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CONCERT REVIEW of The Color Morale in Munich, Germany by Alexandra Bock

June 1, 2015

The Color Morale / Scream Your Name / Ash Is A Robot Munich, Feierwerk Kranhalle, May 31, 2015 This was the weekend where ‘Rockavaria’ took place in Munich. A big 3 day Rock Music festival with bands like Muse, Kiss, FFDP, Hatebreed, Metallica and many others on the set-list. We didn’t have something like that in the city for well over 10 years. It was the final night with Metallica headlining, so that was quite a competition for any other live show that night. Nevertheless I picked that show to go to because I love club shows far more than festivals and as the night progressed my choice was proven right. It wasn’t the first time for TCM to play in Munich. According to Garret, the vocalist of the band, the first time they played here it was about a third of the people that were there yesterday, so it was an increase. I’m pretty sure without Rockavaria in town there would’ve been more people. Ticket sales for the festival started months ago [Read More]

Concert Review of Set It Off, last night’s show in Munich, Germany at Backstage Club

May 20, 2015

Concert Review Brawlers / Decade / Set It Off Munich, Backstage Club, May 19th, 2015 Faster than I can write this review, the news are out on Facebook, that Set It Off has parted ways with their bass player Austin Kerr. Here’s the statement of the band concerning the departure: Recently we have been made aware of the statements made about our bassist, Austin Kerr. We are taking the situation seriously and have decided that the best thing for the band is to part ways with Austin. We send our deepest apologies to anyone who has ever been affected negatively by his actions. Our fans mean the absolute world to us and their safety and happiness will always be our top priority. We are so grateful for their ongoing support over the years and will do everything we can to make this up to them and to move forward from this. There’s still some European tour dates to play and they will perform all the announced sets as they also stated on their facebook page. [Read More]

Concert Review: Against Me! with Caves and Roger Harvey in Munich by Alexandra

April 23, 2015

Concert Review by Alexandra Bock Against Me! with Caves and Roger Harvey Backstage – Halle Munich, April 21, 2015 After having to postpone the tour in November/December 2014, Against me! finally came back to Germany and they also made a stop in Munich last Tuesday. Opening act was a punk band from the UK called ‘Caves’. Often the opening acts play only for a smaller group of people because most fans only come shortly before the main act is supposed to play. Not so this time. The venue was already crowded when they started their set. Caves is a three piece punk band from Bristol UK. They played a dynamic set with tons of songs (all about 2 minutes long) and almost no stops in between. Their latest release is called ‘Leaving’. You can listen to it or better yet, download it, at http://caves.bandcamp.com/. Main support was Roger Harvey. His music is best described as guitar rock, which didn’t fit the punk bill entirely, but nevertheless was a great set. It might have [Read More]

Concert Review: Lord of The Lost and Florian Grey in Munich by Alexandra

April 19, 2015

Concert Review Lord Of The Lost / Florian Grey Munich, Backstage-Werk, April 17, 2015 So the German band Lord Of The Lost invited to ‘A Night To Remember’, an acoustic concert with an additional string quartet, yesterday at the Backstage in Munich. First time I’ve been to that venue and there were actually seats there and a great part of the audience was dressed up pretty nice ‘n neat. On every seat lay a program, which contained the timeline of the evening, all the musicians that played and a short paragraph from the band that welcomed everyone and also gave a brief insight on what the evening will be. It started off with Florian Grey. As stated on his home-page, he plays Dark Pop music. He’s not new to the music business and sang in a few projects and bands over the years. That night he played an acoustic set which was received well by the crowd. His debut solo album will be released May 29, 2015. The producer of this album is Chris [Read More]

CONCERT REVIEW: Black Veil Brides, Fearless Vampire Killers and Like A Storm in Munich Contributed by Alexandra

March 22, 2015

Concert Review Contributed by Alexandra Black Veil Brides with Like A Storm and Fearless Vampire Killers Munich, Theaterfabrik, March 21, 2015 The location that Black Veil Brides played at is close to one of our bigger train stations. It’s a big area of clubs and venues and since it was a Saturday night is was swarming with people. Always a hard time to find a parking space and it had just started raining about an hour ago. So after I finally found a place to park my car, I headed to the venue and got there when they already had started to let people in, so I at least didn’t need to queue. We were two photographers. They told us to wait until we would be lead to the photo pit for the first band to shoot. After a while they seem to have decided that we could get in by ourselves. So when I was finally entering the venue, it was packed and Like A Storm had just started to play, about 15 [Read More]

Concert Review: Glamour Of The Kill with Neoblind at Backstage Club in Munich contributed by Alexandra

March 20, 2015

Munich, Backstage Club, March 16, 2015 Contributed by Alexandra The venue, that Glamour Of The Kill played in, is a really small club, but cozy and just right for a fun night and that’s what it was. The opening band was Neoblind, a local band from Augsburg. They are currently partaking in a band-competition, where they just reached the semi-finale. Glamour Of The Kill started their set with the song ‘Out Of Conrol’ from their recent EP ‘After hours’. The original track was recorded with Jacoby Shaddix, who’s known to everyone as the frontman of Papa Roach. The set consisted of songs from the last two CD’s ‘Summoning’ and ‘Savages’ and they played, besides ‘Out Of Control’ also all the other songs of their current EP and an amazing cover of ‘Love Gun’ by Kiss. It was an energetic, fun set. The size of the venue was perfect for them. It wasn’t sold out, put packed none the less. There’s so much more feel and intimacy to club shows than at a big show. I [Read More]

Concert Review: Devin Townsend Project, Periphery and Shining NOR at Backstage, Munich by Alexandra

March 13, 2015

Contributed by Alexandra Backstage – Werk, Munich, March 10, 2015 First up, it was an amazing, fun and entertaining evening with three awesome acts and never one minute of boredom. The venue was almost sold out, so the room was packed. The Norwegian Band Shining started the set a little earlier than announced at about 7.45 pm. As singer Jorgen Munkeby stated, they started out in 1999 as a Jazz combo and now it’s ‘Jazz-Metal’. Jorgen himself plays guitar and saxophone and boy can he play that one. He’s getting all that noises out of his instrument. It’s stunning. If you’re a fan of the experimental kind of music, you’ll sure like them. I did! Their latest album ‘One One One’ was released 2013. Make sure to check them out. Second act of the evening was ‘Periphery’. They were well known by a good part of the audience and I’m pretty sure they drew many people there that night. Being a quite popular act in the US already, considering the audiences reactions, they could [Read More]