The story of AVANTASIA begins much like any other fairy tale, with a young protagonist not unlike you, average reader. Picture a young boy from a small German town going far and beyond to fulfill his dreams of fronting a…
Thrash metal has always come with rules. Unspoken ones, maybe, but rigid nonetheless. Stay fast. Stay angry. Don’t stray too far from the blueprint. For many bands, those boundaries are sacred. Kreator, however, have spent their entire career proving that…
Kultur Shock’s “House of Kultur“ is the kind of album that refuses to sit still, let alone fit neatly on a shelf. This is music that transcends borders, cultural, stylistic, emotional, moving freely between gypsy punk, post-rock, hardcore, metal, and…
Forty years is a long time to keep the fire alive, especially in heavy metal, where even the most tenacious bands fade into repetition and irrelevance. For me, that fire’s always been personal. There were years when I quite literally…
Budapest has always felt different. Maybe it’s the weight of history in every corner, or the way the Danube cuts through the city like a scar that healed into something beautiful. I first saw Helloween here in 2010: my first…
I thought I knew what to expect from Helloween. I’d followed them through lineup changes, reunion tours, and every iteration of their increasingly elaborate stage shows. But standing in front of O2 Arena Prague on October 24th, watching album covers…
I’ve photographed a lot of metal shows over the years, but there’s something about a perfectly curated tour package that just works. The Blood Dynasty tour hit Vienna’s Gasometer on a cold winter night with four bands that had no…
I’ve seen Opeth before, twice, in fact, but nothing prepared me for how vital they’d feel on a drizzly October night in Vienna. Maybe it was the setting: Arena Wien’s open-air stage, framed by smoke, spotlights, and the looming threat…
It started with the smell of beer-soaked concrete and the sound of double kicks bleeding through the breeze. Vienna’s Arena, the kind of venue where the past lingers in decaying bricks and hand-painted signage, hosted yet another October gathering of…
Heidenfest will make a stop in Vienna in 2026, bringing its trademark folk and pagan metal revelry to the Ottakringer Brauerei – Hefeboden on Ottakringer Platz 1. The historic venue will host a full evening of music, myth, and mayhem…