LAKE OF TEARS is the perfect soundtrack for short, grey days and long, cold, dark nights. Daniel Brennare, is the head and heart of the Swedish pioneers of dark music.

Rooted in illness and depression, in days of grey. These moments, burdensome and overwhelming, are dissected and then reassemble...

Ektomorf was founded in 1993 in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary, a small city near the Romanian border, by Zoltán "Zoli/Zotya" Farkas. In the actual line-up Zoli/Zotya – songwriter and leader of the band – is the only remaining founder member. The band is completed by Szebasztián Simon (lead guitar), Csa...

Kissin' Dynamite is a German heavy metal band from Burladingen and Münsingen.

Kissin' Dynamite started as a school band. Since 2007, the band has worked with the Flensburg production team Elephant Music. At the end of 2007, they started sending demos to various music labels, leading to a record ...

For a quarter of a century SHAKRA has been part of the music circus. Only someone who's been in a band before, knows how fragile und exhausting this kind of social fabric is. 25 years is a very long time and only a few acts can make this distance. SHAKRA made it and it doesn't look like they'll g...

Savage Circus began when Stauch asked his friend Piet Sielck if he was interested in joining Thomen's new project, which he was. Piet then introduced a Swedish band called Persuader to Thomen. Thomen liked the band and also liked the fact that the vocalist sounded very much like Hansi Kürsch. Tho...

Tankard is a German thrash metal band from Frankfurt, founded in 1982. Alongside Kreator, Destruction and Sodom, Tankard is often considered one of the "Big Four" of Teutonic thrash metal. Stylistically, Tankard have consistently played thrash metal that thematically centers primarily on alcohol ...

When Swedish power metal band BLOODBOUND surfaced in 2005 with their debut album, "Nosferatu", it was an album that celebrated the band's admiration for metal icons like Iron Maiden, Helloween and Judas Priest, recorded on a small budget with no visions of grandeur behind it. With eight studio al...

Onslaught are a British thrash metal band from Bristol, England, active from 1982 to 1991 and again since 2005. The band initially drew influences from US and British hardcore punk bands such as Discharge and The Exploited, as well as the new wave of British heavy metal, and eventually adopted a ...

German industrial Metal/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf.

The band has had a diverse range of musical influences over time, including the percussive industrial Stahlwerksynfonie (1981) than to a more synth-pop styled Volle Kraft voraus! (1982) and Enter...

With his captivating debut ‘Gothic Electronic Anthems’ in 2003, GothministerBjørn Alexander Brem took the dark music scene by storm, unleashing a thunder of pitch-black magic. Powerful metal riffs march relentlessly arm in arm with huge orchestras and heavenly choirs, while the master himself rev...

Helstar is an American heavy metal band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1982 by guitarist Larry Barragan.[1] They were an influential force in the American power metal genre emerging in the mid-1980s.

Alcatrazz are best known for their songs "Island in the Sun", "Hiroshima Mon Amour", and "God Blessed Video". The band went through a number of line-up changes, with Bonnet being the only member to be in every incarnation of Alcatrazz. They are also notable for featuring a previously-unknown Yngw...

The story of TRAITOR begins in 2009, when after various fun projects of the individual band members finally nails with heads are made. In the same year, two demos are released. "Thrash Metal Victory" and "Inclination To Aggression", which reap pretty fat laurels in the underground, so the directi...

Since releasing their debut album “Have Gun, Will Travel ” in 2010, REZET are known for delivering high-class Thrash Metal with a unique blend and different taste.

The northern Germans‘ successful mix of cutting riffs, pounding grooves, catchy vocals and intelligent lyrics have always made them ...

Deadlock is a German heavy metal band from Schwarzenfeld, Bavaria. In 2010 they supported Lacuna Coil on tour.

Deadlock incorporate melodic death metal as well as some metalcore aspects. What makes Deadlock different is the combination of death growls and female clean vocals. Also included in th...

Coal Chamber broke out of the Los Angeles alternative metal scene in 1997 with a sound often compared to Korn, although both bands formed around the same time and are quality representations of the scene's overall sound -- the heavy, detuned guitars of the murkiest Black Sabbath; grungy, noisy te...

End of Green is a German gothic/doom metal band formed in Stuttgart in 1992. According to singer Michael Huber, the band's name implies the end of the color green, which typically symbolizes hope. This fits with the type of music the band produces. The band describes its style as Depressed Subcor...

Legion of the Damned is a Dutch thrash metal/death metal band. The band was formed in 1992 as Occult, but changed their name in 2006 to Legion of the Damned. Lyrically the band tend to focus on horror motifs, dark occult and religious themes and apocalyptic events. They have recorded their albums...

My Sleeping Karma is a German instrumental Quatuor that takes you into a mind-blowing sonic experience. Their music is a trip.

They are no beginners, no amateurs, and when they hop on stage they make you forget about everything around you: they take you by the hand into the deepest and hidden co...

Saltatio Mortis is a German medieval metal group. The Latin name means "dance of death". It is an allusion to the Danse Macabre, and a motto of the band is: "He who dances does not die."

An intense live act with an elaborate stage show, medieval metal outfit Saltatio Mortis emerged in the early ...

One of heavy metal's most powerful and distinctive voices, Dee Snider ascended to hard rock royalty in the early 1980s as the lead singer for New Jersey-based glam-metallers Twisted Sister. A charismatic and outspoken frontman -- in 1985, alongside John Denver and Frank Zappa, he testified agains...

Serenity has been around for nearly twenty years, and they're not planing on retiring any time soon! Their songs are inspired by famous historic persons like the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Leonardo, Da'Vinci, etc. And are must haves for every melodic or symphonic metal f...

Skindred is a Welsh band that fuses heavy metal with other genres, most notably reggae.

Formed in Newport in 1998, they are well known for their energetic and involving live performances and have won several awards including "Best Live Band" at the 2011 UK Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards and th...