Concerts & Tours · 03.08.2025
We actually meet always a bunch of friends and mates when we go to a concert in our beloved Backstage. We actually also know the bands and their members when we go to a concert. So we actually are at least 60% into social things before, during and after a concert. This time we met none of our friends and we were full into the wide spread musical diversity which offered us three fantastic bands on a rainy Sunday evening.
Concerts & Tours · 01.08.2025
Until this concert, we thought we knew all the venues near our beloved Backstage in Munich. The fact that behind the actual Backstage lies the Arena Süd, the size of a Bavarian beer tent with a capacity of around 3,000 spectators, was new to us. The arena is also equipped with a 10,000-watt PA and a similarly large and flexible lighting system. The perfect conditions for a great concert. The Innsbruck band "Mother's Cake" provided support, gleaning their stylistic range and diversity from the...
Concerts & Tours · 28.07.2025
The Free and Easy-Festival started. That means: almost 3 weeks of free concerts, 20 minutes away from home. Yes.
Festivals · 27.07.2025
We live close to the Alps, close to the river Isar, where we float and swim and we listen to Heavy Metal. If you visit Tolminator, you have everything of that in one place; a stunning landscape, a beautiful river and a line-up 10/10. The location and the two stages have the right size for an intimate and international festival. We met and talked with 12 different nationalities, heard almost that much of different styles and enjoyed the beauty of Heavy Metal listening to Heavy Metal Bar piano...
Comments & Stories · 26.07.2025
Or: A tribute for people who don't care about tribute. July 22, 2025. Ozzy Osbourne is dead. At first, I thought it was just another meme. But no – the world is crying, metal fans wear black – even blacker than usual. Me? I was never into Ozzy. Not a Sabbath fan either. For me, it was always more noise than music. Too much fuzz, not enough drive, too slow, with no fun and no Rock'n'Roll. Now everyone is mourning the "Metal Messiah" again – the man who supposedly "invented a whole genre,"...
Comments & Stories · 26.07.2025
Ein Nachruf für alle, die keinen Bock auf Nachrufe haben. 22.Juli 2025, Ozzy Osbourne ist tot. Ich hab’s erst für ein Meme gehalten. Die Welt weint, die Metal-Fans tragen Schwarz – also noch schwärzer als sonst. Ich? Ich war nie Ozzy-Fan. Auch kein Black-Sabbath-Jünger. Für mich war das immer mehr Soundbrei als Soundtrack. Viel Fuzz, wenig Drive und viel zu langsam. Kein Spaß, kein Rock´n Roll. Und überall wird wieder tieftraurig der Metal-Messias betrauert, der angeblich „ein...
Heavystoned Albums · 21.07.2025
After a creative break of just six months, the Washington band is releasing their second album, and I can already tell you that it will take you across the Sahara, from one oasis to another, and thus from one style to another. The more rock-oriented debut is now followed by a more relaxed version of the desert trip, with significantly more oriental influences. The opener, "Earth Wisdom," is a pretty hard-rocking song, but the following song, "The Search Continues," reminds me strongly of Peter...
Daily Peaks · 11.07.2025
When I hear the name Matra, I immediately think of the French brand's former Formula 1 and sports cars, which already looked very avant-garde in the 1970s and were very successful with rather simple technology. This almost decodes the Italian band. The Milan-based band sounds simultaneously proto and retro; proto in terms of simplicity: we simplify the music to a few chords and anticipate punk, and retro in terms of style; we have a bag full of 1960s styles to wear and don't know how to get rid...
Daily Peaks · 10.07.2025
The 45-minute length alone made me wonder whether I should even listen to this song. Hey, I said to myself, you've already listened to Dopesmoker several times, just let yourself be taken on this trip through "Peace of Chaos." It's actually several songs played one after the other without a break; there's doom, stoner, psychedelic, basically everything you'd expect to play in a live jam. But that also requires a good understanding within the band to play something like that in one go. For me,...