Neue Reviews/ New reviews:

FEAD/ Nameless
SUIDAKRA/ Command To Charge
LOST IN TEARS/ To No Avail
HOUSE OF NOT/ The Walkabout Of A. Nexter Niode: Part 2 - Sexus
KILT/ The Art Of Selfdistruction
IAN PARKER/ ... Whilst The Wind - Live
PRESTO BALLET/ Peace Among The Ruins
NORTHERN LIGHT/ Northern Light
ALBERT KUVENZIN AND YAT KHA/ Re-Covers
LITTLE ATLAS/ Wanderlust
BOYSVOICE/ Serenity (Comeback-Tipp/ June 2005)

Neues Interview, neue Specials/ new interview, new specials

"... jetzt schlägt's dreizehn!" ... diesmal ist GOTTHARD-Schlagzeuger Hena Habegger am Zug  

"... jetzt schlägt's dreizehn!", die Zweite: ... ANA POPOVIC, the young and charming female Yugoslav blues hope, appears herself charmingly from the private side

Neue Albumvorschau/ New album preview

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS/ Demons
TOMAS BODIN/ I Am
BROKE [N] BLUE/ The Waiting
KICK AXE/ Rock The World (re-release)

Reviews, Specials oder Interviews in Vorbereitung/ Next reviews, specials or interviews:

SPIDER MURPHY GANG/ Zeitreise (Kult-Tipp)
RAW SILK/ Silk Under The Skin (forgotten Jewel)
BONFIRE/ One Acoustic Night - Live At The Private Music Club (DVD)
SPOONFULL OF LIFE/ Requiem
SPOONFULL OF LIFE/ Demo 2005
BEYOND THE FLESH/ What The Mind Perceives
DESTRA/ Joy's Rhapsody
IONQUEST/ Ionquest
UNION/ Do Your Own Thing Live! (DVD)
RADIOCRAFT/ Red
NEGATIVE/ War Of Love
ARTICA/ As It Should Be
SAIDIAN/ For Those Who Walk The Path Forlorn
CAPRICCIO/ Anxiety State
VANGUARD/ Succumbra
KILLER/ Immortal
CHRIS NORMAN/ One Acoustic Evening - Live At The Private Music Club (DVD)
WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA/ Cencerro Blanco
THUNDERHAWKS/ Thunderhawks
HANK!/ Press Play On Tape
STEVEN/ Jukeboxing - 10 Years Of Steven
THOU ART LORD/ Orgia Deamonicum
RELOADED/ Taste It ... Or Waste It
FRED APE & RUDI MIKA/ Cowboys dürfen das...
BARBARA CLEAR/ Percious
BARBARA CLEAR/ Part Of It All
DESTINY/ Beyond All Sense 2005
ZAN CLAN/ We Are The Zan Clan ...Who The F**k Are You??!
10 FOLD B-LOW/ For Those Who Share The Sun
HUBERT KAH/ Seelentaucher
ROBIN BECK/ Do You Miss Me
BLANC FACES/ Blanc Faces
STEVE WALSH/ Shadowman
ANA POPOVIC/ Ana! (DVD)
ALEENA/ Aleenas Café
EDEN LOST/ Road Of Desire
PRAYER/ Wrong Address
GODDESS OF DESIRE/ Awaken Pagan Gods
ANGEL/ A Woman's Diary - Chapter I
SPIRITUAL BEGGARS/ Demons
TOMAS BODIN/ I Am
STEVE HOWE/ Spectrum
BROKE [N] BLUE/ The Waiting
NIGHTVISION/ Nightvision
KICK AXE/ Rock The World (re-release)
JUNKHEAD/ Elevenandonesong
EVANSCAPPS/ Last Time
MAN ON FIRE/ Habitat
FROGG CAFÉ/ Fortunate Observer Of Time
LIQUID GROOVE MOJO/ Cradle To The Grave

Zum Abschluss wollen wir Euch noch auf das neue Machtwerk von GOTTHARD hinweisen

hier geht's zum Review von "Lipservice"

Nun wünschen wir Euch viel Spass beim Schmökern auf Rock & Metal Heaven und einen guten Start in die neue Woche!

Bis zum nächsten Wochenende

Sonny & Gabi + das Rock & Metal Heaven Team

www.mausoleum-records.com

Frontiers Records in conjunction with Muse Wrapped Records, is proud to introduce XCARNATION, a studio project masterminded by CENK EROGLU, a Turkish guitarist who released his first solo album in the year 1991. From then on, he produced many albums in Turkey and became renowned as a composer, guitarist, arranger and producer.

