“A man, his sound and what for party!” That says everything about Toni Barrientos. The new track is called quite simply “Power“. An artist who needs few or no words and lets his music speak for itself. The track steams off and takes no shortcuts or detours. The energy flows directly through the lines. And because…
Harthouse Harthouse is a “living legend” of techno music. Since 1992, the label has been style-defining for an entire genre. The sound of Harthouse defined itself in the beginning as “Sound of Frankfurt”. It was a harder version of “trance” and thus also the antithesis of the (West-)Berlin techno scene of the late 80s. In…
Grey, heavy and dark, but still sorrow carrying certain beauty and strength – the long-awaited record turned out to be an honest picture of the current times for its writer and delivered exactly that kind of atmosphere everyone had hoped for. In January 2020, more than a decade after its predecessor “The Darkness”, Finnish death…
On January 24th 2020, more than a decade after its predecessor “The Darkness”, Finnish death and gothic doom metal icon Tuomas Saukkonen returned with “Waves”, his sophomore solo-album under the flag of The Darkness. Grey, heavy and dark, but still sorrow carrying certain beauty and strength – the long-awaited record turned out to be an…
Dawn of Solace When Before the Dawn was preparing to record the third album “The Ghost”, Tuomas Saukkonen realised that he had over 30 songs written. First idea was to simply make a double album but some of the material written started to sound too slow and dark for the usual Before the Dawn-style and Tuomas decided to push that…
What may Andreas Krüger (aka Der Dritte Raum) have seen on the “Picture of the Day”? “Pictureoftheday” is the name of his second single from the new album “Kommt”, which will be released on September 17th, 2021 on Harthouse. In any case, the sun is shining in this picture, the colors are creaking and a small…
The film “Nico” by director Eline Gehring will open the 17th achtung berlin film festival at Kino International on Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. “Nico” will also be shown in the feature film competition at the festival with ten other films. The film team will be on site and available for interviews. There…
Praised by fans and critics alike for their latest full-length record, entitled “Emptiness Weighs The Most” (Noble Demon), melodic doom heavyweights “Red Moon Architect” are truly known to create a unique sound of their own. Pure sweeping, yet crushing and highly atmospheric doom soundscapes consolidate with strong melodies, dark growls and beautiful female vocals, that are…
Helsinki -based heavy metal group Oceanhoarse have released their hotly anticipated debut studio album, titled “Dead Reckoning”, out now on the German Noble Demon label! With crushing riffs, vocal harmonies and high voltage arrangements, the band’s brand new full-length record is a true statement by a group, that’s willing to explore things in their very…
The question that artists often ask themselves is: what it’s like to be obsessed with music, constantly looking for the best and coolest sounds, that groove in your head and in your hands? Björn Few is obsessed with music, as a DJ and producer. So two new tracks have to be released on Plastic City…
