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Fearless Vampire Killers – European Tour dates announced

February 16, 2016

We’ve waited quite a while, now finally Fearless Vampire Killers announced tour dates for mainland Europe for May 2016. This time it’s a headliner tour, which means tons of more time for lots of more songs. Tour starts out in Paris on May 3rd and ends in Amsterdam on May 12th . Ticket sale starts February 18th , so go grab your ticket while they last. Also, members of the Obsidian bond get special goodies. Go to http://fearlessvampirekillers.com/obsidianbond for further information. For further information on the band go visit their social media at http://fearlessvampirekillers.com/ https://twitter.com/fvkillers https://www.facebook.com/wearefearlessvampirekillers?fref=ts http://instagram.com/fvkillers/ ~ Contributed by Alex Bock, https://twitter.com/abphotomjp Check out some photos of Fearless Vampire Killers from their recent show with New Years Day, Escape The Fate and Like A Storm:

Concert Review by Alex Bock: Stick To Your Guns / Stray From The Path / Counterparts / Wolf Down

February 16, 2016

Stick To Your Guns / Stray From The Path / Counterparts / Wolf Down Backstage Werk, Feb. 7th, 2016 What happens when you go to a rock show with four hardcore bands on the bill? Yeah right, it gets really sweaty, esp. for the audience and the security personal. The crowd though needed a while to get into the right mood, but no later than when Stray From The Path entered the stage it was crowd surfing on end. All four bands played solid sets and were fun to watch. Couldn’t really say, why everyone was so tame throughout Wolf Down and Counterparts’ set. Last time I saw Counterparts play with Bless The Fall, Every Time I Die and Architects. They had the crowd going there from the get go. Different audience, different reactions it seems. Wolf Down: Counterparts: Especially SFTP and STYG built a close connection to the audience when talking to them, reassuring the people to fight for their dreams, but also that parents’ concerns aren’t all that wrong with certain decisions [Read More]

Concert Review: Escape The Fate, New Years Day, Fearless Vampire Killers, Like A Storm

February 12, 2016

Concert Review, Munich, Strom, Feb. 4th, 2016 by Alex Bock, https://twitter.com/abphotomjp Last Thursday we had ‘Weiberfasching’ in Munich. It’s part of the final days of the carnival season, where women are officially on the hunt for men’s ties, to cut them off the necks of their owners. No problem for the show that night, because fortunalety I was attending a Rock show, not an office party nor a carnival ball. When I saw the concert announcement a while ago and the support bands that where added over time, I thought, wow, what an event. Four awesome band in one night. The club they played, oftentimes starts shows at 9.30 pm, which is pretty late, considering they have to be over by midnight for youth protection reasons. Fortunately, the promoter also thought that this might end up in a race against time, so they changed doors and show-start time to 8.30 pm, which kinda worked out fine. Like A Storm hit the stage at around 8.40 pm, so a decent amount of people was already inside. [Read More]

Periphery, Veil of Maya and Good Tiger – Munich. Concert Review by Alex Bock

December 14, 2015

Concert Review Periphery, Veil Of Maya and Good Tiger Munich, Strom, December 8th, 2015 On short notice the show was delayed from the Backstage (my fave venue) to the Strom (to be honest one of my least favorite ones, because it’s in the heart of the city, they have late show starts – 9.30 pm – and the shows usually have to end at 12 pm latest). It’s a pretty small venue, which was however really packed that night. The first opening act were Good Tiger. They are what’s usually called a super group consisting of well known musicians. The band features ex-Tesseract vocalist Elliot Coleman, ex-The Safety Fire guitarists Derya Nagle and Joaquin Ardiles, ex-The Faceless drummer Alex Rüdinger and bassist Morgan Sinclair, who was on tour with Architects as a guitarist. In summer this year they started an IndieGoGo campaign to help finance their debut record ‘A Head Full Of Moonlight’, which was released in early November 2015. They had the goal for the campaign set for 16.000 $ and raised that in about 24 hours. [Read More]

W.A.S.P. w. Lucky Bastardz and Rebellious Spirit in Munich. Review by Alex Bock

November 7, 2015

Concert Review W.A.S.P. w. Lucky Bastardz and Rebellious Spirit, Munich, Theaterfabrik, October 29, 2015 What can you expect, when a band like W.A.S.P. announces a show? I can tell you…. A solid rock show in a packed house with a crowd that rocks hard throughout the whole show. After almost six years W.A.S.P. released their latest record ‘Golgotha’ on October 2nd. 33 years in the business now, they lost nothing of their grip live, although they didn’t use fake blood or any other spooky props at their show, like they’re kind of famous for. They started the show with ‘On Your Knees’ from their 1984 debut album ‘W.A.S.P.’ Four songs on the set-list were actually from that album, the record that holds many of their hit songs like f.e. ‘L.O.V.E. Machine’. They also played ‘Golgotha’, ‘The Last Runaway’ and the ballad ‘Miss you’ from their recent release. Anyway, old or new, the crowd seems to have known every word of every song. There were only two short breaks during the show. They finished their [Read More]

In This Moment – The Black Widow Tour stops again in Germany in 2016

October 7, 2015

After a very successful tour in early 2015, In This Moment come back for a second round of shows to Germany. Between January 11th and Jan. 18th they’ll play five shows in Cologne, Karlsruhe, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. In case you missed the band at that tour, here’s a review to get some impressions on what a stunning stage performance the band has https://musicjunkiepress.com/concerts/concert-review-moment-fearless-vampire-killers-munich-feb-17th-contributed-alexandra/ They are currently on US tour with Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach, two bands that will also be on tour in Germany soon. Here’s the video for In This Moment’s latest release ‘Sex Metal Barbie’ – taken from their recent album ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Whore’ with a guest appearance of Chris Motionless from ‘Motionless In White’ – taken from the album ‘Blood’ Contributed by Alex Bock, https://twitter.com/lexi22473_b For further information on the band visit their social media sites/homepage http://www.inthismomentofficial.com/ https://www.facebook.com/officialinthismoment?fref=ts https://twitter.com/officialitm https://instagram.com/inthismomentofficial/

Crown The Empire release Deluxe edition of ‚The Resistance: Rise Of The Runaways‘ in October

September 20, 2015

About a week ago Crown The Empire released an new song called ‘Prisoners Of War’. Along with it, they announced a Deluxe edition of their latest record ‘The Resistance: Rise Of The Runaways’ for October 30th. On that record they’ll add some new chapters to the story around the characters ‘Bones’ and ‘The Raven’. There’ll be four new songs. Here’s the track list: A Call To Arms (Act i) Initiation Millennia Machines The Wolves Of Paris (Act ii) MNSTR Second Thoughts Maniacal Me Satellites (Act iii) Rise Of The Runaways Bloodline The Phoenix Reborn Johnny’s Rebellion Prisoners of War Cross Our Bones Machines (Reinvented) Millennia (Acoustic) ‘POW’ can already be downloaded, if you pre-order the record on iTunes. My tip for all the hard copy and merch fans, pre-order amazing bundles with shirts, posters, etc. here: http://crowntheempire.merchnow.com/ Check out the video for ‘POW’: Here’s some thoughts from the band on the video and the story within: Same characters (Bones and The Raven) we just portrayed it in a more artistic way then telling an exact [Read More]