After his second solo album was released in the year 1996, he began to work on a new project which was aimed at an integration of heavy rock and electronic sounds into a synthesis of Eastern and Western music. The materialization of this new sound covered a long period of time during which he met first Pat Mastellotto (Mr. Mister and King Crimson) and then Kip Winger (Winger) - who – together with Rod Morgenstein (WINGER, DIXIE DREGS), Reb Beach (WINGER, DOKKEN, WHITESNAKE) and many ethnic instrument players - made their artistic contributions to the songs in the Xcarnation album.

The resulting album entitled “Grounded” is a shockingly good musical experience blending such diverse influences in nothing else than a milestone in modern progressive rock music!

“Grounded” features all songs written, sung, arranged and engineered by Cenk Eroglu, is ready to meet the world market on Frontiers Records on September 19th 2005. US release shall be handled via Muse Wrapped Records at the same time.

 
    Kip Winger + Cenk Eroglu                    Pat Mastellotto + Cenk Eroglu

The album final tracklisting includes the following songs: Personal Antichrist; Everlasting (click to hear an Mp3 sample); Without You; Desperately Sad; Reason To Believe; Lucky Day; Take A Deep Breath; Willing To Wait; Coma White; Pictures.

More info available on www.xcarnation.com – www.frontiers.it - www.muse-wrapped.com

ALLEN / LANDE
Frontiers Records are pleased to present the original art painted by the legendary designer Rodney Matthews (Asia, Magnum, Diamond Head, Praying Mantis etc.) for the upcoming and highly anticipated studio project between Symphony X ‘s RUSSELL ALLEN and Masterplan’s JORN LANDE.

We are also pleased to present a new exclusive sample track in mp3: Hunter’s Night

The album will be unleashed on the world markets on September 19th 2004. Limited amounts of a FREE mini cd will be made available to distributors and specialist stores. The mini cd shall include the full song  “Another Battle” and 1.30 minutes excerpts from “Wish For A Miracle”, “My Own Way” and “The Forgotten Ones”. Also featured on such promo cd are songs from the upcoming PLACE VENDOME album featuring ex HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske: “Cross The Line” (full track) and excerpts from “I Will be Gone”, “Right Here” and “I Will Be Waiting”.

Let the countdown begin !

WETTON / DOWNES
Geoffrey Downes and John Wetton have already started the work for a second ICON album. The recording and release are planned for 2006 but in the meanwhile the two british artists will be busy promoting the upcoming EP “Heat of the Moment 05” to be released in Europe on Frontiers Records on August 29th and are planning a European tour during November and December 2005.

ROYAL HUNT
Hot on the heels of the successful European release on June 6th of the new album “Paper Blood” keyboard player and songwriter Andre Andersen gives us and insightful look into the songs included on the record:

Break Your Chains is about freedom of choice – to live your life or pretend you’re living it, to dare to actually do things instead of dreaming of them, to take that first step which may change your life and leave all your fears behind. Orchestral intro runs into a W-kick ride... quite an energetic opener.

Not My Kind is dedicated to a person I can’t stand. We all know that kind – pretending to be your friend, hanging around you all the time and winning your trust until that one day – and you’re finding yourself stabbed in the back in cold blood. I should know, I’m in the music business. Dark, heavy riffing with some huge harmonies on top.

Memory Lane is like a nostalgic trip, when you’re looking at some old pictures while sitting in front of a fireplace with a bottle of wine... remembering faces and places…

Never Give Up was the first one I wrote for this album. It’s about that rather uncertain situation John and I was in at the time – half of the band was gone, the tour ´s got cancelled and we weren’t sure if we could pull it off again. But than that “second breath” kicked in – we became like : “Screw it, this is not putting us down!”. And here we are, a year later. This is a typical RH song – uptempo, a lot of mood swings. John’s amazing here – the highs, the lows... it’s all there.

Seven Days is a sarcastic look/comment on religion and the exploration of it. G-D creates The World in seven days, promises those seven signs before he’ll take it away again etc... And than where’s a TV preacher giving you Paradise for a buck, another “Men of Some-Other G-D” gives you the same for blowing somebody up, and yet another one will give you Paradise in heaven for living in Hell on earth... The song goes from up-close and relaxed to the full tilt and everything in between. Marcus is great on this one, very articulated.

SK983 - Well, I was on my way to Japan (on a SAS flight SK 983) to do a couple of keyboard clinics and I wanted to play something new besides all that stuff that I usually play on those events. So I basically wrote the whole thing on a napkin during that 11 hours flight! Thanks to stewardess Patricia for bringing me all that Jack Daniels as well as.....well, inspiration.

Kiss Of Faith – unfortunate kid, growing up in a dysfunctional family, wrong side of town, no means, no future – but hopes. Some of those kids can get lucky and break away from it to a better life, but they need a lot of will, a lot of faith. I gave this one a bit of the “country color” to make it more storyteller-like.

