Likely, being an Ordinary Man is one of the attributes you would least assign to Ozzy Ozbourne spontaneously. Nevertheless, the former Black Sabbath voice, who has been called “The Prince of Darkness” during these ages, named his twelth solo studio album exactly that…
I happened to run into the front lady of the Seven Spires, Adrienne Cowan, when Tobias Sammet chose her as one of the touring artists of the last Avantasia show based on the Moonglow album. I felt she was just…
Sepuiltura are true Heavy Metal legends – with Quadra, the Brazilians already released their 15th studio album, 24 years after their debut. This time, the release is a concept album, drealing with the number four and the Qaudrivium (arithmetics, geometry, music…
What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd February 2020. And as the rock legend had his 50th birthday that day, the number of songs was as clear…
Athens, Greece, 20th May 2006 – a day that did not only change my life, but the life of a whole nation. Not Germany, where I live in, but the by dear friends from Finland had a national party, which…
24th January 2020 felt to be the “Metal Heroes do solo album” day of the year. Shortly after I had a look at Nightwish’s Marko Hietala’s solo debut in English language, one of my next albums to have a listen…
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut solo album Musta sydämen rovio. As Finnish is a rather cryptic language in major parts of the world, Hietala released an…
Due to my contacts to the Greek metal scene, which really seems to have a lot of musical talents, I ran into the album release of the Athens band Skull Koraptor. Chaos Station is the debut album of the combo, which is…