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Explore my reviews of ambient music genre in this section. I'm Markus and this is my blog. I started Markus' Heavy Music Blog back in 2013 with a first post. It was a live review about a show, legendary prog-rockers Rush played at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam. What you can read though on Markus' Heavy Music Blog is my view on metal music when it comes to CD's, vinyls, live shows and more.
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1w ago
Last Friday Wardruna launched their newest single called 'Hertan' and now the band announces the first part of their world tour., including shows at special locations like theaters and concert halls. The tour also includes six shows in Germany: 11.11.24 Hamburg, Laeiszhalle12.11.24 Berlin, Tempodrom15.11.24 Frankfurt am Main, Jahrhunderthalle16.11.24 Nürnberg, Meistersingerhalle20.11.24 Halle, Händelhalle26.11.24 Düsseldorf, Tonhalle ..read more
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8M ago
Myrkur announced a new album called 'Spine'. 'Spine' will be available on October 20th, 2023 and will come via Relapse Records. 'Spine' is a title with a host of potent connotations: growth, strength, defiance, a core of our being, and flexibility. It’s what holds a human up, and allows us to rebuild. It’s an album ..read more
Markus' Heavy Music Blog » Ambient
1y ago
Münster-based post-rockers Long Distance Calling announced their new album ‚Eraser‘. Two years after having launched ‚How Do We Want to Live?‘ their next strike will hit the shelves on August 26th, 2022 and ‚Eraser‘ comes via earMUSIC. Right in time, on Earth Day 2022, the quartet released with ‚Kamilah‘ a first song, taken from the ..read more
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1y ago
Blood Incantation released ‘Hidden History of the Human Race’ an album that combined the brutality of death metal and the math of metal in a pretty good fashion. Being harsh on the one side a multi-layered too created extra tension which benefited the album. Three years later the quartet from Denver, Colorado returns with ‘Timewave ..read more
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1y ago
Not so much is known about (DOLCH) and the band finds pleasure in keeping things rather hidden. What has come to light, however, is that the band has some roots in Berlin, which is reflected in both the German band name and the album titles. When exactly (DOLCH) were brought to life is not passed ..read more
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1y ago
Hemelbestormer means ‘stormer of heaven’ and is the band name of a Belgium metal band that founded in 2012. The band premiered with ‘Portals’ in 2014 and released two additional longplayers to date. With having three records on their list of achievements, Hemelbestormer has finished work on ‘Collide & Merge’, the next step of the ..read more
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1y ago
Jim Matheos' guitar play is a key asset of the Fates Warning sound. Next to the mothership, Matheos had some projects up and running in parallel. OSI is one of them and the Arch/Matheos collaboration led to exciting songs too. Another project that started accidentally is Tuesday The Sky. Sitting on some songs that didn’t ..read more
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1y ago
RPWL's debut 'God Has Failed' was released in September 2000 and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their entry to a journey to the top of German progressive rock, the band planned a special tour. The plan was to embark in November 2020, an idea that couldn't be realized due to circumstances we all know ..read more
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1y ago
The quartet started in 2001 when they successfully completed a renaming from Godzilla to Gojira. The debut 'Terra Incognita' was released in the same year and since then the band has become essential.Gojira slowly and steadily built up a fanbase that is constantly growing. This can be recognized among other things by the chart entries ..read more
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1y ago
I knew about The Lion's Daughter but never really made a bigger effort to explore their music in depth. This was before I received the new longplayer from the St. Louis-based trio. The Lion's Daughter started in 2007 and premiered in 2012 with 'Shame on Us All'. In the beginning it was blackened sludge that ..read more