Paper Blood is about what’s our life become – greed’s running the show, it’s in our veins. All and everybody’s measured in “gold”... and we’re getting more and more used to it. People are killing people to sell their hearts or lungs – I mean, how more creepy can it get? Musically more on the “traditional metal” side, but with a twist.

Season´s Change – “aftershocks” after a long relationship is over. You walk around, trying to figure out what went wrong but it just did – and where’s no way to undo it. John sounds unreal on this ballad.

Twice Around The World has a lot of variety – rhythm, key, sound, feel... It’s almost like traveling around the world – every place has its “vibe”... But after recording this song (which is quite long) I felt like I did it... well, twice. My favorite solo from Marcus on this one.

PHILIP BARDOWELL
Frontiers Records is very pleased to introduce the new album from singer PHILIP BARDOWELL entitled “In The Cut”.

Best known for his role as lead vocalist in UNRULY CHILD, Bardowell was also part of the band MAGDALEN together with former House of Lords members Chuck Wright, Lanny Cordola and Ken Mary. His voice has often been compared to such masters as Lou Gramm (Foreigner) and Mark Free.

“In The Cut” is a solo step from Philip in a straightforward melodic rock / AOR direction and features also the songwriting contribution of such luminaries as Stan Bush, Jim Peterik (Survivor, Pride of Lions), Mark Spiro (House of Lords, Bad English), Bobby Barth (Axe) and Curt Cuomo (Kiss, Steve Perry).

The overall result will make all fans of Signal, early Unruly Child, Stan Bush and Survivor fans jump from their chairs ! In particular, songs like “Through My Eyes”, “It’s A Long Road” (included on the upcoming label sampler “Rock The Bones vol.III”) or “Never Too Late For Love” are nothing else than pure melodic rock ecstasy!

The album production was handled by Swedish guitar master Tommy Denander (Radioactive) with Daniel Flores (Mind's Eye, Xsavior) handling drums.

The final tracklisting shall include the following songs:

In The Cut (click to hear a sample from rough mix in mp3); Through My Eyes (click to hear a sample from rough mix in mp3); Heart of A Hero; I Gotta Believe; She Will Never Know; Never Too Late For Love (click to hear a sample from rough mix in mp3); It’s A Long Road; One Day In January; Dreamin’ With My Eyes Wide Open; Voices of The Heart.

The worldwide release is scheduled for September 19th on Frontiers Records with Japanese release on King Records.

SEVENTH KEY
Billy Greer and Seventh Key finished all the shooting of the up and coming live DVD last May 23th.

“I think the shoot went great” - says Billy - “The production was fabulous. Lighting, the staging, the players were fantastic, we had 4 cameras going at all times. I think that we got some great footage and I am sure that the finished product will be something that is going to look and sound fantastic!”

Together with Billy, performing on stage were Mike Slamer on guitars, Terry Brock on guitar and vocals, David Manion on keyboards and Pat McDonald on drums with Robby Steinhardt – violinist and singer of KANSAS – making a special guest appearance during the show.

“I am really happy with the way things went” concludes Billy, adding “I owe a debt of gratitude to a large number of people who worked very long hours to make this DVD a success!”

Some of the songs performed live include: You Cross the Line, Always From the Heart, Should Have Been You, The Kid Could Play and some cool surprises!

Frontiers Records plans the worldwide release of the Live CD/DVD in early November 2005. More details to be unleashed shortly.

SOUL SIRKUS
Soul SirkUS debut album “World Play” was on the national Swedish Sales Chart at number 60, last  week, hot on the heels of their tour in Stockholm, Malmo and Goteborg.

www.frontiers.it 

www.asiaworld.org

AYREON
Arjen Lucassen wie ihn noch keiner kannte: Mit seinem Bandprojekt AYREON an sich für einen famosen Mix aus Metal und Bombast, Folk-, Hard- und Progressive Rock geschätzt, bietet er auf der aktuellen Viertrack-Single "Come Back To Me" zwei außergewöhnliche "Klangexperimente": Neben "Come Back To Me", einer Bearbeitung des "The Human Equation"-Stückes "Day Seven: Hope" mit neuem Titel sowie dem bislang unveröffentlichten "August Fire" beinhaltet die Single eine "Come Back To Me"-Danceversion(!) und das ebenfalls sehr eigene, bereits vor zehn  Jahren aufgenommene Beatles-Cover "When I'm Sixty-Four". Ein Videoclip zu "Come Back To Me" sowie ein "Making of …"-Video runden das Package ab. Die Erstauflage erscheint im Digipak und ist mit einem Code versehen, der bis Ende September den Zugang zu exklusiven Downloads auf der Ayreon-Homepage ermöglicht. Passend zum zehnten Ayreon-Geburtstag dieses Jahr hat InsideOut Music unlängst die Neuauflage
des fünf Alben umfassenden Backkataloges komplettiert.

