Is it better to be polarizing or universally praised? There is something to be said about a piece of art so unapologetically itself that it can inspire such strong feelings one way or another. Leos Carax's (The Lovers on the Bridge 1991, Holy Motors 2012)...
Grammy-nominated musician and superstar producer Butch Walker is back with his conceptual Rock Opera, American Love Story, which arrives on Friday, May 8th, 2020, via Walker’s own Ruby Red Recordings. That’s right, it’s time to Make Rock Operas Great Again (MROGA)! What is there that Butch...
Legendary Norwegian Rock Vocalist Jørn Lande is no stranger to covers, and Heavy Rock Radio II: Executing the Classics, the latest collection under his eponymous band Jorn, is due out Friday, January 24th through Frontiers Music s.r.l.. In a slight departure from his earlier cover albums—Unlocking...
Rock and Classical music seem like odd bedfellows at first, but there are plenty of connections between the two. Sometimes there is just a touch of orchestra in a Rock song, like “A Day in The Life” by The Beatles. Other times, the band covers...
European heavy metal comes in a vast array of genres that strongly grasp various cultures to elaborate and contribute to their concepts as a whole. In the case of Swedish Symphonic Metal band Therion, their 30 year journey from origin till now has been a...
Chances are that longtime Alice Cooper fans vividly recall the 1975 TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare which aired on ABC with special guest star, and classic movie legend, Vincent Price. A definitive point in the history of the Rock-n-Roll icon's career, now, for the first time...
Hailing from Germany is the multi-talented genius, Tobias Sammet, co-founder of the Power Metal band Edguy. Just in his teenage years, he led the band to release ten studio albums between 1997's Kingdom of Madness to 2014's Space Police: Defenders of the Crown. Seven years...
It seems, historically, Heavy Metal music, theatrics, and Horror themes go hand and hand. Marrying those concepts together in 2015 are Norwegian vocalist Jørn Lande and guitarist Trond Holter on their collaborative album titled Dracula: Swing of Death. Both respected and accomplished musicians in their own...
