the German metal big guns Helloween are back in the record stores, six years ...
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Hard rock from Canada: with Bummer, the band Cleopatrick is releasing their first-ever album on 4th June 2021. The album ...
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New hardcore album from the North of Germany: Anchors & Hearts recorded their fourth album Guns Against Liberty and will ...
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Covid-19 felt to be a good opportunity for Esa Holopainen to go solo. Instead of releasing new stuff with Amorphis, ...
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About the album A Hill To Die Upon, its componist and guitarist Marvin Kessler said, This is the album I tried ...
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Pop Evil are definitely in the top spheres of the US hard rock scene. Their album regularly hit upper rankings ...
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Croatian folk-rock with a metal touch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn't it? And, indeed, when I scanned one of the music ...
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It has been quite amazing for me to read that The Bitter Truth is only the fifth studio album by the ...
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Even though their press package praises them as the new German lead in the melodic death metal scene, I have ...
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I did not have Greek music for quite a while. The more I am glad that I received another sample ...
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I love metal operas. Avantasia, for example, are one of my absolute favorite acts over all genres. Thus, I was ...
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I have to admit that I did not know Orden Ogan before this review. Quite a gap in my music ...
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Some new tunes by A Day To Remember: the US rockers released You're Welcome, their latest album, on 5th March ...
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A typical life of a music blogger: the information about Definition of Insanity has been sparse when I ran into ...
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Metalcore made in Switzerland: Dreamshade are doing music since 2006. On 5th March 2021, they will release their fourth album ...
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Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders - Damon Johnson has indeed worked with some of the really big names ...
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Mentally Blind are one of the key acts of the Polish metal scene. Despite being active since 2010 already and ...
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Since I ran into the music of Korpiklaani at a Lordi gig in Helsinki, I am really a fan of ...
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Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
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Even though Tragedian is a Hamburg-based project, their members come from quite some parts of Europe. I got to have ...
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After they got quite some good critics for their debut album, the German metal / hardcore band Bashdown starts 2021 ...
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Sodom is one of the finest names for Thrash Metal made in Germany. The band is already having a 38 ...
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When AC/DC updated their social media accounts with the Power Up album logo marketing, this felt like small hard rock sensation ...
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Australian weekend on Flyctory.com: after I already reviewed the albums by Kylie Minogue and Caitlyn Shadbolt, the third release from ...
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The Flyctory.com week before 16th October 2020 will be quite packed with rock and metal albums. There will be two ...
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When a Rock'n'Rock Hall of Famer (which he was inducted to in 2014 as original KISS member) is releasing a ...
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Four girls and hard rock? Thundermother is definitely a cool bunch of ladies. On 31st July 2020, they released the ...
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Three years after their previous album, Asking Alexandria released another studio album, Like A House on Fire, on 15th May 2020. The ...
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Nightwish are somehow the undisputed kings of Finnish metal (even though I personally prefer Lordi). Being in the business since the ...
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It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
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The Swiss band Gotthard is something like their nation's national monument in the Hard Rock genre. They publish music since the ...
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Likely, being an Ordinary Man is one of the attributes you would least assign to Ozzy Ozbourne spontaneously. Nevertheless, the former Black Sabbath ...
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I happened to run into the front lady of the Seven Spires, Adrienne Cowan, when Tobias Sammet chose her as ...
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Sepuiltura are true Heavy Metal legends - with Quadra, the Brazilians already released their 15th studio album, 24 years after their ...
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24th January 2020 felt to be the "Metal Heroes do solo album" day of the year. Shortly after I had ...
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The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut ...
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Due to my contacts to the Greek metal scene, which really seems to have a lot of musical talents, I ...
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Due to my contact to a Greek metal music promotion agency, I ran into another Greek metal album. The band ...
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Project Renegade are the first Greek act I am reviewing on Flyctory.com. The metal quartet present their debut album Order Of ...
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There is not just Vivaldi and Pavarotti - Italy also has quite a strong Metal scene. One of the key ...
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If you record songs like Death to All But Metal or Bukkake Tears and you do it good, you may make it big ...
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I saw the Black Star Rides some years ago as a support act of Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their ...
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Tarja Turunen - the Finnish Opera and metal voice became a legend with Nightwish. After the split from her band ...
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Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
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The first album was not banned because of nationalism as it is not forbidden. Even this nationalist song did not glorify the Third Reich but labels it as “12 dark years”. The album was banned because of violence in the lyrics.
Agreed – adopted it.