Daily Peaks · 20.08.2025
Just check the tags below and you see this EP was made for having fun, at least with a can of beer in one and a cigarette in the other hand; relaxed heaviness as its best, forward rocking songs, 3-4 minutes long, what more to need? Okay, a bit more punchy drums behind the wall of fuzz, just to get some orientation through all this stirred up dust on this 15 minutes ride through Saskatchewan´s highway. Yes, it´s a kind of simple music, it´s just rock - on the second track "Even Through" with...
Festivals · 20.08.2025
My friend Jaime Garcia Perez from Cudillero, Asturias is a natural born music maniac. He doesn´t just take professional pictures during all the concerts he is accredited, he and his wife Patricia organise the StoneFest again after a long year hiatus. This years edition will take place at the Kuivi Almacenes in Oviedo, the local centre of subculture and underground, with a covered area of 700m2 and an outdoor area of 2000m2. The lineup is based on major festivals like Amplifestival or Roadburn,...
Comments & Stories · 10.08.2025
Am 9.8.2025 besuchten wir unser Backstage im Zuge des Free and Easy-Festivals. Wir nutzten eine Umbaupause, um im Biergarten eine Zigarette zu rauchen. Das erste Bild auf dem Bildschirm war das hier: Erwin Schmidt ist tot. Mein Kopfkino setzte ein: Wir lernten uns während unserer Promo-Zeit für Nuclear Blast und Summernights-Open-Air im Jahre 2008 kennen. In zahllosen Nächten standen wir neben Erwin, der damals noch bei einer Security-Firma angestellt war, und erzählten uns Stories über...
Comments & Stories · 10.08.2025
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Concerts & Tours · 10.08.2025
Yes, same evening, same venue, just 50 meters away from Death Metal, ze German institution Corvus Corax played Heavy Metal with DIY instruments and some guests on electric guitar. Usually they play on medieval markets or festival, with an ticket price of 70 - 100€. So to see them for free was a pleasure and the way the act on stage always looks like creatures taken from Old School Medieval movies. The bands looks great, but they sounded far away from Heavy Metal.
Concerts & Tours · 10.08.2025
After almost 3 weeks of stunning concerts we returned again to see Parasite Inc. from Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. We still keep this fantastic concert from 2015 in our mind, when we booked them together with Loudblast as a full bundle for Cripper. We had Champagne after. the gig. We keep following Parasite Inc. due their own interpretation of Melodic Death Metal. It is not the Swedish Style with putting some ABBA-melodies into Death Metal, it´s putting 80´s Disco into 80´s Metal and Old...
Daily Peaks · 08.08.2025
Howling Giant from Nashville, Tennessee, presents a somewhat different kind of music here. There are catchy vocal lines over pure heavy metal guitars, without fuzz and without them being tuned three to five semitones lower; there are dynamic tempo changes and various moods within one song. Wow, and then this complex song is also catchy. US metal bands managed something like this in the 80s, be it Savatage, Culprit, or Heir Apparent, and since then, things have been pretty quiet in this...
Concerts & Tours · 07.08.2025
A good opportunity to complete my collection of Max Cavalera´s countless projects, to see Forbidden for the first time; a band who brought us Machine Head and Paul Bostaph on drums and two unknown support bands. Sounded promising.
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...