www.arjenlucassen.com

EVERGREY
Fans und Kritiker feiern die Ende Mai erschienene Live-DVD von EVERGREY als Referenzwerk in Sachen Qualität und Ausstattung. "A Night To Remember" hat sich zudem auf Anhieb an der Spitze der schwedischen DVD-Charts platziert. Indes touren Tom Englund und Co. unermüdlich: Neu bestätigt sind Festivaltermine in England, Finnland, Italien und Schweden.

www.evergrey.net

KING'S X
KING'S X wollen Ende September ein neues Album veröffentlichen und anschließend touren.

www.kingsxonline.com

NEAL MORSE
"Hi, this is Neal Morse. I hope you enjoy 'Testimony live' on Bibel TV". Kein verspäteter Aprilscherz, sondern Tatsache: Bibel TV, europaweit via Satellit zu empfangen, zeigt den vollständigen Mitschnitt eines NEAL MORSE-Konzertes von dessen "Testimony"-Tour 2003. Frisch geschieden von Spock's Beard, gab Morse damals nicht nur sein komplettes von christlicher Selbstfindung geprägtes "Testimony"-Alben zum Besten, sondern natürlich auch einige Bärte- und Transatlantic-Evergreens. Sendetermin: Freitag, 24. Juni, 20.15 Uhr. Hallellujah!

www.nealmorse.com
www.bibeltv.de 

PAIN OF SALVATION
PAIN OF SALVATION touren im Spätsommer und Herbst wieder. Bereits bestätigt sind Gigs in Oberhausen sowie im niederländischen Baarlo, wo Daniel Gildenlöw und seine Leute Headliner des ausgezeichnet besetzten "ProgPower"-Festivals sein werden.

www.painofsalvation.com

InsideOuts Sublabel REVISITED RECORDS setzt die Neuauflage des Backkatalogs von KLAUS SCHULZE im Juni mit den Alben "Audentity", "Body Love", "Dune" und "Miditerranean Pads" fort. Der Start der KRAAN-Reissuereihe verzögert sich etwas: Die ersten drei Alben "Wiederhören", "Nachtfahrt" und "Live 88" erscheinen am 18. Juli. Der Brite PAUL GURVITZ hat eine ganze Reihe von Spuren in der Rockgeschichte hinterlassen, unter anderem als Mitglied von Gun, der Baker Gurvitz Army und der Three Man Army; Revisited Records bringt im Juli "Live" von der BAKER GURVITZ ARMY, "3" von der THREE MAN ARMY sowie Gurvitz' Soloalbum "Rated PG" heraus. Aufgeschoben werden muss die Veröffentlichung weiterer AMON DÜÜL II-Reissues.    

www.klaus-schulze.com
www.kraan.de
www.paulgurvitz.com
www.amonduul.de

SPOCK'S BEARD
SPOCK'S BEARD bereiten die Veröffentlichung eines Live-Doppelalbums vor und gehen im Oktober wieder auf Europatournee.

www.spocksbeard.com

www.insideout.de 

Shakra are getting reading: one, two, three, attention!

In Switzerland time is passing by a bit slowlier than in rest Europe?

Not at all! Especially in these days the Swiss guys from Shakra are showing us professionally how to get everything to the point.

We are proud to announce that the dynamic hardrockers have found a new home with AFM Records. Some days ago Nils Wasko and Sandra Eichner (AFM, middle of picture) met the guys from Bern to sign the contract. The ink on the contract has just dried, as the band is already on the run again: as a first taste to give for the new album (being released on 3rd October) Shakra are playing this year `s Sweden Rock Festivals as well as the Spirit Of Music Open Air in Uster/Switzerland (with Iron Maiden!).

More information you can read on the freshly opened homepage www.shakra-fanclub.de

www.afm-records.de 

Neil Turbin (ex-ANTHRAX) and Alan Tecchio (ex-HADES, WATCHTOWER) are the two vocalists currently in the running for the vacant singer slot in SEVEN WITCHES,
according to informed sources. Both vocalists recently appeared on SEVEN WITCHES guitarist Jack Frost's upcoming solo CD, "Out in the Cold",
tentatively due in September on MAUSOLEUM RECORDS.
Turbin can be heard on "Crucifixation", while Tecchio appears on "Hell or High Water".
 Other singers that have lent their pipes to the CD include Terry Ilous from XYZ ("Out in the Cold"),
and Ted Poley of DANGER DANGER (cover of APRIL WINE's
"Sign of the Gypsy Queen" and "Wasted Love").

www.mausoleum-records.com